KOMU-TV
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| KOMU-TV | |
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| Columbia/Jefferson City, Missouri | |
| Branding | KOMU-TV8 / KOMU News |
| Slogan | Improve Your View |
| Channels | 8 (VHF) analog, 36 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | NBC (1953-81, 1986-present) WeatherPlus(on DT2)The CW (on DT3) |
| Owner | University of Missouri–Columbia (The Curators of the University of Missouri) |
| Founded | December 21, 1953 |
| Call letters meaning | K O MU (MU references ownership by the University of Missouri) |
| Former affiliations | CBS (secondary, 1953-55) ABC (secondary 1953-71, primary 1982-85) DuMont (secondary, 1953-56) |
| Website | www.komu.com |
KOMU-TV (Channel 8) is the NBC affiliate serving the cities of Columbia and Jefferson City, Missouri along with several surrounding counties in central Missouri. The station is owned by the University of Missouri–Columbia, officially licensed to the "Curators of the University of Missouri" and operated by the university's world-renowned Missouri School of Journalism, making KOMU one of very few commercial TV stations in the US to be owned by a major university. The station has paid, professional staff serving as managers, engineers, sales representatives, and so on. The managers and editors in the news department are School of Journalism faculty members. The main anchors are also considered faculty members, while the reporters, weekend/substitute anchors, and many producers are undergraduate and graduate broadcast journalism students. Its transmitter is located in Columbia.
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[edit] History
KOMU-TV first broadcast on December 21, 1953. It carried programming from all four major networks, but was a primary NBC affiliate. It lost CBS in 1955 when KRCG signed on from Jefferson City. The two stations shared ABC until 1971, when KCBJ-TV (now KMIZ) signed on.
In 1982, ABC moved its affiliation to KOMU; ABC was the highest-rated network at the time and wanted a stronger outlet. By 1985, however, NBC had regained the ratings lead. Accordingly, KOMU rejoined NBC on New Year's Day 1986.
In September 2006 a KOMU digital subchannel began to serve as the new affiliate of The CW Television Network. The new CW network is also on local cable. KOMU's CW affiliate operates with the fake call letters KJWB. The move makes them the only educational institution-owned station to affiliate with the new network. While CW programming is carried on DT3, KOMU 8 WeatherPlus operates on DT2.
In 2002, the station won the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for maintaining its policy banning political symbols on air despite government and popular pressure in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
[edit] Current Local News Programs
KOMU News Today, 5:30am-7:00am
KOMU News at Noon, 12:00pm-12:30pm
KOMU News at Five, 5:00pm-5:30pm
KOMU News at Six, 6:00pm-6:30pm
KOMU News at Ten, 10:00pm-10:35pm
[edit] KOMU Alumni
NBC News: Lisa Myers ('73), Mark Potter ('75)
ABC News: Elizabeth Vargas ('84)
CBS News: Russ Mitchell ('82)
CNN: Sophia Choi ('92), Chuck Roberts ('71)
Fox News: Jon Scott ('81), Phil Keating ('90)
ESPN: John Anderson ('87), Matt Winer ('90), Michael Kim ('88), Mike Hall ('04)
[edit] External links
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K02NQ 2 (KMIZ "Show Me Weather") - KMOS 6 (PBS) - KOMU 8 (NBC, Weather+ on DT.2, The CW on DT.3) - KZOU-LP 11 (MNTV) - KRCG 13 (CBS) - |
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KOMU-DT 8.3 / "KJWB" (The CW) - MUTV 23 (University of Missouri–Columbia) |
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KOMU-DT 8.3 (Columbia / Jefferson City) - KPLR 11 (St. Louis) - K15CZ 15 / K17DL 17 (Springfield / Branson) - KCWE 29 (Kansas City) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, Fox, My Network TV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Missouri | |
