KRCG

KRCG
Columbia–Jefferson City, Missouri
United States
City Jefferson City, Missouri
Branding KRCG 13 (general)
KRCG News (newscasts)
Slogan Where Accuracy Matters
Channels Digital: 12 (VHF)
Virtual: 13 (PSIP)
Affiliations 13.1 CBS
13.2 Comet
13.3 Charge!
13.4 TBD
Owner Sinclair Broadcast Group
(KRCG Licensee, LLC)
First air date February 13, 1955 (1955-02-13)
Call letters' meaning Robert C. Goshorn
(named in memory of original owner's father)
Sister station(s) KDNL-TV, KHQA-TV, KTVO, KBSI, WDKA
Former channel number(s) Analog:
13 (VHF, 1955–2009)
Former affiliations All secondary:
ABC (1955–1971)
NTA (1956–1961)
Fox (late 1980s–early 1990s)
UPN (1995–2004)
DT3:
Grit (2015–2017)
DT4:
GetTV (–2017)
Transmitter power 15.1 kW
125 kW (application)
Height 307.8 m (1,010 ft)
Facility ID 41110
Transmitter coordinates 38°41′30″N 92°5′45″W / 38.69167°N 92.09583°W / 38.69167; -92.09583
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website krcgtv.com

KRCG, virtual channel 13 (VHF digital channel 12), is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Jefferson City, Missouri, United States and serving the Columbia–Jefferson City television market. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. KRCG's studios and transmitter are located on U.S. 54 in the nearby town of New Bloomfield.

History

The station was founded on February 13, 1955 and was owned by the Jefferson City News Tribune. The paper's publisher, Betty Goshorn Weldon, named the station in honor of her late father, Robert C. Goshorn, who had long wanted to bring a television station to the area. Ms. Weldon inherited the paper on his death in 1953 and took over his dream. She thus became one of the first women to own and operate a television station.

KRCG has always been a CBS affiliate, although it had shared some ABC programming with KOMU-TV (channel 8) until KCBJ-TV (channel 17, now KMIZ-TV) signed on in 1971.[1] It is the only station in Mid-Missouri to have never changed its affiliation. KOMU and KMIZ have switched their networks twice (first in 1982, then reverting to their original networks in 1986). During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.[2]

Former KRCG logo, used until 2016.

In 1961, the News Tribune bought KMOS-TV (channel 6) in Sedalia, operating it as a full-time satellite station for the western portion of the market. However, later in the decade, KMOS began breaking away from KRCG to produce its own newscasts at 6 and 10 p.m. KRCG operated KMOS at a relatively low power level, and shied away from selling KMOS to another commercial owner. By this time, the Columbia–Jefferson City area was just barely big enough to support a third full network affiliate. With this in mind, KRCG and KOMU feared that if KMOS was sold, the station could potentially become a full-power ABC affiliate.

In 1967, KRCG and KMOS were sold to Kansas City Southern Industries. In 1978, Kansas City Southern donated KMOS to Central Missouri State University (now the University of Central Missouri) in Warrensburg. At that time, KMOS was converted to a stand-alone PBS member station. KRCG then signed on a Sedalia translator, K11OJ. In the late 1980s and early '90s, KRCG carried some Fox programming on late night weekends. In 1985, Kansas City Southern sold the station to Price Communications. In 1988, KRCG was sold to Mel Wheeler, Inc., which owned the station until March 2005, when KRCG was purchased by Barrington Broadcasting. On February 28, 2013, Barrington Broadcasting announced the sale of its entire group, including KRCG, to Sinclair Broadcast Group.[3] The sale was completed on November 25.[4]

In August 2014, KRCG launched its first digital subchannel, broadcasting GetTV programming on PSIP channel 13.2.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[5]
13.11080i16:9KRCG-DTMain KRCG programming / CBS
13.2480iCometComet
13.3CHARGE!Charge!
13.4TBDTBD

Analog-to-digital conversion

KRCG shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 13, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 12.[6][7] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 13.

News operation

Although KRCG has traditionally dominated the western side of the market, it spent most of its history as a distant runner-up to KOMU. In November 2006, however, KRCG's 10 p.m. newscast took first place in the market—the first time in memory that long-dominant KOMU had lost any timeslot. As of the February 2011 sweeps, KRCG remains first at 10 p.m.[8]

On May 9, 2016, KRCG began broadcasting from a remodeled studio. With the remodel, KRCG became the final news operation in the Columbia–Jefferson City market to broadcast its news in high definition.[9]

Out of market coverage

Until 2010, KRCG operated an analog translator, K11OJ, on VHF channel 11, in Sedalia, Missouri, located within the Kansas City market. That translator has long been shut down, and the station files associated with that translator was deleted by the FCC no later than March 2014.[10]

See also

  • KMOS-TV (Former KRCG satellite, now a PBS member station)

References

  1. ↑ For the week of March 31, 1957, KRCG carried 85 CBS programs, two ABC programs, four NTA programs, 16 syndicated programs, and various local shows."Watch KRCG-TV Complete Program Schedule for Week of March 31". The News and Tribune. Jefferson City, MO. 1957-03-31. p. 4.
  2. ↑ "Require Prime Evening Time for NTA Films". Boxoffice: 13. November 10, 1956.
  3. ↑ Malone, Michael (February 28, 2013). "Sinclair's Chesapeake TV Acquires Barrington Stations". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-11-25.
  5. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KRCG
  6. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  7. ↑ http://newstribune.com/articles/2009/02/05/news_local/329local197tv.txt
  8. ↑ Nielsen Ratings
  9. ↑ http://krcgtv.com/news/local/krcg-13-launches-new-high-tech-studio
  10. ↑ Deleted Stations -- Rabbitears.info
  • KRCG website
  • http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b6809
  • "Listing 1012934". Antenna Structure Registration database. U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
  • Query the FCC's TV station database for KRCG
  • BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KRCG-TV
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