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| City | Joplin, Missouri |
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| Branding | KODE 12 (call letters are pronounced individually);Action 12 News |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Mission Broadcasting, Inc. |
| Operator | Nexstar Media Group viaJSA/SSA |
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| History | |
First air date | September 26, 1954 (70 years ago) (1954-09-26) |
Former call signs | KSWM-TV (1954–1957) |
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Call sign meaning | Sounds like the word "code", though not pronounced that way on air |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 18283 |
| ERP | 700kW |
| HAAT | 321.9 m (1,056 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°4′33″N94°33′17″W / 37.07583°N 94.55472°W /37.07583; -94.55472 |
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| Website | www |
KODE-TV (channel 12) is atelevision station licensed toJoplin, Missouri, United States, serving as theABC affiliate for the Joplin, Missouri–Pittsburg, Kansastelevision market. It is owned byMission Broadcasting, which maintainsjoint sales andshared services agreements (JSA/SSA) withNexstar Media Group, owner ofNBC affiliateKSNF (channel 16, also licensed to Joplin), for the provision of certain services. The two stations share studios on South Cleveland Avenue in Joplin, where KODE-TV's transmitter is also located.
The station began broadcasting on September 26, 1954, as KSWM-TV (for Southwestern Missouri) and was a primaryCBS affiliate, but shared ABC with then-NBC affiliateKOAM-TV. It was locally founded by Austin Harrison who also owned radio station KSWM (1230 AM; nowKZYM). It originally operated from studios and transmitter located on West 13th Street in Joplin. Harrison sold his stations to Friendly Broadcasting, owners of WSTV (nowWTOV-TV) inSteubenville, Ohio, in 1956. In 1957, the call letters were changed to KODE-AM-TV. Friendly then sold both KODE and WRGP (nowWRCB) inChattanooga, Tennessee, toMassachusetts-basedUnited Printers & Publishers in 1961. Gilmore Broadcasting ofKalamazoo, Michigan, bought the KODE stations in 1962.
KODE became a sole ABC affiliate on January 1, 1968, and three days later KUHI-TV (now NBC-affiliatedKSNF) started and took over the CBS affiliation.
On March 15, 1970, KODE weatherman Lee George made his famous flurries forecast. He predicted only light flurries for the next day and it ended up snowing over 20 inches (51 cm) at the Joplin Regional Airport.[citation needed]
KODE was acquired by Mission Broadcasting in 2002. Subsequently, KODE then entered into a shared services agreement with Nexstar Broadcasting, which owns NBC affiliate KSNF. The same year, it was announced KSNF and KODE would merge, with KSN's studios expanded to accommodate the combined operation.
On May 8, 2009, a powerful storm system slammed Joplin, knocking out power to KODE and knocking down the tower of sister station KSNF. KODE-TV returned to the air early on the morning of May 9, while KSNF did not return to the air until June 17. Both stations moved to a rebuilt KSNF building in April 2010 making it the next-to-last Nexstar duopoly to do so (as Nexstar formed a virtual duopoly inEvansville, Indiana, in December 2011 with the purchase of that market's ABC affiliateWEHT and transfer of its existing Evansvilleindependent station (nowCW affiliate)WTVW to Mission Broadcasting, and Nexstar almost immediately moved WTVW's operations to the WEHT facility).
On December 19, 2012, KODE began broadcasting its local newscasts inHigh Definition.
On June 15, 2016, Nexstar announced that it has entered into an affiliation agreement withKatz Broadcasting for theEscape,Laff,Grit, andBounce TV networks (the last one of which is owned by Bounce Media LLC, whoseCOO Jonathan Katz is president/CEO of Katz Broadcasting), bringing the four networks to 81 stations owned and/or operated by Nexstar, including KODE-TV and KSNF.[2]
KODE-TV presently broadcasts 17 hours of local newscasts each week (with three hours each weekday and an hour each on Saturdays and Sundays).
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 12.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KODE-DT | ABC |
| 12.2 | 480i | Grit | Grit | |
| 12.3 | Bounce | Bounce TV | ||
| 12.4 | 4:3 | ION | Ion Television |
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