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KLAS-TV "CBS 8" virtual channel 8 (VHF digital channel 7) is a CBS-affiliated television station located in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The station is owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group. KLAS-TV's studios are located at 3228 Channel 8 Drive near the northern portion of the Las Vegas Strip in the unincorporated community of Winchester (though with a Las Vegas address) and its transmitter is located on Mount Arden in Henderson. ==History== KLAS first signed on the air on July 8, 1953; the station was originally owned by Hank Greenspun, owner of the ''Las Vegas Sun''. Channel 8 was the first television station to sign on in Nevada (beating KOLO-TV in Reno to the air by two months and five days). It has always been a CBS affiliate, but maintained a secondary affiliation with ABC, which it would share with KLRJ/KORK-TV (channel 3, now KSNV-DT) from that station's sign on in January 1955, until KSHO-TV (channel 13, now KTNV-TV) debuted in May 1956. Greenspun sold the station to aviation magnate Howard Hughes in 1968, reportedly because the tycoon was dismayed that the station never played his favorite late night movies. After Hughes' death in 1976, the station was held in an outside trust for another two years until 1978, when it was sold to Landmark Communications (Landmark Communications renamed itself to Landmark Media Enterprises in September 2008). On April 16, 1996, KLAS-TV became the first commercial television station in Nevada (and one of the first in the United States) to carry a digital broadcast signal. This signal was first launched during the National Association of Broadcasters annual convention that year. A little more than four years later on April 6, 2000, the first scheduled high definition network broadcasts in Las Vegas began on KLAS' digital signal. On January 30, 2008, Landmark announced its intention to sell KLAS, along with its other television station WTVF in Nashville. No suitable buyer for KLAS was found until Landmark took most of its properties off the market in October 2008 due to the economic resession. KLAS and WTVF remained under Landmark ownership for more than four years. On September 4, 2012, Journal Broadcast Group (owners of one of KLAS's local rivals, ABC affiliate KTNV-TV) announced that it would purchase WTVF for $215 million. The sale was finalized on December 6. This left KLAS-TV as the only television station in Landmark's portfolio. On November 21, 2014, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced that it would purchase KLAS for $145 million. The sale was completed on February 13, 2015.〔(KLAS-TV has a new owner ) KLAS-TV, February 13, 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KLAS-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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