Kmov channel 4 tv guide Continue CBS affiliate in St. Louis Television station in Missouri, United StatesKMOV St. Louis, MissouriUnited StatesChannelsDigital: 24 (UHF)Virtual: 4 (PSIP)BrandingKMOV 4 (general)News 4 (newscasts)My TV St. Louis (DT3)SloganWatching Out for YouProgrammingAffiliations4.1: CBS4.2: Cozi TV4.3: MyNetworkTV4.4: Laff4.5: CircleOwnershipOwnerMeredith CorporationHistoryFoundedApril 1954First air dateJuly 8, 1954 (66 years ago) (1954-07-08)Former call signsKWK-TV (1954–1958)KMOX-TV (1958–1986)Former channel number(s)Analog:4 (VHF, 1954–2009)Digital:56 (UHF, 1998–2009)Former affiliationsSecondary:ABC (1954–1955)Subchannels:LWN (2010–2014)MeTV (2013–2018)Call sign meaningdisambiguation of former KMOX-TV callsign; V for video or former owner of ViacomTechnical InformationLicensing bodyFCCFacility ID70034ERP1,000 kWHAAT341 m (1,119 ft) Transmitter coordinates38 38 38 31-47N 90'17'58W / 38.52972'N 90.29944'W / 38.52972; -90.29944Coordinates: 38'31'47N 90'17'58W / 38.52972'N 90.29944'W / 38.52972; -90.29944LinksPublic License Information ProfileLMSWebsitewww.kmov.com KMOV, Virtual Channel 4 (UHF Digital Channel 24), is a CBS-related television station licensed in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The station is owned by Meredith Local Media subsidiary Des Moines, Iowa-based Meredith Corporation. KMOV Studios is located on Gateway Tower on Memorial Drive in downtown St. Louis, close to the Gateway Arch, and its transmitter is located in Lemay. By cable, the station is available on 4 Charter Spectrum in both standard and high definition, as well as on U-verse channels 4 (SD) and 1004 (HD). The Story early story Station first aired on July 8, 1954 as KWK-TV. At the time of launch, Channel 4 belonged to a consortium that included Robert T. Dev (28%) and a consortium that included Robert T. Dev (28%). and the newhouse newspapers-published St. Louis Globe Democrat (23%), who co-runs KWK Radio (1380 AM, KXFN); Elzie M. Roberts Sr., former owner of KXOK Radio (630 AM, frequency is now occupied by KYFI), which was to be sold as a condition of a license grant (23%); and Missouri Valley Television Inc., which is made up of St. Paul, Minnesota-based Hubbard Broadcasting (23%) and The State Television Association (23%). Each of the station owners competed individually for permission to build Channel 4 before agreeing to merge only three months before After signing the contract for KWK-TV took CBS from Belleville, Illinois licensed WTVI (Channel 54, now KTVI Channel 2). Until 1955 it also aired an ABC program that WTVI refused to broadcast. plans to work on his own television in St. Louis with its power station, KMOX (1120 AM). The network initially won permission to build a new station on Channel 11 - the last remaining commercial VHF channel in St. Louis - in January 1957. But after being approached with an offer, CBS decided in August of that year to buy KWK-TV instead for $4 million. The agreement required CBS to relinquish its permit to build Channel 11, and the Federal Communications Commission handed it over to one of the failed applicants, a group led by St. Louis hotelier Harold Coplar, without any financial consideration. Almost immediately, the deal was delayed after the St. Louis Amusement Company, another of the original bidders for Channel 11, protested to the U.S. Court of Appeals in January 1958. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually upheld the decision in November of that year. CBS had already taken control of Channel 4's operation in March this year, and changed its call letters to KMOX-TV citing its new sister radio. In April of the following year, Channel 11 signed a contract as an independent station KPLR-TV. In July 1968, CBS opened a new studio and office in downtown St. Louis to host KMOX stations that had been operating from different locations (KMOX radio was located near Forest Park). Channel 4 has moved from Cole Street to a new facility known as One Memorial Drive, and remains there to this day; The Cole Street studio was soon acquired by KDNL-TV (Channel 30), which has been operating from there since it signed in June 1969. KMOX-TV was the host station for the 1983 Miss Universe Pageant, which was held by the now-destroyed Kiel Auditorium. (quote needed) Viacom owned by the end of 1985, CBS was in dire financial straits, after the effect successfully fending off a hostile takeover attempt by Ted Turner a year earlier. CBS spent the last part of 1985 buying out most of its stock to help block Turner's takeover. After Turner sold his shares, CBS was saddled with significant debt and needed to raise money. Shortly after Lawrence Tish became chairman of the company, CBS decided to sell KMOX-TV, at the time its smallest television station by market size. On May 16, 1986, the original iteration of Viacom, a former subsidiary of CBS Inc. and a future parent company, completed the purchase of the station for $122.5 million; In order to abide by THE FCC's rules in place at the time that banned TV and radio stations in the same market, but with different ownership from the same callsigns, KMOX-TV's callsign was slightly changed to present kmOV nearly a month later on June 18. Despite the sale, Channel 4 continued to be based with KMOX Radio in their central studios on Memorial Drive; KMOX will move out of this building in 2012. acquired Paramount Pictures in 1993 and merged its five-station group (KMOV; WHEC-TV in Rochester, New York; WNYT in Albany, New York; WVIT in New Britain, Connecticut; and KSLA-TV in Shreveport, Louisiana) to Paramount Stations. However, in 1994, the company decided to abandon all of its main network branches to focus on the stations that its then upstart United Paramount Network (UPN) would launch on January 16, 1995. Belo Corporation, based in Dallas A. H. Belo Corporation, acquired KMOV as a result of a three-way transaction that also includes two stations in the Seattle-Tacoma market. As part of the deal, A. H. Belo (who in 2008 turned his broadcasting holdings into a separate, similarly named company) sold KIRO-TV (then a branch of UPN, which was included in the transaction because the company had recently acquired an NBC subsidiary in this market KING-TV) to Cox Enterprises, which simultaneously sold its existing Seattle-Tacoma station, KSTW (then a CBS affiliate) to Viacom. The transaction was completed on June 1, 1997 (KIRO and KSTW swapped places on June 30, 1997). The station broadcast the St. Louis Blues NHL games for one season, during the 1996-97 season until their over-the-air telecast moved back to KPLR-TV in the 1997-98 season (all regular-season Blues games are being broadcast exclusively on cable locally on Fox Sports Midwest). In the spring of 2013, a permanent light sign with the KMOV logo was installed on the top of the south side of Gateway Tower, which not only provides visibility to the station on the St. Louis skyline, but is also visible in the center of the field of wide shots of Busch Stadium during the St. Louis Cardinals games. On June 13, 2013, Gannett, owner of NBC affiliate KSDK (Channel 5), announced the acquisition of Belo. Because the deal would violate FCC rules that do not have common ownership of two of the four most rated stations in the single market (KMOV and KSDK have occupied the first two stations in the St. Louis market in total rating for several years), Gannett will retain KSDK while it rotates from KMOV to Sander Media, LLC (owned by former Belo CEO Jack Sander). Gannett intended to provide station services through a general services agreement, and KMOV was required to remain largely separate from KSDK, including individual and competing news and sales departments. However, on December 16, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice threatened to block the merger unless Gannett, Belo and Sander completely transferred KMOV to a government-approved company that would be disqualified from making any agreements with Gannett. The Justice Department argued that Gannett and Sander would be so closely aligned that Gannett would dominate the spot-up in St. Louis. December 23 years, shortly after The deal was approved and finalized, the Des Moines, Iowa-based Meredith Corporation - which already had a broadcasting presence in Missouri through its ownership of fellow CBS affiliate KCTV in Kansas City - announced that it would buy KMOV, along with KTVK and KASW in Phoenix (the latter of which Meredith later sold to Nexstar Broadcasting Group) for $407.5 million. More than a year later, on September 8, 2015, Richmond, Va., announced Meredith's acquisition for $2.4 billion. If it had been completed, it would have been the third change of owners of KMOV since 2013. The media general eventually postponed the deal with Meredith in favor of Nexstar's counter offer. On April 24, 2018, it was announced that Meredith would acquire cw KPLR-TV from Tribune Media as a result of the sale of the station ordered by the FCC as a result of the Tribune's proposed acquisition of Sinclair Broadcast Group, owners of ABC affiliate KDNL-TV. If the acquisition of Sinclair Tribune and related station sales were approved, it would create a duopoly between KMOV and KPLR-TV. However, on August 9, 2018, the Tribune announced the termination of the Sinclair deal, intending to look for other opportunities for MSA. It comes three weeks after the FCC voted on July 18 to have the deal considered by an administrative law judge amid serious concerns about Sinclair's directness in his statements to sell some of the conflicted properties.