KBSI
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KBSI is the Fox
-affiliated television station
for the Missouri Bootheel, Southern Illinois, and Western Kentucky
's Jackson Purchase
. Licensed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri
, it broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 22 (or virtual channel
23.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in rural Cape Girardeau County
north of the city. The station can also be seen on Comcast
channel 8, Charter
channel 9, and Mediacom
channel 10.
There is a high definition feed provided on Comcast digital channel 434, Mediacom digital channel 710, and Charter digital channel 782. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group
, the station operates MyNetworkTV
affiliate WDKA
(license is locally owned) through a local marketing agreement
(LMA). The two outlets share studios on Enterprise Street in Cape Girardeau.
Syndicated
programming on KBSI includes Two and a Half Men
, Judge Judy
, The People's Court
, and Swift Justice with Nancy Grace
among others. The station signed-on June 1, 1982
as an Independent and aired an analog signal on UHF channel 23. It became a charter Fox affiliate at the network's launch on October 9, 1986. After Sinclair and Fox finalized a six-year affiliation
contract extension for the company's nineteen affiliates, KBSI's association with Fox was guaranteed until March 2012.
.
affiliate WPSD-TV
(owned by the Paxton Media Group
) produced a nightly prime time newscast on KBSI through a news share agreement. The thirty minute show was known as Local 6 News at 9 on Fox 23 and featured a regional summary of headlines because KBSI is based in Cape Girardeau. On its own newscasts, WPSD traditionally focuses on the Western Kentucky side of the market
.
The broadcast originated from that station's facility on Television Lane in Paducah, Kentucky
. For awhile, KBSI competed with another nightly half-hour newscast at 9 on the area's low-powered CW affiliates WQTV-LP/WQWQ-LP
. That newscast, produced by CBS
affiliate KFVS-TV
, was aired specifically for Southeastern Missouri viewers. It would eventually be cancelled on July 29, 2007.
WPSD's outsourcing arrangement with KBSI expired on September 30, 2010. The next day, this station entered into a new partnership with KFVS (owned by Raycom Media
) presumably to refocus the prime time production to the Missouri Bootheel area and expand it to sixty minutes every night. KBSI's current show is known as Heartland News at 9 on Fox 23 and originates from the KFVS studios (in the Hirsch Tower) on Broadway Avenue in Downtown Cape Girardeau.
With the addition, that station now offers more than thirty hours of local news each week and continues to retain its market dominance as the most watched outlet. On October 3, 2010, WPSD brought back its own newscast at 9 to its Retro Television Network
(RTV) and 24-hour local weather subchannels. Known as The Nine and seen every night for a half-hour, that broadcast is simulcasted on the two services. In addition to its main facility in Southeastern Missouri, KFVS operates a Southern Illinois
Newsroom on East Plaza Drive in Carterville
,
Anchors
Reporters
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
-affiliated television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for the Missouri Bootheel, Southern Illinois, and Western Kentucky
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
's Jackson Purchase
Jackson Purchase
The Jackson Purchase is a region in the state of Kentucky bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and Tennessee River to the east. Although technically part of Kentucky at its statehood in 1792, the land did not come under definitive U.S. control until 1818, when...
. Licensed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Cape Girardeau is a city located in Cape Girardeau and Scott counties in Southeast Missouri in the United States. It is located approximately southeast of St. Louis and north of Memphis. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 37,941. A college town, it is the home of Southeast Missouri...
, it broadcasts a high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
digital signal on UHF channel 22 (or virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
23.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in rural Cape Girardeau County
Cape Girardeau County, Missouri
Cape Girardeau County is a county located in Southeast Missouri in the United States. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the county's population was 75,764. While the largest city in the county is Cape Girardeau, the county seat is actually Jackson, which was the first city named in honor of President...
north of the city. The station can also be seen on Comcast
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...
channel 8, Charter
Charter Communications
Charter Communications is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 4.7 million customers in 25 states. By revenues, it is the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications...
channel 9, and Mediacom
Mediacom
Mediacom is a cable television and communications provider in the United States. Founded in July 1995, it serves primarily smaller markets in the Midwest and Southern United States. Formerly a publicly traded firm, it went private in a $600.0 million transaction in March 2011 and is, as of 2011,...
channel 10.
There is a high definition feed provided on Comcast digital channel 434, Mediacom digital channel 710, and Charter digital channel 782. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group
The Sinclair Broadcast Group is an American telecommunications company that operates the largest number of local television stations in the United States. Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, it owns a total of 57 stations across the country in 35 primarily small and medium markets, many of...
, the station operates MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
affiliate WDKA
WDKA
WDKA is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for the Jackson Purchase area of Western Kentucky, Southern Illinois, and Southeastern Missouri that is licensed to Paducah, Kentucky. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 50 from a transmitter in Vienna, Illinois...
(license is locally owned) through a local marketing agreement
Local marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...
(LMA). The two outlets share studios on Enterprise Street in Cape Girardeau.
Syndicated
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
programming on KBSI includes Two and a Half Men
Two and a Half Men
Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 22, 2003. Starring Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, and Angus T. Jones, the show was originally about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie Harper; his uptight brother, Alan; and Alan's growing son, Jake...
, Judge Judy
Judge Judy
Judge Judy is an American court show featuring former family court judge Judith Sheindlin arbitrating over small claims cases in small claims court...
, The People's Court
The People's Court
The People's Court is a US television court show in which small claims court cases are heard, though what is shown is actually a binding arbitration....
, and Swift Justice with Nancy Grace
Swift Justice With Nancy Grace
Swift Justice with Jackie Glass is a syndicated court program hosted by Judge Jackie Glass....
among others. The station signed-on June 1, 1982
1982 in television
The year 1982 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1982.For the American TV schedule, see: 1982-83 American network television schedule.-Events:...
as an Independent and aired an analog signal on UHF channel 23. It became a charter Fox affiliate at the network's launch on October 9, 1986. After Sinclair and Fox finalized a six-year affiliation
Network affiliate
In the broadcasting industry , a network affiliate is a local broadcaster which carries some or all of the television program or radio program line-up of a television or radio network, but is owned by a company other than the owner of the network...
contract extension for the company's nineteen affiliates, KBSI's association with Fox was guaranteed until March 2012.
Digital programming
Although WDKA transmits a digital signal of its own, the station can also be seen in standard definition on KBSI's second digital subchannelDigital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual...
.
| Channels (physical/virtual) | Name | Video | Aspect Aspect ratio The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements,... |
Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22.1/23.1 | KBSI-HD | 1080i 1080i 1080i is the shorthand name for a high-definition television mode. The i means interlaced video; 1080i differs from 1080p, in which the p stands for progressive scan. The term 1080i assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a frame size of 1920×1080 pixels... |
16:9 16:9 16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ... |
main KBSI programming/Fox (HD) |
| 22.2/23.2 | KBSI-DT2 | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
4:3 | WDKA MyNetworkTV (SD) |
Newscasts
For several years, NBCNBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
affiliate WPSD-TV
WPSD-TV
WPSD-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for Western Kentucky's Jackson Purchase, Southern Illinois, and the Missouri Bootheel. Licensed to Paducah, Kentucky, the station broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 32 from a transmitter in Monkeys Eyebrow, Kentucky...
(owned by the Paxton Media Group
Paxton Media Group
Paxton Media Group of Paducah, Kentucky, is a privately held media company with holdings that include newspapers and a TV station, WPSD-TV in Paducah. David M. Paxton is president and CEO....
) produced a nightly prime time newscast on KBSI through a news share agreement. The thirty minute show was known as Local 6 News at 9 on Fox 23 and featured a regional summary of headlines because KBSI is based in Cape Girardeau. On its own newscasts, WPSD traditionally focuses on the Western Kentucky side of the market
Media market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content...
.
The broadcast originated from that station's facility on Television Lane in Paducah, Kentucky
Paducah, Kentucky
Paducah is the largest city in Kentucky's Jackson Purchase Region and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States. It is located at the confluence of the Tennessee River and the Ohio River, halfway between the metropolitan areas of St. Louis, Missouri, to the west and Nashville,...
. For awhile, KBSI competed with another nightly half-hour newscast at 9 on the area's low-powered CW affiliates WQTV-LP/WQWQ-LP
WQTV-LP
WQTV-LP is a low-powered television station in Murray, Kentucky. Licensed to the city, the station broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 24 from a transmitter along U.S. 641 between Murray and the Tennessee state line. WQWQ-LP is another low-powered television station in Paducah, Kentucky...
. That newscast, produced by CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
affiliate KFVS-TV
KFVS-TV
KFVS-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for Southeastern Missouri, the Purchase area of Western Kentucky, and Southern Illinois that is licensed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 12 from a transmitter north of the city in rural Cape...
, was aired specifically for Southeastern Missouri viewers. It would eventually be cancelled on July 29, 2007.
WPSD's outsourcing arrangement with KBSI expired on September 30, 2010. The next day, this station entered into a new partnership with KFVS (owned by Raycom Media
Raycom Media
- History :Although Raycom Media dates its birth to 1996, the core of the company was formed in 1992 when Atlanta native Bert Ellis formed Ellis Communications. He eventually controlled 13 television stations and two radio stations....
) presumably to refocus the prime time production to the Missouri Bootheel area and expand it to sixty minutes every night. KBSI's current show is known as Heartland News at 9 on Fox 23 and originates from the KFVS studios (in the Hirsch Tower) on Broadway Avenue in Downtown Cape Girardeau.
With the addition, that station now offers more than thirty hours of local news each week and continues to retain its market dominance as the most watched outlet. On October 3, 2010, WPSD brought back its own newscast at 9 to its Retro Television Network
Retro Television Network
The Retro Television Network is a system of television stations that airs classic television shows as well as more recently produced programs...
(RTV) and 24-hour local weather subchannels. Known as The Nine and seen every night for a half-hour, that broadcast is simulcasted on the two services. In addition to its main facility in Southeastern Missouri, KFVS operates a Southern Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
Newsroom on East Plaza Drive in Carterville
Carterville, Illinois
Carterville is a city in Williamson County, Illinois, in the United States, and is geographically situated between Carbondale, Illinois and Marion, Illinois. The city is located next to Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge's of land and water contain a wide diversity of flora and...
,
Anchors
- Jeff Cunningham - weeknight news
- Crystal Britt - weekend news and reporter
- Bob Reeves - Senior Meteorologist seen weeknights
- Laura Wibbenmeyer - weekend meteorologist
- Todd Richards - Sports DirectorSports DirectorA sports director is an individual at a television or radio station who is in charge of the sports department. In local news, the sports director is typically the station's primary sportscaster, and often anchors the primetime newscasts on weekdays. They are in charge of sports programming and...
seen weeknights - Chad Fryman - weekend sports
Reporters
- Arnold Wyrick - Southern Illinois Newsroom
- Carly O'Keefe - Southern Illinois Newsroom
- Stephanie Byars - health and photographer
- Julia Bruck - Southern Illinois Newsroom
- Christy Millweard - multimedia journalist
- Holly Brantley
- Tyler Profilet