KTVO is the local ABC affiliate in Kirksville, Missouri. It has taken down its increasingly popular message board as of 11/1/05:

http://users.boardnation.com/~ktvotv/index.php?board=3

250+ copies of The Aryan Alternative were distributed in Kvil Tue 11/1/05, and more will be distriubuted 11/2/05. Stay tuned.

We welcome Kirksville residents and encourage you to join VNNF and post in this forum. We won't censor you. We aren't afraid. Come on in! Talk about whatever you want to talk about, free and easy-like. Like you were Americans or something.

A. Linder

KTVO is the local ABC affiliate in Kirksville, Missouri. It has taken down its increasingly popular message board as of 11/1/05:

http://users.boardnation.com/~ktvotv/index.php?board=3

250+ copies of The Aryan Alternative were distributed in Kvil Tue 11/1/05, and more will be distriubuted 11/2/05. Stay tuned.

We welcome Kirksville residents and encourage you to join VNNF and post in this forum. We won't censor you. We aren't afraid. Come on in! Talk about whatever you want to talk about, free and easy-like. Like you were Americans or something.

A. Linder

Good job, boss.

Alex Linder leads by example. I wish the citizens of Kirksville well. Sometimes the truth can be hard to handle. I hope that at least some of them have the courage to consider their own group interests as if they were legitimate, and as if we had the same right to get together like blacks or Jews do on a regular basis.

Will Kirksville throw its native son down the well for speaking truth like Jeremiah? I would hope not.

KCTV in Kansas City did the same thing with their board when things got interesting after their investigative reporter hounded a couple of Stormfronters.

John

Good to know that.

I don't think VNN/TAA was the main factor in getting the local board shut down, although fear of open discussion of our paper probably was a contributing factor. Some locals were raising some very interesting points about the local CPS empire builders. Folks in the know were doing real investigative journalism on that front, and KTVO doesn't want that. Easier to sell ads and put on the smiley face.

America = no room for adults.

When you let women into journalism, the kindergarten mentality comes with them.

Turns out KTVO is being sold. That may be another reason they're took forum down.



KTVO Station History

KTVO TV 3 first signed on the air November 21, 1955. Many experts in broadcasting said the Kirksville/Ottumwa market was too small and a TV station would never survive. But Mr. Jim Conroy refused to listen and set out to refute that charge. He had a "dream" that the people in SE Iowa and NE Missouri would be proud to support a local TV station. On November 21, 1955, the switch was thrown and the massive transmitter began to hum. KTVO Television WAS on the air! The first program was the 6pm news and thus began a saga unique in the annals of broadcasting and the great tradition of American Business enterprise. Our primary network was CBS, although being a single station market allowed KTVO to include programming from NBC and ABC.

The early years were a struggle financially because many local advertisers were new to the benefits of television and therefore income was small, yet expenses were large. In 1961, equipment was installed to provide network color programming, and on January 7, 1964 a new chapter began when KTVO was sold to Post Corporation. They set out to remodel the Old Broadcast Center Building in Ottumwa, adding new equipment and spending over $75,000 on a new microwave system. In 1965, KTVO was equipped to originate color with the addition of 3 color studio cameras, and in 1968, we changed our network affiliate to ABC. With support of area extension services, KTVO-TV became the agricultural station in the Heartland in 1969. In 1973 we filed with the FCC to build a 2000 ft. tower and in 1976, KTVO-TV relocated our main studio to beautiful television park outside Kirksville Missouri. This move enabled us to design and construct a new building and to add new equipment such as the RCA TCR-100 video cartridge machine at a cost of $157,000, and to start receiving our signals via satellite with now 6 satellite dishes at our current location. After 15 years of hearings and re-applications, KTVO-TV went on the air with our new transmitter in the fall of 1987.

On June 2, 1988, disaster struck when the new 2000 ft. tower collapsed taking the lives of three technicians with it. At this time KTVO-TV was owned by Federal Broadcasting and a decision was made to return to the original transmitter site by Lancaster Missouri. We were back on the air in record time within 30 hours after the disaster. Since this disaster we have added new control room equipment, digital effects generator, still store unit, new studio cameras and two Live Remote Trucks. We have a crew of over 60 people who include an award winning news team. In addition to our on air commitments, KTVO serves our communities focusing on the needs of area youth and targeting literacy and educational issues.

We also participate in public events such as parades, home shows, community leader forums, health and safety fairs and various other community celebrations. Most importantly, the support of our loyal clients and viewers from Ottumwa, Kirksville, Centerville, Bloomfield, Oskaloosa, Brookfield, Fairfield, and many other communities in our viewing area have helped to shape KTVO into the TV station that "could" and has become the primary source for news, information and entertainment in the Heartland. Now after almost 50 years of broadcasting, KTVO-TV can proudly say, the "dream" of 1955 has become a "reality".

KTVO-TV is proud to be YOUR Source! Currently, KTVO TV 3 is owned by Raycom Media whose corporate offices are in Montgomery Alabama, and is America's largest employee owned media company. Raycom Media is one of the largest owners of television stations in the country. Raycom owns or manages television stations reaching over 10 million television households and covers 10.2 % of the United States plus 1.3 million households in Puerto Rico. Raycom also owns Raycom Sports, a sports marketing, production and distribution company.

Information for this article was supplied by Gary Cunningham, Former Public Affairs Director

http://ktvo.com/Global/story.asp?S=191083

Raycom Media Plans To Sell 12 TV Stations, Including ABQ's KASA

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Raycom Media Inc. plans to sell 12 network-affiliated stations, including one in New Mexico, to more effectively focus on and strengthen its core group in the Southeast and Midwest, the company announced Tuesday.
Raycom President and CEO Paul McTear said the stations, with more than 800 employees, would likely be valued in excess of $600 million.
He said the company's August agreement to purchase 15 stations from Liberty Corp. of Greenville, S.C., presented a chance to reassess Raycom's station group. Two Liberty stations, KGBT-TV of Harlingen-McAllen-Brownsville, Texas, and WWAY-TV of Wilmington, N.C., will be sold as soon as the transaction announced in August is consummated, Raycom said in a statement.
The other 10 television stations to be sold are WFXL, Albany, Ga.; KASA, Albuquerque-Santa Fe, N.M.; KXRM-KXTU, Colorado Springs, Colo.; WACH, Columbia, S.C.; KTVO, Ottumwa, Ind.[sic - Iowa]-Kirksville, Mo.; WLUC, Marquette, Mich.; WSTM-WSTQ, Syracuse, NY; WNWO, Toledo, Ohio; WPBN-WTOM, Traverse City-Cadillac, Mich.; KWWL, Waterloo-Cedar Rapids-Iowa City-Dubuque, Iowa.
"The sale of these properties, which either duplicate existing market holdings or lie outside our core geographies, will allow us to strategically reshape our holdings and provide the resources to reinvest in expanding our reach within priority markets,'' McTear said.
Raycom, based in Montgomery, operates 37 network-affiliated television stations in 20 states and has other holdings. Its stations cover more than 10 percent of U.S. television households and employ 2,500 people.

http://www.abqjournal.com/biz/apkasa11-01-05.htm