KQTV went on the air as KFEQ-TV, the sister station to KFEQ radio, on September 27, 1953. It was the only major network affiliate based in St. Joseph for 59 years and commanded news viewership in the small market, even as it had to compete with Kansas City stations for viewers during non-local programming. The station changed its call sign to KQTV in 1969 when it and KFEQ radio were separated and has had a succession of owners, with Heartland acquiring KQTV in 2017 from Nexstar Broadcasting Group.
History
KFEQ-TV: Early years
St. Joseph radio station KFEQ applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on April 17, 1948, for permission to construct a new television station on channel 13.[2] This application was still pending when the FCC, in October 1948, imposed a freeze on new TV station construction permits.[3] In the shuffling of channel allocations during the freeze, St. Joseph lost channel 13 but picked up channel 2 from Kansas City.[4] The FCC lifted the freeze beginning in April 1952,[5] and KFEQ amended its application to specify the new channel.[2] KFEQ-TV received its construction permit on October 15, 1952.[6] By the start of 1953, construction was underway on the station's studios on a plot at 40th and Faraon streets in St. Joseph, which would also house a 750-foot (229 m) transmission tower.[7] Tower work set back completion of the station because structural steel components were delayed;[8] the tower sections did not make it to St. Joseph until the start of July,[9] and work moved slower than anticipated, causing an August 15 projected start date to be missed.[10]
KFEQ-TV began broadcasting on September 27, 1953. It was an affiliate of CBS and the DuMont Television Network.[11] For viewers in the St. Joseph–Kansas City region, it was the second station to sign on that day, alongside KCMO-TV (now KCTV) on channel 5 from Kansas City.[12] The DuMont network ceased distributing programming in 1955.[13]
Barton Pitts, founder of KFEQ-TV and owner of the morning St. Joseph Gazette and afternoon St. Joseph News-Press newspapers, opted to exit broadcasting for health reasons in 1955. He sold the KFEQ stations to the Midland Broadcasting Company, whose owners included actor Bing Crosby and John Fetzer, for $700,000.[14][15] During its ownership, the channel 2 studios were expanded in size.[16] Midland owned the stations for less than two years before selling to the Fine family, a theater operator and former owner of WFIE in Evansville, Indiana, in 1957; the transaction was motivated by Midland's investors' recent acquisition of KCOP-TV in Los Angeles.[17]
In its early years, KFEQ-TV presented a range of local non-news programs. In 1957, channel 2 debuted a local teen dance show, Let's Dance, hosted by KFEQ radio DJ Allen Shaw[18] and in later years by Bill Foster.[19] Women's talk show host Marge Miner received a national award from McCall's magazine in 1959 for her series of programs on cerebral palsy.[20] The station also aired Saturday night wrestling telecasts from its studio, put on by local wrestling promoter Gust Karras;[21] this continued into the mid-1970s.[22]
After a 1960 attempt to sell the KFEQ stations and KLIK in Jefferson City to music man Connie B. Gay fell through,[23][2] the Fines sold the properties to Mid-States Broadcasting, headed by John P. McGoff, in 1963.[24] In 1967, KFEQ-TV switched affiliations from CBS to ABC, with KCMO-TV serving as the nearest CBS affiliate to St. Joseph.[25]
McGoff sold the KFEQ stations to separate owners over the course of 1968. Channel 2 went to ISC Industries for $3.1 million. ISC—a diversified firm based in Kansas City with interests ranging from truck manufacturing to pen production and securities[26]—pledged to upgrade the station to allow it to broadcast local color programming. The sale required one or the other of KFEQ radio and television to change call signs; the radio station kept KFEQ[27] and channel 2 became KQTV on February 1, 1969.[28] As KFEQ-TV had been informally known as "The Q", the new call sign retained brand equity from the old.[29] After ISC closed on the purchase in July 1969,[30] the company expanded into radio by buying two radio stations in the Kansas City area.[31]
After three years, ISC opted to exit broadcasting entirely and sold KQTV, plus FM radio stations KGRV in St. Louis and KLYX in Houston, to Amaturo Group in a sale completed in 1973.[32][33]
In January 1976, Amaturo Group applied to build channel 43 in Topeka, Kansas, as a semi-satellite of KQTV. At the time, Topeka only had two commercial stations and no full-time ABC affiliate, a void that KQTV hoped to fill by combining its existing schedule with separate news programs for the Topeka area. The application was opposed by Topeka's NBC affiliate, KTSB, which believed that because Topeka had two full-line television stations, a satellite was not permissible and constituted unfair competition.[34] The FCC concurred in May 1978 and dismissed the channel 43 application, finding there was too much signal overlap between the proposed Topeka station and KQTV, even with the proposed local program content for the new Topeka service. KQTV instead fell back on another application it had filed to construct a taller tower, which would bring Topeka and Kansas City into its primary coverage area but was protested by the Kansas City stations.[35][36]
Amaturo Group sold KQTV in 1979 to Elba Development Corporation of Rochester, New York, owned by the Glazer family, so it could pursue larger station transactions without being at the limit of VHF television stations ownable by one group once it bought four other stations,[37] revealed to be the Nebraska Television Network in central and western Nebraska.[38] Elba refiled the tower application, which proposed a new, 2,000-foot (610 m) mast at Potter, Kansas.[39] The relocation plan was denied by the FCC in 1983 because, in spite of adding 465,000 people to KQTV's coverage area, the move would have stripped slightly over 10,000 people of the only TV service they reliably received.[40] In 1986, KQTV tried again to build a tall tower in Kansas.[41] The FCC denied this attempt because it would have left 4,940 people in a 10-county area without television service, rejecting KQTV's contention that many viewers in the area had cable and could receive stations.[42]
In 1990, Elba sold KQTV, along with WRBL in Columbus, Georgia, and WTWO in Terre Haute, Indiana, to TCS Television Partners for $56 million.[43][44] In 1994, KQTV became a secondary affiliate of the NFL on Fox to serve non-cable viewers who did not receive a Fox network signal;[45] this deal was honored even though Fox moved its programming in Kansas City to WDAF-TV months later.[46] The managing general partner of TCS Television Partners, Martin Pompadur, decided to put the stations on the market in 1994;[47] while the station was not sold then, TCS tried again in 1996.[48]
Nexstar Broadcasting Group acquired KQTV and WTWO in 1997. At the time, Nexstar's only television property was WYOU in Scranton, Pennsylvania, but the firm had been founded by Perry Sook to acquire other mid-market TV stations.[49][50] On June 12, 2009, KQTV switched from an analog to a digital signal; a low power on VHF channel 7 led to signal strength issues in rural areas on the fringes of the station coverage area.[51]
From its sign-on until 1986, with the advent of religious station KTAJ-TV, channel 2 had been the only station in St. Joseph.[52] KTAJ posed minimal competition to KQTV, which by 2012 commanded 87 percent of television revenue in a market that had no other major network affiliates. This began to change in 2012 when the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG), which owned television stations elsewhere in the western United States and a local cable channel in St. Joseph, launched a local Fox affiliate, KNPN-LD, and a local news department leaning on the resources of the News-Press.[53] In following years, NPG launched a local NBC affiliate—KNPG-LD—and CBS affiliate—KCJO-LD.[54][55]
Heartland Media ownership and NPG sale attempt
In 2016, Nexstar merged with Media General and had to divest several stations to comply with FCC ownership cap limits. It sold a package of KQTV and four other stations to Heartland Media, through its USA Television MidAmerica Holdings joint venture with MSouth Equity Partners, for $115 million in a purchase that closed in January 2017.[56] The sale was completed on January 17, 2017.[57]
Heartland Media announced its intention to sell KQTV to the News-Press & Gazette Company on April 4, 2019.[58] While the sale was technically permissible—NPG did not own a full-power television station in St. Joseph, broadcast-newspaper cross-ownership limits had just been repealed, and broadcast ownership limits do not take low-power stations into account—it did create potential antitrust issues because the purchase would give NPG control of the city's daily newspaper and all four major network affiliations (plus The CW and Telemundo).[59] The deal never received final approval from federal authorities, and the sale agreement expired on September 30; NPG then suspended efforts to buy KQTV. KQTV was not included in the subsequent sale of most of Heartland Media's other stations to Allen Media.[60]
News operation
KQTV historically commanded news viewership in the St. Joseph area, even as it effectively competed with the Kansas City stations for viewership during entertainment and network programming and in spite of its lesser production values than the major-market Kansas City stations widely available over-the-air and on cable, with frequent turnover of on-air personalities.[61] As of 2024, KQTV broadcasts 18+1⁄2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 3+1⁄2 hours each weekday and a half-hour each on Saturdays and Sundays), as well as a high school football program during the season.[62]
^"Brown Group Sells KFEQ-AM-TV to Fines". Broadcasting. August 26, 1957. p. 80. ProQuest1285752233.
^"New Show Will Debut". St. Joseph News-Press. St. Joseph, Missouri. April 13, 1957. p. 8. Retrieved December 14, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^"William N. Foster". St. Joseph News-Press. St. Joseph, Missouri. January 23, 1998. p. B4. Retrieved December 14, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^"Mrs. Miner Wins Television Award". St. Joseph News-Press. St. Joseph, Missouri. April 24, 1959. p. 19. Retrieved December 14, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^"Television Station Now Is KQTV". St. Joseph News-Press. St. Joseph, Missouri. February 1, 1969. p. 3A. Retrieved December 14, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^King, Linda (July 29, 1976). "Third TV station opposed". Topeka State Journal. p. 3. Archived from the original on April 7, 2024. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
^King, Linda (May 5, 1978). "FCC dismisses bid for station". Topeka State Journal. pp. 1, 2. Archived from the original on April 7, 2024. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
^Sheehan, Mark (May 14, 1979). "Amaturo plans sale of KQTV". St. Joseph News-Press. St. Joseph, Missouri. pp. 1A, 2A. Retrieved December 14, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Sheehan, Mark (September 17, 1979). "KQTV sold to N.Y. firm for $9 million". St. Joseph News-Press. St. Joseph, Missouri. p. 1. Retrieved December 14, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Lott, Alan (December 28, 1980). "KQTV awaits okay on 2,000-foot tower". St. Joseph News-Press. St. Joseph, Missouri. p. 1C. Retrieved December 14, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Raffensperger, Terry (October 22, 1994). "Partners put KQTV on market". St. Joseph News-Press. St. Joseph, Missouri. p. 1B. Retrieved December 14, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^"Nexstar To Buy Two Midwest Stations". The Scranton Times. Scranton, Pennsylvania. December 18, 1996. p. 20. Retrieved December 14, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Raffensperger, Terry (April 1, 1997). "KQTV extends ABC link for another decade". St. Joseph News-Press. St. Joseph, Missouri. p. B3. Retrieved December 14, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Chilcote, Gary (October 21, 1986). "UHF station goes on air here". St. Joseph Gazette. St. Joseph, Missouri. p. 4A. Retrieved December 14, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^Vierria, Dan (July 26, 1989). "Kim Khazei makes her move". The Sacramento Bee. Sacramento, California. p. D5. Retrieved December 14, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
Superseded Simplified Chinese character encoding, structured similarly to Shift JIS IBM-936Alias(es)SHIFTGB[1]Language(s)Simplified ChineseCreated byIBMCurrent statusDeprecatedTransforms / EncodesGB 2312Succeeded byIBM-1381Other related encoding(s)Shift JISvte IBM code page 936 was a character encoding for Simplified Chinese including 1880 user-defined characters (UDC). It was a combination of the single-byte Code page 903 and the double-byte Code page 928.[2][3] Code ...
Celeste Plak Información personalNacimiento 26 de octubre de 1995 (28 años)TuitjenhornNacionalidad NeerlandesaCaracterísticas físicasAltura 1,90 mPeso 84 kg EducaciónEducada en Johan Cruyff Institute Información profesionalOcupación Voleibolista Carrera deportivaDeporte VoleibolPerfil de jugadorPosición Receptor/atacanteEquipos Alterno Apeldoorn Foppapedretti Bergamo Igor Gorgonzola Novara Aydın Büyükşehir Belediye SK[1]Selección Selección femenina de voleibol d...
Dudley Boyz Leden Bubba Ray Dudley/Brother RayD-Von Dudley/Brother Devon Namen The Dudley BoysThe Dudley BoyzThe DudleysThe DudleyzTeam 3D Debuut 1 februari 1997 Ontbonden 2011 Promotie(s) ECWWWF/ETNA De Dudley Boyz is een professionele worsteltag-team dat voornamelijk bestaat uit de twee professionele worstelaars Mark LoMonaco en Devon Hughes, die worstelen onder de ringnamen Buh Buh Ray/Bubba Ray Dudley en D-Von Dudley. Geschiedenis De Dudley Boyz waren bij Extreme Championship Wrestling (E...
طبقة الألياف العصبية الاسم العلميstratum neurofibrarum retinae مقطع في الشبكية. (طبقة الشرائح البصرية موضحة على اليمين، والثانية من الأعلى.) خريطة الخلايا العصبية في شبكية العين. (طبقة الشرائح البصرية موضحة على اليسار، والثانية من الأعلى.)خريطة الخلايا العصبية في شبكية العين. (طبقة الشرا
Administrative district of the Second Polish Republic This article needs more complete citations for verification. Please help add missing citation information so that sources are clearly identifiable. (June 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Volhynian DistrictOkręg wołyński (Polish)District of Civil Administration of the Eastern Lands, Civil Administration of the Lands of Volhynia and Podolian Front and Provisional Administration of Front-line and Phase Territories...
Topik artikel ini mungkin tidak memenuhi kriteria kelayakan umum. Harap penuhi kelayakan artikel dengan: menyertakan sumber-sumber tepercaya yang independen terhadap subjek dan sebaiknya hindari sumber-sumber trivial. Jika tidak dipenuhi, artikel ini harus digabungkan, dialihkan ke cakupan yang lebih luas, atau dihapus oleh Pengurus.Cari sumber: Yanti Kusmiran – berita · surat kabar · buku · cendekiawan · JSTOR (September 2023) (Pelajari cara dan kapan...
Children's picture book series by Judith Byron Schachner Skippyjon Jones Cover of the first book under Penguin Random House brandAuthorJudith Byron SchachnerIllustratorJudith Byron SchachnerCover artistSchachnerCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishSeriesSkippyjon Jones seriesGenreChildren's story, picture bookPublisherDutton JuvenilePublication date2003Media typePrint (Paperback) Skippyjon Jones is a children's picture book series, written and illustrated by Judith Byron Schachner. Th...
1959 studio album by Ornette ColemanThe Shape of Jazz to ComeStudio album by Ornette ColemanReleasedNovember 1959 (1959-11)[1][2]RecordedMay 22, 1959StudioRadio Recorders, Hollywood, CaliforniaGenreAvant-garde jazzfree jazzLength37:59LabelAtlantic 1317ProducerNesuhi ErtegunOrnette Coleman chronology Tomorrow Is the Question!(1959) The Shape of Jazz to Come(1959) Change of the Century(1960) The Shape of Jazz to Come is the third album by jazz musician Ornette ...
Egyptian actor and comedian (born 1968) For the Yemeni swimmer, see Mohamed Saad (swimmer). This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (January 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Mohamed Saadمحمد سعدBornMohamed Saad Abdel-Hamid Ibrahim (1968-12-14) 14 December 1968 (age 54)Giza, Giza Governorate, EgyptNationalityEgyptia...
Church in EnglandThe Parish Church of St Mary, BarnesThe Parish Church of St Mary, Barnes51°28′30″N 0°14′28″W / 51.4751°N 0.2412°W / 51.4751; -0.2412LocationChurch Road, Barnes, London, SW13 9HLCountryEngland, United KingdomDenominationChurch of EnglandChurchmanshipCentralWebsitewww.stmarybarnes.orgHistoryFounded1100/1150ArchitectureYears built1100–1150AdministrationDioceseSouthwarkEpiscopal areaKingstonArchdeaconryWandsworthParishBarnesClergyBishop(s)Bis...
Voce principale: Giochi della XXIII Olimpiade. Torneo maschile Lo stesso argomento in dettaglio: Pallavolo maschile ai Giochi della XXIII Olimpiade. Torneo femminile Lo stesso argomento in dettaglio: Pallavolo femminile ai Giochi della XXIII Olimpiade. V · D · M Pallavolo ai Giochi olimpici 1964 · 1968 · 1972 · 1976 · 1980 · 1984 · 1988 · 1992 · 1996 · 2000 · 2004 · 2008 · 2012 · 2016 · 2...
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: Live Heroes – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) 1986 live album by NicoLive HeroesLive album by NicoReleased1986RecordedEurope, 1982GenreRockLabelPerformanceProducerPhil Rain...
Gunboat of the United States Navy For other ships with the same name, see USS Octorara. Watercolor of USS Octorara by Alex Stuart. History United States NameOctorara NamesakeA creek in Pennsylvania named for an Indian word meaning running water. BuilderBrooklyn Navy Yard Laid downdate unknown Launched7 December 1861 Commissioned28 February 1862 Decommissioned5 August 1865 at New York City Stricken1866 (est.) FateSold, 9 November 1866 General characteristics Displacement829 tons Length193 ...
2022 Indian Kannada-language romantic thriller film Ek Love YaDirected byPremWritten byPremProduced byRakshitaStarringAbhishek Rao Reeshma NanaiahRachita RamCinematographyMahendra SimhaEdited bySrinivas P. BabuMusic byArjun JanyaProductioncompanyRakshita Film FactoryRelease date 24 February 2022 (2022-02-24) Running time152 minutesCountryIndiaLanguageKannada Ek Love Ya[1] is a 2022 Indian Kannada-language romantic action film written and directed by Prem[2] and ...
Leader of the Opposition of the Odisha Legislative AssemblySeal of Odisha GovernmentIncumbentJayanarayan Mishrasince 30 July 2022StyleThe Hon’bleMember ofOdisha Legislative AssemblyNominatorMembers of the Official Opposition of the Legislative AssemblyAppointerSpeaker of the AssemblyTerm length5 yearsTill the Assembly ContinuesInaugural holderShraddhakar Supakar The Leader of the Opposition in the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly is the politician who leads the official opposition in ...
Former barony in North Ayrshire, Scotland 55°47′06″N 4°40′41″W / 55.785°N 4.678°W / 55.785; -4.678 The Barony of Ladyland was in the old feudal Baillerie of Cunninghame, near Kilbirnie in what is now North Ayrshire, Scotland. Ladyland Castle in the 1820s The history of the Barony of Ladyland A sundial recording the donation of the Beith War Memorial plot by Lady Cochran-Patrick of Ladyland and Mosside. In the Parish of Kilbirnie were three baronies, Kilbirn...
Украинский институт Оригинальное название укр. Український інститут Основан 2017 Сотрудников ▲35 чел. (26 марта 2020) Сайт ui.org.ua (укр.) (англ.) Медиафайлы на Викискладе Украи́нский институ́т — государственное учреждение Украины, которое представляет украинск...
2001 film by John Dahl Joy RideTheatrical release posterDirected byJohn DahlWritten by J. J. Abrams Clay Tarver Produced by J. J. Abrams Chris Moore Starring Steve Zahn Paul Walker Leelee Sobieski CinematographyJeffrey JurEdited by Eric L. Beason Scott Chestnut Todd E. Miller Glen Scantlebury Music byMarco BeltramiProductioncompaniesRegency EnterprisesBad Robot ProductionsDistributed by20th Century FoxRelease date October 5, 2001 (2001-10-05) (United States) Running time97 ...
Questa voce sull'argomento cestisti statunitensi è solo un abbozzo. Contribuisci a migliorarla secondo le convenzioni di Wikipedia. Segui i suggerimenti del progetto di riferimento. Larry Boston Larry Boston con la maglia di Maryland Nazionalità Stati Uniti Altezza 203 cm Peso 102 kg Pallacanestro Ruolo Ala grande Termine carriera 1987 Carriera Giovanili J.F. Kennedy High School1974-1975 VU Trailblazers1975-1978 Maryland Terrapins Squadre di club 1978-1979 Pall. Tr...
لوحة سيارة ملاكي القاهرة. لوحة سيارة نقل الجيزة. لوحة حافلة نقل عام. لوحة حافلة سياحية. لوحات تسجيل المركبات المصرية، هي لوحات معدنية تستخدم لأغراض تحديد الهوية الرسمية للمركبات في مصر. الشكل لوحة شاحنة باللون الأحمر. (الجيزة). تحتوي تلك اللوحات على العديد من الرموز مثل اللو...