KSAS-TV (channel 24) is a television station in Wichita, Kansas, United States, affiliated with Fox and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to Hutchinson-licensed Dabl affiliate KMTW (channel 36) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Mercury Broadcasting Company. Both stations share studios on West Street in northwestern Wichita, while KSAS-TV's transmitter is located in rural northwestern Sedgwick County (east of Colwich). History The station first signed on the air on August 24, 1985; it was founded by a limited partnership known as Columbia-Kansas TV Ltd., which was restructured into Channel 24 Ltd. before it signed on. Originally operating as an independent station, channel 24 was the first such station licensed to Kansas as well as the first commercial television station to sign on in the Wichita market since KARD-TV (channel 3, now KSNW) debuted 30 years earlier in September 1955. The station became a charter affiliate of Fox when the network launched on October 9, 1986. However, like most Fox stations early on, it continued to program as a de facto independent for Fox's first eight years of existence. On April 3, 1988, KAAS-TV (channel 17) signed on in Salina as a full-time satellite of KSAS. The station later added repeaters in Western Kansas in 1995, with the launches of low-power stations KSAS-LP (channel 29) in Dodge City and KAAS-LP (channel 31) in Garden City. Channel 24 Ltd. filed for bankruptcy in the late 1980s, and was eventually bought out by Clear Channel Communications in August 1990. On June 27, 1997, Clear Channel Communications entered into a local marketing agreement with Goddard-based Three Feathers Communications, Inc. to form a new television station in Hutchinson, Kansas. Initially bearing the name KAWJ, the construction permit of the station took the KSCC ("Kansas Clear Channel", channel 36, now known as KMTW) call letters on October 9, 1998. An application was filled by Three Feathers on July 30, 1999 to sell the license of KSCC to Viacom's Paramount Stations Group, which was granted by the FCC on October 1 the same year. The station officially signed on January 5, 2001, with the station first launching on Cox Cable in August 2000, as a UPN Owned-and-operated station. KSCC's license assets would later be sold to San Antonio-based Mercury Broadcasting Company prior to the station's official sign-on. In 1998, per the suggestion of then-program director Michael Hochman, KSAS changed