KASI

KASI (Channel 13) is a television station in Santo Ileso, Nevada, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Alcyone Corporation, alongside Smelterville-licensed Freemax station KXUF (Channel 51). Both stations share studios in the Sanatorium Flats district, making them the first full-powered television stations in the market to not broadcast from the Lakeshore district.
== History ==
=== Flagship of Gehenna Television ===
KASI, then known as KXQF, was the flagship of locally based Gehenna Television who built and signed the station to air in 1954. Following the death of the company founder and owner Adrian Pulido, Space Coast Media acquired Gehenna Television in April 2022. Though no major changes occurred to KXQF (besides graphical updates), sister station KXUF dropped its MyNetworkTV affiliation in favor of Freemax on May 1, 2022.
=== Affiliation with ABC ===
On February 7, 2024, local station KILO-TV announced that it would not renew its affiliation with ABC and drop the network on July 1st of that year. Soon after, Space Coast Media announced the acquisition of KILO's non-license assets and move the network to KXQF's secondary subchannel. This however threatened the relationship between Space Coast and Fox's owner, the Fox Corporation, but was resolved when the latter struck a deal with KILO's owner GloboRB to move its network to that station instead. In preparation for the affiliation switch, KXQF changed its call sign to KASI on June 26th. Both stations adopted their new networks on July 1st at 6AM, with KASI branding as "ABC Santo Ileso".
Category:Space Coast Media
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1954
Category:Former independent stations
Category:Channel 13
Category:Former Fox affiliates
Category:Santo Ileso
Category:Nevada
Category:ABC network affiliates