KASN (channel 38) is a television station licensed to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States, serving the Little Rock area as a de facto owned-and-operated station of The CW. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting alongside Fox affiliate KLRT-TV (channel 16); Mission maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Nexstar Media Group (which owns NBC affiliate KARK-TV [channel 4] and MyNetworkTV affiliate KARZ-TV [channel 42] and holds a majority stake in The CW) for the provision of certain services. 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, while KASN's transmitter is located on the Clear Channel Broadcasting Tower, west-southwest of Redfield. Channel 38 was established in 1985 as 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 and ultimately lost the Fox affiliation to it; beginning in 1992, KLRT handled certain sales, marketing and operational functions for channel 38. Both stations were sold to Mission Broadcasting in 2012 in conjunction with consolidation with the city's Nexstar stations. History Early history The construction permit for UHF channel 38 in Pine Bluff was filed for on January 14, 1983, and granted on May 18 of that year to Pine Bluff Broadcasting Inc., the merger of two applicants: siblings A.G. Kasselburg and Chloee Poag and American Satellite & Television of Gainesville, Florida.), which filed the application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on January 14, and received the permit grant on May 18, 1983. On March 14, 1985, Pine Bluff Broadcasting sold the construction permit, bearing the call sign KMJD-TV, to Virginia Beach–based Television Corp. Stations (subsequently renamed TVX Broadcast Group) for $200.000; the FCC granted approval of the purchase on May 15. Channel 38 first signed on the air on June 17, 1986, as KJTM-TV, in honor of J. Timothy McDonald, the chairman of TVX. Originally operating as an independent station, it was the third independent to sign on in the Little Rock–Pine Bluff market, after KLRT-TV (channel 16), which began broadcasting on June 26, 1983, and Hot Springs–licensed KRZB-TV (channel 26), which signed on February 7, 1986. It was also the second Central Arkansas television station to be licensed to Pine Bluff: ABC affiliate KATV (channel 7) signed on from Pine Bluff in December 1953 and was