KSAN-TV (channel 3) is a

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, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting, which maintains joint sales and

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agreements with

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, owner of CBS affiliate KLST (channel 8), for the provision of certain services. Both stations share studios on Armstrong Street in San Angelo, while KSAN-TV's transmitter is located north of the city on SH 208.

History

The station signed on February 8, 1962, as KACB-TV, a

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of Abilene's

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. Originally owned by the Ackers family, the stations were sold to

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in 1998. Sunrise relaunched KACB as the third full-fledged station in the San Angelo market, with its own news department, local advertising, and programming line-up, on October 1. In 2002, Sunrise merged with LIN TV; the following year, LIN turned around and sold KACB and KRBC to Mission Broadcasting. On October 1, Mission renamed the station KSAN-TV. Both KSAN and KRBC, though now separate stations, remain under the same ownership (Mission Broadcasting). The KSAN-TV call letters were originally assigned to an early UHF station operating on channel 32 in

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, which first began operations in 1954, but had a relatively small audience for many years, since few Bay Area television sets had UHF tuners in the 1950s. The channel is now occupied by

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Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed: On June 15, 2016, Nexstar announced that it has entered into an affiliation agreement with Katz Broadcasting for the Escape (now Ion Mystery),

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, Grit, and

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networks (the last one of which is owned by Bounce Media LLC, whose

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Jonathan Katz is president/CEO of Katz Broadcasting), bringing the four networks to 81 stations owned and/or operated by Nexstar, including KSAN-TV and KLST.

News operation

KSAN presently broadcasts 9 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 1½ hours each weekday, one hour on Saturdays and a half-hour on Sundays); unlike most NBC affiliates in Texas, the station does not broadcast any local morning newscasts. The newscast debuted on October 1, 1998.

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