KSAN-TV
KSAN-TV, virtual channel 3, is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to San Angelo, Texas, United States. The station is owned by Mission Broadcasting; Nexstar Media Group, which owns CBS affiliate KLST, operates KSAN-TV under joint sales and shared services agreements. The two stations share studios on Armstrong Street in San Angelo; KSAN-TV's transmitter is located north of the city on SH 208.
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.Both KSAN and KRBC, though now separate stations, remain under the same ownership.
The KSAN-TV call letters were originally assigned to an early UHF station operating on channel 32 in San Francisco, which first began operations in 1954, but had a relatively small audience for many years, since few Bay Area television sets had UHF tuners in the 1950s. The channel is now occupied by KMTP-TV.
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:| Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP short name | Programming |
| 3.1 | 1080i | KSAN-DT | Main KSAN-TV programming / NBC | |
| 3.2 | 480i | Bounce | Bounce TV | |
| 3.3 | 480i | Laff | Laff | |
| 3.4 | 480i | ION | Ion Television |
On June 15, 2016, Nexstar announced that it has entered into an affiliation agreement with Katz Broadcasting for the Escape, Laff, Grit, and Bounce TV networks, bringing the four networks to 81 stations owned and/or operated by Nexstar, including KSAN-TV and KLST.
Coverage area
KSAN serves as the NBC affiliate for 11 counties in West Central Texas that form the San Angelo television market as defined by Nielsen.KSAN also provides news and weather coverage to one county that is assigned to another nearby television market. Runnels County is immediately adjacent to Tom Green County, but the majority of the residents in the county watch local television stations that broadcast from Abilene, so the county is assigned to the Abilene–Sweetwater television market by Nielsen.