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KBSL-DT
CityGoodland, Kansas
Channels
BrandingKBSL 10
Programming
NetworkKansas Broadcasting System
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KWCH-DT,KSCW-DT
History
First air date
September 11, 1958(65 years ago)(1958-09-11)
Former call signs
  • KWGB-TV (1958)
  • KBLR-TV (1958–1961)
  • KWHT-TV (1961–1962)
  • KLOE-TV (1962–1989)
  • KBSL-TV (1989–2009)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:10 (VHF, 1959–2009)
  • Digital:14 (UHF,until 2009)
ABC(secondary, 1959–1960s)
Call signmeaning
Kansas Broadcasting System/Goodland
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID66416
ERP26.5kW
HAAT299 m (981 ft)
Transmitter coordinates39°28′10″N101°33′19″W/ 39.46944°N 101.55528°W/39.46944; -101.55528
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.kwch.com

KBSL-DT(channel 10) is atelevision stationlicensed toGoodland, Kansas,United States, serving northwestern Kansas as an affiliate ofCBS.Owned byGray Television,the station maintains anews bureauand advertising sales office on West 31st Street in southwestern Goodland, and its transmitter is located east ofK-27in rural northeasternSherman County.

KBSL-DT is part of theKansas Broadcasting System(KBS), a statewide network of four full-power stations that relay programming fromWichitaCBS affiliateKWCH-DT(channel 12, licensed toHutchinson) across central and western Kansas; KBSL-DT incorporates local advertising and news inserts aimed at areas of northwestern Kansas and southwesternNebraskawithin the Wichita–Hutchinson Plustelevision market(includingColby), as well as portions of east-centralColorado.KBSL-DT is also asister stationto Wichita-licensedCWaffiliateKSCW-DT(channel 33).

Because KBSL-DT's signal lies between theCentralandMountaintime zones (itscity of licenseand transmitter facility are both on the Mountain Time Zone side of the state), CBS prime time programming in the western part of the station's viewing area airs Monday through Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 5 to 9 p.m.; however, since it operates as a satellite station of Wichita-based KWCH-DT, the station runs on a Central Time Zone schedule.

History

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Channel 10 in Goodland had a turbulent early history. The construction permit was awarded to James E. Blair, trading as the Goodland Broadcasting Company, on May 11, 1955,[2]and test patterns for what was then called KWGB-TV were first broadcast in August 1958; the station installed microwave links to receive CBS andNBCnetwork programs fromDenver.[3]TheFederal Communications Commissiongranted KWGB-TV program test authority on September 11, 1958.[2]Channel 10 had only come to air after Blair transferred the construction permit to Tri-State Television, which was 25 percent owned by South Dakota broadcasterHelen Duhamel.[4]A week later, the call letters of KWGB-TV and KWGB radio (730 AM) were changed to KBLR-AM-TV.[2]It was not until mid-October that the microwave from Denver was installed.[5]

Citing poor health and financial difficulties, Blair sought to sell his radio and TV stations to a group of businessmen from Denver, in two transactions totaling $440,000, in May 1959.[6]Financial difficulties continued, however, and both stations were put into bankruptcy in 1960. Bob Schmidt ofHaysacquired the radio station, while channel 10 went to one of its creditors, equipment supplier Standard Electronics Corporation.[7]Standard took over channel 10 in January 1961 and changed its call letters two months later to KWHT-TV.[2]

Standard sold KWHT-TV to Schmidt, who also ownedKAYS-TVat Hays, in 1962. To connect the Hays and Goodland television stations, a two-hop microwave system was built.[8]The deal reunited the radio and TV stations, which becameKLOEand KLOE-TV.[2]The combination of the two stations was known very briefly as the High Plains Network,[9]though by the fall, KAYS-TV, KLOE-TV, andKTVCall formed part of the Kansas Broadcasting System, originating atKTVHinHutchinson.[10]

In 1983, the Cowles family, which owned KTVH, began selling off its vast media holdings. The station was sold to the Kansas Broadcasting System Corporation, owned by Ross Beach and Schmidt; for the first time, the main KBS station was co-owned with some of its semi-satellites. (KTVC was acquired by KBS in 1988.) In 1989, the Kansas Broadcasting System Corporation was purchased bySmith Broadcasting;the sale separated KLOE-TV from its radio sister, however KLOE radio (as well as its sister radio stations) continues to operate from KBSL's facility on 31st Street. After the sale was completed, the station changed its call letters to KBSL-TV, as part of an effort that saw KWCH's three semi-satellites change their call letters to help viewers think of the stations as part of one large network. Smith sold the station toSpartanburg, South Carolina–basedSpartan Communicationsin 1994; Spartan merged withMedia Generalin 2000. In 2005, KWCH began operating a digital automation system from its Wichita studio facility, which handled the scheduling of advertisements and master control operations for all four KBS stations.

On April 6, 2006, Media General announced that it would sell KWCH, its satellites, and four other stations as a result of its purchase of four former NBCowned-and-operated stations(WVTM-TVinBirmingham, Alabama;WCMH-TVinColumbus, Ohio;WNCNservingRaleigh, North Carolina;andWJARinProvidence, Rhode Island).South Bend, Indiana–basedSchurz Communicationseventually emerged as the winner and took over on September 25, at which time Schurz formed a new subsidiary known as "Sunflower Broadcasting, Inc.", which became the licensee for its Wichita media market broadcasting properties.[11][12][13]

Schurz announced on September 14, 2015, that it would exit broadcasting and sell its television and radio stations, including KWCH-DT and its satellites, toGray Televisionfor $442.5 million. Gray already ownedKAKEand its satellites (including KLBY channel 4); however, it sold that station toLockwood Broadcast Groupand kept the KBS stations.[14][15][16]

Newscasts

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Further information:KWCH-DT § News operation

The station produced separate local newscasts for many years; however due to the smaller size of its studio facility, the news department was based out of a tiny studio on the west edge of the city. The station'sTri-State Reportwas a local news staple for many years. It was claimed that KLOE was once the smallest television station in the United States that produced its own local newscasts.[17]In the 1970s, most of the station's operations were moved to KBSH-TV's studios in Hays, and the news department was reduced to a single reporter/photographer. Daily news stories are fed viamicrowave relayto KWCH's facility in Wichita, which produces local news content for KBSL.

Technical information

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Subchannels

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The station's signal ismultiplexed:

Subchannels of KBSL-DT[18]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
10.1 1080i 16:9 KBSL-DT CBS
10.2 480i KBSL-WX Always On Storm Team 12
10.3 Heroes Heroes & Icons
10.4 Outlaw Outlaw

Analog-to-digital conversion

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KBSL shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 10, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcastsunder federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transitionUHFchannel 14 to VHF channel 10.[19]Two weeks later on June 25, 2009, the station's call letters were modified to KBSL-DT to reflect the change.

References

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  1. ^"Facility Technical Data for KBSL-DT".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^abcdeFCC History Cards for KBSL-DT
  3. ^"Goodland TV Station Beams Test Patterns".Salina Journal.August 28, 1958. p. 10.RetrievedJune 1,2020.
  4. ^"CP for KWGB-TV, Goodland, Kan..."(PDF).Television Digest.August 2, 1958. p. 8 (70).RetrievedJune 1,2020.
  5. ^"Tri-State Television Station In Full-Swing".The Benkelman Post and News-Chronicle.Benkelman, Nebraska. October 23, 1958. p. 1.RetrievedMarch 18,2022– via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^"Goodland Radio And TV Sale Approval Sought".Hays Daily News.Associated Press. May 22, 1959. p. 2.RetrievedJune 1,2020.
  7. ^"Bankrupt Station Sold To Hays Man".Manhattan Mercury.Associated Press. September 2, 1960. p. 2.RetrievedJune 1,2020.
  8. ^"Microwave TV Towers Built In Northwest".Salina Journal.July 20, 1962. p. T-7.RetrievedJune 1,2020.
  9. ^"Hays Television Station To Become CBS Affiliate".Hays Daily News.August 23, 1962. p. 2.RetrievedJune 1,2020.
  10. ^"KBS, Kansas Broadcasting System"(PDF).Broadcasting.November 12, 1962. p. 55.RetrievedJune 1,2020.
  11. ^"Schurz Snaps Up Kansas Affil".Broadcasting & Cable.July 28, 2006.Archivedfrom the original on May 13, 2016.RetrievedJuly 7,2014.
  12. ^"For Immediate Release".Media General. April 6, 2006. Archived fromthe originalon March 5, 2016.RetrievedJuly 7,2014.
  13. ^"News Releases".Media General. September 25, 2006. Archived fromthe originalon January 3, 2013.RetrievedJuly 7,2014.
  14. ^"Schurz Communications to sell WSBT and other TV, radio stations".South Bend Tribune.September 14, 2015.RetrievedSeptember 14,2015.
  15. ^Kuperberg, Jonathan (September 14, 2015)."Gray Acquiring TV, Radio Stations from Schurz for $442.5 Million".Broadcasting & Cable.RetrievedSeptember 14,2015.
  16. ^"Gray Television Sells Some, Buys Some".TVNewsCheck.October 1, 2015.RetrievedOctober 1,2015.
  17. ^According to the online biography of former KLOE anchor Ted Hall (now withWXIA-TVinAtlanta)
  18. ^"RabbitEars.Info".www.rabbitears.info.
  19. ^"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on August 29, 2013.RetrievedMarch 24,2012.
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