KYOU-TV
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| Ottumwa, Iowa/ Kirksville, Missouri |
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| Branding | Fox 15 |
| Slogan | Fox For the Heartland, Local For You |
| Channels | Digital: 15 (UHF) |
| Subchannels | 15.1 Fox |
| Translators | 25 K25DE Ottumwa 34 K34CW Kirksville |
| Owner | American Spirit Media, LLC (KYOU License Subsidiary, LLC) |
| First air date | June 2, 1986 |
| Call letters' meaning | YOU |
| Sister station(s) | KTVO, KHQA-TV |
| Former callsigns | KOIA-TV (1986-1992) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 15 (UHF, 1986-2009) Digital: 14 (UHF) |
| Former affiliations | UPN (secondary) |
| Transmitter power | 7.94 kW |
| Height | 332 m |
| Facility ID | 53820 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°11′42″N 91°57′15″W / 41.195°N 91.95417°W |
KYOU-TV is the Fox-affiliated television station for the Honey Lands area of Southeastern Iowa and Northeastern Missouri. Licensed to Ottumwa, Iowa, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 15 from a transmitter ten miles north of Fairfield, Iowa. The station can also be seen in Missouri on CableOne channel 8 (with HD on digital channel 475) and in Iowa on Mediacom channel 9 (in HD on digital channel 815). Owned by American Spirit Media, the station has studios on West 2nd Street in Downtown Ottumwa.
Syndicated programming on this station includes: Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends, Two and a Half Men, and The Office. It operates two analog repeaters to extend its over-the-air coverage. K25DE channel 25 in Ottumwa has a transmitter south of the city along US 63. K34CW channel 34 in Kirksville has a transmitter northwest of that city. KYOU was acquired by Waitt Media in 1999. That company merged with Raycom Media in December 2003. Raycom already owned ABC affiliate KTVO in Kirksville, Missouri at the time and could not legally keep both stations because the market has too few channels to legally permit a duopoly. As a result, KYOU was transferred to a separate licensee called Ottumwa Media Holdings, LLC and entered into a local marketing agreement (LMA) with KTVO.
On March 27, 2006, Raycom announced that it would sell KTVO along with thirteen other stations across the country to Barrington Broadcasting. The sale closed later that year. As a result, Ottumwa Media Holdings changed its name to American Spirit Media, and at some point thereafter terminated the LMA with KTVO. There is no mention on Barrington Broadcasting's Web site of KYOU (although the Barrington Broadcasting site mentions WWMB in Florence, Alabama as being operated by that market's WPDE-TV). It is unclear whether the station is operated on its own or controlled by another company from a station in another market. In addition to KYOU, Mediacom systems offer fellow Fox affiliate KDSM-TV from Des Moines on channel 17.
The station does not currently air a newscast but provides local news stories on its website.
[edit] External links
- KYOU-TV "Fox 15"
- KTVO
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KYOU-TV
- Query the FCC's TV station database for K25DE
- Query the FCC's TV station database for K34CW
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