KMIZ
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Columbia/Jefferson City, Missouri United States |
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| City | Columbia, Missouri |
| Branding | ABC 17 (general) ABC 17 News (newscasts) My ZOU (on DT3) |
| Slogan | Where The News Comes First |
| Channels |
Digital: 17 (UHF) Virtual: 17 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 17.1 ABC 17.2 MeTV 17.3 MyNetworkTV 17.4 Fox |
| Affiliations | ABC (since 1986; also from 1971–1982) |
| Owner |
News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG of Missouri, LLC) |
| First air date | December 5, 1971 |
| Call letters' meaning | MIZzou |
| Sister station(s) | KQFX-LD |
| Former callsigns | KCBJ-TV (1971–1985) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 17 (UHF, 1971–2009) Digital: 22 (UHF, until 2009) |
| Former affiliations | NBC (1982–1985) |
| Transmitter power | 120 kW |
| Height | 348 m |
| Facility ID | 63164 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°46′32.1″N 92°33′24.8″W / 38.775583°N 92.556889°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | abc17news.com |
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.
KMIZ went on the air for the first time on December 5, 1971 as ABC affiliate KCBJ-TV. Before then, ABC had been relegated in the Central Missouri market to secondary clearances on NBC affiliate KOMU-TV and CBS affiliate KRCG. KCBJ 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.
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