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| City | Columbia, Missouri |
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| Branding | Fox 22 KQFX |
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| History | |
| Founded | January 14, 1988; 37 years ago (1988-01-14) |
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Call sign meaning | refers to Fox affiliation |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 56176 |
| Class | LD |
| ERP | 15 kW |
| HAAT | 349.6 m (1,147 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°46′32.1″N92°33′24.9″W / 38.775583°N 92.556917°W /38.775583; -92.556917 |
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Public license information | LMS |
| Website | www |
KQFX-LD (channel 22), brandedFox 22, is alow-power television station licensed toColumbia, Missouri, United States, serving as theFox affiliate for the Columbia–Jefferson Citymarket. It is owned by theNews-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) alongside dualABC/MyNetworkTV affiliateKMIZ (channel 17, also licensed to Columbia); the stations together are branded as the "Networks of Mid-Missouri". The two stations share studios on the EastBusiness Loop 70 in Columbia; KQFX-LD's transmitter is located west ofJamestown near theMoniteau–Cooper county line.
In addition to its own digital signal, KQFX-LD issimulcast inhigh definition on KMIZ's fourthdigital subchannel (17.4) from the same transmitter site.
KQFX-LD is the successor to three different low-power TV stations, two in Columbia and one in Jefferson City, the oldest of which began broadcasting in 1990.Benedek Broadcasting brought the Fox network toMid-Missouri in 1997 by acquiring two of them and running them alongside KMIZ. The third was acquired in 2003 and is the current license on which the station has operated since the digital television transition in 2009. KQFX offers morning and late newscasts produced by KMIZ.
In 1989, Ray Karpowicz, the general manager ofWEVU andW07BR "WBR" inNaples, Florida, and a graduate of theMissouri School of Journalism, obtained a permit from theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) to build a new low-power TV station on channel 2 in Columbia—K02NQ, typically styled "KONQ". The transmitter for channel 2 was atop downtown Columbia'sTiger Hotel.[2] The station began broadcasting on June 4, 1990. It featured syndicated shows and movies and rebroadcasts ofKOMU-TV's local programming and newscasts, as well as programming from the National College Television network, which distributed student-produced shows.[3] By August 1991, it had dropped most of that programming forChannel America. At that time, Karpowicz held a construction permit for another low-power station in Jefferson City.[4]
In 1997, Karpowicz sold K02NQ and K11TB in Jefferson City toBenedek Broadcasting, the owners of ColumbiaABC affiliateKMIZ (channel 17).[5] The stations were relaunched asMid-Missouri's first in-market and full-timeFox affiliate, carried on cable channel 11.[6][7] Part-time Fox programming was previously seen as a secondary affiliation on CBS stationKRCG-TV (until 1996), while full-time programming from Fox can be seen at the time on cable via neighboring sandwiched stations orFoxnet, but many cable systems in the Mid-Missouri region continued to show full-time Fox programming from other markets (Kansas City,Springfield, andSt. Louis) due to the station's low-power signal.[8]
In October 1990, Tom Koenig put K11SN, styled "KXI-TV", on the air after it first broadcast the month before.[9] Koenig's father, Richard, had built channel 17 as KCBJ-TV in 1971; he had applied for the low-power channel in 1981, envisioning a station that promoted KCBJ's news product.[4] It was promoted as an affiliate of the short-livedStar Television Network.[10] Channel 11 was affiliated withAll News Channel,The Learning Channel,Country Music Television, and Movie Greats Network; it offered local programming shot onSuper VHS cameras as well as a simulcast of the morning talk show of local radio stationKFRU.[4]
Koenig died in February 2000.[11] Three years later, Tom sold K11SN to JW Broadcasting, the new owners of KMIZ.[12] JW added a 9 p.m. local newscast from KMIZ to "Fox 11", now also known as KQFX, in 2003.[13]
Due to the start of digital operations byKRCG-TV, JW Broadcasting applied to move K11TB and K11SN to new channels—38 and 32, respectively. It built a new tower inAshland, Missouri, for channel 38, which became the main Fox signal.[14] the addition of a 9 p.m. local newscast on KQFX in 2003; and the launch of two new services,UPN-affiliated "KZOU" (which appeared on channel 32, renamed KZOU-LP) and the Show Me Weather Channel, available on cable and from KMIZ's new digital transmitter.[15]
On June 14, 2009, two days after the digital television transition for full-power stations, KQFX moved from channel 38 to digital operations on channel 22 on the former K11SN/KZOU-LP license and became "Fox 22". KMIZ had been using channel 22 for pre-transition digital operations.[16]
In 2012, JW Broadcasting sold KMIZ and KQFX-LD to theNews-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) for $16 million.[17][18] NPG lengthened the weeknight prime time newscast on KQFX from 30 to 60 minutes in 2013.[19]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 22.1 | 720p | 16:9 | FOX 22 | Fox |
| 22.2 | 480i | 4:3 | Laff | Laff |
| 22.3 | Grit | Grit | ||
| 22.4 | Escape | Ion Mystery | ||
| 22.5 | 16:9 | DABL | Dabl |
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