KSNL-LD

KSNL-LD (channel 6) is a low-power television station in Salina, Kansas, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Nexstar Media Group. The station's studios are located on North Santa Fe Avenue in downtown Salina, and its transmitter is located on State Street and Halsted Road in unincorporated Saline County (west of the Salina city limits).

KSNL-LD is part of the Kansas State Network (KSN), a regional network of five stations relaying programming from Wichita NBC affiliate KSNW (channel 3) across central and western Kansas, as well as bordering counties in Nebraska and Oklahoma; KSNL-LD incorporates local advertising and news inserts aimed at Salina and surrounding areas within the Wichita–Hutchinson Plus television market.

The Kansas State Network first established a presence in Salina on December 13, 1964, when a channel 74 translator of Great Bend's KCKT-TV was activated.^[2] The translator moved to channel 18 (as K18AA) in 1967,^[3] where it remained until it was displaced by the sign-on of full-power KAAS-TV in 1988; it then moved to channel 6 as K06LZ. The station flash cut to digital on channel 47 as KSNL-LD in 2008.

On May 7, 2012, the LIN TV Corporation announced that it would acquire the New Vision Television station group, including KSNW and its four satellite stations, for $330.4 million and the assumption of $12 million in debt;^[4] the sale – which was approved by the FCC on October 2^[5] and was completed 1+1⁄2 weeks later on October 12 – marked a re-entry to Kansas for LIN, which briefly owned the licenses of K51GC (channel 51, now KHDS-LD), a low-power repeater of Wichita ABC affiliate KAKE-TV (channel 10), in 2000, before selling them to Benedek Broadcasting shortly after the purchase was finalized.

El 21 de marzo de 2014, Media General anunció que compraría LIN Media y sus estaciones, incluidas las estaciones KSN, en una fusión de 1.600 millones de dólares. El acuerdo marcó el regreso de Media General al mercado, ya que anteriormente poseía KBSH-TV (canal 7), un satélite de la filial de CBS de Wichita , KWCH-TV (canal 12), desde 2000 hasta 2006. ^{[ 6 ] [ 7 ]} La fusión se completó el 19 de diciembre . ^{[ 8 ]} El 28 de septiembre de 2015, Nexstar Broadcasting Group anunció que había ofrecido comprar Media General y sus estaciones, incluidas KSNW y sus satélites. ^{[ 9 ]} El 27 de enero de 2016, Nexstar anunció que había llegado a un acuerdo para adquirir Media General. ^{[ 10 ]} La adquisición de KSNL y sus otros satélites por parte de Nexstar reunió a las estaciones con el antiguo satélite KSNF , cuya propiedad se separó del resto de la Kansas State Network en 1986. El acuerdo fue aprobado por la FCC el 11 de enero de 2017 y se completó el 17 de enero, marcando la primera entrada de Nexstar en el mercado de Wichita. ^{[ 11 ]}

KSNL-LD no ofrece los demás subcanales que sí ofrecen las estaciones KSN de máxima potencia.

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