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).
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 callsigns would later move to a future sister station on channel 14 in Monroe, Louisiana/El Dorado, Arkansas.
1987–1996[]
1987–1990[]
Station ID for the Kansas State Network.
1990–1996[]
1996–2002[]
KSN News logo (1998-2002)
Alternate news logo without channel number, used for news promotion across the KSN stations (1998-2002)
KSN News intro slide (1998-2002)
KSN News Sunrise morning open (1998-2002)
KSN News 6:00 p.m. open (1998-2002)
KSN News Nightbeat 10:00 p.m. open (1998-2002)
Station ID, including identifications for KSNW's four satellite stations (1998-2002)
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. 8Currently a repeater for WWLP. 9Nexstar operates this station owned by Londen Media Group.