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KSDK virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 35) is an NBC-affiliated television station located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The station is owned by Tegna, Inc. KSDK maintains studio facilities and offices located on Market Street in Downtown St. Louis, and its transmitter is located in Shrewsbury. ==History== The station first signed on the air as KSD-TV on February 8, 1947; it was owned by the Pulitzer Publishing Company, publishers of the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' and owners of KSD radio (550 AM, now KTRS). It was the ninth television station to sign on in the United States, the first station in Missouri and the second station located west of the Mississippi River. In the early days, KSD produced much of its own programming and developed its own talent pool. Many St. Louis television pioneers from KSD-TV came from radio, including Frank Eschen, Kay Morton, Russ Severin and Dave Russell.〔("St. Louis Television, the early years" ), ''Doug Quick Online'', Doug Quick, August 14, 2013. Retrieved on 3, June, 2014.〕 Because of a freeze on new television station licenses imposed by the Federal Communications Commission, KSD-TV was the only television station in the St. Louis market, until WTVI (channel 54, now KTVI channel 2) signed on in August 1953. Channel 5 has always been an NBC affiliate, owing to KSD radio's longtime affiliation with the NBC Red Network; the station is currently the longest-tenured affiliate of any major broadcast television network. In its early years, channel 5 also carried secondary affiliations with CBS, DuMONT and ABC. In the early 1960s, Channel 5 became the first St. Louis television station to broadcast in color. After Pulitzer sold KSD radio to Combined Communications Corporation in 1979 (prior to Combined's merger with the Gannett Company that same year), KSD-TV's call letters were modified to the current KSDK. In 1983, Pulitzer traded channel 5 to Multimedia, Inc. in return for WFBC-TV (now WYFF) in Greenville, South Carolina, in what was a rare instance of one company's flagship station being traded for another.〔("Changing Hands." ''Broadcasting'', March 14, 1983, pg. 161 )〕 During the 1980s and 1990s, KSDK was the highest-rated NBC affiliate in the country, and it remains the most-watched NBC affiliate in the top 30 markets to this day, despite the network's overall ratings decline that has occurred since the 2004-05 season. In 1989, KSDK dropped the ''Eyewitness News'' branding and rebranded its newscasts as ''NewsChannel 5''; the station also began to operate on a 24-hour-a-day schedule. On July 24, 1995, Multimedia was purchased by the Gannett Company, with the acquisition finalized on December 4.〔(THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Expanding in TV, Gannett Agrees to Buy Multimedia ), ''The New York Times'', July 25, 1995.〕〔(Gannett, Multimedia announce merger agreement ), Gannett press release, December 4, 1995.〕 In 1998, KSDK debuted the "Window on St. Louis," a streetside studio located in the same downtown St. Louis building that also houses KSDK's other studios. The local program ''Show Me St. Louis'' broadcasts from this studio, which welcomes the public to take part in the telecasts. The Window on St. Louis is modeled on ''Today''s "Window on the World." In an attempt to provide St. Louisans with local and national election results during the 2004 elections, KSDK partnered with PBS member station KETC (channel 9) to simulcast election coverage. The KSDK/KETC partnership continued through September 2005, when, along with radio partners KYKY (98.1 FM) and KEZK (102.5 FM), a telethon for Hurricane Katrina relief was simulcast. KSDK produced the first broadcast of any local program in St. Louis in high definition, when it broadcast the St. Louis Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 24, 2005. Incidentally, the 2005 parade also marked the final year that the event, which had been a Thanksgiving Day tradition on KSDK, would be broadcast on the station, as the parade moved to CBS affiliate KMOV (channel 4) in 2006. On June 29, 2015, the Gannett Company split in two, with one side specializing in print media and the other side specializing in broadcast and digital media. KSDK was retained by the latter company, named TEGNA. 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「KSDK」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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