KSAT-TV space will be transformed into a new parking lot for station employees and news vehicles. The 2000 comedy film "Miss Congeniality", which was set around a beauty pageant being held in San Antonio, used KSAT live trucks and microphones with the station's mic flags in a fictional sense; though none of KSAT's actual staff appeared during the film, instead using actors playing a KSAT reporter and a news photographer in a scene in which the film's lead character, FBI agent Gracie Hart (played by Sandra Bullock), is interviewed at The Alamo. The station's digital channel is multiplexed: KSAT was proposed
Gracie (film) on the World Trade Center. "At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper" gave "Gracie" "Two Thumbs up", stating, "You've seen it before, but you'll rarely see it better." "Gracie" is a "New York Times Critics' Pick." Times critic Jeannette Catsoulis described "Gracie" as "a familiar underdog story told with unusual sensitivity ... "Gracie" connects the adversity-drama dots – the beat-down, the bounce-back, the last-minute support from an unexpected quarter – with a subtle awareness of the shock waves of bereavement. Balancing the emotional complexity is Chris Manley's refreshingly unaffected cinematography; the drama of a free kick, like that of a