KMEG

KMEG (channel 14) is a television station in Sioux City, Iowa, United States, affiliated with the digital multicast network Dabl. It is owned by Waitt Broadcasting, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of Fox/MyNetworkTV/CBS affiliate KPTH (channel 44), for the provision of certain services. The two stations share studios along I-29 (postal address says Gold Circle) in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota; KMEG's transmitter is located in unincorporated Plymouth County, Iowa, east of James and US 75 along the Woodbury County line.

From its sign-on in 1967 to 2021, KMEG was the CBS affiliate in Sioux City. It was put on the air to provide the area with full three-network service for the first time. The station largely spent decades in third place under a succession of owners; it had no full-length local news programming from 1976 to 1999. KMEG briefly had the national spotlight in 1993 when its decision not to air the Late Show with David Letterman left Sioux City the only market where the show was not aired.

Waitt Broadcasting, the present owner, acquired KMEG in 1998. New studios were built in Dakota Dunes and a new news operation was started. In 2005, Waitt outsourced most station operations to KPTH owner Pappas Telecasting; that station changed hands in 2009 and again in 2013. CBS programming moved to a "CBS 14" subchannel of Sinclair-owned KPTH in 2021, leaving KMEG to broadcast national digital multicast television networks.