KSNF

KSNF

Joplin, Missouri-Pittsburg, Kansas
Branding	KSN
Slogan	Your Hometown News
Channels	Digital: 46 (UHF) Virtual: 16 (PSIP)
Subchannels	16.1 NBC
Owner	Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc. (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.)
First air date	September 2, 1967
Call letters' meaning	Kansas State Network Four-States (reflecting former owner)
Sister station(s)	KODE-TV
Former callsigns	KUHI-TV (1967-1974) KTVJ (1974-1982)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 16 (UHF, 1967-2009)
Former affiliations	CBS (1967-1982)
Transmitter power	175 kW
Height	322.2 m
Facility ID	67766
Transmitter coordinates	37°4′33″N 94°33′16″W
Website	www.fourstateshomepage.com/

KSNF, virtual channel 16, is the NBC-affiliated television station for the Joplin, Missouri-Pittsburg, Kansas television market, the 145th DMA. KSNF broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 46. Its transmitter is located in Joplin.

Digital television

Channel	Video	Aspect	Programming
16.1	1080i	16:9	main KSNF programming / NBC

History

KUHI-TV logo, April 1974.

The station first signed on as CBS affiliate KUHI-TV on September 2, 1967, changing its call letters to KTVJ (TeleVision of Joplin) in 1974. The owners of the Kansas State Network (KSNW) bought the station in 1982, changing the calls to KSNF, and swapping 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 1987, 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 Nexstar Broadcasting Group acquired the station from the U.S. Broadcast Group in 1998, with its digital signal on channel 46 signing on in 2003. KSNF was the first station in the Joplin-Pittsburg market to broadcast on the UHF band, which as a result, is where the first set of call letters, KUHI (K Ultra HIgh Frequency), came from.

In 2002, it was announced KSNF and ABC affiliate KODE would merge, with building expansion planned at the KSN studios. Although some departments did in fact move to KSNF, in 2009 the process was not yet completed, leaving the Joplin market as the only one of the several Nexstar-owned duopolies to have failed to completely merge. In June 2008, KSNF began broadcasting NBC HD programming to digital cable and satellite customers in the Joplin market. At this time, only NBC programming is provided in high definition, while local news and syndicated programs are still in standard definition, pending the upgrade of KSN's production systems and equipment to accommodate high definition content for non-network programming.

On May 8, 2009, severe thunderstorms affected the Joplin area. KSNF's tower was destroyed (falling on the studio and nearby homes) and the studio was heavily damaged. KSNF could not broadcast due to this tower collapse, so viewers could only receive NBC programming from stations airing on the fringes of the viewing area (KSNW in Wichita, KJRH in Tulsa, and KYTV in Springfield, Missouri). However, several five- to ten-minute news updates were aired on fourstateshomepage.com each day until broadcasting resumed. The station returned to the air on June 17, 2009. It constructed a news set inside of the studios of its sister station KODE-TV where it was temporarily housed. It was made public in February 2010 that both KSNF and KODE would be moving to the remodeled KSNF studios at 1502 Cleveland, just down the road from the current KODE building.

News operation

While in its role as airing partial simulcasts of KSNW programming, it used the Hello News music package until 1990. In November 2005, a graphics and music change took place. As part of the update (and with upcoming digital changes) the "16" was removed from KSN's logo, opens, and all other images, including station vehicles. In the fall of 2010, possibly as response to KFJX's expansion of their nightly 9 p.m. newscast to from 30 minutes to one hour, KSNF debuted the Four State area's first and only hour long 6 p.m. newscast. In August of 2011, KSNF dropped its 5 p.m. newscast in favor of a new, hour-long 4 p.m. lifestyle program called Living Well making that the area's first and only 4 p.m. newscast.

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

• KUHI-TV News (1967–1974)
• KTVJ 16 Reports At (time) (1974–1982)
• KSN NewsCenter (1982–1997)
• KSN16, Your Hometown News Station (1997–1999)
• KSN16, Your Hometown News (1999–2005)
• KSN, Your Hometown News (2005–present)

Station slogans

• "Hello Four-States, KSN Loves You" (1982–1990; used during period station used Frank Gari's "Hello News")
• "You've Got A Friend In/Turn To KSN" (1980s; while the station did not use Frank Gari's "Turn To News" package, they did use the image campaign from the theme)
• "Come Home To KSN" (1990–1994; unrelated to the 1986–1987 NBC ad campaign)
• "Together, We're Making A Difference" (1994–1997)
• "Your Hometown News" (1997–present; primary slogan)
• "Experience The Difference" (2004–present; secondary slogan)

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News team

Anchors

• Jim Jackson - weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.
• Caitlin McCardle - weekday mornings Hometown Today and noon
• Philip Mitchell - weekday mornings Hometown Today and noon
• Carol Parker - host of The Carol Parker Show
• Toni Valliere - weekdays at 4 p.m. (Living Well), and weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.

KSN Weather Team

• Gary Bandy - chief meteorologist; weekdays at 4 p.m. (Living Well), and weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.
• Caitlin McCardle - meteorologist; weekday mornings Hometown Today and noon

Sports team

• Eric Knecht - sports director; weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.
• Chris Hagan - sports anchor; Saturdays at 6 and weekends at 10 p.m.

Reporters

• Jessica Brown - general assignment reporter
• Allison Croghan - general assignment reporter
• Jeremiah Cook - general assignment reporter
• Brad Douglas - general assignment reporter
• Katie Love - general assignment reporter
• Tyler Pargen - general assignment reporter

External links

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