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Independent TV station in Reno, Nevada

KNSN TV (channel 21) is a primary sports formatted independent television station in Reno, Nevada, United States, which has a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Deerfield Media, which maintains joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of Fox affiliate KRXI TV (channel 11), for the provision of certain services. Sinclair also manages NBC affiliate KRNV DT (channel 4) under a separate JSA with Cunningham Broadcasting; however, Sinclair effectively owns KRNV as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. The three stations share studios on Vassar Street in Reno; KNSN TV's transmitter is located on Red Hill between US 395 and SR 445 in Sun Valley, Nevada.

The station launched on October 11, 1981, as KAME TV, an independent station airing movies (TV 21's The Big Movie), cartoons, westerns, and sitcoms. On October 9, 1986, it became a charter Fox affiliate. On January 16, 1995, KAME TV picked up UPN on a secondary basis; it became a full time UPN affiliate on January 1, 1996, after KRXI signed on and took Fox. Between September 1996 and May 1997, the station was briefly owned by Raycom Media. With the 2006 shutdown and merge of The WB and UPN to form The CW, the station joined News Corporation–owned and Fox sister network MyNetworkTV on September 5, 2006. On July 20, 2012, one day after Cox Media Group purchased WAWS and WTEV in Jacksonville, Florida, and KOKI TV and KMYT TV in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from Newport Television, Cox put KRXI TV (along with the LMA for KAME TV) and sister stations WTOV TV in Steubenville, Ohio, WJAC TV in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and KFOX TV in El Paso, Texas (all in markets that are smaller than Tulsa), plus several radio stations in medium to small markets, on the selling block. On February 25, 2013, Cox announced that it would sell the four television stations, and the LMA for KAME, to Sinclair Broadcast Group; as part of the deal, Ellis Communications would sell KAME TV to Deerfield Media. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted its approval on April 30, 2013, one day after it approved the sale of sister station, KRXI. The sale was finalized on May 2, 2013. Sinclair would subsequently purchase the non license assets of a third Reno station, KRNV DT, on November 22, 2013. Sinclair could not buy KRNV DT outright because Reno has only six full power stations—three too few to legally permit a duopoly. With the sale of KRNV's license to Cunningham, Sinclair now controls half of those stations. The sale also created a situation in which a Fox affiliate is the nominal senior partner in a duopoly involving an NBC affiliate and a "Big Three" station. On August 31, 2018, Sinclair announced that KAME TV would relaunch as "Nevada Sports Net," which would feature extended coverage of Nevada Wolf Pack athletics, as well as the Reno Aces and the Mountain West Conference. The station would continue to air MyNetworkTV on a secondary basis. The new format launched on September 1. At that time, NSN took over KRNV's sports department. On July 15, 2019, the station's call sign was changed to KNSN TV. On July 25, 2023, the station converted to ATSC 3.0. On September 21, 2023, NSN acquired the local television rights to the Vegas Golden Knights. Coverage is produced by Scripps Sports.

Before the station shifted to a mainly sports themed format, syndicated programming featured on KAME TV included The Real (later aired on KRXI TV), Judge Faith, The Simpsons, Family Guy (now airing on KOLO DT3), and Anger Management, among others.

The station's ATSC 1.0 channels are carried on the multiplexed signals of other Reno television stations:
+Subchannels provided by KNSN TV (ATSC 1.0) Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming ATSC 1.0 host 21.1 720p 16:9 KNSN TV Sports programming / MyNetworkTV KRXI TV 21.2 480i Stadium The Nest KRNV DT 21.3 Comet Comet KTVN

+ Subchannels of KNSN TV (ATSC 3.0) Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming 2.11080p 16:9 2 CBS CBS (KTVN) 4.1 News4 NBC (KRNV DT) 8.1720p KOLO TV ABC (KOLO TV) 11.1 FOX11 Fox (KRXI TV) 21.1 KNSN TV Main KNSN TV programming

KNSN TV (as KAME TV) shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 21, on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre transition UHF channel 20, using virtual channel 21.