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KFVS-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for Southeastern Missouri, the Purchase area of Western Kentucky, and Southern Illinois. Licensed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 12 from a transmitter, northwest of Egypt Mills, in unincorporated Cape Girardeau County. Owned by Raycom Media, the station is a sister station to the low-powered CW/Me-TV affiliates WQWQ-LP/WQTV-LP. The outlets share studios, in the Hirsch Tower, on Broadway Avenue in Downtown Cape Girardeau. Syndicated programming on KFVS includes ''The Middle'', ''The Dr. Oz Show'', and ''Live! with Kelly & Michael'' among others. KFVS had previously served the Jonesboro media market as the default CBS station on satellite providers. It is not known how much longer that arrangement will continue, after the sign-on of the Jonesboro area's first locally based CBS affiliate August 1, 2015 on a second digital subchannel of Fox affiliate KJNB-LD.〔("CBS makes debut in northeast Arkansas" )〕 ==History== KFVS began broadcasting on October 3, 1954 and aired an analog signal on VHF channel 12. It was owned by broadcasting pioneer Oscar C. Hirsch who had signed-on the area's first radio station, KFVS radio (AM 960, now KZIM) in his radio shop in 1925. The KFVS call letters were randomly assigned by Herbert Hoover. At the start, channel 12 did not have any video cameras. Instead, its first broadcast showed slides of its new transmitter tower that was under construction at the time. Channel 12 was housed along with its radio sister until 1968 when it moved to its present location on Broadway Avenue. Hirsch sold the station to Aflac in 1979 earning a handsome return on his investment of 54 years earlier. In 1997, Aflac sold its entire broadcasting division, including KFVS, to a group headed by Retirement Systems of Alabama. It, in turn, merged with Ellis Communications a few months later to form Raycom Media. KFVS offered The Tube Music Network (a 24-hour digital music video channel) on its third digital subchannel which ceased operations on October 1, 2007. KFVS serves more than fifty counties in four states including all of Southeastern Missouri, Southern Illinois, Western Kentucky, and Western Tennessee. KFVS considers Clay County as the only Arkansas county in its viewing area as shown during its nightly weather segments which be seen in the local temperature graphic.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=StormTeam Graphics - Heartland Current Temperatures )〕 Cable systems in Corning,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=TV Listings Guide and TV Schedule, , where to watch TV shows - Zap2it.com )〕 Piggott, Rector, Marmaduke, Pollard, Greenway, St. Francis, and Lafe, Arkansas〔http://www.newwavecom.com/pdf/arkansas/Piggott_2013_web.pdf〕 list KFVS on their local cable lineups. However, Jonesboro〔https://ws.suddenlink.com/lineup/fileDownLoad?fd_fileId=2271〕 and Lake City 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ritter Communications )〕 cable systems do not carry the station. According to DirectTV, KFVS is carried on its Jonesboro area lineup as a local channel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=DIRECTV Packages and Pricing - Call 855-849-4388 )〕 While broadcasting an analog signal, a portion of its off-air signal reached into the Missouri Bootheel overlapping with sister stations WMC-TV in Memphis, Tennessee and KAIT-TV in Jonesboro. KFVS refers to its viewing area as "The Heartland", which is included in WQTV/WQWQ's on-air branding. During the analog era, KFVS' coverage area overlapped with KMOV in St. Louis. In fact, channel 12's over-the-air coverage extended as far north as the St. Louis suburb of Belleville, Illinois. Cable systems in several northern KFVS counties and southern KMOV counties carried both stations. 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「KFVS-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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