KQTV
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| St. Joseph, Missouri | |
| Branding | KQ2 |
| Slogan | "Your Hometown News" |
| Channels | 2 (VHF) analog, 53 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | ABC (secondary 1956-67, primary since 1967) |
| Owner | Nexstar Broadcasting Group |
| Founded | 1953 |
| Call letters meaning | KFEQ-TV (reflecting former call letters) |
| Former callsigns | KFEQ-TV (1953-69) |
| Former affiliations | CBS (1953-67) DuMont (secondary, 1953-55) |
| Website | http://www.kq2.com |
KQTV, Channel 2, is the only local broadcast television station serving the St. Joseph, Missouri area. It is an ABC affiliate owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group.
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[edit] History
It was founded as a CBS/DuMont Television Network affiliate and was a dual CBS/ABC affiliate before becoming an ABC affiliate.
It was founded in 1953 as KFEQ-TV, named after KFEQ radio. Its call letters were changed to KQTV in 1969, upon the separation of ownership of KFEQ radio and KFEQ-TV.
The station has a high turnover of broadcaster personnel going on to bigger markets. Gordie Hershiser, brother of former Cy Young Award winner Orel Hershiser, was the longtime sportscaster at this station.
Nexstar acquired the station in April 1997.
KQTV began broadcasting its digital signal at 1 kW on channel 53.
[edit] Market Status
St. Joseph ranks 201 out of 210 in the list of television stations in North America by media market (its official market does not include Kansas City but rather rural parts of northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri). There are no other on-air stations within its market, although signals from Kansas City, Omaha, Nebraska, and Topeka, Kansas overlap and compete via cable.
[edit] KQTV Tower
Its landmark lattice steel transmission tower which also opened in 1953 is 750 feet (228.6 m) high and is often compared to the 1,042 foot (317.6 m) KCTV tower in Kansas City. Both towers were built at the same time and both stations began broadcasting on September 27, 1953.
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KQTV 2 (St. Joseph) - KTVO 3 (Kirksville) - KMBC 9 (Kansas City) - KODE 12 (Joplin) - KPOB 151 (Poplar Bluff) - KMIZ 17 (Columbia) - KDNL 30 (St. Louis) - KSPR 33 (Springfield) |
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1Satellite of WSIL-TV, Harrisburg, Illinois |
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| See also: CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, and Other stations in Missouri | |
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Corporate Staff: Perry A. Sook (President & CEO) | Matt Devine (CFO) | Duane A. Lammers (COO) | Timothy Busch | Brian Jones | Shirley E. Green | Susana G. Schuler-Willingham | Richard Stolpe | Paul Greeley | Blake R. Battaglia | Erik Brooks | Jay M. Grossman | Brent Stone | Royce Yudkoff | Geoff Armstrong | Michael Donovan | I. Martin Pompadur |
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Television Stations owned by Nexstar Broadcasting |
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Annual Revenue: $226.1 million USD (2005) | Employees: Unknown at this time. | Stock Symbol: NASDAQ: NXST | Website: www.nexstarbroadcasting.com |
