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City | Kirksville, Missouri |
Channels | |
Branding | KTVO ABC 3 (general) KTVO News (newscasts) KTVO CBS 3 (on DT2) Southeast Iowa's Own Evening News (newscasts; on DT2) |
Programming | |
Affiliations | 3.1: ABC (secondary until 1968) 3.2: CBS 3.3: Comet 3.4: Charge! (soon) |
Ownership | |
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History | |
First air date | November 21, 1955 |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 3 (VHF, 1955–2009) |
CBS (1955–1974; secondary from 1968) NBC (secondary 1955–1974) | |
Call sign meaning | Kirksville Television Ottumwa |
Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 21251 |
ERP | 87 kW 174 kW (application) |
HAAT | 290 m (951 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°31′47″N 92°26′30″W / 40.52972°N 92.44167°W |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Website | ktvo |
KTVO (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Kirksville, Missouri, United States, serving the Ottumwa, Iowa–Kirksville, Missouri market as an affiliate of ABC and CBS. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station maintains studios on US 63 two miles (3.2 km) north of Kirksville, with a secondary studio, news bureau and advertising sales office on South Market Street in downtown Ottumwa. Its transmitter is located northwest of Downing, Missouri, along US 136.