KSNF
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Joplin, Missouri/Pittsburg, Kansas United States |
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| Branding | KSN Local News |
| Slogan | Local News |
| Channels |
Digital: 46 (UHF) Virtual: 16 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | NBC |
| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | January 4, 1968 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Kansas State Network Four-States (reflecting former status as semi-satellite of KSNW) |
| Sister station(s) |
KODE-TV KSNT KSNW |
| Former callsigns | KUHI-TV (1968–1974) KTVJ (1974–1982) |
| Former channel number(s) | 16 (UHF analog, 1968–2009) |
| Former affiliations | CBS (1968–1982) |
| Transmitter power | 175 kW |
| Height | 322.2 m |
| Facility ID | 67766 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°4′33″N 94°33′16″W / 37.07583°N 94.55444°W |
| Website | www |
KSNF, virtual channel 16, is the NBC-affiliated television station for the Joplin, Missouri-Pittsburg, Kansas television market, the 152nd DMA. KSNF broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 46. Its transmitter and studios are located in Joplin.
On cable, the station is typically carried on channel 2 or channel 16 on most cable systems in the market, except on Mediacom and Suddenlink, where it is carried on channel 3.
The station first signed on as KUHI-TV (for K Ultra HIgh Frequency) on January 4, 1968 as a CBS affiliate. KSNF was the first station in the Joplin-Pittsburg market to broadcast on the UHF band.
It was originally owned by Marvin Caldwell & Associates. Mid-America Broadcasting sold the station to the owners of the Kansas State Network in 1975. The station changed its call letters to KTVJ (TeleVision of Joplin) in 1976. On August 23, 1982, the station then changed its call letters to KSNF, and almost two weeks later on September 5, swapped affiliations with KOAM-TV (channel 7) to become an NBC affiliate. The station did limited simulcasting with KSNW. KSN then sold KSNF to Price Communications in 1986, but the station continued the partial simulcast with KSNW. It stopped simulcasting KSNW completely after George Lilly (SJL Communications) acquired the KSN stations and in a cost cutting effort, cut the microwave links to KSNT and KSNF.
The "KSN" brand had become solidified in the market and continued to be used even though KSNF was no longer a part of the Kansas State Network and nor made any references to it.
Price sold KSNF along with two of its stations—KFDX-TV in Wichita Falls, Texas and KJAC-TV (now KBTV-TV, now affiliated with Fox) in Beaumont, Texas to the U.S. Broadcast Group in 1995.
Nexstar acquired the station from the U.S. Broadcast Group in 1998, with its digital signal on channel 46 signing on in 2003.
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