KLST

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KLST

San Angelo, Texas United States
Channels	Digital: 11 (VHF) Virtual: 8
Branding	KLST (general) KLST News (newscasts)
Programming
Affiliations	8.1: CBS 8.2: Grit 8.3: Court TV Mystery 8.4: Antenna TV)
Ownership
Owner	Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Media Inc.)
Sister stations	KSAN-TV
History
First air date	July 6, 1953 (68 years ago) (1953-07-06)
Former call signs	KTXL-TV (1953–1957) KCTV (1957–1983)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 8 (VHF, 1953–2009)
Call sign meaning	"Lone Star Television"[1]
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	31114
ERP	18.8 kW
HAAT	434.2 m (1,425 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	31°22′2″N 100°2′49″W / 31.36722°N 100.04694°W / 31.36722; -100.04694
Links
Public license information	Profile LMS
Website	www.conchovalleyhomepage.com

KLST, virtual channel 8 (VHF digital channel 11), is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to San Angelo, Texas, United States. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which also operates NBC affiliate KSAN-TV (channel 3) under joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with owner Mission Broadcasting. The two stations share studios on Armstrong Street in San Angelo; KLST's transmitter is located near Eola, Texas.

History[]

It was the first television station in San Angelo, signing on the air on July 6, 1953,^[2] as KTXL-TV (co-owned with KTXL (1340 AM)); the station was originally founded and owned by Armistead D. Rust (then the mayor of San Angelo) and B. P. Bludworth.^[3] In 1957, the station changed its call sign to KCTV.^[4]

KCTV changed ownership three times between 1959 and 1971: first, it was sold to Big Spring Broadcasting in 1959, and then Westex Television in 1962, and then the Jewell Television Corporation in 1971.

In 1983, the station changed its call letters again to become KLST. The change had been induced by channel 5 in Kansas City, Missouri, which needed to change its call sign and was interested in becoming KCTV; the Missouri station paid all of channel 8's name change expenses.^[1]

KLST was purchased by Nexstar Broadcasting in 2004 from the Jewell Television Corporation. It then began operating KSAN-TV under joint sales and shared services agreements.

Digital channels[]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

On June 15, 2016, Nexstar announced that it has entered into an affiliation agreement with Katz Broadcasting for the Escape (now Court TV Mystery), Laff, Grit, and Bounce TV networks (the last one of which is owned by Bounce Media LLC, whose COO Jonathan Katz is president/CEO of Katz Broadcasting), bringing the four networks to 81 stations owned and/or operated by Nexstar, including KLST and KSAN-TV.^[6]

Coverage area[]

KLST serves as the CBS affiliate for 11 counties in West Central Texas that form the San Angelo television market as defined by Nielsen (Tom Green, Sterling, Coke, Irion, Concho, McCulloch, Schleicher, Menard, Crockett, Sutton, and Kimble).

KLST also provides news and weather coverage to four other counties that assigned to other nearby television markets (Runnels and Coleman in the Abilene–Sweetwater DMA, Reagan in the Midland–Odessa DMA, and Mason in the Austin DMA). Runnels County is immediately adjacent to Tom Green County (where San Angelo is located), 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.

News operation[]

KLST presently broadcasts 19 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 3½ hours each weekday, one hour on Saturdays and switches between a half-hour and one hour on Sundays during sports seasons.^[7])

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• BIAfn's Media Web Database — Information on KLST-TV