KMOS-TV
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KMOS-TV is a PBS
member public television station in Sedalia, Missouri
, owned and operated by the University of Central Missouri
in Warrensburg
. Although Warrensburg and Sedalia are part of the Kansas City
media market (in fact, Warrensburg is an outer-ring suburb of Kansas City), KMOS serves as the PBS member station for the Columbia
/Jefferson City market. One consequence is that KMOS can't be seen on DirecTV
or Dish Network
in its own city; KCPT
is the sole PBS station uplinked on the Kansas City feed. However, it is carried on Charter Cable
systems in Warrensburg as one of three Mid-Missouri stations provided.
Until February 17, 2009, KMOS also competed with KETC
, the St. Louis
PBS member station, on Mediacom
cable systems in the market. KETC has since been dropped from Mediacom's systems in Columbia and Jefferson City as of February 17, leaving KMOS to be the sole PBS station in these places.
. The calls came from the Drolich brothers, the radio station's original owners. The station was originally an independent.
KDRO-TV went through several partial changes in ownership in the late 1950s. In July 1955, Deare Publications, publisher of the "Sedalia Democrat" newspaper, purchased 50% of KDRO-AM-TV from Hinlein. In July 1957, Jimmy Glenn and Herb Brandes purchased 2/3 interest in KDRO Radio. Hinlein became the sole owner of KDRO-TV as Deare Publications became the owner of the KDRO studio properties.
In November 1957, Hinlein sold one-half interest in KDRO-TV to several station employees, who took over the operation of the station. On July 20, 1958, KDRO-TV became an ABC
affiliate. ABC refused to give it a network feed to protect the rights of Kansas City's main ABC affiliate, KMBC-TV
. Station engineers switched to and from KMBC-TV's signal whenever ABC network programming was on the air.
Cook Paint and Varnish Company
, owner of KMBC-TV
, bought KDRO-TV on January 28, 1959 and changed the call letters to the current KMOS-TV. It then became a full-time satellite of KMBC-TV. The station had always found the going difficult due to a limited viewer base, and becoming a full satellite of KMBC-TV ensured its survival.
In July 1961, Cook Paint sold KMBC-TV to Metropolitan Broadcasting (later called Metromedia
). Metropolitan Broadcasting did not want KMOS-TV, so it sold channel 6 to the Jefferson City News Tribune, owner of Mid-Missouri
's CBS
affiliate, KRCG
. KMOS-TV then became a full satellite of KRCG. However, it continued to maintain a studio of its own in Sedalia and would break away from KRCG for its own evening newscast at 6 and 10 pm. In July 1966, KMOS-TV and KRCG-TV were sold to Kansas City Southern Industries
, the parent company of the Kansas City Southern Railroad.
KRCG and NBC
affiliate KOMU-TV
in Columbia were the only VHF network affiliates in the Columbia/Jefferson City market, and they wanted to keep it that way even though the area was just barely large enough to support three full network affiliates. With this in mind, KRCG operated KMOS at a fairly low power level, and turned down all offers to sell it to another commercial owner, not wanting to chance on the new owner making KMOS a full-power ABC affiliate. The area did not have a full-time ABC affiliate until Columbia's KCBJ-TV (now KMIZ
) signed-on in 1971.
In 1978, Kansas City Southern Industries donated KMOS to Central Missouri State University (now the University of Central Missouri), who converted the station into a stand-alone PBS affiliate. Previously, Columbia/Jefferson City had been one of the few areas of Missouri without its own PBS member station. Most cable systems in the market piped in KETC, while the western part of the market could also get a grade B signal from KCPT. KMOS was off the air for sixteen months from August 15, 1978 to December 22, 1979 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 15), with similar height above average terrain for both transmitters (about 602 to 603 m above sea level).
, 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. The tower is the tallest structure in Missouri and one of the tallest structures in the world -- more than three times the height of the Gateway Arch
. The tower is 0.2 metre (0.656167979002625 ft) higher than the previous record holder KYTV (TV)
in Springfield, Missouri
.
Silver Telly - Jerry Adams Outdoors
Bronze Telly - SPORTSPAGE
Bronze Telly -First United Methodist Church
CASE Circle of Excellence Awards Gold Medal - Institution-Wide Branding Programs, University of Central Missouri
CASE District VI Grand Gold - Excellence in Multimedia, Confidence
CASE District VI Silver - Excellence in Writing, CMSU Traditions
Davey - UCM Traditions History/Biography
Davey - UCM Traditions Corporate Image
Davey - Jerry Adams Outdoors
Davey - Jerry Adams Outdoors Kiss The Fish promo Editing
Davey - Jerry Adams Outdoors Kiss The Fish promo
2008
Bronze Telly - Jerry Adams Outdoors, Kids Fishing Promo, editing
Bronze Telly - Show Me Ag Wind Turbine Segment
Bronze Telly - Jerry Adams Outdoors
Bronze Telly - Veterans History Project Promotion
Communicator - KMOS Kids Club
Communicator - Jerry Adams Outdoors Kiss the Fish Promotion
Mid-America Emmy nomination specialty program Jerry Adams Outdoors
MBA Award Public Service Announcement or Campaign - Veterans History Project
2009
MBA Award Certificate of Merit Station Sponsored Community Event - Chocolate Enchantment
2010
MBA Award Certificate of Merit Specialty Program - Cooking with Giuliano
NETA Award My Source: The Bacon Brothers – Michael’s Revenge
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
member public television station in Sedalia, Missouri
Sedalia, Missouri
Sedalia is a city located about south of the Missouri River in Pettis County, Missouri. U.S. Highway 50 and U.S. Highway 65 intersect in the city. As of 2006, the city had a total population of 20,669. It is the county seat of Pettis County. The Sedalia Micropolitan Statistical Area consists of...
, owned and operated by the University of Central Missouri
University of Central Missouri
The University of Central Missouri is a four-year public institution in Warrensburg, Missouri.- History :...
in Warrensburg
Warrensburg, Missouri
Warrensburg is a city in Johnson County, Missouri, United States. The population was 16,340 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Johnson County. The Warrensburg Micropolitan Statistical Area consists of Johnson County. It is home to the University of Central Missouri.-History:Warrensburg...
. Although Warrensburg and Sedalia are part of the Kansas City
Kansas City Metropolitan Area
The Kansas City Metropolitan Area is a fifteen-county metropolitan area that is anchored by Kansas City, Missouri and is bisected by the border between the states of Missouri and Kansas. As of the 2010 Census, the metropolitan area has a population of 2,035,334. The metropolitan area is the...
media market (in fact, Warrensburg is an outer-ring suburb of Kansas City), KMOS serves as the PBS member station for the 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...
/Jefferson City market. One consequence is that KMOS can't be seen on DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
or Dish Network
Dish Network
Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...
in its own city; KCPT
KCPT
KCPT virtual channel 19 is a Public television station in Kansas City, Missouri serving the greater Kansas City metropolitan area as a Public Broadcasting Service member station....
is the sole PBS station uplinked on the Kansas City feed. However, it is carried on Charter Cable
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...
systems in Warrensburg as one of three Mid-Missouri stations provided.
Until February 17, 2009, KMOS also competed with KETC
KETC
KETC is the Public Broadcasting Service member Public television station in St. Louis, Missouri. Owned by St. Louis Regional Public Media, the call letters KETC represent the St. Louis Educational Television Comission, the former name of the organization responsible for bringing public television...
, the St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
PBS member station, on 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,...
cable systems in the market. KETC has since been dropped from Mediacom's systems in Columbia and Jefferson City as of February 17, leaving KMOS to be the sole PBS station in these places.
History
KMOS-TV signed-on July 8, 1954 as KDRO-TV, owned by Milt Hinlein along with KDRO radioKDRO
KDRO is a radio station licensed to serve Sedalia, Missouri, USA. The station is owned by Benne Media and licensed to Mathewson Broadcasting Company.KDRO broadcasts a country music format.-History:...
. The calls came from the Drolich brothers, the radio station's original owners. The station was originally an independent.
KDRO-TV went through several partial changes in ownership in the late 1950s. In July 1955, Deare Publications, publisher of the "Sedalia Democrat" newspaper, purchased 50% of KDRO-AM-TV from Hinlein. In July 1957, Jimmy Glenn and Herb Brandes purchased 2/3 interest in KDRO Radio. Hinlein became the sole owner of KDRO-TV as Deare Publications became the owner of the KDRO studio properties.
In November 1957, Hinlein sold one-half interest in KDRO-TV to several station employees, who took over the operation of the station. On July 20, 1958, KDRO-TV became an ABC
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...
affiliate. ABC refused to give it a network feed to protect the rights of Kansas City's main ABC affiliate, KMBC-TV
KMBC-TV
KMBC-TV virtual channel 9 is a television station affiliated with the ABC television network, located in Kansas City, Missouri. KMBC-TV is owned by Hearst Television and its studios are located on Winchester Ave. near Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri. The station's high guyed mast broadcast...
. Station engineers switched to and from KMBC-TV's signal whenever ABC network programming was on the air.
Cook Paint and Varnish Company
Cook Paint and Varnish Company
Cook Paint and Varnish Company was a paint and varnish manufacturer in the Kansas City metropolitan area from 1913 until 1991.-History:The paint factory was established in 1913 at 21st and Broadway in Kansas City by Charles R. Cook...
, owner of KMBC-TV
KMBC-TV
KMBC-TV virtual channel 9 is a television station affiliated with the ABC television network, located in Kansas City, Missouri. KMBC-TV is owned by Hearst Television and its studios are located on Winchester Ave. near Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri. The station's high guyed mast broadcast...
, bought KDRO-TV on January 28, 1959 and changed the call letters to the current KMOS-TV. It then became a full-time satellite of KMBC-TV. The station had always found the going difficult due to a limited viewer base, and becoming a full satellite of KMBC-TV ensured its survival.
In July 1961, Cook Paint sold KMBC-TV to Metropolitan Broadcasting (later called Metromedia
Metromedia
Metromedia was a media company that owned radio and television stations in the United States from 1956 to 1986 and owned Orion Pictures from 1986-1997.- Overview :...
). Metropolitan Broadcasting did not want KMOS-TV, so it sold channel 6 to the Jefferson City News Tribune, owner of 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...
's 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:...
. KMOS-TV then became a full satellite of KRCG. However, it continued to maintain a studio of its own in Sedalia and would break away from KRCG for its own evening newscast at 6 and 10 pm. In July 1966, KMOS-TV and KRCG-TV were sold to Kansas City Southern Industries
Kansas City Southern Industries
Kansas City Southern Industries is the former diversified parent company of the Kansas City Southern Railway, a Class I railroad headquartered in the Quality Hill neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, USA...
, the parent company of the Kansas City Southern Railroad.
KRCG and NBC
NBC
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...
in Columbia were the only VHF network affiliates in the Columbia/Jefferson City market, and they wanted to keep it that way even though the area was just barely large enough to support three full network affiliates. With this in mind, KRCG operated KMOS at a fairly low power level, and turned down all offers to sell it to another commercial owner, not wanting to chance on the new owner making KMOS a full-power ABC affiliate. The area did not have a full-time ABC affiliate until Columbia's KCBJ-TV (now KMIZ
KMIZ
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...
) signed-on in 1971.
In 1978, Kansas City Southern Industries donated KMOS to Central Missouri State University (now the University of Central Missouri), who converted the station into a stand-alone PBS affiliate. Previously, Columbia/Jefferson City had been one of the few areas of Missouri without its own PBS member station. Most cable systems in the market piped in KETC, while the western part of the market could also get a grade B signal from KCPT. KMOS was off the air for sixteen months from August 15, 1978 to December 22, 1979 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 15), with similar height above average terrain for both transmitters (about 602 to 603 m above sea level).
Local programs
- 2010 Surviving Abuse
- 2011 Countdown to UCM
- 2011 Investment Fraud, Protecting Your Investments
Broadcast tower
In April 2003, opening ceremonies were conducted for the station's new digital broadcasting and transmitter facility in Syracuse, MissouriSyracuse, Missouri
Syracuse is a city in Morgan County, Missouri, United States. The population was 172 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Syracuse is located at ....
, 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. The tower is the tallest structure in Missouri and one of the tallest structures in the world -- more than three times the height of the Gateway Arch
Gateway Arch
The Gateway Arch, or Gateway to the West, is an arch that is the centerpiece of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri. It was built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States...
. The tower is 0.2 metre (0.656167979002625 ft) higher than the previous record holder KYTV (TV)
KYTV (TV)
KYTV, virtual channel 3, is the NBC-affiliated television station for the Ozark Plateau area of Southwestern Missouri that is licensed to Springfield. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 44 from a transmitter in Fordland...
in Springfield, Missouri
Springfield, Missouri
Springfield is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County. According to the 2010 census data, the population was 159,498, an increase of 5.2% since the 2000 census. The Springfield Metropolitan Area, population 436,712, includes the counties of...
.
Awards
2007Silver Telly - Jerry Adams Outdoors
Bronze Telly - SPORTSPAGE
Bronze Telly -First United Methodist Church
CASE Circle of Excellence Awards Gold Medal - Institution-Wide Branding Programs, University of Central Missouri
CASE District VI Grand Gold - Excellence in Multimedia, Confidence
CASE District VI Silver - Excellence in Writing, CMSU Traditions
Davey - UCM Traditions History/Biography
Davey - UCM Traditions Corporate Image
Davey - Jerry Adams Outdoors
Davey - Jerry Adams Outdoors Kiss The Fish promo Editing
Davey - Jerry Adams Outdoors Kiss The Fish promo
2008
Bronze Telly - Jerry Adams Outdoors, Kids Fishing Promo, editing
Bronze Telly - Show Me Ag Wind Turbine Segment
Bronze Telly - Jerry Adams Outdoors
Bronze Telly - Veterans History Project Promotion
Communicator - KMOS Kids Club
Communicator - Jerry Adams Outdoors Kiss the Fish Promotion
Mid-America Emmy nomination specialty program Jerry Adams Outdoors
MBA Award Public Service Announcement or Campaign - Veterans History Project
2009
MBA Award Certificate of Merit Station Sponsored Community Event - Chocolate Enchantment
2010
MBA Award Certificate of Merit Specialty Program - Cooking with Giuliano
NETA Award My Source: The Bacon Brothers – Michael’s Revenge
External links
- Official Website
- University of Central Missouri
- http://www.showmenews.com/2005/Nov/20051125News018.asp
- http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b7070