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KMIZ is the ABC-affiliated television station for Mid-Missouri that is licensed to Columbia, Missouri. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 17 from a transmitter in Cedron near the Moniteau-Cooper County line. Owned by the St. Joseph-based News-Press & Gazette Company, the station is a sister to the low-powered Fox affiliate KQFX-LD; both stations share studios on East Business Loop 70 in Columbia. ==History== KMIZ went on the air for the first time on December 5, 1971 as KCBJ-TV. Before then, ABC had been relegated to limited clearances on NBC affiliate KOMU-TV and CBS affiliate KRCG, It was originally owned by brothers Richard & Robert Koening, under the name Channel 17 Inc. The station's original studios were located on South 7th Street in Columbia. In 1982, KCBJ and KOMU swapped affiliations. ABC had become the nation's highest-rated network and had been looking to get its programming on higher-rated stations. It found the chance to align with long-dominant KOMU too much to resist. The Koenigs sold the station to Stauffer Communications in 1984. By 1985, however, NBC regained the ratings lead and the two stations returned to their original networks on New Year's Day 1986. Along with the switch, channel 17 changed its call letters to the current KMIZ. Stauffer merged with Morris Communications in 1995 but Morris was not allowed to keep the former Stauffer television stations. As a result, the former Stauffer television holdings, including KMIZ were sold to Benedek Broadcasting in 1996. In the late 1990s, KMIZ owner Benedek Broadcasting launched two low-powered stations, K02NQ in Columbia and K11TB in Jefferson City, to bring Fox to Mid-Missouri. It also operated cable-only WB 100+ affiliate "KJWB" (known on-air as "WB 5" from its cable channel location) from its launch in 1998 until 2002. Benedek went bankrupt later in 2002, and most of its stations, including KMIZ, were sold to Gray Television. "KJWB" transferred ownership to the University of Missouri (owners of KOMU), and KMIZ was divested to Chelsey Broadcasting. Chesley in turn sold the station to JW Broadcasting in May 2003. In late 2003, JW Broadcasting moved the Fox affiliation for the Columbia-Jefferson City market to a new low-power station K38II. The company also launched "KZOU" as a cable-only UPN affiliate in Mid-Missouri. Additionally, the station launched the country's first 24-hour local weather channel, known as Show-Me Weather. In 2006, UPN merged with The WB to form The CW Television Network, while at the same time Fox established MyNetworkTV for displaced affiliates. When "KJWB", the WB 100+ station owned by KOMU-TV, took the CW affiliation through The CW Plus, KZOU was quick to grab the MyNetworkTV affiliation. The next year, Show-Me Weather was re-branded as ABC 17 Stormtrack 24/7, taking on an increased focus on local weather. On July 26, 2012, JW Broadcasting announced the sale of KMIZ and KQFX-LD to News-Press & Gazette Company for $16 million. The sale made the two stations the second and third in Missouri to be owned by News-Press & Gazette Company (which owns Fox affiliate and television flagship KNPN-LD in Saint Joseph).〔(JW Sells KMIZ-KQFX Columbia (Mo.) to NP&G ) from ''Broadcasting & Cable'' (July 26, 2012)〕 NPG chief executive officer David Bradley currently serves as chairman of the board of curators that runs the University of Missouri. This has led to questions as to whether Bradley's roles at NPG and MU might result in the deal violating FCC rules that prohibit common ownership of two of the four highest-rated stations in a single media market. In the FCC purchase filing, News-Press & Gazette argues that Bradley has had no personal involvement in KOMU's operations.〔(NPG Buys ABC Affil In Columbia, Mo. ), ''TVNewsCheck'', July 25, 2012.〕 On November 1, the sale was consummated.〔https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101522726&formid=905&fac_num=63164〕 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「KMIZ」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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