The station was launched on September 10, 1955 as KARD-TV as a independent station. In 1956, the station joined NBC after KEDD was shut down. In 1962, the station was purchased by Central Kansas Television (which owned KCKT (VHF channel 2) in Great Bend, KGLD (VHF channel 11) in Garden City and KOMC-TV (VHF channel 8) in Oberlin).
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This logo was shared with WKYC in Cleveland, Ohio.
The call letters of all four of the Kansas State Network stations were changed on August 16, 1982 to help viewers think of the four stations as part of one large network. KARD changed its calls to KSNW, KCKT became KSNC, KGLD became KSNG and KOMC became KSNK. With the change, the stations became known as KSN. The KARD-TV call signs would later move to a future sister station on channel 14 in West Monroe-Monroe, Louisiana—El Dorado, Arkansas.
This logo was also used by KSNT in Topeka, Kansas and KSNF in Joplin, Missouri–Pittsburg, Kansas, with KSNF using the logo until 1994.
1Owns a 75% stake of the network, the other 12.5% stake is co-owned between Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery. 2Joint venture with Warner Bros. Discovery, in which Nexstar owns 31% while Warner Bros. Discovery owns the remaining 69%. 3Nexstar operates these stations owned by Mission Broadcasting. 4Nexstar operates this station owned by Cunningham Broadcasting. 5Nexstar operates this station owned by White Knight Broadcasting through an SSA. 6Nexstar operates this station owned by Vaughan Media. 7Predecessor company of LIN Media. 8Nexstar operates this station owned by Londen Media Group.
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