KFVS-TV
CBS affiliate in Cape Girardeau, Missouri / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
City | Cape Girardeau, Missouri |
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Branding | KFVS 12; Heartland News; KFVS Too (DT2) |
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WQWQ-LD | |
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First air date | October 3, 1954 (69 years ago) (1954-10-03) |
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Call sign meaning | from former radio sister KFVS (AM) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 592 |
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Transmitter coordinates | 37°25′46″N 89°30′14″W |
Translator(s) | K17LV-D 17 (UHF) Poplar Bluff, MO |
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Website | www |
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.[4]