KTSM-TV

KTSM-TV (channel 9) is a television station in El Paso, Texas, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Nexstar Media Group. The station's studios are located on Constitution Drive on El Paso's west side, and its transmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains on the El Paso city limits.

KTSM-TV began broadcasting on January 4, 1953, as El Paso's second television station. It was owned by the Tri-State Broadcasting Company alongside KTSM (1380 AM) and was an NBC affiliate from its first day on the air. When it moved its transmitter to the Franklin Mountains in 1958, an aerial tramway—now known as the Wyler Aerial Tramway—was built to transport people and materials to the mountaintop site, later also serving as a tourist attraction. Through the 1970s and 1980s, the station was often in second or third place in local news ratings. In 1990, Karl O. Wyler—the controlling owner of Tri-State, whose career in El Paso broadcasting began in the 1920s—died. Wyler, a noted philanthropist, willed the stations in support of the El Paso Community Foundation. An affiliate of the foundation became the sole owner of the KTSM radio and television stations and hired Richard Pearson, general manager of competitor KVIA-TV (channel 7), to overhaul the operation. During the decade, KTSM became a contender in the news ratings.

In 1997, the KTSM stations were sold to Communications Corporation of America (ComCorp), which split the radio properties from KTSM-TV. It was the company's first TV station with a news operation. From 2009 to 2014, KTSM shared news resources with KDBC-TV, and between 2010 and 2020 it produced the newscasts seen on co-owned KVEO-TV in Brownsville. Nexstar acquired ComCorp's stations in 2014.