KLST

It was the first television station in San Angelo, signing on the air on June 26, 1953 as KTXL-TV; these call letters are now used by the Fox affiliate in Sacramento, California as the call letters have been used by that station since 1968. The station was originally founded and owned by A. D. Rust and B. P. Bludworth.

In 1957, the station changed its call sign to KCTV, which is now the call sign of the CBS affiliate in Kansas City, Missouri.

KCTV changed ownership three times between 1959 and 1971, first it was sold to Big Spring Broadcasting in 1959, and then Westex Television in 1962, and then the Jewell Television Corporation in 1971.

In 1983, the station changed its call letters again to become KLST.

KLST was purchased by Nexstar Broadcasting in 2004 from the Jewell Television Corporation. It then began operating KSAN-TV under joint sales and shared services agreements.

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

On June 15, 2016, Nexstar announced that it has entered into an affiliation agreement with Katz Broadcasting for the Escape (now Court TV Mystery), Laff, Grit, and Bounce TV networks (the last one of which is owned by Bounce Media LLC, whose COO Jonathan Katz is president/CEO of Katz Broadcasting), bringing the four networks to 81 stations owned and/or operated by Nexstar, including KLST and KSAN-TV.[2]

KLST serves as the CBS affiliate for 11 counties in West Central Texas that form the San Angelo television market as defined by Nielsen (Tom Green, Sterling, Coke, Irion, Concho, McCulloch, Schleicher, Menard, Crockett, Sutton, and Kimble).

KLST also provides news and weather coverage to four other counties that assigned to other nearby television markets (Runnels and Coleman in the Abilene–Sweetwater DMA, Reagan in the Midland–Odessa DMA, and Mason in the Austin DMA). Runnels County is immediately adjacent to Tom Green County (where San Angelo is located), but the majority of the residents in the county watch local television stations that broadcast from Abilene, so the county is assigned to the Abilene–Sweetwater television market by Nielsen.

KLST presently broadcasts 19 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 3½ hours each weekday, one hour on Saturdays and switches between a half-hour and one hour on Sundays during sports seasons.[3])

• Official website
• KLST in the FCC's TV station database
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KLST-TV