KMIZ
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KMIZ is the ABC
-affiliated television station
for Mid-Missouri
that is licensed to Columbia
. It broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 17 from a transmitter in Cedron near the Moniteau and Cooper
County line. Owned by JW Broadcasting, the station is sister to low-powered Fox affiliate KQFX-LD, MyNetworkTV affiliate KZOU and a locally run 24-hour weather channel, ABC 17 Stormtrack 24/7
. The four stations share studios on Business Loop 70
East in Columbia. Syndicated
programming on KMIZ includes: Two and a Half Men
, The Office, Who Wants to be a Millionaire
, Deal or No Deal, Jeopardy!
, Everybody Loves Raymond
, Family Guy
, Friends
, King of the Hill
and South Park
.
All four stations are available with an antenna and on all cable providers in Mid-Missouri. ABC 17, Fox 22 and MyZouTV are also available on Dish Network and DirecTV.
Before KQFX Fox 22 was aired from its own transmitter in Mid-Missouri, it was found on digital channel 17-2 via PSIP at a standard definition of 480i; Stormtrack 24/7 was found on 17-4 via PSIP.
affiliate KOMU-TV
and CBS
affiliate KRCG
.
In 1982, KCBJ and KOMU swapped affiliations. ABC had become the nation's highest-rated network and had been looking to get its programming on higher-rated stations. It found the chance to align with long-dominant KOMU too much to resist. By 1985, however, NBC regained the ratings lead, and the two stations returned to their original networks on New Year's Day
1986. Along with the switch, channel 17 changed its call letters to the current KMIZ. In the late 1990s, KMIZ owner Benedek Broadcasting
launched two low-powered stations, K02NQ in Columbia and K11TB in Jefferson City, to bring Fox to Mid-Missouri. It also operated cable-only WB 100+
affiliate "KJWB" (known on-air as "WB 5" from its cable channel location) from its launch in 1998 until 2002. Benedek went bankrupt later in 2002, and most of its stations, including KMIZ, were sold to Gray Television Group. KJWB was moved to KOMU by The WB, and KMIZ was divested to Chelsey Broadcasting. Chesley in turn sold the station to JW Broadcasting in May 2003.
In late-2003, JW Broadcasting relaunched Fox on a new low-power analog signal (K38II) on channel 38 in Columbia and Jefferson City. The company also launched KZOU, a cable-only UPN affiliate in Mid-Missouri. Additionally, the station launched the country's first all local weather channel, known as Show-Me Weather. In 2006, UPN was merged with the WB network and KZOU was awarded the MyNetworkTV affiliation and became known as MyZou 32 (now MyZouTV). In 2007, Show-Me Weather was re-branded as ABC 17 Stormtrack 24/7, taking on an increased focus on local weather.
On June 12, 2009, analog transmissions ceased all over the United States and KMIZ became a strictly digital broadcaster. ABC 17 can be found on digital 17-1, ABC 17 Stormtrack 24/7 (formerly K02NQ
) on digital 17-2 and MyZouTV (formerly KZOU-LP
) on digital 17-3. JW Broadcasting LLC was also awarded a new digital transmission license for its FOX affiliate, and FOX 22 on digital channel 22 (KQFX-LD) was born.
With its launch in HD and the market's only 6:30 PM newscast, the station now offers four hours of local news every weekday on KMIZ. It also broadcasts a half-hour newscast on its sister station, Fox 22, every night at 9:00 PM.
ABC 17 Stormtrack Meteorologists
ABC 17 Sports Team
Reporters
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
-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 Mid-Missouri
Mid-Missouri
Mid-Missouri is a loosely defined region comprising the central area of United States state of Missouri. The region's largest city is Columbia . The Missouri state capital, Jefferson City, and the University of Missouri are also located here. The region also includes parts of the Lake of the...
that is licensed to Columbia
Columbia, Missouri
Columbia is the fifth-largest city in Missouri, and the largest city in Mid-Missouri. With a population of 108,500 as of the 2010 Census, it is the principal municipality of the Columbia Metropolitan Area, a region of 164,283 residents. The city serves as the county seat of Boone County and as the...
. 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 17 from a transmitter in Cedron near the Moniteau and Cooper
Cooper County, Missouri
Cooper County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. In 2010, the population was 17,601. Its county seat is Boonville. The county was organized in 1818 and is named for Sarshall Cooper, a frontier settler who was killed by Indians near Arrow Rock in 1814.-Geography:According to the 2000...
County line. Owned by JW Broadcasting, the station is sister to low-powered Fox affiliate KQFX-LD, MyNetworkTV affiliate KZOU and a locally run 24-hour weather channel, ABC 17 Stormtrack 24/7
K02NQ
K02NQ was a low-power television station in Columbia, Missouri, United States, broadcasting sister-station KMIZ's StormTrack 24/7 weather channel locally on VHF channel 2. This station is no longer broadcasting on channel 2, but can be seen on local cable providers in the area as well as the second...
. The four stations share studios on Business Loop 70
Interstate 70 in Missouri
In the U.S. state of Missouri, Interstate 70 is generally parallel to the Missouri River. This section of the transcontinental Interstate has its western terminus at the Kansas state line on the Lewis and Clark Viaduct, concurrent with U.S...
East in Columbia. 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 KMIZ 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...
, The Office, Who Wants to be a Millionaire
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (US game show)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is an American television quiz show which offers a maximum prize of $1,000,000 for correctly answering 14 consecutive multiple-choice questions of random difficulty. Until 2010, the format required contestants to correctly answer 15 consecutive questions of increasing...
, Deal or No Deal, Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!
Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...
, Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. Many of the situations from the show are based on the real-life experiences of lead actor Ray Romano, creator/producer Phil Rosenthal and the show's writing staff...
, Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian...
, Friends
Friends
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
, King of the Hill
King of the Hill
King of the Hill is an American animated dramedy series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, that ran from January 12, 1997, to May 6, 2010, on Fox network. It centers on the Hills, a working-class Methodist family in the fictional small town of Arlen, Texas...
and South Park
South Park
South Park is an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become famous for its crude language, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that lampoons a wide range of topics...
.
All four stations are available with an antenna and on all cable providers in Mid-Missouri. ABC 17, Fox 22 and MyZouTV are also available on Dish Network and DirecTV.
Digital television
The station's digital signal is multiplexed.| Virtual Channel |
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 |
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| 17.1 | 720p 720p 720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan... |
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 ... |
ABC 17 (KMIZ) - ABC HD programming |
| 17.2 | 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 | ABC 17 Stormtrack 24/7 K02NQ K02NQ was a low-power television station in Columbia, Missouri, United States, broadcasting sister-station KMIZ's StormTrack 24/7 weather channel locally on VHF channel 2. This station is no longer broadcasting on channel 2, but can be seen on local cable providers in the area as well as the second... - 24-hour local weather |
| 17.3 | 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 | MyZouTV (KZOU) KZOU-LP KQFX-LD, "Fox 22", is the low-powered Fox-affiliated television station for Mid-Missouri that is licensed to Columbia. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 22 from a transmitter in off Cedron Rd near the Moniteau and Cooper County line. Sister stations include high-powered... - MyNetworkTV affiliate |
Before KQFX Fox 22 was aired from its own transmitter in Mid-Missouri, it was found on digital channel 17-2 via PSIP at a standard definition of 480i; Stormtrack 24/7 was found on 17-4 via PSIP.
History
KMIZ went on the air for the first time on December 5, 1971 as KCBJ-TV. Before then, ABC had been relegated to limited clearances on 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 KOMU-TV
KOMU-TV
KOMU-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for Mid-Missouri licensed to Columbia. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter at studios on US 63 southeast of downtown. The station can also be seen on Mediacom, Suddenlink, and Charter channel 7 as well...
and 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 KRCG
KRCG
KRCG Channel 13 is the CBS affiliate television station for the Columbia/Jefferson City, Missouri television market. The station is licensed to Jefferson City, with studios in the nearby town of New Bloomfield.-History:...
.
In 1982, KCBJ and KOMU swapped affiliations. ABC had become the nation's highest-rated network and had been looking to get its programming on higher-rated stations. It found the chance to align with long-dominant KOMU too much to resist. By 1985, however, NBC regained the ratings lead, and the two stations returned to their original networks on New Year's Day
New Year's Day
New Year's Day is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar used in ancient Rome...
1986. Along with the switch, channel 17 changed its call letters to the current KMIZ. In the late 1990s, KMIZ owner Benedek Broadcasting
Benedek Broadcasting
Benedek Broadcasting is a former television broadcaster, who owned and operated 22 network-affiliated television stations throughout the United States, all affiliated with major television networks, serving mainly small and medium-size markets. The company was founded in the late 1970s by A...
launched two low-powered stations, K02NQ in Columbia and K11TB in Jefferson City, to bring Fox to Mid-Missouri. It also operated cable-only WB 100+
The WB 100+ Station Group
The WB 100+ Station Group was a group of primarily non-broadcast local cable television outlets for The WB Television Network, for markets below the top 100 television media markets in the United States. Dayparts with no WB programming were programmed by the network...
affiliate "KJWB" (known on-air as "WB 5" from its cable channel location) from its launch in 1998 until 2002. Benedek went bankrupt later in 2002, and most of its stations, including KMIZ, were sold to Gray Television Group. KJWB was moved to KOMU by The WB, and KMIZ was divested to Chelsey Broadcasting. Chesley in turn sold the station to JW Broadcasting in May 2003.
In late-2003, JW Broadcasting relaunched Fox on a new low-power analog signal (K38II) on channel 38 in Columbia and Jefferson City. The company also launched KZOU, a cable-only UPN affiliate in Mid-Missouri. Additionally, the station launched the country's first all local weather channel, known as Show-Me Weather. In 2006, UPN was merged with the WB network and KZOU was awarded the MyNetworkTV affiliation and became known as MyZou 32 (now MyZouTV). In 2007, Show-Me Weather was re-branded as ABC 17 Stormtrack 24/7, taking on an increased focus on local weather.
On June 12, 2009, analog transmissions ceased all over the United States and KMIZ became a strictly digital broadcaster. ABC 17 can be found on digital 17-1, ABC 17 Stormtrack 24/7 (formerly K02NQ
K02NQ
K02NQ was a low-power television station in Columbia, Missouri, United States, broadcasting sister-station KMIZ's StormTrack 24/7 weather channel locally on VHF channel 2. This station is no longer broadcasting on channel 2, but can be seen on local cable providers in the area as well as the second...
) on digital 17-2 and MyZouTV (formerly KZOU-LP
KZOU-LP
KQFX-LD, "Fox 22", is the low-powered Fox-affiliated television station for Mid-Missouri that is licensed to Columbia. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 22 from a transmitter in off Cedron Rd near the Moniteau and Cooper County line. Sister stations include high-powered...
) on digital 17-3. JW Broadcasting LLC was also awarded a new digital transmission license for its FOX affiliate, and FOX 22 on digital channel 22 (KQFX-LD) was born.
News operation
On October 10, 2011, KMIZ launched the market’s first prime access newscast at 6:30 p.m. and became the second station in the Columbia-Jefferson City market to offer all local newscasts, syndicated programming and commercials in high definition.With its launch in HD and the market's only 6:30 PM newscast, the station now offers four hours of local news every weekday on KMIZ. It also broadcasts a half-hour newscast on its sister station, Fox 22, every night at 9:00 PM.
MyZouTV
KMIZ and its two formerly-operating low-power sibling stations, K11TB and K02NQ, have a fairly complex history. K02NQ was founded in 1990, with K11TB signing on in 1991. K11TB would gradually share a FOX affiliation with K02NQ from 1997 to 2003. K11TB would end up becoming K38II in 2004, when another co-owned station (K11SN) signed on, and adopted those call-letters, with the original KZOU-LP becoming KQFX-LD. With the sign-on of the digital simulcasts on KMIZ's subchannels, K02NQ and KZOU-LP ended analog over-the-air transmissions and had their licenses voluntarily cancelled by the FCC, with only KQFX-LD remaining over-the-air as a separate station.News team
Anchors- Ryan Tate - ABC 17 News at 5:00, 6:00 & 6:30, ABC 17 News at 9:00 on Fox 22 and ABC 17 News at 10:00
- Meredith Hoenes - ABC 17 News at 6:30, ABC 17 News at 9:00 on Fox 22 and ABC 17 News at 10:00
- Lauren Gores - ABC 17 News This Morning (5:00-7:00 am)
- Stephanie Schaefer - ABC 17 News at 5:00; also producer
- Kristie Reeter - ABC 17 News at 6:00; also reporter
ABC 17 Stormtrack Meteorologists
- Sharon Ray (AMSAmerican Meteorological SocietyThe American Meteorological Society promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. Founded in 1919, the American Meteorological Society has a membership...
Seal of Approval) - Chief Meteorologist (Sun - Thur) - Neville Miller (CBMCertified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast Meteorologist is a rating for meteorologists given by the American Meteorological Society.The Certified Broadcast Meteorologist program was established to raise the professional standard in broadcast meteorology and encourage a broader range of scientific understanding,...
, NWANational Weather AssociationThe National Weather Association is an American professional association with a mission to support and promote excellence in operational meteorology and related activities...
Seals of Approval) - Meteorologist (ABC 17 News This Morning) - Justin Abraham - Forecaster (Fri & Sat Evenings)
ABC 17 Sports Team
- Tyler Fulghum - Sports Anchor/Reporter
- Martina Del Bonta - Sports Anchor
Reporters
- Candice Aviles - General Assignment Reporter
- Brad Johnson - General Assignment Reporter
- Evan Millward - Jefferson City Reporter
- Gigi Mann - General Assignment Reporter
- Hanna Mordoh - General Assignment Reporter
- Ron Widbin - Feature Reporter (Widbin's Way)
Former on-air staff
- Grant Bissell - General Assignment Reporter (now at KSDK-TV)
- Kevin Lewis- Sports Anchor/Reporter (now at KMSB-TV)
- Brynn Gingras - ABC 17 News at 9:00 on Fox 22 and ABC 17 News at 10:00 Anchor/Reporter
- Beau Baehman - Sports Director (now Director of Marketing and Communications at Columbia Orthopaedic Group)
- Trent Magill - Meteorologist (now at KMID in Midland, TX)
- John Bassford - Anchor (now Communications Coordinator at AmerenMissouri Callaway Plant)
- Teresa Snow, Anchor (now at KRCG-TVKRCGKRCG Channel 13 is the CBS affiliate television station for the Columbia/Jefferson City, Missouri television market. The station is licensed to Jefferson City, with studios in the nearby town of New Bloomfield.-History:...
) - Manuel Quinones, Reporter (now at Greenwire in Washington, DC)
- Travis Ford, Meteorologist (now with the Missouri Attorney General's office)
- Savannah Guthrie, Weekend Anchor/Reporter (now anchor for the TODAY Show NBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. It first started broadcasting in February 21, 1940. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is...
) - George Brown, Anchor/Reporter (now at WREG-TVWREG-TVWREG-TV is Memphis, Tennessee's CBS television affiliate, operating on digital channel 28, and uses PSIP 3 as its virtual channel. The station is owned by Local TV, which took over all of the television stations formerly owned by The New York Times Company on May 7, 2007. Its transmitter is...
) - Arica Robbins, Meteorologist (now at ONN and WBNS-TVWBNS-TVWBNS-TV, channel 10, is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, USA. The station is an affiliate of the CBS Television Network and is owned by the Dispatch Broadcast Group, a subsidiary of the Columbus Dispatch, along with WBNS radio...
) - Shannon Kettler, Reporter (WCPO-TVWCPO-TVWCPO-TV, virtual channel 9 , is an ABC-affiliated television station in Cincinnati, Ohio. WCPO's studio is located in the Mount Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati, just outside of Eden Park. Its transmitter is located along Symmes Street, just south of East McMillan Street in Cincinnati.The station...
) - Dawn Kendrick, Anchor (now at WOIO-TV)
- Dan Barber, Reporter
- Jacqueline Lapine, Reporter
- Kent Harell, News Director
- Vic Faust, Sports Director (now at WXYZ-TVWXYZ-TVWXYZ-TV, channel 7, is an ABC-affiliated television station in Detroit, Michigan, USA. WXYZ-TV is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, and is the media company's largest-market TV station property...
) - Greg Hunter, PM Magazine Co-host (now at CNNCNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
) - Chris Gervino, Sports Director (now at KOMU)
- Daniel Grazier, Reporter (now a Marine Corps Officer)
- Jodie Shpritz, Reporter (now publicist at Res Publica Group)
- Bridget Blevins, Anchor/Reporter (now News Director at KQTVKQTVKQTV, digital channel 7 , is the ABC-affiliated television station in St. Joseph, Missouri. Owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, it is the only local commercial broadcast television station serving the St. Joseph area; though TBN affiliate KTAJ , which primarily serves the northern portion of...
in St. Joseph, MO) - John Fougere, Sports Anchor/Reporter (now spokesman for Mo. Attorney General Jay Nixon)
- Jason Simpson, Meteorologist (now at WBMA)
- Melissa Cuttone, Reporter (now at Fox ChicagoWFLDWFLD, virtual channel 32 , is the Fox owned-and-operated television station, based in Chicago, Illinois; through its parent company News Corporation, the station is owned in a duopoly with area MyNetworkTV affiliate WPWR-TV...
) - Henry Rothenberg, Meteorologist
- Ryan Yamamoto, Reporter (now at KXTVKXTVKXTV, channel 10, is an ABC affiliate television station in Sacramento, California. It is owned and operated by the Gannett Company. Its transmitter tower is located in Walnut Grove, California, and studios are located on Broadway, just south of Business Loop 80 at the south edge of downtown...
in Sacramento, CA - Mark Welp, Weekend Anchor/Reporter (now at WHOI-TV)
- Rajah Maples, Anchor/Reporter (now at KHQA-TVKHQA-TVKHQA-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Tri-States area of Western Illinois, Northeastern Missouri, and extreme Southeastern Iowa. It is licensed to Hannibal, Missouri. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 from a transmitter northeast of Quincy, Illinois...
) - Lindsey Rendlen, Anchor/Reporter (now Attorney, The Todt Law Firm, P.C., St. Louis, Missouri)
- Grant Johnson, Meteorologist (now on KFOR-TVKFOR-TVKFOR-TV, virtual channel 4 , is the NBC-affiliated television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. KFOR-TV is owned by Local TV, a subsidiary of the private equity group Oak Hill Capital Partners, in a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate KAUT-TV ; its studios are located at 444 East Britton Road in...
) - Rob Verbe, Sports Anchor
- Randy Wright, Meteorologist then General Manager (now Executive Director of Multimedia Properties at University of Florida)
Station management
- Gene Steinberg - General Manager
- Jeff Page - General Sales Manager
- Curtis Varns - News Director
- Mark Kammerich - Creative Services Director/Commercial Production Manager
- Eric Jones - Chief Engineer
- Kathy Lynam - Business Manager
- Donna Farmer - Human Resources Director
- Cindy Clark - Traffic Manager
Newscast titles
- KCBJ-TV News (1971-1976)
- 17 Central News (1976-1986)
- NewsTeam 17 (1986-1991)
- KMIZ 17 News (1991-1997)
- ABC 17 News (1997-Present)
Station Slogans
- Where The News Comes First (1993-2003)
- The Spirit Of Missouri (2003-2005)