Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Federal Communications Commission granted a license to Mission Telecasting Company on the 12th of May 1956. This decision ended years of regulatory competition between two groups vying for channel 12 in San Antonio.
Eugene J. Roth served as principal owner of Mission Broadcasting Company and held fifty percent ownership in Mission Telecasting Company. Seven other individuals split the remaining half of the company.
Anchor reporter and rising star Michelle Lima died during a live report on the 26th of March 1999 while covering a search for a nine year old boy. She was killed by a truck on a dark rural frontage road in southern Bexar County and pronounced dead two days later.
Outlet took control of the station in January 1968 and changed call letters to KSAT-TV on February 1 due to an FCC regulation preventing stations without co-ownership from sharing base call signs.
On the 6th of May 2024 KSAT converted from an ATSC 1.0 signal to ATSC 3.0 NextGen TV broadcasting. Its subchannels moved to other broadcasters for simulcasting while KSAT became the lighthouse host for transmission of KENS KLRN KWEX-DT and KVDA.