KMIZ

KMIZ is the ABC-affiliated television station for Mid-Missouri that is licensed to Columbia, Missouri. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 17 from a transmitter in Cedron near the Moniteau-Cooper County line. Owned by the St. Joseph-based News-Press & Gazette Company, the station is a sister to the low-powered Fox affiliate KQFX-LD; both stations share studios on East Business Loop 70 in Columbia.

History

KMIZ went on the air for the first time on December 5, 1971 as ABC affiliate KCBJ-TV. Before then, ABC had been relegated in the Central Missouri market to secondary clearances on NBC affiliate KOMU-TV and CBS affiliate KRCG. KCBJ was originally owned by brothers Richard & Robert Koening, under the name Channel 17 Inc. The station's original studios were located on South 7th Street in Columbia.