| Pittsburg, Kansas-Joplin, Missouri | |
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| Branding | KOAM-TV (general) KOAM News (news) |
| Slogan | The Four States' Most Watched News |
| Channels | Digital: 7 (VHF) |
| Subchannels | 7.1 CBS 7.2 Fox (Simulcast of KFJX) |
| Owner | Saga Communications, Inc. (Saga Quad States Communications, LLC) |
| First air date | December 13, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | Kansas Oklahoma Arkansas Missouri |
| Sister station(s) | KFJX |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 7 (VHF, 1953-2009) Digital: 13 (VHF, 2001-2009) |
| Former affiliations | Primary: NBC (1953-1982) Secondary: ABC (1953-1967) CBS (1953-1954) DuMont (1953-1955) |
| Transmitter power | 14.8 kW |
| Height | 335.8 m |
| Facility ID | 58552 |
| Website | www.koamtv.com/ |
KOAM-TV is a television station in Pittsburg, Kansas broadcasting on channel 7 and affiliated with CBS. The station also serves Joplin, Missouri, along with the Four State Area region of Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. KOAM-TV transmits from Columbus, Kansas, and is the sister station to Fox affiliate KFJX (Channel 14). The station utilizes VHF channel 7 for both their digital broadcasts and PSIP virtual channel.
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The station's digital signal is multiplexed.
| Subchannel | Programming |
|---|---|
| 7.1 | main KOAM-TV programming / CBS HD |
| 7.2 | Fox (Simulcast of KFJX) |
KOAM-TV first signed on at 5:22 p.m. on December 13, 1953 under the ownership of MidContinent Broadcasting Company, a joint venture of The Joplin Globe newspaper and KOAM radio (860 AM, the current KKOW). The Globe would eventually sell its minority stake in the station to KOAM radio owners E. Victor Baxter and Lester Cox.
KOAM-TV launched as a primary affiliate of NBC, owing to KOAM radio's long affiliation with NBC Radio, though it also had secondary affiliations with CBS (until KSWM-TV launched in 1954), DuMont (until that network's 1955 closure) and ABC (until 1967, when KODE became a fulltime ABC affiliate and KUHI-TV signed on with CBS). In 1982, KOAM swapped affiliations with KTVJ (the former KUHI-TV) and became a CBS affiliate.
KOAM's digital signal on channel 13 signed on in 2001 and remained there until signing off at KOAM turned off its analog signal at 12:38 a.m. February 17, 2009 (following The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson), at which time KOAM ceased analog broadcasting and its digital signal moved to channel 7. Sister station KFJX, the market's Fox affiliate, moved onto KOAM's former digital channel 13 (KFJX continued to broadcast on analog Channel 14 until the June 2009 shut down date). KFJX's signal is simulcast on KOAM's digital subchannel 7.2.
Wheel of Fortune is currently on KOAM. Jeopardy!, however, airs on KODE, making Joplin/Pittsburg one of only a few markets where the programs are carried on separate stations (Usually, both shows air on the same channel).
In June 2010, the DirecTV satellite system added Joplin locals to its channel line-up. KOAM and sister station KFJX refused to allow DirecTV to carry their stations.
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