Editing KSDK (section)

==History==
[[File:KSD-TV's_first_schedule,_February_8,_1947.jpg|thumb|left|Article in the ''[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]'' edition dated February 8, 1947, announcing KSD-TV's first programs.]]
[[File:KSD TV Broadcast 1948.JPG|165px|thumb|right|A 1948 KSD broadcast.]]
The station first signed on the air as KSD-TV on February 8, 1947.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ksdk.com/article/entertainment/television/ksdk-70-years/5-on-your-side-and-its-place-in-st-louis-history/63-394558205|title=5 On Your Side and its place in St. Louis history|website=KSDK|access-date=January 30, 2020}}</ref> It was owned by the [[Pulitzer Publishing Company]], publishers of the ''[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]'' and owners of KSD radio (550 AM, now [[KTRS (AM)|KTRS]]). It was the ninth television station to sign on in the United States and the first television station in Missouri. The station's original studios were located adjacent to the Post-Dispatch building on Olive Street. It was the second commercial station located west of the [[Mississippi River]], following [[KTLA]] in [[Los Angeles]], which had signed on just 17 days earlier. In the early days, KSD produced much of its own programming and developed its own talent pool. Many St. Louis television pioneers from KSD-TV came from radio, including [[Frank Eschen]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/look-back/a-look-back-st-louis-crowds-gather-for-first-regular/article_9cfc03be-3422-5156-8a4b-c59e1cbec2da.html|title=A Look Back • St. Louis crowds gather for first regular TV broadcast in 1947|last=O'Neil|first=Tim|website=stltoday.com|language=en|access-date=January 30, 2020}}</ref> Kay Morton,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stlmediahistory.org/index.php/Radio/RadioArticles/kay-morton-female-st.-louis-radio-pioneer|title=St. Louis Media History|website=www.stlmediahistory.org|access-date=January 30, 2020}}</ref> Russ Severin<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.umsl.edu/~libweb/university-archives/Student%20Newspaper/Current,%201987-1989/1987/January%2029,%201987.pdf|title=Murray helps with TV celebration|last=Duggan|first=Christopher|date=January 29, 1987|website=www.umsl.edu|access-date=January 30, 2020}}</ref> and Dave Russell.<ref>[http://www.dougquick.com/stlouisTVhistory2.html "St. Louis Television, the early years"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224193734/http://www.dougquick.com/stlouisTVhistory2.html |date=December 24, 2017 }}, ''Doug Quick Online'', Doug Quick, August 14, 2013. Retrieved on 3, June 2014.</ref>

Because of a [[Federal Communications Commission#Freeze of 1948|freeze on new television station licenses]] imposed by the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC), KSD-TV was the only television station in the St. Louis market, until WTVI (channel 54, now [[KTVI]] channel 2, a [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate) signed on in August 1953. Often known as simply "Channel 5," the station has always been an NBC affiliate, owing to KSD radio's longtime affiliation with the [[NBC Red Network]]. The station is currently the longest-tenured affiliate in the market of any major broadcast television network. In its early years, Channel 5 also carried secondary affiliations with [[CBS]], [[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]] and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]. In the early 1960s, Channel 5 became the first St. Louis television station to broadcast in [[color television|color]].<ref name=":0" />

After Pulitzer sold KSD radio to Combined Communications Corporation in 1979 (prior to Combined's merger into the [[Gannett Company]] that same year), KSD-TV, in order to comply with an FCC regulation in place then that stated that TV and radio stations in the same market, but different ownership had to use different [[Call signs in North America|call signs]], modified theirs to the current KSDK on September 10, 1979.<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=85398 |title= History Cards for KSDK|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]}} ([[Wikipedia:WikiProject Radio Stations/History Cards|Guide to reading History Cards]])<!--Converted from {{FCC letter}}--></ref> In 1982, the station relocated its studios from its original location on Olive Street to their present location on Market Street in Downtown St. Louis. In 1983, Pulitzer traded channel 5 to [[Multimedia, Inc.]] in return for WFBC (now [[WYFF]]) in [[Greenville, South Carolina]], and [[WXII-TV]] in [[Winston-Salem, North Carolina]], in what was a rare instance of one company's [[flagship (television)|flagship]] station being traded for another. Pulitzer earned a handsome return on its original investment in KSD radio in 1922.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/83-OCR/BC-1983-03-14-Page-0161.pdf|title=Changing Hands|website=www.worldradiohistory.com|date= March 14, 1983| page= 161}}</ref> During the 1980s and 1990s, KSDK was the highest-rated NBC affiliate in the country.

In 1990, KSDK dropped the longtime ''[[Eyewitness News]]'' branding and rebranded its newscasts as ''NewsChannel 5''; the station also began to operate on a 24-hour-a-day schedule. On July 24, 1995, Multimedia was purchased by the Gannett Company, with the acquisition finalized on December 4.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/25/business/the-media-business-expanding-in-tv-gannett-agrees-to-buy-multimedia.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Expanding in TV, Gannett Agrees to Buy Multimedia], ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 25, 1995.</ref><ref>[http://www.gannett.com/article/99999999/PRESSRELEASES17/100721008/Gannett--Multimedia-announce-merger-agreement Gannett, Multimedia announce merger agreement] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130107024621/http://www.gannett.com/article/99999999/PRESSRELEASES17/100721008/Gannett--Multimedia-announce-merger-agreement |date=January 7, 2013 }}, Gannett press release, December 4, 1995.</ref> In 1998, KSDK debuted the "Window on St. Louis", a street-side studio located in the same [[central business district|downtown]] St. Louis building that also houses KSDK's other studios. The local program ''Show Me St. Louis'' used this studio for broadcasts for nearly 20 years. The Window on St. Louis was modeled on ''[[Today (American TV program)|Today]]''{{'}}s "Window on the World".

[[File:Ksdk.png|thumb|right|KSDK's former logo, used from 1993 to 2017, with an outline of the [[Gateway Arch]] behind the "5". The [[Helvetica]] "5" dated from 1982; until 1993 it was usually paired with the [[NBC logo]] (the 11-feather "Proud N" until 1986, and the current six-feather design thereafter).]]
In an attempt to provide St. Louisans with local and national election results during the [[2004 United States presidential election|2004 elections]], KSDK partnered with [[PBS]] [[Network affiliate#Member stations|member station]] [[KETC]] (channel 9) to [[simulcast]] election coverage. The KSDK/KETC partnership continued through September 2005, when, along with radio partners [[KYKY]] (98.1 FM) and [[KEZK]] (102.5 FM), a [[telethon]] for [[Hurricane Katrina]] relief was simulcast.

KSDK produced the first broadcast of any local program in St. Louis in [[high-definition video|high definition]], when it broadcast the St. Louis [[Thanksgiving (United States)|Thanksgiving Day]] Parade on November 24, 2005. Incidentally, the 2005 parade also 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]] (channel 4) in 2006.

Around the first week of October 2012, Gannett entered a [[Carriage dispute|dispute]] against [[Dish Network]] regarding [[Retransmission consent|compensation]] fees and Dish's [[AutoHop]] commercial-skip feature on its Hopper [[digital video recorder]]s. Gannett ordered that Dish discontinue AutoHop on the account that it is affecting advertising revenues for KSDK. Gannett threatened to suspend its contact with the satellite provider should the skirmish continue beyond October 7 and Dish and Gannett fail to reach an agreement.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Loose |first=Ashley |title=DISH customers may lose Gannett programming, including 12 News KPNX, over AutoHop feature |url=http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/dish-customers-may-lose-gannett-programming-including-12-news-kpnx-over-autohop-feature |access-date=October 6, 2012 |publisher=[[KNXV-TV]] |date=October 5, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011013154/http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/dish-customers-may-lose-gannett-programming-including-12-news-kpnx-over-autohop-feature |archive-date=October 11, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Vuong|first=Andy|title=Gannett threatening to black out stations in its dispute with Dish|url=http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_21710959/gannett-threatening-black-out-stations-its-dispute-dish|access-date=October 6, 2012|newspaper=[[Denver Post]]|date=October 6, 2012}}</ref> The two parties eventually reached an agreement after extending the deadline for a few hours.<ref>{{cite news|last=Warner|first=Melodie|title=Dish, Gannett Reach New Deal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444897304578044401930225948|access-date=October 8, 2012|newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|date=October 8, 2012}}</ref>

On June 29, 2015, the Gannett Company split in two, with one side specializing in print media and the other side specializing in broadcast and digital media. KSDK was retained by the latter company, named [[Tegna Inc.|Tegna]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Separation of Gannett into two public companies completed {{!}} TEGNA|date = June 29, 2015|url = http://www.tegna.com/separation-of-gannett-into-two-public-companies-completed/|publisher=Tegna|access-date = June 29, 2015}}</ref>

In 2017, the station re-branded as "5 On Your Side".