15 Facts About KSDK

KSDK is a television station in St Louis, Missouri, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc The station's studios are located on Market Street in Downtown St Louis, and its transmitter is located in Shrewsbury, Missouri.

In 1990, KSDK dropped the Eyewitness News branding and rebranded its newscasts as NewsChannel 5; the station began to operate on a 24-hour-a-day schedule.

In 1998, KSDK debuted the "Window on St Louis, " a street-side studio located in the same downtown St Louis building that houses KSDK's other studios.

KSDK produced the first broadcast of any local program in St Louis in high definition, when it broadcast the St Louis Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 24,2005.

Incidentally, the 2005 parade marked the final year that the event, which had been a Thanksgiving Day tradition on KSDK, would be broadcast on the station, as the parade moved to CBS affiliate KMOV in 2006.

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KSDK dominated the news ratings in St Louis for the better part of its first six decades on the air.

On February 6,2006, KSDK became the first television station in St Louis, and the seventh station in the United States, to broadcast all newscasts and locally produced programming in high definition; it became the first St Louis area station to stream all of its newscasts online.

KSDK used to operate a Bell 206B3 JetRanger helicopter called "Chopper 5", that was used for breaking news and severe weather coverage.

In January 2014, KSDK faced criticism from educators and the community for an undercover piece on school security.

School personnel became concerned when the KSDK employee asked to use a restroom and left the office in the opposite direction, and when the station would not confirm with the school that the employee's visit was only a test, the school was placed on lockdown for 40 minutes, when a station representative finally confirmed that the employee's presence was for a story.

KSDK lost the rights to KPLR again after the 1987 season; the station aired any Cardinals games as part of NBC's broadcast contract with Major League Baseball from 1947 to 1989, including the team's World Series victories in 1964,1967 and 1982.

KSDK aired an average of 20 locally produced Cardinals games each year, with most other games airing on Fox Sports Midwest outside the St Louis market.

KSDK lost the broadcast rights on July 15,2010, when Fox Sports Midwest signed an exclusive contract with the team beginning with the 2011 season, ending the Cardinals' over-the-air telecasts.

Since September 5,1995, KSDK has aired Show Me St Louis, which highlights local entertainment and other attractions around the St Louis area.

KSDK shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, on June 12,2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate.