KBSI

KBSI

Cape Girardeau, Missouri Paducah, Kentucky Harrisburg, Illinois Jonesboro, Arkansas
City of license	Cape Girardeau
Branding	Fox 23 (general) Heartland News My 49 WDKA (on DT2)
Channels	Digital: 22 (UHF) Virtual: 23 (PSIP)
Subchannels	23.1 Fox 23.2 MyNetworkTV
Owner	Sinclair Broadcast Group (KBSI Licensee L.P.)
First air date	June 1, 1982
Sister station(s)	WDKA
Former channel number(s)	23 (UHF analog, 1983-2009)
Former affiliations	Independent (1982-1986)
Transmitter power	705 kW
Height	543 m
Class	DT
Facility ID	19593
Transmitter coordinates	37°24′22.5″N 89°33′44.3″W

KBSI is the Fox-affiliated television station for the Missouri Bootheel, Southern Illinois, and Western Kentucky's Jackson Purchase. Licensed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 22 (or virtual channel 23.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in rural Cape Girardeau County north of the city. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 8, Charter channel 9, and Mediacom channel 10. Since the Jonesboro metropolitan area doesn't have a Fox Affiliate of its own, KBSI also serves Northeast Arkansas as the default Fox Station.

There is a high definition feed provided on Comcast digital channel 434, Mediacom digital channel 710, and Charter digital channel 782. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station operates MyNetworkTV affiliate WDKA (license is locally owned) through a local marketing agreement (LMA). The two outlets share studios on Enterprise Street in Cape Girardeau.

Syndicated programming on KBSI includes Two and a Half Men, Judge Judy, The People's Court, and Swift Justice with Nancy Grace among others. The station signed-on June 1, 1982 as an Independent and aired an analog signal on UHF channel 23. It became a charter Fox affiliate at the network's launch on October 9, 1986. After Sinclair and Fox finalized a six-year affiliation contract extension for the company's nineteen affiliates, KBSI's association with Fox was guaranteed until March 2012.

Digital programming

Although WDKA transmits a digital signal of its own, the station can also be seen in standard definition on KBSI's second digital subchannel.

Channels (physical/virtual)	Name	Video	Aspect	Programming
22.1/23.1	KBSI-HD	1080i	16:9	main KBSI programming/Fox (HD)
22.2/23.2	KBSI-DT2	480i	4:3	WDKA MyNetworkTV (SD)

Newscasts

News open.

For several years, NBC affiliate WPSD-TV (owned by the Paxton Media Group) produced a nightly prime time newscast on KBSI through a news share agreement. The thirty minute show was known as Local 6 News at 9 on Fox 23 and featured a regional summary of headlines because KBSI is based in Cape Girardeau. On its own newscasts, WPSD traditionally focuses on the Western Kentucky side of the market.

The broadcast originated from that station's facility on Television Lane in Paducah, Kentucky. For awhile, KBSI competed with another nightly half-hour newscast at 9 on the area's low-powered CW affiliates WQTV-LP/WQWQ-LP. That newscast, produced by CBS affiliate KFVS-TV, was aired specifically for Southeastern Missouri viewers. It would eventually be cancelled on July 29, 2007.

WPSD's outsourcing arrangement with KBSI expired on September 30, 2010. The next day, this station entered into a new partnership with KFVS (owned by Raycom Media) presumably to refocus the prime time production to the Missouri Bootheel area and expand it to sixty minutes every night. KBSI's current show is known as Heartland News at 9 on Fox 23 and originates from the KFVS studios (in the Hirsch Tower) on Broadway Avenue in Downtown Cape Girardeau.

With the addition, that station now offers more than thirty hours of local news each week and continues to retain its market dominance as the most watched outlet. On October 3, 2010, WPSD brought back its own newscast at 9 to its Retro Television Network (RTV) and 24-hour local weather subchannels. Known as The Nine and seen every night for a half-hour, that broadcast is simulcasted on the two services. In addition to its main facility in Southeastern Missouri, KFVS operates a Southern Illinois Newsroom on East Plaza Drive in Carterville,

Anchors

• Jeff Cunningham - weeknight news
• Crystal Britt - weekend news and reporter
• Bob Reeves - Senior Meteorologist seen weeknights
• Laura Wibbenmeyer - weekend meteorologist
• Todd Richards - Sports Director seen weeknights
• Chad Fryman - weekend sports

Reporters

• Arnold Wyrick - Southern Illinois Newsroom
• Carly O'Keefe - Southern Illinois Newsroom
• Stephanie Byars - health and photographer
• Julia Bruck - Southern Illinois Newsroom
• Christy Millweard - multimedia journalist
• Holly Brantley
• Tyler Profilet

External links

• KBSI "Fox 23"
• WDKA
• KFVS-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KBSI