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St. Louis, Missouri United States |
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| Branding | KMOV 4 (general) News 4 (newscasts) My TV St. Louis (DT3) |
| Slogan | News 4 Never Stops Watching Out for You |
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Digital: 24 (UHF) Virtual: 4 () |
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| Owner | Meredith Corporation |
| Founded | April 1954 |
| First air date | July 8, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning | disambiguation of former KMOX-TV callsign; "V" stands for former owner Viacom |
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| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 341 m (1,119 ft) |
| Facility ID | 70034 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°31′47″N 90°17′58″W / 38.52972°N 90.29944°WCoordinates: 38°31′47″N 90°17′58″W / 38.52972°N 90.29944°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KMOV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 24), is a CBS–affiliated television station located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The station is owned by the Meredith Corporation. KMOV maintains studio and office facilities located at the Gateway Tower at 1 Memorial Drive in Downtown St. Louis, near the Gateway Arch, and its transmitter is located in Lemay.
The station first signed on the air on July 8, 1954 as KWK-TV. At its launch, channel 4 was owned by a consortium which included Robert T. Convey (28%) and the Newhouse Newspapers-published St. Louis Globe-Democrat (23%), who jointly operated KWK radio (1380 AM, now KXFN); Elzey M. Roberts Sr., former owner of KXOK radio (630 AM, frequency now occupied by KYFI), which had to be sold as a condition of the license grant (23%); and Missouri Valley Television Inc., made up of Saint Paul, Minnesota-based Hubbard Broadcasting (23%) and several St. Louis residents (combined 3%).
Each of the station's part-owners had competed individually for the channel 4 construction permit before agreeing to merge their interests only three months before the station went on the air. Upon signing-on KWK-TV took the CBS affiliation from Belleville, Illinois-licensed WTVI (channel 54, now KTVI channel 2). Until 1955, it also aired ABC programs that WTVI declined to broadcast. The station's original studios, built by KWK radio in anticipation of television, were located on Cole Street in Downtown West.
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