KOMU-TV
 
|
|
|
Columbia/Jefferson City, Missouri United States |
|
|---|---|
| City | Columbia, Missouri |
| Branding | KOMU 8 (general) KOMU 8 News (newscasts) Mid-Missouri's CW (on DT3) |
| Slogan | Coverage You Can Count On |
| Channels |
Digital: 8 (VHF) Virtual: 8 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | |
| Owner |
University of Missouri (The Curators of the University of Missouri) |
| First air date | December 21, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | MizzoU (nickname of owner) |
| Former channel number(s) | |
| Former affiliations | |
| Transmitter power | 13.6 kW |
| Height | 242 m |
| Facility ID | 65583 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°53′17″N 92°15′48″W / 38.88806°N 92.26333°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | komu.com |
KOMU-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for Mid-Missouri that is licensed to Columbia. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter at its studios on US 63 southeast of downtown. The station can also be seen on Mediacom, Suddenlink, and Charter channel 7 as well as CenturyLink channel 8.
Owned by the University of Missouri and operated by the Missouri School of Journalism, KOMU is one of the only two commercial television stations in the United States to be owned by a public institution; the other is WVUA-CD, which is owned and operated by the University of Alabama.
KOMU was the brainchild of longtime University of Missouri journalism professor Edward C. Lambert, who wanted to give journalism students a hands-on experience by working at a full-fledged commercial station. It began airing an analog signal on VHF channel 8 December 21, 1953 and carried programming from all four major networks at the time, but was a primary NBC affiliate. It lost CBS in 1955 when KRCG signed-on from Jefferson City. The two shared ABC until 1971 when KCBJ-TV (now KMIZ) launched. From January 22 through April 23, 1955, KOMU temporarily originated a live prime time ABC network show, Ozark Jubilee.
...
Wikipedia