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KYTV, virtual channel 3 (UHF digital channel 44), is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Springfield, Missouri, United States. The station is owned by Schurz Communications, and is a sister station to CW affiliate K15CZ-D (channel 15); Schurz also operates ABC affiliate KSPR (channel 33) under a shared services agreement with owner Perkin Media, LLC. All three stations share studio facilities located on West Sunshine Street in Springfield while KYTV maintains transmitter facilities located in Fordland. ==History== The station first signed on the air on October 1, 1953, becoming the second television station to sign on in the Springfield market; the first was CBS affiliate KTTS-TV (channel 10, now KOLR), which signed on in March of that same year. Founded by the Cox and Duvall families, KYTV was also the first television station located west of the Mississippi River that was built specifically for television production. Channel 3 has been an NBC affiliate since its sign-on, although it also shared a secondary ABC-affiliation with KTTS until KMTC (channel 27, now independent station KOZL-TV) signed on in 1968. On December 26, 1953, KYTV debuted a television broadcast of the show ''Ozark Jubilee'', a live country music program which originated on radio station KWTO (560 AM); ABC began televising the program nationally on January 22, 1955, although it temporarily originated from Columbia until it moved to the Jewell Theatre on April 30 using KYTV's staff and equipment. The station's staff and facilities also played key roles in the production of two other programs that aired on ABC during the 1950s shows ''Talent Varieties'' and ''The Eddy Arnold Show''. KYTV purchased remote broadcasting equipment in 1954. Its first remote broadcast originated that year from the Ozark Empire Fair. Remote telecasts were also brought to viewers from the Plaza Bowl featuring area bowling teams. Other remotes included Springfield Christmas parades, "Man with a Mike" from the Tower Theater on the Plaza, sporting events, and (beginning in 1986) the station's ''Celebrate the Ozarks'' program. KYTV purchased one of the nation's first mobile videotape units in March 1959. That year, the station videotaped the dedication of Table Rock Dam and produced Harold Bell Wright's ''The Shepherd of the Hills'' on location in Branson. From March 17 to September 22, 1961, KYTV transmitted ''Five Star Jubilee'' to NBC from the Landers Theatre. It was the first network color television program to originate outside of New York City or Hollywood although KYTV could not yet broadcast the show locally in color. In 1973, the station built a transmission tower in Marshfield, which became the tallest structure in Missouri, approaching nearly feet – more than three times the height of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.〔(Skyscraper.com - Retrieved February 15, 2010 )〕 In 1978, the Cox and Duvall families sold channel 3 to Harte-Hanks Communications. Harte-Hanks sold the station to South Bend, Indiana-based Schurz Communications in 1987. In 1997, Schurz migrated KYTV's operations from its original building on West Sunshine Street into new facilities adjacent to the original studio. In 2000, KYTV erected a tower in Fordland for its digital transmitter; the towers in Marshfield and Fordland were surpassed in 2001 by a tower in Syracuse, used by PBS member station KMOS-TV in Sedalia, which was only higher than either of KYTV's towers, which remain the second and third tallest structures in the state and are among the tallest structures in the world. On September 21, 2006, Schurz entered into a deal in which Perkin Media would acquire ABC affiliate KSPR from Piedmont Television and manage that station under a shared services agreement. Under the deal, Schurz controls all of KSPR's non-license assets, with Perkin serving as the owner of that station's FCC broadcast license; channel 33's operations remained at its studio facility on East Saint Louis Street until November 2009, when KSPR moved into a new newsroom and studio addition built onto the Sunshine Street facility. Schurz announced on September 14, 2015 that it would exit broadcasting and sell its television and radio stations, including KYTV, K15CZ-D, and the SSA with KSPR, to Gray Television for $442.5 million. 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「KYTV (TV)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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