7 Kansas TV Stations Launch NextGen TV Broadcasts

Seven TV stations in Kansas' Wichita-Hutchinson market began broadcasting with NextGen TV this week, they said Wednesday. KAKE Wichita (ABC), KWCH-DT Hutchinson (CBS), KSAS-TV Wichita (Fox), KSNW Wichita (NBC), KPTS Hutchinson (PBS), KSCW-DT Wichita (CW) and KMTW Hutchinson (DABL) launched following a decade of development and months of planning by the local stations, they said. KSCW-DT, owned by Gray Television, and KMTW, owned by Mercury Broadcasting, have converted to ATSC 3.0 transmissions and are broadcasting their own programming, plus that of the other participating stations.