KMOS-TV
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| KMOS-TV | |
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| Sedalia/Warrensburg, Missouri | |
| Channels | Analog: 6 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | The University of Central Missouri |
| First air date | July 1954[1] |
| Call letters’ meaning | MO (Missouri postal code) Sedalia |
| Former callsigns | KDRO-TV (1954-1961) |
| Former affiliations | independent (1954-1960) ABC (1961-1965, as satellite of KMBC-TV) CBS (1965-1978, as satellite of KRCG) |
| Transmitter Power | 100 kW (analog) 322 kW (digital) |
| Height | 602 m (analog) 603 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 4326 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| 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 member station for the Columbia/Jefferson City market. However, Mediacom cable also offers KETC, the St. Louis PBS member station.
KMOS-TV signed-on in 1954 as KDRO-TV (named for KDRO AM radio, whose calls allegedly stood for Keep the Damn Rats Out), 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 full-time satellite of KMBC. In 1960, the calls were changed to KMOS-TV.
In 1965, the Federal Communications Commission moved Sedalia to the Columbia/Jefferson City market. Accordingly, Metromedia, then-owner of KMBC, sold KMOS to the News Tribune Publishing Company, owner of Jefferson City's CBS affiliate, KRCG. KMOS then became a full satellite of KRCG. However, it maintained a studio of its own in Sedalia and, in the 1970s, would break away from KRCG for its own evening newscast.
KRCG operated KMOS at a fairly low power level and shied away from selling KMOS to another commercial owner, 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.
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 inaugurated on April 24, 2003. The KMOS TV Tower weighs 1 million pounds. It is put together by 18000 bolts.
[edit] Awards
In June of 2007, KMOS-TV was awarded three Telly Awards. Jerry Adams Outdoors was awarded the Silver Telly. Sportspage and FUMC was awarded the Bronze Telly.
[edit] External links
- Official Website
- University of Central Missouri
- Listing 1040329 in the FCC Antenna Structure Registration database
- http://www.showmenews.com/2005/Nov/20051125News018.asp
- KMOS Tower in the Structurae database
- http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b7070
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KMOS
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KMOS-TV
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