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KMOV
Television station in St. Louis
KMOV
KMOV (channels 4 and 32), branded as First Alert 4, is a television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, affiliated with CBS and ABC. It is owned by Gray Media alongside KDTL-LD (channel 32.2), a sports-oriented independent station. Both stations broadcast from studios on Progress Parkway in suburban Maryland Heights and share transmitter facilities in Lemay, Missouri. Channel 4 in St. Louis was built by radio station KWK and began broadcasting on July 8, 1954, as KWK-TV. Its construction culminated six years of legal activity—prolonged by a federal freeze on new stations—and a contested battle to bring the city its second very high frequency (VHF) station. Operating from studios in the Globe-Democrat Tower Building, KWK-TV's early history was precarious. CBS at the time was fighting to build its own station in St. Louis, which could have left KWK-TV without network programming. Even though CBS won the construction permit for channel 11 in 1957, it opted to speed up its arrival...
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