KOZL-TV
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HAAT | 493 m (1,617 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°13′9.4″N 92°56′57.4″W / 37.219278°N 92.949278°W |
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KOZL-TV (channel 27) is a television station in Springfield, Missouri, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Osage Beach–licensed Fox affiliate KRBK (channel 49); Nexstar also provides certain services to CBS affiliate KOLR (channel 10) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Mission Broadcasting. The stations share studios on East Division Street in Springfield, while KOZL-TV's transmitter is located on Switchgrass Road, north of Fordland.
History
Early history
The station first signed on the air in 1968 as KMTC; founded by Meyer Communications, it originally operated as the market's first full-time ABC affiliate. It originally operated from studios located on East Cherry Street in Springfield. Prior to its sign-on, ABC programming had been limited to off-hours clearances on KYTV (channel 3) and KTTS-TV (channel 10, now KOLR) from their respective sign-ons in October and March 1953. Although the Springfield market had had a large enough population to support three full-time network affiliates since the 1950s, prospective station owners were skeptical about launching a UHF station in a market that stretched across a large and mostly mountainous swath of Missouri and Arkansas. UHF stations have never gotten very good reception across large areas or rugged terrain. In 1980, the station adopted the on-air brand "C-27". In 1985, the station was purchased by Woods Communications; after the sale was finalized, channel 27 changed its call letters to KDEB-TV (named after Deborah Woods, the daughter of the president of Woods Communications).
As a Fox affiliate
In January 1985, KMTC renewed its ABC affiliation. The following month, TV syndicator Telepictures, who had recently purchased cross-town independent KSPR (channel 33), attempted to persuade ABC to make an affiliation agreement via a presentation to the network. ABC then convinced KMTC to develop their own presentation for the network that would defend the station's right to keep the affiliation. After seeing the presentations, ABC remained uncertain about whether or not to change affiliations, but agreed to remain with KMTC for the remainder of 1985, after which Woods closed on the purchase of the station, now renamed KDEB. It was decided that the purchase price on the station would be lowered if ABC yanked its programs off of KDEB by July 1986.[2]
On April 3, 1986, ABC terminated its affiliation agreement with KDEB and moved it to KSPR. Woods later successfully sued the network for fraud, but ultimately lost the case on appeal.
On December 31, 2003, Quorum Broadcasting, owner of CBS affiliate KOLR, merged with Nexstar; as the Springfield market did not have enough television stations to permit a legal
The station was one of many Fox affiliates that planned to decline to air
The station's broadcasts became digital-only, effective June 12, 2009.[4]
As an independent station
On June 20, 2011, Fox announced that it would end its affiliation with KSFX and
On September 1, 2011, the Fox affiliation moved to
On September 10, 2012, KOZL changed its on-air branding to "Z-27," using a logo similar to that used by sister stations WCIX in Springfield, Illinois, and KARZ-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. With WTVW joining The CW in January 2013 and WFFT rejoining Fox the following March, KOZL was the only Nexstar-owned-or-managed television station that was affected by the 2011 Nexstar-Fox dispute that remained an independent station until September 8, 2014, when it replaced KRBK as Springfield's MyNetworkTV affiliate. Nexstar subsequently agreed to acquire KRBK in 2018.[10]
On June 15, 2016, Nexstar announced that it has entered into an affiliation agreement with
Newscasts
KOLR presently produces 8½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 1½ hours each weekday and a half-hour each on Saturdays and Sundays) for KOZL-TV. Upon its launch in 1968, channel 27 (as KMTC) launched a news department. Upon becoming a Fox affiliate in 1986, the station cut back on its local news programming, airing only a 10:00 p.m. newscast until 1995; news updates continued to air on the station afterward. In 2005, full-fledged newscasts returned to the station with the debut of a nightly half-hour 9:00 p.m. newscast produced by KOLR; an hour-long weekday morning newscast at 7:00 a.m. was later added in 2009.
In March 2010, KOLR became the third television station in the Springfield market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in
When channel 27 became an independent station on September 1, 2011, the newly called KOZL expanded its locally produced programming; the morning newscast expanded to two hours from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. On September 4, KOZL debuted a half-hour 6:00 p.m. newscast on Sundays (it was the only newscast in the market at that timeslot as KOLR as well as KYTV and KSPR carry network prime time programming during that hour); then on September 6, KOZL debuted an hour-long weekday 4:00 p.m. news/lifestyle program, titled Ozarks Live.[9] Also that month, KOZL launched half-hour sports wrap-up programs on Saturday and Sunday evenings after the 9:00 p.m. newscast, both under the Ozarks Sports banner, as well as the Sunday evening local business program Ozarks Local Business Journal (which aired after the 6:00 p.m. newscast).[12] Over time, many of these programs were scaled back or cancelled entirely; the morning newscast was reduced to one hour and Ozarks Live moved to KOLR in August 2012, while Ozarks Sports Saturday/Sunday, Ozarks Business Journal and the Sunday 6:00 p.m. newscast were cancelled.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's ATSC 1.0 channels are carried on the
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming | ATSC 1.0 host |
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27.1 | 720p | 16:9 |
KOZL-DT | Main KOZL-TV programming / MyNetworkTV | KRBK |
27.2 | 480i | Mystery | Ion Mystery | KOLR | |
27.3 | Bounce | Bounce TV | |||
27.4 | Rewind | Rewind TV |
ATSC 3.0 lighthouse
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
---|---|---|---|---|
3.1 | 1080p | 16:9 |
KYTV | NBC (KYTV) |
10.1 | KOLR-10 | CBS (KOLR) | ||
27.1 | 720p | KOZL-HD | MyNetworkTV | |
33.1 | KSPR-LD | ABC (KSPR-LD) | ||
49.1 | KRBK-HD | Fox (KRBK) |
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KOZL-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Charles Woods Television Corp. V. Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., 869 F.2d 1155 | Casetext Search + Citator".
- ^ "High Court Refuses TV Station Appeal". Associated Press.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ a b "Fox Moves Afills In Springfield, Ft. Wayne". TVNewsCheck. June 20, 2011. Retrieved June 20, 2011.
- ^ Jessell, Harry A. (June 28, 2011). "Nexstar Drops Fox For ABC In Terre Haute". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
- ^ "Changes Coming to KSFX in September". OzarksFirst.com. June 20, 2011. Archived from the original on March 16, 2012. Retrieved June 20, 2011.
- ^ Schisler, Monte (June 20, 2011). "Local Fox TV Affiliate To Change". Hometown Daily News. Retrieved June 21, 2011.
- ^ a b KSFX Becomes KOZL "Ozarks Local" on September 1 Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Rima, Jason (August 2, 2018). "Nexstar Buys FOX 5 KRBK In Springfield". KTTS. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
- ^ "Bounce TV, Grit, Escape, Laff Multicast Deal Covers 81 Stations, 54 Markets". Broadcasting & Cable. June 15, 2016. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
- ^ KOZL Press Release
- ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for KRBK". www.rabbitears.info.
- ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for KOLR". www.rabbitears.info.
- ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for KOZL". www.rabbitears.info.
External links
- OzarksFirst.com - KOLR/KRBK/KOZL-TV official website