KBSH-DT
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Hays/Great Bend/Salina, Kansas United States |
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| City | Hays, Kansas |
| Branding | KBSH 7 |
| Channels |
Digital: 7 (VHF) Virtual: 7 () |
| Subchannels | 7.1 CBS 7.2 Always on Storm Team 12 |
| Affiliations | CBS (Secondary through 1960's) |
| Owner |
Gray Television (Gray Television Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | September 2, 1958 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Kansas Broadcasting System Hays |
| Sister station(s) | KWCH-DT KSCW-DT |
| Former callsigns | KAYS-TV (1958–1989) KBSH-TV (1989–2009) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 7 (VHF, 1958–2009) Digital: 20 (UHF, until 2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Secondary: ABC (1958–1960s) |
| Transmitter power | 9.6 kW |
| Height | 216 m |
| Facility ID | 66415 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°53′1″N 99°20′15″W / 38.88361°N 99.33750°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
(satellite of KWCH-DT, Wichita, Kansas) Profile (satellite of KWCH-DT, Wichita, Kansas) CDBS |
| Website | www.kwch.com |
KBSH-DT, virtual channel and VHF digital channel 7, is a CBS-affiliated television station located in Hays, Kansas, United States. The station is owned by Gray Television. KBSH maintains a news bureau, advertising sales offices and transmitter facilities located on Hall Street in northwest Hays. On cable, KBSH is available on channel 7 in most cities within the viewing area; in Hays, Russell, it is carried on Eagle Cable channel 10; in Great Bend, it is carried on Cox Communications channel 12 in standard definition and in high definition on digital channel 2012.
KBSH is part of the Kansas Broadcasting System (KBS), a statewide network of four full-power stations that relay programming from Wichita CBS affiliate KWCH-DT central and western Kansas; KBSH incorporates local advertising and news inserts aimed at areas of central Kansas within the Wichita-Hutchinson Plus television market.
The station first signed on the air on September 2, 1958 as KAYS-TV (as a result, it is the youngest of the stations comprising the Kansas Broadcasting System). The station has been a CBS affiliate since its sign-on, however it originally maintained a secondary affiliation with ABC. Most of the ABC programs that aired on the station towards its tenure with that network tended to be news and sports programming (ABC programming is now available in the area via KAKE (channel 10) through either low-power translators or cable carriage). The station was founded by Hays businessmen Ross Beach and Bob Schmidt, owners of radio station KAYS (1400 AM). KAYS faced stiff opposition from KCKT (channel 2, now KSNC), which signed on in November 1954, and was affiliated with NBC in consort with Garden City sister station KGLD (now KSNG). The television and radio stations eventually became a dominant force in west-central Kansas broadcasting.
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