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Full-power digital · channel 15 · WICHITA, KS
| Facility ID | 72358 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | NEXSTAR MEDIA INC. |
| Community of licence | WICHITA, KS
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 37.77361, -97.51517 |
| Effective radiated power | 650 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 735.1 m above average terrain · non-directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | http://www.ksn.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | 16
|
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | none found |
This website serves 5 stations. It is a network or group property, so the settings above reflect the owner's policy across all of them rather than a decision made for KSNW.
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAKE | 10 | DTV | KNOXVILLE TV LLC |
| KSCW-DT | 12 | DTV | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| K18OM-D | 18 | LPD | |
| K20PL-D | 20 | LPD | |
| KGPT-CD | 24 | DCA | URBAN INVESTMENT BROADCASTING LLC |
| KSAS-TV | 26 | DTV | KSAS LICENSEE, LLC |
| KFVT-LD | 27 | LPD | DTV AMERICA CORPORATION |
| K29NL-D | 29 | LPD | VENTANA TELEVISION, INC. |
| KSMI-LD | 30 | LPD | DIGITAL NETWORKS-WICHITA, LLC |
| KWKD-LD | 36 | LPD | WORD OF GOD FELLOWSHIP, INC. |
| KCTU-LD | 43 | LPD | RIVER CITY BROADCASTERS, INC. |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/KSNW | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=KSNW | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.