KOMU-TV
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| KOMU-TV | |
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| Columbia/Jefferson City, Missouri | |
| Branding | KOMU-TV 8 / KOMU News |
| Slogan | Improve Your View |
| Channels | 8 (VHF) analog, 36 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | NBC (1953-1981, and 1986-present) The CW (on DT3) |
| Owner | University of Missouri-Columbia (The Curators of the University of Missouri) |
| Founded | December 21, 1953 |
| Call letters meaning | M U is the abbreviation for the University of Missouri |
| Former affiliations | CBS (secondary until 1956) ABC (secondary until 1971, primary 1982-1985) |
| Website | www.komu.com |
KOMU-TV (Channel 8) is the NBC affiliate serving the cities of Columbia and Jefferson City, Missouri along with several surrounding counties in central Missouri. The station is owned by the University of Missouri-Columbia, officially licensed to the "Curators of the University of Missouri" and operated by the university's world-renowned Missouri School of Journalism, making KOMU one of very few commercial TV stations in the US to be owned by a major university. The station has paid, professional staff serving as managers, engineers, sales representatives, and so on. The managers and editors in the news department are School of Journalism faculty members. The main anchors are also considered faculty members, while the reporters, weekend/substitute anchors, and many producers are undergraduate and graduate broadcast journalism students.
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[edit] History
KOMU-TV first broadcast on December 21, 1953. The station has held ABC, CBS, DuMont, and NBC affiliations at various points in its history. It has been an NBC affiliate for most recent memory, save for a four-year run as an ABC affiliate from 1982 until 1985.
In September 2006 a KOMU digital subchannel began to serve as the new affiliate of The CW Television Network. The new CW network is also on local cable. KOMU's CW affiliate operates with the fake call letters KJWB. The move makes them the only educational institution-owned station to affiliate with the new network. Its transmitter is located in Columbia.
[edit] Station Logos
 Main Logo from ? to 2002. |
 Logo used from ? to 2002. |
 Special logo for 50 years. Used January of 2003. |
 Logo used since January 2003. |
 Current KOMU DT3/"KJWB" CW logo. |
[edit] KOMU Alumni
NBC News: Lisa Myers ('73), Mark Potter ('75)
ABC News: Elizabeth Vargas ('84)
CBS News: Russ Mitchell ('82)
CNN: Sophia Choi ('92), Chuck Roberts ('71)
Fox News: Jon Scott ('81), Phil Keating ('90)
ESPN: John Anderson ('87), Matt Winer ('90), Michael Kim ('88), Mike Hall ('04)
[edit] External links
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KOMU-DT 8.3 (Columbia / Jefferson City) - KPLR 11 (St. Louis) - K15CZ 15 / K17DL 17 (Springfield / Branson) - KCWE 29 (Kansas City) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, Fox, My Network TV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Missouri | |
