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KETC is known among viewers in St. Louis for preempting PBS programs to air library program content or less controversial pledge drive programs [citation needed], such as WQED-produced doo-wop specials, using the default network feed in late night to premiere those PBS programs instead, though St. Louis has traditionally had stations, commercial and non-commercial, preempt programming from ...
Channel 9: KMBC-TV (original) – CBS – Kansas City (August 1, 1953 – June 9, 1954, shared time with WHB-TV) Channel 14: KACY – St. Louis (October 31, 1953 – April 2, 1954)
The station first signed on the air by Signal Hill Telecasting Corporation [2] on August 10, 1953, as WTVI, broadcasting on UHF channel 54. It was originally licensed to Belleville, Illinois (across the Mississippi River from St. Louis), and was the second television station in the St. Louis market after KSD-TV (channel 5, now KSDK) on February 8, 1947.
KPLR-TV served as the home broadcaster of MLB's St. Louis Cardinals (for two stints from 1959 to 1962 and 1988 to 2006), the NBA's St. Louis Hawks (1959–1968) and the NHL's St. Louis Blues (for three stints from 1967 to 1976, 1982–83 and 1986 to April 21, 2009, the last Blues telecast on KPLR being a Stanley Cup playoff loss to the ...
KDTL-LD (channel 32) is a low-power television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It is owned by Gray Media alongside CBS affiliate KMOV (channel 4). The two stations share studios on Progress Parkway in suburban Maryland Heights and transmitting facilities in Lemay, Missouri .
KNLC (channel 24) is a television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, which broadcasts the classic television network MeTV. Owned and operated by Weigel Broadcasting , the station maintains a transmitter near Hillsboro-House Springs Road in House Springs, Missouri .
The broadcasts failed to produce a profit and then returned to KPLR for the 1982 NHL playoffs and the 1982–83 season before returning to KDNL (currently St. Louis' ABC affiliate) for the 1983–84 season, the first under the ownership of Harry Ornest. The Blues skated back to KPLR 3 years later.
Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis. The Anheuser-Busch company has long been a powerful engine in the St. Louis economy. Their ownership of the St. Louis Cardinals wedded two of the most popular groups in the region (St. Louis Cardinals fandom is widespread enough to have earned the sobriquet "Cardinal Nation").