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KLAS TV history
KLAS TV company history timeline
KLAS-TV initially broadcast a test pattern for two weeks, beginning on July 8, 1953.
The station went on-air on the evening of July 22, 1953, becoming Nevada's first television station.
Since opening in 1953, Channel 8 has covered the stories, big and small, and in doing so, has covered a major chunk of the Valley's history.
Greenspun sold the station to Hughes Tool Company on March 30, 1968.
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.
On April 6, 2000, the first scheduled high definition network broadcasts in Las Vegas began on KLAS-TV's 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 recession.
On September 4, 2012, Journal Broadcast Group (owners of one of KLAS-TV's local rivals, ABC affiliate KTNV-TV) announced that it would purchase WTVF for $215 million.
On November 21, 2014, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced that it would purchase KLAS for $145 million.
The sale was completed on February 13, 2015.
On January 29, 2016, shortly prior to Super Bowl 50, KLAS was dropped from Cox Communications due to a retransmission consent dispute with Nexstar across nine markets.
As a contingency plan, Cox announced on February 3, 2016, that it would offer a free preview of ESPN Deportes (which was broadcasting the game in Spanish) over the Super Bowl weekend, and encouraged viewers to listen to the English radio broadcast along with it.
On December 3, 2018, Nexstar announced it would acquire the assets of Chicago-based Tribune Media for $6.4 billion in cash and debt.
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