12 Facts About KTVO

KTVO is a television station licensed to Kirksville, Missouri, United States, serving the Ottumwa, Iowa–Kirksville, Missouri market as an affiliate of ABC and CBS.

For much of its early history KTVO was a primary CBS affiliate, although its single market status allowed it to cherry-pick the most popular programming from NBC and ABC.

On June 1,1968, KTVO switched primary affiliation to ABC, although the station continued carrying a few CBS and NBC shows until 1974.

In 1984, Gillett Corporation bought the Post Corporation Stations; however, due to the FCC ownership limit of five VHF television stations that was in effect at the time, KTVO was spun off to a local telecommunications company called "Gillbro Communications".

Since the original tower was still available, KTVO was able to resume broadcasting within thirty hours of the collapse.

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KTVO had been serving the Quincy–Hannibal–Keokuk, Iowa market as the default analog ABC affiliate on cable with some locations being able pick up its over-the-air signal.

However, KTVO remains on area cable systems, and launched a CBS-affiliated second digital subchannel on May 15,2010 effectively marking the network's return to the area after a 36-year absence.

In November 2015, KTVO celebrated the 60th anniversary of its original airdate.

KTVO was the primary local source of newscasts until 1990 when Fox affiliate KOIA-TV began five-minute mini-newscasts which continued until 1991.

In March 2009, KTVO received national attention as the victim of a viewer prank.

Over 400,000 viewings occurred on YouTube before KTVO management forced the removal citing copyright violations.

KTVO discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 3, 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.