KLAS-TV (channel 8) is a television station in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, affiliated with CBS and owned by Nexstar Media Group.

[citation needed] Billionaire and aviation magnate Howard Hughes enjoyed staying up late and watching television, and he wanted KLAS to broadcast a full 24-hour/7-day-a-week schedule.

He eventually decided to purchase the station so he could have it operate as he wanted (though under his ownership, continuing to run CBS programming as scheduled and expected if preempted, most of the time).

On April 16, 1996, KLAS-TV became the first commercial television station in Nevada (and one of the first in the United States) to carry a digital broadcast signal.

On April 6, 2000, the first scheduled high definition network broadcasts in Las Vegas began on KLAS-TV's digital signal.

On January 30, 2008, Landmark announced its intention to sell KLAS, along with its other television station WTVF in Nashville.

[6] No suitable buyer for KLAS was found until Landmark took most of its properties off the market in October 2008 due to the economic recession.

On September 4, 2012, Journal Broadcast Group (owners of one of KLAS-TV's local rivals, ABC affiliate KTNV-TV) announced that it would purchase WTVF for $215 million.

[9] On January 29, 2016, shortly prior to Super Bowl 50, KLAS was dropped from Cox Communications due to a retransmission consent dispute with Nexstar across nine markets.

[10][11] In 2020, Nexstar and KLAS were named the official television partners of the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders.

[12] By virtue of CBS holding the rights to the game,[13] KLAS was the local broadcaster of Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium.

In the early 1980s, the station's newscasts were branded as Newscenter 8, and used the opening Phenix Horns music of Earth, Wind & Fire's 1979 single "In the Stone" for two years.

KLAS has won more than 100 awards for its news coverage,[18] including investigative documentaries about the American Mafia and UFOs.

[18] In 2011, KLAS received 19 nominations from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, eclipsing its rival news stations.

[36] Stoldal retired in 2008, as he felt the timing was right considering Landmark Communications' intentions to sell KLAS.

The effort ultimately failed to produce a notable change in the ratings, and one of the new anchors, Shauna Khorrami, was fired after eight months.