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WMSN-TV, virtual channel 47 (UHF digital channel 18), is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Madison, Wisconsin, United States. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. WMSN-TV's studios are located on Big Sky Drive on the west side of Madison, and its transmitter is located in the Middleton Junction section of the town of Middleton.

WMSN-TV commenced broadcasting on June 8, 1986, airing on analog UHF channel 47. It was the first new commercial station to launch in the Madison market since WISC-TV signed on thirty years earlier. One of WMSN's earlier programs was Big Sky Theater, a Saturday night presentation of classic movies (mostly westerns) from the drive-in era. (The program's name was an acknowledgement to the Big Sky Drive-In Theater, which was located near the present day WMSN studios.)

After a few months as an Independent, the station joined Fox as a charter affiliate on October 9, 1986. Since 1994, as a result of Fox's NFC football package, WMSN has been Madison's primary home for the Green Bay Packers; these broadcasts are routinely the highest-rated programs in the market during football season.

In 2012, Sinclair reached an affiliation deal with Fox that kept the network on WMSN and Sinclair's 18 other Fox stations through 2017.

In 1999, ABC affiliate WKOW (then owned by the Shockley Communications Corporation) entered into a news share agreement with WMSN, which resulted in Madison's first nightly prime time newscast, known as Fox 47 News at 9. The newscast, initially 35 minutes in length on weeknights and 30 minutes on weekends, is produced from a secondary set at WKOW's studios on Tokay Boulevard in Madison. The newscast employs no WKOW on-air branding, instead using Sinclair's standard music-and-graphics packages. Although the newscasts feature appearances from additional WKOW personnel, WMSN maintains separate weeknight anchors that normally do not appear on WKOW except to fill-in when needed.

The newscast competes with an hour-long newscast on MyNetworkTV-affiliated subchannel WISC-DT2 and a half-hour newscast on CW-affiliated second digital subchannel WMTV-DT2.

On October 26, 2010, WKOW became the third station in Madison to upgrade newscasts to high definition, following WISC-TV and WMTV. The WKOW newscast on WMSN remained in 4:3 standard definition, as the station didn't have the necessary equipment to air local or syndicated HD programming. In March 2011, WMSN underwent a master control upgrade so that the WKOW newscast and some syndicated programming could now be received and transmitted in HD. In February 2016, the newscast was extended to a full hour time period each night.