KMOS-TV

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KMOS-TV
Sedalia/Warrensburg/Columbia/Jefferson City, Missouri
Channels	6 (VHF) analog, 15 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	PBS (since 1979)
Owner	University of Central Missouri
Founded	1950s
Call letters meaning	K MO (Missouri postal code) Sedalia
Former callsigns	KDRO-TV (1950s)
Former affiliations	Independent (1950s) ABC (1950s) (as a satellite of KMBC-TV) CBS (1960s-1978) (as a satellite of KRCG)
Transmitter Power	100 kW (analog) 322 kW (digital)
Height	602 m (analog) 603 m (digital)
Facility ID	4326
Website	www.kmos.org

KMOS-TV is a PBS member station in Sedalia, Missouri, owned and operated by the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg. Although Warrensburg is part of the Kansas City media market, KMOS serves as the PBS affiliate for the Columbia-Jefferson City market. However, Mediacom cable also offers KETC, the St. Louis PBS member station.

KMOS-TV signed-on in the 1950s as KDRO-TV, an independent station. The station was soon sold to Cook Paint & Varnish, the owner of KMBC-TV, the ABC affiliate in Kansas City. KDRO then became a satellite of KMBC. The call letters were also soon changed to KMOS-TV. A few years later, KMBC sold KMOS to KRCG, the CBS affiliate in Jefferson City. KMOS was then operated as a satellite of KRCG, rebroadcasting KRCG and CBS programming to Sedalia, Pettis County, and the surrounding area. KRCG operated KMOS at a fairly low power level and shyed away from selling KMOS to another commercial operator, fearing that KMOS could become a full-power ABC affiliate. KRCG and NBC affiliate KOMU-TV in Columbia were the only two VHF network affiliates in the Columbia-Jefferson City market, and they wanted to keep it that way. The area would not have a full-time ABC affiliate until Columbia's KCBJ-TV (now KMIZ) signed-on in 1971. KMOS maintained its own studio in Sedalia and, in the 1970s, would break away from KRCG for its own evening newscast. In 1978, KRCG's owner, Kansas City Southern Industries, donated KMOS to Central Missouri State University (now the University of Central Missouri), and the station was converted to a stand-alone PBS affiliate. KMOS was off the air for a few months while the university upgraded the station and relocated the studios to the campus in Warrensburg. After relinquishing KMOS, KRCG started a translator station in Sedalia, K11OJ.

The KMOS transmitter has an effective radiated power of 100 kW for its channel 6 frequency, but 322 kW for its digital channel (corresponding to the bandwidth of channel fifteen), with similar height above average terrain for both transmitters (about 602 to 603 m above sea level).

In April 2003, opening ceremonies were conducted for the station's new digital broadcasting and transmitter facility in Syracuse, Missouri, located about fifty miles from Warrensburg, and includes a 2000-foot (609 m) guyed mast, the KMOS TV Tower (also called Rohn Tower). It was built 2001/2002 and was inaugaurated on April 24th, 2003. The KMOS TV Tower weighs 1 million pounds. It is put together by 18000 bolts.

[edit] See also

• University of Central Missouri

[edit] External links

• Official Website
• University of Central Missouri
• KMOS-TV Transmitter tower listing
• Article about new KMOS-TV facility
• http://www.showmenews.com/2005/Nov/20051125News018.asp
• http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?id=s0007913
• http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b7070
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KMOS-TV