WTHL-TV

WTHL-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 10, is a ABC-affiliated television station serving the U.S. territory of Trishel that is licensed to Forest Town. Owned by Vision Kansas, Inc. (controlled by the family and estate of Jay Vermaak of ), it is a sister station to low-powered affiliate KVKT-LD. The two stations share studios at 110 Plaza Jay Vermaak in Forest Town; it's transmitter is located on Rachel Corrie Hill in the Forest Town outskirts.

History
WTHL-TV signed-on for the first time on October 11, 1955 on VHF analog channel 10 in Forest Town as Trishel's first television station (prior to Trishel being assigned with "K" callsigns, hence it's "W" callsign). It carried programming from all three networks as well as NET, but has always been a primary ABC affiliate.

Despite being affiliated with four networks, WTHL was hindered by time zone and location differences, and most shows, especially those from the networks, were sent via air mail, which meant that viewers would have to wait from a period of two weeks to a month to see any of the offerings. When not showing network fare, WTHL showed programming from West El Kadsre's EKTV (now El TV Kadsre 1) and 's served via microwave as well as locally-produced programming, syndicated shows and films (mostly travel, educational or cultural).

WTHL would lose it's public television programming, then provided by PBS, to territory-controlled KTEB-TV when it signed-on in 1971. It then lost NBC to KEKI when it signed-on in mid-1975, and CBS to UJI-TV in 1980. WTHL added Fox programming upon the network's launch, but lost Fox to K14FT (now KEKI-CD) in 1990.

The station was bought by Jay Vermaak in 1982 (his company, Vision Kansas, also controls independent station KCSV-TV in, along with various radio stations elsewhere). In 2004, the facilities of the Trishel properties of Vision Kansas were moved from South Forest Town to Forest Town proper.

News operation
WTHL-TV presently broadcasts 37 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with seven hours each weekday, and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays).