KYOU-TV
Fox/NBC/CW television affiliate in Ottumwa, Iowa, United States
KYOU-TV (channel 15) is a television station licensed to Ottumwa, Iowa, United States, serving Ottumwa and Kirksville, Missouri, as an affiliate of Fox, NBC and The CW Plus. The station is owned by Gray Media and maintains studios on West 2nd Street in Downtown Ottumwa; its transmitter is located one mile (1.6 km) east of Richland, Iowa. A translator, K30MG-D, offers additional coverage in the Kirksville area.
Channel 15 went on the air in June 1986 as KOIA-TV. Its first stint on the air was short-lived, as its founding majority owner, Impact Television, was undercapitalized and ran out of money, forcing it to shut all of its stations down that August. After a sale, the station returned to the air in June 1987 and became a Fox affiliate in 1988, changing its call sign to KYOU-TV in 1992. It was operated by Raycom Media under a local marketing agreement from 2003 to 2018; during part of this time, Raycom owned the other major station in this market, KTVO in Kirksville, but it continued to provide services to KYOU-TV after selling off KTVO in 2006. An in-house local newscast was added in 2015 utilizing the facilities of William Penn University in Oskaloosa, and the station added its NBC subchannel in 2018. Gray acquired Raycom in 2018 and purchased KYOU-TV outright from owner American Spirit Media. The station airs local newscasts produced by Gray-owned KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids.
History
Early history
A construction permit was granted to the Haynes Communications Company, owned by Carl Haynes, for a new commercial television station in Ottumwa in November 1984.
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