KASN

KASN

Pine Bluff–Little Rock, Arkansas United States
City	Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Channels	Digital: 34 (UHF) Virtual: 38
Branding	The CW Arkansas
Programming
Affiliations	38.1: The CW for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Mission Broadcasting
Operator	Nexstar Media Group
Sister stations	KLRT-TV, KARK-TV, KARZ-TV
History
First air date	June 17, 1986 (38 years ago) (1986-06-17)
Former call signs	KJTM-TV (1986–1988)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 38 (UHF, 1986–2009) Digital: 39 (UHF, 2002–2018)
Former affiliations	Independent (1986, 1990–1995) Fox (1986–1990) UPN (1995–2006)
Call sign meaning	"Arkansas State Network"
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	41212
ERP	1,000 kW
HAAT	589.6 m (1,934 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	34°26′31″N 92°13′4″W / 34.44194°N 92.21778°W / 34.44194; -92.21778
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.fox16.com/the-cwarkansas

KASN (channel 38) is a television station licensed to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States, serving the Little Rock area as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting alongside Fox affiliate KLRT-TV (channel 16); the two stations are operated under a local marketing agreement (LMA) by Nexstar Media Group, which holds a majority stake in The CW and also owns NBC affiliate KARK-TV (channel 4) and MyNetworkTV affiliate KARZ-TV (channel 42). The stations share studios at the Victory Building on West Capitol Avenue and South Victory Street (near the Arkansas State Capitol) in downtown Little Rock; KASN's transmitter is located at the Redfield Tower, two miles (3.2 km) west of Redfield in unincorporated Grant County.

Channel 38 was established by TVX Broadcast Group in June 1986 as KJTM-TV, the second independent station in the Little Rock market and was the Fox affiliate for central Arkansas from 1986 to 1990. It struggled to compete with KLRT-TV, the original independent in the market. TVX sold the station in 1987, and it was renamed KASN in January 1988. Ultimately, KASN lost the Fox affiliation to KLRT-TV after a protracted struggle; beginning in 1992, KLRT handled certain sales, marketing and operational functions for channel 38. KASN affiliated with UPN in 1995 and The CW in 2006. Both stations were sold to Mission Broadcasting in 2012 in conjunction with consolidation with the city's Nexstar stations.