KKMO-TV

KKMO-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for South Iowa and North Missouri. Licensed to Ottumwa, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 24 (or virtual channel 24.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter shared downtown Ottumwa. Owned by Gray Television, KKMO-TV has sales and administrative offices in midtown Kirksville, a few miles from KTVO's studios.
==Overview==
KKMO-TV primarily serves much of the Kirksville/Ottumwa market. In the Borderlands, the station's official coverage area consists of several counties of South and Southeastern Iowa and much of North and Northeastern Missouri, formerly a covered by Quincy, IL/Hannibal, MO/Keokuk, IA and in some counties, Kansas City, MO-KS. Additional viewership comes from surrounding counties in Quincy, KC, Des Moines, Columbia/Jefferson City, Peoria and as far as Omaha.
==History==
During its early years, KRNT-TV (now KCCI, channel 8) in Des Moines launched an Ottumwa translator on K24CI in the fall of 1955. It was upgraded to a full-time satellite on February 10, 1960 and subsequently changed its call letters to "KKMO-TV". In 1974, upon KTVO's primary affiliation switch to from CBS to ABC, channel 24 was sold to local ownership (particularly, the Kirksville Daily Express) and became a separate station, carrying much of the CBS programs opted out by KTVO at the time of the switch.
In 1978, Gray Television of Des Moines, acquired KKMO from the Kirksville Daily Express in a fair trade agreement to provide more local and CBS programming to the station, making the second Meredith station in Missouri alongside KCTV (channel 5) in Kansas City and later, KMOV (channel 4) in St. Louis.
On September 8, 2015, Media General, owner of NBC affiliate KWQC (channel 6) in Davenport, IA and fellow CBS affiliate KIMT (channel 3) in Mason City, IA, announced that it would acquire Meredith by June 2016. KKMO might probably ended up with a duopoly with CW affiliate KMDW (channel 11), which is licensed on the other side of the market in Ottumwa.
Category:Gray Television
Category:CBS network affiliates
Category:Channel 23
Category:Kirksville
Category:Ottumwa
Category:Missouri
Category:Iowa
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1955