Outlet profile

KSAT

U.S. local TV news, center / mostly nonpartisan

Owned byGraham Media Group, the broadcasting subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company (formerly The Washington Post Company), which is headquartered in Detroit. Graham Holdings is publicly traded and is controlled through its Class A shares by the Graham family.

FundingMainly local and national TV advertising, including political advertising. It also earns retransmission-consent fees from cable and satellite providers and has ties to ABC as a network affiliate. KSAT is a commercial station and takes no public funding.

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

KSAT-TV (channel 12) signed on January 21, 1957, as KONO-TV. Outlet Communications bought it in January 1968 and changed the call letters to KSAT-TV on February 1 of that year. Outlet was taken private in 1986, and its new owners sold KSAT to H&C Communications. The Washington Post Company (later Graham Holdings) acquired the station afterward. Its TV group was known as Post-Newsweek Stations before being renamed Graham Media Group, and it is now based in Detroit. Sister stations include KPRC in Houston, WDIV in Detroit, WKMG in Orlando, WJXT and WCWJ in Jacksonville, and WSLS in Roanoke. KSAT runs the ksat.com website along with local newscasts, and its leadership includes general manager Ashley Parker. Like most local TV stations, it focuses on crime, weather, traffic, local government and investigations, and it tends to avoid explicit editorializing. Network ABC programming and national wire content can reflect mainstream U.S. media framing, but KSAT's own coverage is generally seen as centrist and local.

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Profile compiled 2026-10-13; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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