KIMT

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KIMT
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Mason City, Iowa/Rochester/Austin, Minnesota
Branding KIMT 3
Slogan Iowa, Minnesota, Together.
Channels Analog: 3 (VHF)

Digital: 42 (UHF)
Affiliations CBS
MyNetworkTV secondary
Owner New Vision Television, Inc.
(NVT Mason City Licensee, LLC)
First air date May 15, 1954
Call letters’ meaning Iowa
Minnesota
Television
Former callsigns KGLO-TV (1954-1977)
Former affiliations Secondary:
DuMont (1954-1955)
Transmitter Power 100 kW (analog)
200 kW (digital)
Height 472 m (analog)
463 m (digital)
Facility ID 66402
Transmitter Coordinates 43°22′19.8″N, 92°49′59.6″W (analog)
43°28′32″N, 92°42′30″W (digital)
Website www.kimt.com

KIMT is a CBS affiliate television station serving Mason City, Iowa, Rochester, Minnesota and Austin, Minnesota. Its transmitter is located near St. Ansgar, Iowa. It currently broadcasts the MyNetworkTV prime time schedule after CBS's late night block is complete.

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[edit] History

The station signed on for the first time on May 15, 1954 as KGLO-TV, owned by Lee Enterprises along with the Globe Gazette newspaper and KGLO radio (AM 1300 and FM 101.1). On the station's first day on the air, signals were reported as far away as Gary, Indiana. The station was affiliated with both CBS and DuMont until 1956, when DuMont ceased operations.[1]

In the 1970s, the FCC with only a few exceptions, barred common ownership of radio and television stations in the same market. KGLO-TV was thus sold to B-Y Communications in 1977 and renamed KIMT. In 1980, KIMT was sold to the Shott family of Bluefield, West Virginia. However, in 1984, the Shotts sold KIMT and WBTW in Florence, South Carolina to Spartan Communications, giving KIMT its third owner in eight years. Spartan merged with KIMT's former owner, Media General in 2000.

On April 6, 2006, Media General announced that it would sell KIMT as part of its acquisition of four NBC owned and operated stations. [2] On August 2, 2006, New Vision Television, LLC announced it had bought KIMT and sister station WIAT in Birmingham, Alabama for $35 million. NVT's acquisition of the two stations was finalized on October 12, 2006. [3]

[edit] Jodi Huisentruit

For more details on this topic, see Jodi Huisentruit .

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

[edit] logos

KIMT's former Logo

KIMT's current logo

[edit] External links

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Broadcast television in the Rochester/Mason City/Austin market  (Nielsen DMA #153)

KIMT 3 (CBS/MNTV) - KAAL 6 (ABC) - KTTC 10 (NBC) (The CW on DT2) - KSMQ 15 (PBS) - KYIN 24 (PBS/IPTV) - WHLA 31 (PBS/WPT) - KXLT 47 (FOX) - K56HW 56 (TBN) - K58GC 58 (3ABN)

Out-of-market stations available on cable only
KTCA 2 (PBS) - WCCO 4 (CBS) - KSTP 5 (ABC) - KMSP 9 (Fox) - WUMN 13 (UNI) - WFTC 29 (MNTV)
See also: Television in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market
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CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Iowa
See also: ABC, CW, Fox, NBC, MyNetworkTV, PBS, and Other stations in Iowa