KMOS-TV

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KMOS-TV
kW
HAAT603 m (1,978 ft)
Transmitter coordinates38°37′36″N 92°52′4″W / 38.62667°N 92.86778°W / 38.62667; -92.86778
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Websitewww.kmos.org
KMOS-TV studio

KMOS-TV (channel 6) is a PBS member television station licensed to Sedalia, Missouri, United States. The station is owned by the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg. KMOS-TV's studios are located in the Patton Broadcast Center on the UCM campus, and its transmitter is located in Syracuse, Missouri.

Although Sedalia and Warrensburg are part of the

Charter Spectrum cable systems in Sedalia and Warrensburg as one of two Mid-Missouri stations provided (alongside ABC affiliate KMIZ, channel 17).[4]

Until February 17, 2009, KMOS also competed with KETC, the St. Louis PBS member station, on Mediacom cable systems in the market. KETC has since been dropped from Mediacom's systems in Columbia and Jefferson City as of February 17, leaving KMOS to be the sole PBS station in these areas.

History

KMOS-TV signed on July 8, 1954, as KDRO-TV, owned by Milt Hinlein along with KDRO radio. The calls came from the Drolich brothers, the radio station's original owners. The station was originally an independent.[5]

KDRO-TV went through several partial changes in ownership in the late 1950s. In July 1955, Deare Publications, publisher of the Sedalia Democrat newspaper, purchased 50% of KDRO-AM-TV from Hinlein.[6] In July 1957, Jimmy Glenn and Herb Brandes purchased a two-thirds interest in KDRO radio; Hinlein became the sole owner of KDRO-TV as Deare Publications became the owner of the KDRO studio properties.

In November 1957, Hinlein sold one-half interest in KDRO-TV to several station employees, who took over the operation of the station. On July 20, 1958, KDRO-TV became an ABC affiliate. ABC refused to give it a network feed to protect the rights of Kansas City's main ABC affiliate, KMBC-TV (channel 9). Station engineers switched to and from KMBC-TV's signal whenever ABC network programming was on the air. Cook Paint and Varnish Company, owner of KMBC-TV, then bought KDRO-TV on January 28, 1959, and changed the call letters to the current KMOS-TV.[7] The station used the slogan "For the very MOST in entertainment!", with the KMOS-TV call letters being used to emphasized the word. It then became a full-time satellite of KMBC-TV. The station had always found the going difficult due to a limited viewer base, and becoming a full satellite of KMBC-TV ensured its survival.

In December 1960, Cook Paint sold KMBC-TV to Metropolitan Broadcasting (later called

Kansas City Southern Railroad
.

By the mid-1960s, Mid-Missouri was just barely large enough for three full network affiliates. However, KRCG and NBC affiliate KOMU-TV (channel 8) in Columbia were the only VHF network affiliates in the Columbia/Jefferson City market, and wanted to keep it that way. With this in mind, KRCG operated KMOS at a fairly low power level and turned down all offers to sell it to another commercial owner, not wanting to chance on the new owner making KMOS a full-power ABC affiliate. The area did not have a full-time ABC affiliate until Columbia's KCBJ-TV (now KMIZ) signed-on in 1971.

In 1978, Kansas City Southern Industries donated KMOS to Central Missouri State University (now the University of Central Missouri), who converted the station into a stand-alone PBS station; some local interests had expressed dismay at the loss of Sedalia's commercial television station.[10] Previously, Columbia/Jefferson City had been one of the few areas of Missouri without its own PBS member station. Most cable systems in the market piped in KETC, while the western part of the market could also get a grade B signal from KCPT. Central took control of KMOS on August 15, 1978, and took it off the air for 16 months to give it a significant technical overhaul. It returned to the air on December 22, 1979, from new studios in Warrensburg. After relinquishing KMOS, KRCG started a translator station in Sedalia, K11OJ.

The KMOS transmitter had an effective radiated power of 100 

kW for its channel 6 analog frequency, but has 322 kW for its digital channel (corresponding to the bandwidth of channel 15), with similar height above average terrain for both transmitters (about 602 to 603 meters [1,975 to 1,978 ft] above sea level
).

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

multiplexed
:

Subchannels of KMOS-TV[11]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
6.1 1080i
16:9
 KMOS-TV Main KMOS-TV programming / PBS
6.2 480i Create Create
6.3
4:3
 Emerge
KMOS Emerge
6.4 16:9 KIDS PBS Kids

Analog-to-digital conversion

KMOS-TV shut down its analog signal, over

UHF channel 15.[12] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel
as its former VHF analog channel 6.

Broadcast tower

In April 2003, opening ceremonies were conducted for the station's new digital broadcasting and transmitter facility in

KYTV (TV) in Springfield, Missouri.[13]

See also

  • KTBG (former radio sister station to KMOS)

References

  1. ^ The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says July 6, while the Television and Cable Factbook says July 8.
  2. ^ Ventimiglia, Jack "Miles". "Supporters mark anniversary of KDRO, now KMOS". Daily Star-Journal. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
  3. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KMOS-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  4. ^ https://charter.am4m.com/eccharterweb/Aspx/SpectrumLineupView.aspx?DocID=29913
  5. ^ "KDRO-TV Makes Debut Thursday Night In Big Opening Program". Sedalia Democrat. July 9, 1954. p. 1. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  6. ^ "Half Interest In Radio-TV Bought Here". Sedalia Democrat. February 24, 1955. p. 1. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  7. ^ "Call Letters Of Channel 6 Change Today". Sedalia Democrat. February 6, 1959. p. 1. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  8. ^ "Sale of KMOS-TV Is Announced Here". Sedalia Democrat. December 23, 1960. p. 1. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  9. ^ "New Owners Of KMOS-TV Take Charge". Sedalia Democrat. August 29, 1961. p. 1, 2. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  10. ^ "CMSU gets grant to buy KMOS". Sedalia Democrat. January 6, 1978. pp. 1, 4.
  11. ^ "RabbitEars.Info". www.rabbitears.info. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
  12. ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
  13. ^ Skyscraper.com - Retrieved February 15, 2010

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