KBSF

KBSF is a CBS-affiliated television station serving east central Kansas licensed to Olpe. It is owned and operated by Gray Television and broadcasts on channel 51.
==History==
On April 2, 1980, a group of media entrepreneurs and engineers known as the "KEAO Media Company" set up a TV station willing to serve east central Kansas under the namesake call letters "KEAO" and was planned to become an independent station. Two years later, KEAO was one of the first local stations in North America (and the first in the state of Kansas) to report the well-known Argentine invasion of the British overseas territory of the Falkland Islands (known locally as the Islas Malvinas) in the South Atlantic.
In the Fall of 1982, KEAO affiliated with the ABC television network. However, the affiliation also meant that the station's ratings began to wane as ABC was then the lowest-rated of the "big three" networks. In 1986, the KEAO Media Company signed an agreement to be merged with the Kansas Broadcasting System Corporation, swapping affiliations with KVOE-TV (channel 39) and joining CBS in the process. In 1989, Smith Media acquired the KBS stations including KEAO, causing the station to undergo a callsign change to the current KBSF ("KBS Four Counties"). The KBS stations were sold to Spartan Communications in 1994, which was later merged with Media General in 2000. In 2006, KBSF was the only KBS station to not be affected by its sister stations' sale to Schurz Communications and continues to be owned by Media General until August 20, 2014 when Meredith Corporation bought the station along with Mobile, Alabama-based Fox affiliate WALA-TV (channel 10).
On May 3, 2021, Gray Television announced its intent to purchase the Meredith Local Media division for $2.7 billion. The sale was completed on December 1. As a result, KBSF reunited with its fellow CBS affiliates in Kansas, including Topeka-based WIBW-TV (channel 13) and Osborne-based KSBO (channel 20).
==Gallery==
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== Station Slogans ==
For lyrics to KBSF's campaigns, see KBSF/Campaign Lyrics.
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1980
Category:Olpe, Kansas
Category:Emporia, Kansas
Category:Kansas
Category:Channel 51
Category:CBS network affiliates
Category:Gray Television
Category:Former ABC affiliates
Category:Former independent stations