KLST

KLST

San Angelo, Texas
Branding	KLST
Slogan	The First Choice For News
Channels	Digital: 11 (VHF)
Affiliations	CBS
Owner	Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc. (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.)
First air date	June 23, 1953
Call letters' meaning	Lone Star Texas (reference to state flag used in logo)
Sister station(s)	KSAN-TV
Former callsigns	KTXL-TV (1953-1957) KCTV (1957-1983)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 8 (VHF, 1953-2009)
Transmitter power	18.8 kW
Height	427.1 m
Facility ID	31114
Transmitter coordinates	31°22′1.5″N 100°2′50″W
Website	www.conchovalleyhomepage.com

KLST is the CBS affiliate serving San Angelo, Texas, in the United States. It is owned by the Irving, TX based Nexstar Broadcasting Group. KLST was purchased by Nexstar Broadcasting in 2004 from the Jewell Television Corporation.

Through a Local Sales Agreement KLST and its parent company Nexstar Broadcasting operate KSAN-TV, the NBC affiliate in San Angelo which is owned by Mission Broadcasting.

History

KLST was the first television station in San Angelo, signing on the air in June 1953 as KTXL-TV. In 1957, the station changed its call sign to KCTV, which is now the call letters of the CBS network affiliate in Kansas City, Missouri since 1983 at the time when the station became KLST.

Technical information

KLST broadcasts on digital VHF Channel 11. Its transmitter is located near Eola.

Coverage area

• KLST serves as the CBS affiliate for 11 counties in West Central Texas that form the San Angelo television market as defined by Nielsen.
  • (Tom Green, Sterling, Coke, Irion, Concho, McCulloch, Schleicher, Menard, Crockett, Sutton & Kimble)

• KLST also provides news and weather coverage to four other counties that assigned to other nearby television markets.
  • (Runnels & Coleman in the Abilene-Sweetwater DMA, Reagan in the Midland-Odessa DMA, & Mason in the Austin DMA)
  • Note: Runnels County is the adjacent county to San Angelo but the majority of the residents in the county watch local television stations that broadcast out of Abilene. This is why the county is assigned to the Abilene-Sweetwater television market by Nielsen.

News personalities

• Carolyn McEnrue - Weeknight Anchor
• Michael Stafford - Weeknight Anchor
• Nick Kraynok - Chief Meteorologist
• Justin Woodard - Sports Director/Weeknight Sports Anchor
• Pat Attebery - Midday Host and Interviewer
• Melissa Ruiz - Midday Anchor/Weekday 4:00 pm Host
• Lauren Blackwell - Weekday Morning Anchor/Reporter
• Mark Stitz - Weekday Morning/Midday Meteorologist
• Aaryn Valenzuela - Weekend Anchor/Reporter
• Katelynn Zoellner - Weekend Sports Anchor/Sports Reporter
• David Wagner - News Director
• John Cody Rodriguez - Entertainment Reporter

KLST Management

• Tom Stovall - General Manager
• David Wagner - News Director

News/Station presentation

Newscast titles

• Your Esso Reporter (1953-1957)
• TV-8 Total News (1970s)
• NewsCenter 8 (1970s-1980s)
• NewsWatch 8 (1980s)
• News 8 (1990s-2005)
• KLST News (2005-present)

Station slogans

• A Concho Valley Tradition (1990s-2001)
• The Concho Valley's First Choice For News, Weather and Sports (2001-2005)
• The First Choice For News (2005-present)

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External links

• KLST Website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KLST
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KLST-TV