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KSFL-TV

KSFL-TV (channel 36), known as Sioux Falls Live, is a television station in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States, affiliated with Ion Television. It is owned by Forum Communications Company alongside low-power station KCWS-LD (channel 27). KSFL-TV's studios are located on Phillips Avenue in downtown Sioux Falls, and its transmitter is located in Rowena. In addition to television, Sioux Falls Live is a digital news site covering the Sioux Falls area.
This station began broadcasting in November 2000 as KAUN, an affiliate of Pax TV. Known as Pax 18, it was operated as a joint venture of Midcontinent Communications and an affiliate of Rapid Broadcasting, the owner of KNBN in Rapid City. Pax 18 was available statewide on cable and aired a 9 p.m. newscast for the Sioux Falls area originating from Rapid City and South Dakota high school state championships. In 2003, the station changed affiliations to The WB as KWSD, successively airing The WB, The CW (2006–2012), MeTV (2012–2015), and other networks.
Forum acquired KWSD in 2023 and relaunched the station as KSFL-TV, alongside the launch of the online news website Sioux Falls Live. It aired Forum News Network, a regional news program produced in Fargo, North Dakota, and covering Forum's entire print, broadcast and digital news region in the Upper Midwest. Forum declared its intention to produce local news programming when it bought the station and will begin airing a Sioux Falls–based 9 p.m. newscast on September 7, 2026.