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Fox affiliate in Cape Girardeau, Missouri For other uses, see KBSI (disambiguation).
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City | Cape Girardeau, Missouri |
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Channels | |
Branding | general: Fox 23 newscasts: Fox 23 News DT2: My 49 WDKA |
Programming | |
Affiliations | 23.1: Fox (1987–present) 23.2: MyNetworkTV 23.3: Comet 23.4: Defy TV 23.5: TrueReal 23.6: Scripps News |
Ownership | |
Owner |
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Sister stations | WDKA |
History | |
Founded | June 1, 1982 (42 years ago) (1982-06-01) |
First air date | September 10, 1983 (41 years ago) (1983-09-10) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 23 (UHF, 1983–2009) Digital: 22 (UHF, 2001–2019) |
Former affiliations | Independent (1983–1986) ABC (NYPD Blue only, 1993–94) |
Call sign meaning | Kentucky, Bootheel, Southern Illinois (reflecting area served) |
Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 19593 |
Class | DT |
ERP | 1,000 kW |
HAAT | 543 m (1,781 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°24′23″N 89°33′44″W / 37.40639°N 89.56222°W / 37.40639; -89.56222 |
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Public license information | |
Website | kbsi23 |
KBSI (channel 23) is a television station licensed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for Southeastern Missouri, the Purchase area of Western Kentucky, Southern Illinois, and Northwest Tennessee. It is owned by the Community News Media subsidiary of Standard Media alongside Paducah, Kentucky–licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WDKA (channel 49). Both stations share studios on Enterprise Street in Cape Girardeau, while KBSI's transmitter is located in unincorporated Cape Girardeau County north of the city.
History
The station signed on the air on September 10, 1983, as an independent station and aired an analog signal on UHF channel 23. The station was originally owned by Cape Girardeau Family Television, Ltd., in turn 51 percent owned by Media Central of Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was not the first independent to operate in the market—two stations broadcast in southern Illinois, and a prior attempt had been made at an independent in Paducah—but it was the first to cover all of it, which was the reason Media Central had been attracted to the area.
Media Central filed for bankruptcy in 1987 to fend off a hostile takeover attempt. That same year, despite having passed on the opportunity a year prior, KBSI joined Fox. Media Central continued to own the station until a bankruptcy judge approved its acquisition by Engles Communications, owned by David Engles, a former Warner Bros. and NBC radio executive. Under Engles, KBSI picked up the first season of NYPD Blue when ABC affiliate WSIL-TV refused to air the show.
Engles then sold the station to Max Television (later Max Media Properties) in 1995. In 1998, Sinclair Broadcast Group acquired most of the Max Media Properties stations, including KBSI; it owned KBSI and later WDKA in Paducah until both were sold to Community News Media for $28 million in a transaction that closed in 2021.
Programming
Syndicated programming
Syndicated programming on KBSI includes Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family, and Judge Judy among others.
Newscasts
From 2006 to September 30, 2010, NBC affiliate WPSD-TV (owned by the Paxton Media Group) produced a nightly prime time newscast for KBSI through a news share agreement. When the WPSD newscast started, KBSI competed with another nightly half-hour newscast at 9 p.m. on the area's low-powered CW affiliates WQTV-LP/WQWQ-LP. That newscast, produced by CBS affiliate KFVS-TV, focused on news from southeastern Missouri and was eventually canceled on July 29, 2007.
On October 1, 2010, KBSI entered into a new agreement with KFVS to produce the newscast, which expanded to an hour in length. This agreement ended in March 2022 with KFVS moving the newscast to KFVS-DT2. On March 28, 2022, KBSI debuted its own newscast, produced out of Lincoln, Nebraska, at sister station KLKN. The news and weather anchors are based in Lincoln while the reporters work out of the KBSI studios in Cape Girardeau.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel | Video | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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23.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KBSI-DT | Main KBSI programming / Fox |
23.2 | 480i | WDKA-DT | SD simulcast of WDKA / MyNetworkTV | |
23.3 | COMET | Comet | ||
23.4 | DEFY | Defy TV | ||
23.5 | TRU | TrueReal | ||
23.6 | NEWSY | Scripps News |
Analog-to-digital conversion
KBSI shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 23, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 22. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 23.
References
- "Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. November 12, 2020. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
- Venta, Lance (February 22, 2022). "Radio Implications To Today's Standard General Acquisition of TEGNA". RadioInsight. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
- "Facility Technical Data for KBSI". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- Monroe, Cathy A. (September 11, 1983). "KBSI-TV: Another station cranks up Monday". Southern Illinoisan. p. 1. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
- Stackhouse, Ben (May 5, 1983). "New Cape independent UHF station goes on air in July". The Paducah Sun. p. B-9. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
- "Parent company of Cape station in bankruptcy". The Paducah Sun. July 9, 1987. p. A10. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
- DeWitte, Dave (August 7, 1986). "Joan Rivers' network won't be carried locally". Southern Illinoisan. p. 17. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
- "KBSI to air Fox Network programs". The Paducah Sun. August 5, 1987. p. A12. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
- Gardner, Bruce (February 15, 1990). "KBSI-TV under new ownership". The Paducah Sun. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
- Morgan, Lucinda (September 23, 1993). "Fox station to air 'NYPD'". Southern Illinoisan. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
- "KBSI sold to Virginia company". The Paducah Sun. March 24, 1995. p. 6A. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
- Jacobson, Adam (January 20, 2021). "FCC OK's Sinclair Duo's Spin To Soo Kim". Radio and Television Business Report. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
- Moyers, Scott. "WPSD, KBSI to take on KFVS12's 9 p.m. newscast". The Southeast Missourian. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
- Sanders, Matt (August 2, 2007). "KFVS drops 9 p.m. news". The Southeast Missourian. Archived from the original on August 21, 2007. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
- RabbitEars TV Query for KBSI
- "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
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