KTVO
Encyclopedia
KTVO is the ABC
-affiliated television station
for the Honey Lands area of Northeastern Missouri
and Southeastern Iowa
. Licensed to Kirksville, Missouri
, it broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 33 from a transmitter northwest of Downing, Missouri
along US 136
. The station can also be seen in Iowa on Mediacom
channel 5 (HD on digital channel 803) and in Missouri on CableOne channel 6 (HD on digital channel 455). Owned by Barrington Broadcasting
, it has studios on US 63
north of Kirksville. Syndicated
programming on KTVO includes: Wheel of Fortune
, Jeopardy!
and Oprah
.
is the area's CBS
affiliate. Known on-air as KTVO CBS 3.2, this is currently not seen on Mediacom systems. Instead Mediacom offer fellow CBS station KCCI
from Des Moines, Iowa
on channel 8 and digital channel 808 (for high definition). Syndicated programming on KTVO-DT2 includes: The Dr. Oz Show
, The Nate Berkus Show
, Judge Karen's Court, and The Andy Griffith Show
. The station also airs a few selected shows from America One
during the overnight period. The video is converted to 720p from CBS's native 1080i
and CBS programming with 5.1 sound is downmixed to stereo
.
status allowed it to cherry-pick the most popular programming from NBC
and ABC. The station was founded by Jim Conroy. Many people thought the Ottumwa
/Kirksville DMA was too small to support a television station but Conroy persevered believing Southeastern Iowa and Northeastern Missouri would be proud to have a locally-based station. This was not a surprise given that KTVO was the area's only channel until 1986 when KOIA-TV (now Fox
affiliate KYOU-TV
) took to-the-air.
For the station's first twenty years, KTVO's operations were primarily based in Ottumwa in studios shared with then co-owned KBIZ
-AM 1240. On January 7, 1964, this channel was sold to Post Corporation which renovated the facilities in Ottumwa. In 1968, it switched primary affiliation to ABC although the channel continued carrying a few CBS and NBC shows until 1974. In 1976, KTVO relocated its facilities outside Kirksville. The channel operated a short-lived low-power UHF translator, K40AI channel 40, that carried some local Missouri programming in the early-1980s.
In 1984, George N. Gillett, Jr. bought the Post Corporation Stations; however, due to the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) ownership limit of five VHF television stations that was in effect at the time, KTVO was spun-off to a local telecommunications company called "Gillbro Communications". Federal Broadcasting (later Federal Enterprises) acquired the station in 1987.
On June 2, 1988, a three-member broadcast tower maintenance crew was killed when the KTVO transmitter tower collapsed. This forced the channel, along with radio station KRXL
-FM 94.5 (which had been renting antenna space on the tower) off-the-air. Since the original tower was still available, KTVO was able to resume broadcasting within thirty hours of the collapse. An Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) investigation placed official blame for the tower collapse primarily on the maintenance crew citing the removal of too many tower cross-braces at once for repair. Although a relatively new structure, the steel cross-braces had already shown signs of cracking, rust, and other deterioration thus necessitating the early repair and maintenance.
KTVO was acquired by Raycom Media
in 1996. In December 2003, Raycom acquired the television stations of Waitt Media, which included KYOU. However, due to FCC duopoly
regulations, KYOU was transferred to Ottumwa Media Holdings, LLC and entered into a local marketing agreement
(LMA) with KTVO. On March 27, 2006, the company announced that it would sell KTVO along with thirteen other stations across the country to Barrington Broadcasting. The sale closed that August. As a result, KYOU's owner, Ottumwa Media Holdings, was renamed American Spirit Media. At some point thereafter, KYOU terminated the LMA with KTVO.
KTVO had been serving the Quincy, Illinois
/Hannibal, Missouri
/Keokuk, Iowa
market as the default analog ABC affiliate on cable with some locations being able pick up its over-the-air signal. On August 28, 2007, sister station KHQA announced that it would launch a new second
digital subchannel
to offer ABC programming beginning September 30. However, KTVO remains on area cable systems. This station launched a CBS-affiliated second digital subchannel on May 15, 2010 effectively marking the network's return to the area after a 36 year absence. Until this point, KHQA had been the analog default affiliate. Like KHQA-DT2 currently, KTVO-DT2 originally offered American One as a secondary affiliate but has since added syndicated programming to its schedule. In addition to KTVO, Mediacom systems in Iowa offer fellow ABC station WOI-DT from Des Moines on channel 4.
, KTVO does not air a full two-hour morning or midday show on weekdays.
In March 2009, KTVO received national attention as the victim of viewer prank. A list of fake names many considered crude or obscene (i.e. Dixie Normus and Craven Moorhead) was submitted to its weekday morning show birthdays/anniversaries segment. This list was aired in February 2009 and by March a video of the incident began appearing on websites such as YouTube
and Break.com
. Over 400,000 viewings occurred on YouTube before KTVO management forced the removal citing copyright violation. However, it had gained enough national attention that the Howard Stern
radio show and Jimmy Kimmel Live! exposed the prank to a larger audience.
KTVO AccuWeather
Meteorologists
Sports
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 the Honey Lands area of Northeastern Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
and Southeastern Iowa
Iowa
Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
. Licensed to Kirksville, Missouri
Kirksville, Missouri
Kirksville is the county seat of Adair County, Missouri, United States. It is located in Benton Township. The population was 17,505 at the 2010 census. Kirksville also anchors a micropolitan area that comprises Adair and Schuyler counties. The city is perhaps best known as the location of Truman...
, 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 33 from a transmitter northwest of Downing, Missouri
Downing, Missouri
Downing is a city in Schuyler County, Missouri, United States. The population was 335 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Kirksville Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Downing is located at ....
along US 136
U.S. Route 136
U.S. Highway 136 is a spur of U.S. Highway 36. It runs from Edison, Nebraska, at U.S. Highway 6 and U.S. Highway 34 to the Interstate 74/Interstate 465 interchange in Speedway, Indiana. This is a distance of 804 miles .-Nebraska:...
. The station can also be seen in Iowa 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,...
channel 5 (HD on digital channel 803) and in Missouri on CableOne channel 6 (HD on digital channel 455). Owned by Barrington Broadcasting
Barrington Broadcasting
Barrington Broadcasting Company, LLC , headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois is an entity wholly focused on broadcast television. The company's assets mainly consist of television stations in middle and small sized markets...
, it has studios on US 63
U.S. Route 63
U.S. Route 63 is a long north–south United States highway primarily in the Midwestern United States. The southern terminus of the route is at Interstate 20 in Ruston, Louisiana. The northern terminus is at U.S. Route 2 in Benoit, Wisconsin, about east of Duluth, Minnesota. It is not related to U.S...
north of Kirksville. 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 KTVO includes: Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)
Wheel of Fortune is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin, which premiered in 1975. Contestants compete to solve word puzzles, similar to those used in Hangman, to win cash and prizes determined by spinning a large wheel. The title refers to the show's giant carnival wheel that...
, 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...
and Oprah
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
.
Digital programming
On KTVO-DT2KTVO-DT2 (TV)
KTVO-DT2 is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Honey Lands area of Northeastern Missouri and Southeastern Iowa. The station is a second digital subchannel of ABC affiliate KTVO that is owned by Barrington Broadcasting. Over-the-air, it broadcasts a 720p high definition digital signal on...
is the area'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. Known on-air as KTVO CBS 3.2, this is currently not seen on Mediacom systems. Instead Mediacom offer fellow CBS station KCCI
KCCI
KCCI is a television station that broadcasts on channel 8 in Des Moines, Iowa. It is affiliated with the CBS television network and serves most of central Iowa. Owned by Hearst Television, KCCI has studios in downtown Des Moines. The station's transmitter is located in Alleman, Iowa, about midway...
from Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines is the capital and the most populous city in the US state of Iowa. It is also the county seat of Polk County. A small portion of the city extends into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines which was shortened to "Des Moines" in 1857...
on channel 8 and digital channel 808 (for high definition). Syndicated programming on KTVO-DT2 includes: The Dr. Oz Show
The Dr. Oz Show
The Dr. Oz Show is an American syndicated television talk show, hosted by Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and teaching professor at Columbia University who became famous for his appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show from 2004 until 2009....
, The Nate Berkus Show
The Nate Berkus Show
The Nate Berkus Show, commonly referred to as The Nate Show, is a syndicated talk show hosted by interior designer Nate Berkus, which premiered on September 13, 2010....
, Judge Karen's Court, and The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised by CBS between October 3, 1960, and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays a widowed sheriff in the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina...
. The station also airs a few selected shows from America One
America One
America One is an over-the-air television network in the United States. The network serves over 170 LPTV, Class A, Full Power, Cable and Satellite affiliate stations...
during the overnight period. The video is converted to 720p from CBS's native 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...
and CBS programming with 5.1 sound is downmixed to stereo
Stereophonic sound
The term Stereophonic, commonly called stereo, sound refers to any method of sound reproduction in which an attempt is made to create an illusion of directionality and audible perspective...
.
| Channels (virtual/physical) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1/33.1 | 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 ... |
main KTVO programming/ABC (HD) |
| 3.2/33.2 | 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 ... |
KTVO-DT2 CBS (HD) |
History
KTVO signed-on November 21, 1955 airing an analog signal on VHF channel 3. It was a primary CBS affiliate although its single marketMedia 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...
status allowed it to cherry-pick the most popular programming from 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...
and ABC. The station was founded by Jim Conroy. Many people thought the Ottumwa
Ottumwa, Iowa
Ottumwa is a city in and the county seat of Wapello County, Iowa, United States. The population was 24,998 at the 2000 census. It is located in the southeastern part of Iowa, and the city is split into northern and southern halves by the Des Moines River....
/Kirksville DMA was too small to support a television station but Conroy persevered believing Southeastern Iowa and Northeastern Missouri would be proud to have a locally-based station. This was not a surprise given that KTVO was the area's only channel until 1986 when KOIA-TV (now Fox
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...
affiliate KYOU-TV
KYOU-TV
KYOU-TV is the Fox-affiliated television station for the Honey Lands area of Southeastern Iowa and Northeastern Missouri. Licensed to Ottumwa, Iowa, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 15 from a transmitter ten miles north of Fairfield, Iowa...
) took to-the-air.
For the station's first twenty years, KTVO's operations were primarily based in Ottumwa in studios shared with then co-owned KBIZ
KBIZ
KBIZ is a radio station licensed to serve the community of Ottumwa, Iowa. The station primarily broadcasts a talk radio format. KBIZ is owned by O-Town Communications, Inc.-External links:*...
-AM 1240. On January 7, 1964, this channel was sold to Post Corporation which renovated the facilities in Ottumwa. In 1968, it switched primary affiliation to ABC although the channel continued carrying a few CBS and NBC shows until 1974. In 1976, KTVO relocated its facilities outside Kirksville. The channel operated a short-lived low-power UHF translator, K40AI channel 40, that carried some local Missouri programming in the early-1980s.
In 1984, George N. Gillett, Jr. bought the Post Corporation Stations; however, due to the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) ownership limit of five VHF television stations that was in effect at the time, KTVO was spun-off to a local telecommunications company called "Gillbro Communications". Federal Broadcasting (later Federal Enterprises) acquired the station in 1987.
On June 2, 1988, a three-member broadcast tower maintenance crew was killed when the KTVO transmitter tower collapsed. This forced the channel, along with radio station KRXL
KRXL
KRXL is the regional Rock/Classic rock radio station in the Kirksville, Missouri area. KRXL's primary audience is in the Kirksville/Ottumwa area, however their signal can reach places as far as Keokuk, Iowa, Quincy, Illinois, and Chillicothe, Missouri....
-FM 94.5 (which had been renting antenna space on the tower) off-the-air. Since the original tower was still available, KTVO was able to resume broadcasting within thirty hours of the collapse. An Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
The United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Labor. It was created by Congress of the United States under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, signed by President Richard M. Nixon, on December 29, 1970...
(OSHA) investigation placed official blame for the tower collapse primarily on the maintenance crew citing the removal of too many tower cross-braces at once for repair. Although a relatively new structure, the steel cross-braces had already shown signs of cracking, rust, and other deterioration thus necessitating the early repair and maintenance.
KTVO was acquired 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....
in 1996. In December 2003, Raycom acquired the television stations of Waitt Media, which included KYOU. However, due to FCC duopoly
Duopoly (broadcasting)
In United States broadcast television and radio, duopoly is a term used to describe a single company which owns two or more stations in the same city or community....
regulations, KYOU was transferred to Ottumwa Media Holdings, LLC and entered into 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) with KTVO. On March 27, 2006, the company announced that it would sell KTVO along with thirteen other stations across the country to Barrington Broadcasting. The sale closed that August. As a result, KYOU's owner, Ottumwa Media Holdings, was renamed American Spirit Media. At some point thereafter, KYOU terminated the LMA with KTVO.
KTVO had been serving the Quincy, Illinois
Quincy, Illinois
Quincy, known as Illinois' "Gem City," is a river city along the Mississippi River and the county seat of Adams County. As of the 2010 census the city held a population of 40,633. The city anchors its own micropolitan area and is the economic and regional hub of West-central Illinois, catering a...
/Hannibal, Missouri
Hannibal, Missouri
Hannibal is a city in Marion and Ralls counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. Hannibal is located at the intersection of Interstate 72 and U.S. Routes 24, 36 and 61, approximately northwest of St. Louis. According to the 2010 U.S. Census the population was 17,606...
/Keokuk, Iowa
Keokuk, Iowa
Keokuk is a city in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Iowa and one of the county seats of Lee County. The other county seat is Fort Madison. The population was 11,427 at the 2000 census. The city is named after the Sauk Chief Keokuk, who is thought to be buried in Rand Park...
market as the default analog ABC affiliate on cable with some locations being able pick up its over-the-air signal. On August 28, 2007, sister station KHQA announced that it would launch a new second
KHQA-DT2
KHQA-DT2 is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Tri-States area of Western Illinois, Northeastern Missouri, and extreme Southeastern Iowa. The station is a second digital subchannel of CBS affiliate KHQA-TV that is owned by Barrington Broadcasting...
digital subchannel
Digital 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...
to offer ABC programming beginning September 30. However, KTVO remains on area cable systems. This station launched a CBS-affiliated second digital subchannel on May 15, 2010 effectively marking the network's return to the area after a 36 year absence. Until this point, KHQA had been the analog default affiliate. Like KHQA-DT2 currently, KTVO-DT2 originally offered American One as a secondary affiliate but has since added syndicated programming to its schedule. In addition to KTVO, Mediacom systems in Iowa offer fellow ABC station WOI-DT from Des Moines on channel 4.
News operation
Although KTVO is the only local source of newscasts in the market, it shares resources with sister station KHQA to provide additional coverage of the territory. In addition to its main studios, KTVO operates a bureau on South Market Street in Downtown Ottumwa which were actually the original studios. KTVO-DT2 airs a Southeastern Iowa-focused newscast on weeknights called KTVO CBS 3.2 News at 6:30 originating from the bureau. To meet the needs of the areas increasing Hispanic population, a five-minute Spanish-language "mini-newscast" was begun on KTVO-DT2 in October, 2011. It airs at 10 p.m. weeknights, featuring news headlines and local weather forecasts. Otherwise, the subchannel airs no other local news. Unlike most ABC affiliates in the Central Time ZoneCentral Time zone
In North America, the Central Time Zone refers to national time zones which observe standard time by subtracting six hours from UTC , and daylight saving, or summer time by subtracting five hours...
, KTVO does not air a full two-hour morning or midday show on weekdays.
In March 2009, KTVO received national attention as the victim of viewer prank. A list of fake names many considered crude or obscene (i.e. Dixie Normus and Craven Moorhead) was submitted to its weekday morning show birthdays/anniversaries segment. This list was aired in February 2009 and by March a video of the incident began appearing on websites such as YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
and Break.com
Break.com
Break.com is a humor website founded in 1998 that features comedy videos, flash games, and pictures among other material. The chief executive officer of Break is Steve Boss...
. Over 400,000 viewings occurred on YouTube before KTVO management forced the removal citing copyright violation. However, it had gained enough national attention that the Howard Stern
Howard Stern
Howard Allan Stern is an American radio personality, television host, author, and actor best known for his radio show, which was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2005. He gained wide recognition in the 1990s where he was labeled a "shock jock" for his outspoken and sometimes controversial style...
radio show and Jimmy Kimmel Live! exposed the prank to a larger audience.
Newscast titles
- The 11th Hour Report (1960s-1974)
- Newsroom 3 (1974–1978)
- Extra Effort News (1978-early 1980s)
- Newscene 3 (early-mid 1980s)
- News for the Heartland (mid 1980s-1990s)
- News 3: Your Source (1990s-2002)
- KTVO News (2002–present)
Station slogans
- "Spirit of the Heartland" (general, 1980s-present)
- "Because Accuracy Matters" (news, 2002–present)
News team
Anchors- Marlene Speas - News Director seen weeknights at 5pm
- John Garlock - weeknights at 6 and 10pm
- James Buechele - weeknights at 6:30 (KTVO 3.2) and Ottumwa Bureau reporter
- Ela Soroka - morning anchor/ general assignment reporter
- Stephanie Claytor - Weekend anchor / general assignment reporter
KTVO AccuWeather
AccuWeather
AccuWeather is an American media company that provides for-profit weather forecasting services worldwide.AccuWeather was founded in 1962 by Joel N. Myers, then a Penn State graduate student working on degrees in meteorology. His first customer was a gas company in Pennsylvania. While running the...
Meteorologists
- Teresa Carter - Chief seen weeknights 5, 6, and 10pm
- Vanessa Alonso - Meteorologist/ General assignment reporter
- Megan Wise - Meteorologist/morning co-anchor
Sports
- Fred Beck - Director seen weeknights at 6, 6:30, and 10
- Hoops Highlights& Gridiron Lights host
- Chris Curtis - Weekend sports anchor / General assignment reporter
- "Play of the Week" segment producer
Reporters
- Greg Deffenbaugh - Weekend weather / general assignment reporter
- Zoheb Hassanali
- Kate Allt