KFVS-TV

KFVS-TV

Cape Girardeau, Missouri Harrisburg, Illinois Paducah, Kentucky United States
City	Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Channels	Digital: 11 (VHF) Virtual: 12
Branding	KFVS 12; Heartland News; KFVS Too (DT2)
Programming
Affiliations	12.1: CBS 12.2: The CW for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Gray Television (Gray Television Licensee, LLC)
Sister stations	WQWQ-LD
History
First air date	October 3, 1954 (70 years ago) (1954-10-03)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 12 (VHF, 1954–2009) Digital: 57 (UHF, 2002–2009), 12 (VHF, 2009–2020)
Call sign meaning	from former radio sister KFVS (AM)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	592
ERP	11.8 kW
HAAT	609 m (1,998 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	37°25′46″N 89°30′14″W / 37.42944°N 89.50389°W / 37.42944; -89.50389
Translator(s)	K17LV-D 17 (UHF) Poplar Bluff, MO
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.kfvs12.com

KFVS-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States, serving Southeastern Missouri, the Purchase area of Western Kentucky, Southern Illinois, and Northwest Tennessee as an affiliate of CBS and The CW. The station is owned by Gray Television alongside Paducah, Kentucky–licensed Telemundo affiliate WQWQ-LD (channel 18). The two stations share studios in the Hirsch Tower on Broadway Avenue in Downtown Cape Girardeau; KFVS-TV's transmitter is located northwest of Egypt Mills, in unincorporated Cape Girardeau County.

KFVS-TV had previously served the Jonesboro, Arkansas, media market as the default CBS station on cable, until the sign-on of the Jonesboro area's first locally based CBS affiliate August 1, 2015, on a second digital subchannel of Fox affiliate KJNB-LD/KJNE-LD.^[2]