KSAS-TV (channel 24) is a television station in Wichita, Kansas, United States, affiliated with Fox and MyNetworkTV.
An application was filled by Three Feathers on July 30, 1999, to sell the license of KSCC to Viacom's Paramount Stations Group, which was granted by the FCC on October 1 the same year.
KSCC's license assets would later be sold to San Antonio-based Mercury Broadcasting Company prior to the station's official sign-on.
Two years later, KBDK (channel 14, now KOCW) in Hoisington was added as another full-power satellite to serve Great Bend and Hays.
Enclosed in the package was a purple, 1.44-MB Memorex floppy disk; a letter; a photocopy of the cover of a 1989 novel about a serial killer (Rules of Prey); and a gold-colored necklace with a large medallion.
[2] On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its television stations (including KSAS and its LMA with KMTW) to Newport Television, a holding company owned by private equity firm Providence Equity Partners;[3] the deal closed on March 14, 2008.
KSAS-TV's studios on West Street have always been too small to house a full-scale news department, so its newscasts have been outsourced to other stations in the market.
[8] Another news outsourcing agreement was established in 2003 with CBS affiliate KWCH, resulting in the return of a nightly prime time newscast to channel 24, which made its debut on January 19, 2004.
[12] Known as Fox Kansas Eyewitness News at 9, the half-hour show originated from a secondary set (designed by FX Group) at KWCH's facility on East 37th Street North in northeastern Wichita.
The station's signal is multiplexed: KSAS digital subchannel 24.2 began carrying Antenna TV on August 6, 2012, replacing music video network TheCoolTV (coincidentally, this occurred before the closure of its sale to the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which dropped the network from its stations at the end of that month).
These stations air virtually the exact programming as KSAS, apart from occasional local advertisements targeted to their respective viewing area.
Nielsen Media Research treats KSAS and its satellites as one station in local ratings books, using the identifier name KSAS+.