KOAM-TV

KOAM-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 7, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Pittsburg, Kansas, United States and also serving Joplin, Missouri. The station is owned by Morgan Murphy Media, which also operates dual Fox/CW+ affiliate KFJX (channel 14, also licensed to Pittsburg) under joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with owner SagamoreHill Broadcasting. The two stations share studios and transmitter facilities on US 69 south of Pittsburg, with a secondary studio and news bureau on South Range Line Road in Joplin.

Not to be confused with KO-AM TV.
KOAM-TV
Pittsburg, Kansas/Joplin, Missouri
United States
CityPittsburg, Kansas
ChannelsDigital: 7 (VHF)
Virtual: 7 (PSIP)
BrandingKOAM-TV 7 (general)
KOAM News Now (newscasts)
SloganThe Four States' Most Watched News
Programming
Affiliations7.1: CBS
7.2: Fox
7.3: MeTV
7.4: Heroes & Icons
7.5: QVC
7.6: HSN
Ownership
OwnerMorgan Murphy Media
(QueenB Television of Kansas/Missouri, LLC)
KFJX
History
First air date
December 13, 1953 (1953-12-13)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
7 (VHF, 1953–2009)
Digital:
13 (VHF, 2001–2009)
Primary:
NBC (1953–1982)
Secondary:
ABC (1953–1967)
CBS (1953–1954)
DuMont (1953–1955)
Call sign meaning
Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID58552
ERP14.8 kW
HAAT335.8 m (1,102 ft)
Transmitter coordinates37°13′15″N 94°42′26″W
Links
Public license information
Profile
LMS
Websitewww.koamnewsnow.com

On cable, KOAM is available on Mediacom channel 4 and on Suddenlink channel 2,[1][2] and on channel 7 on other cable systems in the area.

History

KOAM-TV first signed on at 5:22 p.m. on December 13, 1953 under the ownership of MidContinent Broadcasting Company, a joint venture of The Joplin Globe newspaper and E. Victor Baxter and Lester Cox, owners of KOAM radio (860 AM, the current KKOW), with Baxter and Cox holding a controlling interest. The Globe would eventually sell its minority stake in the station to Baxter and Cox.

KOAM-TV launched as a primary affiliate of NBC, owing to KOAM radio's long affiliation with NBC Radio, though it also had secondary affiliations with CBS (until KSWM-TV launched in 1954), DuMont (until that network's 1956 closure) and ABC (until January 1968, when KODE became a full-time ABC affiliate and KUHI-TV signed on with CBS). On September 5, 1982, KOAM swapped affiliations with KTVJ (the former KUHI-TV and now known as KSNF) and became a CBS affiliate.

KOAM's digital signal on channel 13 signed on in 2001 and remained until KOAM turned off its analog signal at 12:38 a.m. on February 17, 2009 (the original date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate, which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009) following The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, at which time KOAM ceased analog broadcasting and its digital broadcast returned to channel 7. Sister station KFJX, the market's Fox affiliate, moved onto KOAM's former digital channel 13 (KFJX continued to broadcast on analog channel 14 until May 2009 when a line of severe thunderstorms damaged the broadcast tower, forcing the removal of the antenna). KFJX's signal is simulcast in high definition on KOAM's digital subchannel 7.2.

In June 2010, the DirecTV satellite system added Joplin locals to its channel line-up. Initially, KOAM and sister station KFJX refused to allow DirecTV to carry their stations. In February 2012, KOAM and KFJX began airing on DirecTV.

On May 10, 2017, Morgan Murphy Media announced that it would acquire Saga Communications' television clusters in Joplin, Missouri, including KOAM-TV, and Victoria, Texas, including KAVU-TV. The sale was completed on September 1.

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP short name Programming [3]
7.11080i16:9KOAM-DTMain KOAM-TV programming / CBS
7.2720pKFJXSimulcast of KFJX / Fox
7.3480iMeTVMeTV
7.4H&IHeroes & Icons
7.54:3QVCQVC
7.6HSNHSN

In September 2019, KOAM added MeTV to the DT3 subchannel as the Joplin–Pittsburg market did not have a MeTV affiliate.

Programming

In addition to the CBS network schedule, syndicated programming on KOAM includes Wheel of Fortune, Dr. Phil, The Game, Judge Mathis, and Judge Judy.[4]

Wheel of Fortune's sister show, Jeopardy!, airs on KODE (at 3:30 p.m.) and KSNF (at 5 p.m.), making Joplin–Pittsburg one of only a few markets where the programs are carried on separate stations (normally, both shows air on the same channel back-to-back).

News operation

KOAM presently broadcasts 21½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with four hours each weekday, one hour on Saturdays and a half-hour on Sundays).

Notable former on-air staff

References
  1. http://tvschedule.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do?method=decideFwdForLineup&zipcode=64801&setMyPreference=false&lineupId=MO61705:X
  2. http://tvschedule.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do?method=decideFwdForLineup&zipcode=64801&setMyPreference=false&lineupId=MO24438:X
  3. http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KOAM#station
  4. https://nocable.org/tv-listings/zip/64801
  5. Krishnadev Calamur (2015-06-18). "It's Official: Brian Williams Out As 'NBC Nightly News' Anchor : The Two-Way". NPR. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
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