KRCG

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KRCG
city =
station_
station_slogan = "Where Accuracy Matters"
station_branding = KRCG
analog = 13 (VHF)
digital = 12 (VHF)
other_chs = K11OJ Sedalia
affiliations = CBS
network =
founded =
airdate = February 13, 1955
location = Jefferson City/Columbia, Missouri
callsign_meaning = Robert C. Goshorn
(named in memory of original owner's father)
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Barrington Broadcasting Company, LLC
licensee = Barrington Jefferson City License, LLC
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = Both secondary:
ABC (1955-1971)
UPN (1995-2004)
effective_radiated_power = 316 kW (analog)
15.1 kW (digital)
HAAT = 308 m (analog)
307.8 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 41110
coordinates = coord|38|41|29.9|N|92|5|44|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.krcg.com/ www.krcg.com]

KRCG, Channel 13 is the CBS affiliate for the Columbia/Jefferson City, Missouri television market. The station is licensed to Jefferson City.

The station was founded on February 13, 1955 and was owned by the Jefferson City News Tribune. The paper's publisher, Betty Goshorn Weldon, named the station in honor of her late father, Robert C. Goshorn. Goshorn had wanted to bring a television station to the area before he died in 1953. Ms. Weldon inherited the paper on his death and took over his dream. She thus became one of the first women to own and operate a television station.

KRCG has always been a CBS affiliate, and is the only station in the market that has retained the same primary network affiliation throughout its existence. The other network affiliates in the market (KOMU-TV and KMIZ-TV) have switched networks twice (first in 1982, then reverted back to their original networks in 1986).

From the 1960s through 1978, KRCG owned KMOS-TV, Channel 6, in Sedalia. KMOS was operated as a satellite of KRCG. In the 1970s, KMOS would break away from KRCG and air its own evening newscast. KRCG operated KMOS at a relatively low power level, and shied away from selling KMOS to another commercial operator. KRCG and KOMU-TV, the NBC affiliate in Columbia, were the only two VHF network affiliates in the market, and it was feared that if KMOS was sold, the station could potentially become a full-power ABC affiliate. KRCG shared a secondary ABC affiliation with KOMU until ABC affiliate KCBJ-TV (now KMIZ), Channel 17, signed-on in Columbia in 1971. KRCG donated KMOS to Central Missouri State University (now the University of Central Missouri) in Warrensburg. At that time, KMOS was converted to a stand-alone PBS station. KRCG then signed-on a Sedalia translator, K11OJ.

In 1967, KRCG was sold to Kansas City Southern Industries, which retained the station until 1985, when it was sold to Price Communications Corporation. After three years KRCG was sold to Mel Wheeler, Inc., which owned the station until March 2005, when KRCG was purchased by Barrington Broadcasting. Its transmitter, the KRCG TV Tower built in 1957, is a 282.5-meter-high guyed TV tower at Holts Summit, Missouri

KRCG has traditionally dominated the western (Jefferson City) side of the market.

Current Talent

News:
*Ladd Egan - Weekend Anchor/Reporter
*Matt Grant - Reporter
*Colleen Hogan - Reporter
*Monica Madeja - Morning Anchor/Reporter
*Mallory McGowin - Reporter
*Kermit Miller - 6 & 10 Anchor
*Dick Preston - Morning and Noon Anchor
*Mark Slavit - Columbia Bureau Chief
*Teresa Snow - 5, 6, 10 Anchor
*Amelia Waters - Online Reporter

Weather:
*Kassie Crimi - Morning/Noon Weather
*Zach Paul - Weekend Weather
*Mike Roberts - Chief Meteorologist

Sports:
*Rod Smith - Sports Director
*Tony Mullen - Sports Anchor/Reporter

ee also

* KMOS-TV (Former KRCG satellite, now a PBS member station)

External links

* [http://www.krcg.com/ KRCG website]
*http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b6809
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