KSAN-TV

KSAN-TV, virtual channel 3, is the NBC-affiliated television station for the San Angelo, Texas television market. KSAN is owned by Mission Broadcasting; through a Local Sales Agreement, the station is operated by CBS affiliate KLST, which is owned and operated by Nexstar Broadcasting Group. It is broadcast on digital channel 16, which remaps to former analog channel 3 via PSIP.

Digital television

History

The station signed on February 8, 1962 as KACB-TV, a satellite of Abilene's KRBC-TV. Originally owned by the Ackers family, the stations were sold to Sunrise Television 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.

To this day, both KSAN and KRBC, though now separate stations, remain under the same ownership (Mission Broadcasting).