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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 ...
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.
The show sparked the interest of Alan Yentob of the BBC, and Michael Grade of Channel 4, and eventually a deal was struck with Channel 4 to put the live show on television. With the help of Jonathan Ross' production company Channel X, a pilot was produced in 1989 (available to watch on YouTube) where the three-hour show was cut down to 25 minutes.
Since 1981, Murphy has been known as "Voice of Channel 9", producing and narrating such programming as the popular Living St. Louis and the nationally distributed A Time for Champions, chronicling the St. Louis University soccer dynasty of the 1960s and 70s. [1]
The St. Louis television market includes the city itself, 14 counties in east-central Missouri, and 15 counties in southwestern Illinois. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] In its Fall 2018 ranking of television markets by population, Arbitron ranked the St. Louis market 21st in the United States.
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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 .
The station first signed on the air on July 8, 1954, as KWK-TV. At its launch, channel 4 was owned by a consortium which included Robert T. Convey (28%) and the now-defunct Newhouse Newspapers–published St. Louis Globe-Democrat (23%), who jointly operated KWK radio (1380 AM, now KXFN); Elzey M. Roberts Sr., former owner of KXOK radio (630 AM, now KYFI), which had to be sold as a condition of ...