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). On July 9, 2022, KOAM and KFJX started broadcasting on their brand new transmitters with a higher power output than before. On June 20, 2022, KOAM and KFJX started broadcasting at a lower height of 760 feet and a lower power output in preparation to have their new transmitters installed by the end of June or early July. They will both temporarily broadcast at a lower power while construction is being completed. The project will also add vertical polarization. The KOAM power will be increased from 14.8 kilowatts to 98.8 kilowatts and the power for KFJX will be increased from 5.6 kilowatts to 45.1 kilowatts. It was announced on March 24, 2022, that both KOAM-TV and KFJX-TV were approved to increase their power. 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. In February 2012, KOAM and KFJX began airing on DirecTV. Initially, KOAM and sister station KFJX refused to allow DirecTV to carry their stations. KSNF KSNF (channel 16) is a television station licensed to Joplin, Missouri, United States, serving the Joplin, Missouri Pittsburg, Kansas television market as an affiliate of NBC. In June 2010, the DirecTV satellite system added Joplin locals to its channel lineup. KFJX's signal is simulcast in high definition on KOAM's digital subchannel 7.2. 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).

on Febru(the original date on 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. 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. Mid-Continent Broadcasting sold the station to Draper Communications, who also owned WBOC-TV in Salisbury, Maryland in 1984. On September 5, 1982, KOAM swapped affiliations with KTVJ (the former KUHI-TV and now known as KSNF) and became a CBS affiliate. 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). The Weather Channel's Mike Bettes and The Great Tornado Hunt crew were one of the first to arrive on the scene after Joplin, Missouri was struck by a violent and large tornado on the evening of. The Globe would eventually sell its minority stake in the station to Baxter and Cox. Victor Baxter and Lester Cox, owners of KOAM radio (860 AM, the current KKOW), with Baxter and Cox holding a controlling interest. on December 13, 1953, under the ownership of MidContinent Broadcasting Company, a joint venture of The Joplin Globe newspaper and E. 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. It is owned by Morgan Murphy Media, which provides certain services to dual Fox/ CW+ affiliate KFJX (channel 14, also licensed to Pittsburg) under joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with owner SagamoreHill Broadcasting. 1 – Chiefs at Saints – 12:00 p.m.KOAM-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Pittsburg, Kansas, United States, serving the Joplin, Missouri–Pittsburg, Kansas market as an affiliate of CBS. $5 Admission Fee – NFL Back Together Weekend | Team Autograph SessionĪlumni Day | Autographs: Offensive/Defensive LineĪutographs: Quarterbacks, Running Backs & Specialistsįamily Fun Day - $5 Admission Fee | Team Autograph SessionĪutographs: Offensive Line & Defensive Line

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