KQFX-LD, "Fox 22", is the low-powered Fox-affiliated television station

Television station

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 for Mid-Missouri

Mid-Missouri

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 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

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 digital signal on UHF channel 22 from a transmitter in off Cedron Rd near the Moniteau and Cooper

Cooper County, Missouri

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 County line. Sister stations include high-powered ABC

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 affiliate 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...

, 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...

 and ABC 17 STORMTRACK 24/7. All four stations share studios on Business Loop 70

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 East in 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...

. Syndicated

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 programming on the station includes Two and a Half Men, The Office, Everybody Loves Raymond and Inside Edition.

History

The low-power station went on air in 1990 as K11TB; it would gain Fox by 1997. In October 2003 the station moved to channel 38 (K38II) and increased its power to cover both Columbia and Jefferson City from its tower site near Ashland. During its Fox era, it used "KQFX" (then a fake callsign) as part of its brand. K38II remained on the air until June 12, 2009, when the license for sister KZOU-LP became KQFX-LD digital 22 and took the Fox programs. This was the only new television broadcast in Mid-Missouri when the "digital transition" occurred. FOX 22 now reaches the vast majority of Mid-Missouri homes with an antenna and is available on all cable and satellite systems in Mid-Missouri.

FOX 22 is also home to the only primetime newscast in Mid-Missouri. ABC 17 News at 9:00 on FOX 22 airs seven days a week.

Before 14 June 2009, this license was 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...

and carried UPN (and later MyNetworkTV) programs. K38II picked up the call letters shortly after KZOU became KQFX-LD - today, K38II is simply an analog repeater of KQFX-LD. Technically, KZOU-LP became KQFX-LD and K38II picked up the call letters and became KZOU-LP, even though the programs that once were on KZOU-LP are now exclusive to KMIZ-DT3.