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KIMT
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HAAT465.7 m (1,528 ft)
Transmitter coordinates43°28′32″N 92°42′30″W / 43.47556°N 92.70833°W / 43.47556; -92.70833
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Websitewww.kimt.com

KIMT (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Mason City, Iowa, United States, serving North Central Iowa and Southeast Minnesota as an affiliate of CBS and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Allen Media Group, the station maintains studios on North Pennsylvania Avenue in downtown Mason City, with a news bureau on Highway 52 North in Rochester, Minnesota, and a sales office on East William Street in downtown Albert Lea, Minnesota. Its transmitter is located near Meyer, Iowa (between Stacyville and McIntire) south of the Minnesota state line.

History

The station signed on for the first time on May 15, 1954, as KGLO-TV, owned by

VHF channel 3 was reported as far away as Gary, Indiana. The original effective radiated power of 100,000 watts was the maximum amount permitted on the heritage allotment. It was affiliated with CBS owing to its radio sister's long affiliation with CBS Radio, but also carried a secondary relation with DuMont
until 1956, when that network ceased operations.

In August 1977, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled that one company could not own all the media outlets in a city, forcing Lee Enterprises to break up its cluster in Mason City. As a result, KGLO radio was sold to BY Communications in 1977 and the television station was renamed KIMT (standing for "Iowa Minnesota Television") on August 1. In 1980, it was sold to the Shott family of Bluefield, West Virginia, and their Daily Telegraph Printing Company. However, in 1984, they sold KIMT and WBTW in Florence, South Carolina, to Spartan Radiocasting Company (later to become Spartan Communications).

Early in the morning on June 27, 1995, KIMT news anchor Jodi Huisentruit was abducted outside her apartment while on her way to work. She has not been found and the case remains unsolved to this day.

Spartan merged with Media General in 2000. KIMT's digital signal on UHF channel 42 launched in May 2002 and added high definition capabilities from the network during that summer. KIMT celebrated its 50th anniversary on May 15, 2004, with flashbacks and other special programming. On October 18, 2018, KIMT moved to channel 24 as part of the FCC repack.

On April 6, 2006, Media General announced it would sell KIMT as part of the company's acquisition of four

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which would more effectively fill its coverage footprint.

On May 7, 2012,

LIN TV Corporation announced that it would acquire the New Vision Television station group, including KIMT, for $330.4 million and the assumption of $12 million in debt.[6] On October 2, the FCC approved the proposed sale to LIN TV.[7]
The transaction was finalized on October 12, 2012.

On March 21, 2014, Media General announced that it would acquire LIN.[8] The merger was completed on December 19, making KIMT a Media General property once again, and marking the third ownership change for the station in less than a decade.[9]

In September 2015, Media General announced the acquisition of

Sioux City, and CBS affiliate WHBF-TV in the Quad Cities.[11] On June 13, 2016, Nexstar announced that it would sell KIMT and four other stations to Heartland Media, through its USA Television MidAmerica Holdings joint venture with MSouth Equity Partners, for $115 million; the sale was required to allow Nexstar to comply with FCC ownership caps following the merger.[12]

July 2015 carriage dispute with Mediacom

On July 14, 2015, KIMT and its

Terre Haute, Indiana, and Topeka, Kansas just before the start of the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.[14] On July 30, 2015, Mediacom and Media General reached a new agreement, thereby restoring KIMT and its digital subchannels to North Iowa area Mediacom subscribers.[15]

News operation

Since KIMT is the only major station licensed to the Iowa side of the market, its newscasts have traditionally focused on Iowa issues.[

enhanced definition widescreen with some parts in full high definition. Although not truly HD, the aspect ratio
matches that of high definition television screens.

Also at some point that year, KIMT added three newscasts to its MyNetworkTV-affiliated subchannel. This included a half-hour extension to its weekday morning show at 7 (known as My Morning News on My 3.2), a repeat of the thirty-minute weekday noon broadcast at 12:30 (called KIMT News 3 Midday on My 3.2), and prime time newscast weeknights at 9 (known as My Primetime News at 9). Eventually, the half-hour weeknight show was reduced to a five-minute cut-in featuring an updated weather forecast.

On March 20, 2011, rival NBC affiliate KTTC (channel 10) in Rochester upgraded its local news to full high definition becoming the first outlet to do so. KIMT has expanded its weekday morning news show, airing 2+1⁄2 hours of news from 4:30 to 7 a.m. and an additional half hour, My Morning News on My 3.2, starting at 7 a.m. on KIMT-DT2.

Subchannels

The station's signal is

multiplexed
:

Subchannels of KIMT[16]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
3.1 1080i
16:9
 KIMTCBS CBS
3.2 480i KIMTMyN MyNetworkTV
3.3 KIMTION Ion Television
3.4
4:3
 KIMTANT Antenna TV

References

  1. ^ Miller, Mark K. (October 1, 2019). "Byron Allen Buying 11 Stations For $290M". TVNewsCheck. NewsCheckMedia. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
  2. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KIMT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ^ "Media General to Acquire Four NBC Owned and Operated Television Stations" Archived March 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Media General, April 6, 2006
  4. ^ "Media General Completes Sale of WIAT-TV in Birmingham, Ala., and KIMT-TV in Mason City, Iowa, to New Vision Television", Media General, October 12, 2006
  5. ^ "Analog Turn Off Delayed", KIMT News, February 9, 2009
  6. ^ Malone, Michael (May 7, 2012). "LIN Acquiring New Vision Stations for $330 Million". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
  7. ^ http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1499211.pdf [dead link]
  8. ^ Ramakrishnan, Sruthi (March 21, 2014). "Media General to buy LIN Media for $1.6 billion". Reuters. Retrieved March 21, 2014.
  9. ^ Media General Completes Merger With LIN Media Archived December 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Press Release, Media General, Retrieved December 19, 2014
  10. ^ "Media General to Buy Meredith Corp. for $2.4 Billion". The Wall Street Journal. September 8, 2015. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  11. ^ "Nexstar Broadcasting Group Enters into Definitive Agreement to Acquire Media General for $4.6 Billion in Accretive Cash and Stock Transaction". Archived from the original on January 30, 2016. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
  12. ^ "Prather Buys 5 TVs From Nexstar-Media Gen". TVNewsCheck. June 13, 2016. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
  13. Mason City Globe Gazette. Lee Enterprises
    . Retrieved August 9, 2015.
  14. ^ Farrell, Mike (July 15, 2015). "Media General Stations Go Dark on Mediacom". Multichannel News. NewBay Media. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
  15. Mason City Globe Gazette. Lee Enterprises
    . Retrieved August 9, 2015.
  16. RabbitEars.info
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