KDNL-TV

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KDNL-TV (channel 30), branded as STL30, is an independent television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station maintains studios at the University Tower on South Brentwood Boulevard in the suburb of Richmond Heights and a transmitter in Shrewsbury. Channel 30 in St. Louis was sought on several occasions in the 1950s and early 1960s, though no station materialized. The fourth attempt to build the channel was originally spearheaded by a group of local investors as well as Washington attorney John Dean; after the construction permit for KDNL-TV was sold to Thomas Mellon Evans, the station began broadcasting on June 8, 1969. It served as the second independent station for the St. Louis area, airing syndicated reruns as well as financial news and sports. Cox Broadcasting purchased KDNL-TV in 1981, in part because it held a permit for over-the-air subscription television broadcasting. Cox launched this service in June 1982, but it was a business...

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