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{{short description|CBS affiliate in San Angelo, Texas}}
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'''KLST'''
Channel 8 is the oldest station in San Angelo, signing on as KTXL-TV in 1953 and changing call signs to KCTV in 1957. It was a CBS affiliate from its first day on air. KCTV became KLST in 1983 when its call sign was purchased by a TV station in [[Kansas City, Missouri]]. Nexstar acquired KLST in 2004 and consolidated operations with Mission-owned KSAN-TV.
==History==
On October 21, 1952, Armistead D. Rust—the mayor of San Angelo—and B. P. Bludworth of [[Brownwood, Texas|Brownwood]], trading as Westex Television Company, filed an application with the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) for permission to build a television station in the city on channel 8.<ref name="hc">{{Cite web|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/api/download/attachment/1462b880-c979-1dda-59bc-b0ea5603cb95|title=History Cards for KLST|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]}}</ref><ref name="SanA530614">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90803415/tv-station-starts-tests-monday-opening/|date=June 14, 1953|page=3E|first=Jack|last=Allard|title=TV Station Starts Tests Monday; Opening Nears|newspaper=San Angelo Standard-Times|location=San Angelo, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 19, 2021}}</ref><!-- Sun --> Rust and Bludworth owned [[KCCE (AM)|KTXL (1340 AM)]], the city's [[Mutual Broadcasting System]] radio affiliate.<ref name="SanA521104">{{Cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-tv-application/141182321/|date=November 4, 1952|page=1|title=TV Application Is Filed For Angelo|newspaper=San Angelo Standard-Times|location=San Angelo, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=February 17, 2024}}</ref><!-- Tue --> Approval was swift and came on November 26, 1952.{{r|hc}}
Channel 8 was the first television station in San Angelo, signing on the air on July 6, 1953.<ref name="SanA530707">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90803486/new-mass-entertainment-tv-pleases-san/|date=July 7, 1953|page=1|title=New Mass Entertainment, TV, Pleases San Angeloans|newspaper=San Angelo Evening Standard|location=San Angelo, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 19, 2021}}</ref><!-- Tue --> The station was an affiliate at launch of the [[CBS]] and [[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]] networks and additionally aired national news from NBC;<ref name="SanA530614-14E">{{Cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-sports-new-d/141183241/|date=June 14, 1953|page=14E|title=Sports, New, Drama, Comedy On TV Shows|newspaper=San Angelo Standard-Times|location=San Angelo, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=February 17, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --><ref name="SanA530704">{{Cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-t-v-day-has-ar/141183461/|date=July 4, 1953|page=9|type=Advertisement|title=T-V Day Has Arrived!|newspaper=San Angelo Standard-Times|location=San Angelo, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=February 17, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sat --> NBC entertainment programs were added to the schedule in August.<ref name="SanA530810">{{Cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-evening-standard-something-ne/141183632/|date=August 10, 1953|page=8|type=Advertisement|title=Something New Has Been Added|newspaper=San Angelo Evening Standard|location=San Angelo, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=February 17, 2024}}</ref><!-- Mon --> Rust and Bludworth sold KTXL radio in 1956<ref name="SanA560714">{{Cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-ktxls-radio-i/141183950/|date=July 14, 1956|page=1|title=KTXL's Radio Interests Sold To Louisianan|newspaper=San Angelo Standard-Times|location=San Angelo, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=February 17, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sat --> and a majority stake in KTXL-TV to Roy Simmons and Angelo Broadcasting-Telecasting, the owners of radio station [[KGKL (AM)|KGKL]], in 1957;<ref name="SanA570314">{{Cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-tv-change-is-a/141184343/|date=March 14, 1957|page=1|title=TV Change Is Approved|newspaper=San Angelo Standard-Times|location=San Angelo, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=February 17, 2024}}</ref><!-- Thu --> on August 4, the station changed call signs to KCTV to sever itself of any connection to KTXL radio.<ref name="SanA570804">{{Cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-its-station-k/141184558/|date=August 4, 1957|page=2D|title=It's Station KCTV Beginning Today|newspaper=San Angelo Standard-Times|location=San Angelo, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=February 17, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun -->
In 1959, Big Spring Broadcasting, a company led by Houston Harte Jr., acquired majority control of KCTV.<ref name="SanA590327">{{Cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-tv-station-sal/141184739/|date=March 27, 1959|page=2|title=TV Station Sale Okayed|newspaper=San Angelo Standard-Times|location=San Angelo, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=February 17, 2024}}</ref><!-- Fri --> Houston and his brother, Edward Harte, became full owners in 1962.<ref name="SanA621205">{{Cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-fcc-okays-tv-c/141185019/|date=December 5, 1962|page=4B|title=FCC Okays TV Change|newspaper=San Angelo Standard-Times|location=San Angelo, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=February 17, 2024}}</ref><!-- Wed --> The station was sold once more in 1971 to T. B. Lanford, trading as the Jewell Television Corporation. Lanford owned broadcast stations in other Southern cities and in Colorado;<ref name="SanA710121">{{Cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-sale-of-kctv-g/141185247/|date=January 21, 1971|page=2A|title=Sale of KCTV gains approval|newspaper=San Angelo Standard-Times|location=San Angelo, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=February 17, 2024}}</ref><!-- Thu --> Jewell Television was named for Lanford's wife. That same year, the station began local broadcasting in color.<ref name="SanA880703">{{Cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-klst-turns-35/141185958/|date=July 3, 1988|page=3B|title=KLST turns 35, sets open house|newspaper=San Angelo Standard-Times|location=San Angelo, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=February 17, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --> Lanford died in 1978, but his estate continued to own the station, with Tom Gresham as executor and later president of Jewell. Under Jewell, the station built its current transmitter site near [[Eola, Texas]], in 1981.<ref name="SanA810901">{{Cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-tv-executive-s/141185497/|date=September 1, 1981|page=2B|first=Renee|last=Lee|title=TV executive says tube 'titillating'|newspaper=San Angelo Standard-Times|location=San Angelo, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=February 17, 2024}}</ref><!-- Tue -->
In 1983, the station changed its call letters again to become KLST. The change had been induced by [[KCTV|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.<ref name="Kans830114">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90802280/goodbye-kcmo-tv-hello-kctv/|date=January 14, 1983|page=2B|first=Gerald B.|last=Jordan|title=Goodbye KCMO-TV; hello KCTV|newspaper=The Kansas City Star|location=Kansas City, Missouri|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 19, 2021}}</ref><!-- Fri -->
The Kimbell family, related to the Lanfords, bought Jewell in 1994; the Louisiana radio stations were sold off, leaving channel 8 the company's only holding. It no longer became economically feasible to run KLST as a standalone property.{{r|SanA040614}} KLST was purchased by Nexstar Broadcasting in 2004 from the Jewell Television Corporation.<ref name="dbj-saletonexstar">{{cite news |title=Nexstar to buy San Angelo TV station for $12M |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2004/05/17/daily39.html |access-date=January 17, 2023 |work=Dallas Business Journal |date=May 21, 2004}}</ref> Nexstar was already operating KSAN-TV under joint sales and shared services agreements with Mission Broadcasting;<ref name="rbr-saletonexstar">{{cite news |title=Transactions |url=https://www.rbr.com/epaper/issue130-04.html |access-date=January 17, 2023 |work=Radio Business Report |date=July 6, 2004}}</ref> it had made several offers to Jewell in the early 2000s and particularly after the Mission purchase.{{r|SanA040614}} On June 1, 2004, Nexstar assumed control of KLST while the sale was finalized;<ref name="SanA040522">{{Cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-tv-station-kls/141186649/|date=May 22, 2004|pages=1A, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-klst-the-appr/141186719/ 11A]|title=TV station KLST gets new owner|newspaper=San Angelo Standard-Times|location=San Angelo, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=February 17, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sat --> KLST's news director assumed responsibility for KSAN-TV's newscasts,<ref name="SanA040614">{{Cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-changing-stati/141186940/|date=June 14, 2004|pages=1C, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-tv-stations-t/141186837/ 2C]|first=John|last=Boyd|title=Changing stations: KLST shares future with rival KSAN, now company kin|newspaper=San Angelo Standard-Times|location=San Angelo, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=February 17, 2024}}</ref><!-- Mon --> and Nexstar consolidated traffic—the scheduling and logging for commercials—for the San Angelo stations in Abilene at [[KTAB]]–[[KRBC]], leading to layoffs at KLST.<ref name="SanA040709">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-klst-tv-drops/136517365/|date=July 9, 2004|pages=1A, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-klst-abilene/136517343/ 8A]|first=Aleshia|last=Claunch|title=KLST-TV drops five jobs: Following merger, station operations begin streamlining|newspaper=San Angelo Standard-Times|location=San Angelo, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=December 9, 2023}}</ref><!-- Fri --> On February 17, 2009, both stations converted to exclusively digital broadcasts.<ref name="SanA090214">{{Cite news|url=https://newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-local-stations/141188517/|date=February 14, 2009|pages=A1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/san-angelo-standard-times-tv/141188490/ A5]|first=Jayna|last=Boyle|title=Local stations switching to digital|newspaper=San Angelo Standard-Times|location=San Angelo, Texas|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=February 17, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sat -->
==News operation==▼
KLST presently broadcasts 19 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with {{frac|3
==Subchannels==
The station's signal is [[multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
! scope="col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope="col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]▼
! scope="col" | Short name
! scope="col" | Programming
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! scope="row" | 8.1
▲! [[Video resolution|Video]]
▲! [[Aspect ratio|Aspect]]
▲! Programming <ref>http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KLST#station</ref>
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! scope="row" | 8.2
▲| 8.1 || [[1080i]] || [[16:9]] || KLST-DT || Main KLST programming / [[CBS]]
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! scope="row" | 8.3
▲| 8.2 || rowspan="2"|[[480i]] || rowspan="2"|[[4:3]] || || [[Grit (TV network)|Grit]]
| Escape || [[Ion Mystery]]
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! scope="row" |8.4
| Antenna || [[Antenna TV]]
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▲==News operation==
▲KLST presently broadcasts 19 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 3½ hours on weekdays, 1 hour on Saturdays and switches between a half-hour and 1 hour on Sundays during sports seasons.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/sports/season-pass|title=Season Pass {{!}} Concho Valley - San Angelo and West Central Texas|website=CONCHOVALLEYHOMEPAGE|language=en-US|access-date=2017-05-07}}</ref>)
==References==
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==External links==
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