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KQTV, virtual channel 2 (VHF digital channel 7), is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States. The station is owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group. KQTV maintains studio and transmitter facilities located on Faraon Street in eastern Saint Joseph. On cable, the station is available on Suddenlink Communications channel 10, and in high definition on digital channel 610. Although KQTV serves as the primary ABC affiliate for the Saint Joseph market, the network's Kansas City affiliate KMBC-TV (channel 9) is considered an alternate ABC affiliate for the area as its transmitter provides a city-grade off-air signal in Saint Joseph proper, and is carried alongside KQTV on some local cable providers. ==History== The station first signed on the air on September 27, 1953 as KFEQ-TV. It was founded by local businessman Barton Pitts, owner of local radio station KFEQ (630 AM). The station originally operated as a primary CBS affiliate, and also carried programming from the DuMont Television Network. That year, a tall lattice steel transmission tower was constructed to house the station's transmitter; the tower, which had become landmark in the city of Saint Joseph, is often compared to the tower used by KCTV in Kansas City. The two stations, which signed on the air on the same date, built their respective towers at the same time as one another. In preparation for the digital television transition, on January 19, 2009, the KQTV tower was partially truncated in height to . Pitts sold KFEQ-AM-TV to a group headed by Bing Crosby in 1955. Shortly after DuMont shut down in on August 6, 1956, KFEQ-TV began carrying ABC programming as a secondary affiliation. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.〔 〕 The Bradley family (owners of the ''St. Joseph News-Press'' newspaper, who ironically signed on Fox affiliate KNPN-LD (channel 26) in 2012) bought the KFEQ stations in 1957. The stations were later sold to the Panax Corporation in 1963. One of KFEQ-TV's early personalities was Grace Crawford, who had hosted daytime talk shows during the 1960s that were aimed at a female audience, among which included ''Panorama''. The station also broadcast live professional wrestling matches that were held in the KFEQ/KQTV studios for many years, which aired after the late newscast on Saturday nights. The program, ''Big 2 Wrestling'', featured a recording of "The Wrestling Polka" at the start of every broadcast; local business owners would come to ringside and talk about their services between matches. Sometimes, the live commercial chats occurred between falls of matches, while losing wrestlers recovered in the background. On June 1, 1967, KFEQ-TV became an exclusive ABC affiliate (the network's Kansas City affiliate, KCTV, which had been affiliated with the network since September 1955, became the Saint Joseph market's default CBS station as a result). The station's call letters were changed to KQTV in 1969, after the television and radio stations were sold off to separate owners. During its early years with ABC, the station occasionally pre-empted network programs; most notably, KQTV originally declined ''The Brady Bunch'', airing a local country music program in its Friday night timeslot, before adding the sitcom halfway through its first season (KMBC in the nearby Kansas City market similarly pre-empted the first season of ''The Brady Bunch'' in its entirety); the program was carried instead on Kansas City-based independent station KCIT-TV (channel 50, now KPXE-TV).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=KCIT-TV 50, Kansas City, MO: The Little Station That Couldn't )〕 Since 1990, the station has periodically used the marketing slogan "KQ2: That's My Station!" The station was acquired by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group (which was founded and acquired its first stations the previous year) in April 1997. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KQTV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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