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KOAM-TV
KOAM-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Pittsburg, Kansas, United States, serving the Joplin, Missouri–Pittsburg, Kansas market as an affiliate of CBS. It is owned by Morgan Murphy Media, which provides certain services to dual Fox/ CW+ affiliate KFJX (channel 14, also licensed to Pittsburg) under joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with owner SagamoreHill Broadcasting. The two stations share studios and transmitter facilities on US 69 south of Pittsburg, with a secondary studio and news bureau on South Range Line Road in Joplin. History KOAM-TV first signed on at 5:22 p.m. on December 13, 1953, under the ownership of MidContinent Broadcasting Company, a joint venture of ''The Joplin Globe'' newspaper and E. Victor Baxter and Lester E. Cox, owners of KOAM radio (860 AM, the current KKOW), with Baxter and Cox holding a controlling interest. The ''Globe'' would eventually sell its minority stake in the station to Baxter and Cox. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KFJX
KFJX (channel 14) is a television station licensed to Pittsburg, Kansas, United States, serving the Joplin, Missouri–Pittsburg, Kansas market as an affiliate of Fox and The CW Plus. It is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting, which maintains joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Morgan Murphy Media, owner of CBS affiliate KOAM-TV (channel 7, also licensed to Pittsburg), for the provision of certain services. The two stations share studios and transmitter facilities on US 69 south of Pittsburg, with a secondary studio and news bureau on South Range Line Road in Joplin. Although KFJX broadcasts a digital signal of its own, its primary channel is simulcast in high definition on KOAM-TV's second digital subchannel from the same transmitter site because the KFJX signal is weaker (45.1 kW vs. 98.8 kW for KOAM-TV). History The station signed on the air on October 18, 2003; the station was launched primarily to bring a Fox affiliate to the area, since the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KKOW (AM)
KKOW (860 kHz) is an AM radio station in Pittsburg, Kansas. It broadcasts a farm– classic country format. KKOW is the flagship station for Pittsburg State University football and basketball games. Those broadcasts also air on sister station KBZI. Programming heard on KKOW includes ''Coast to Coast AM'', ''America in the Morning'', ''Orion Samuelson's National Farm Report'', ''Mornings with Dalton'', ''Trading Post'', ''Agritalk with Mike Adams'' and ''The Sports Drive with Eddie Lomshek''. Farm reports and classic country music are broadcast throughout the day. History The station began on October 11, 1937, as KOAM, owned by E. Victor Baxter and Lester L. Cox on 790 kHz. It later moved to 810 kHz. It traded off 810 kHz with KCMO in Kansas City, Missouri (now on 710 kHz) for its current location on 860 kHz. KOAM originally was an NBC affiliate, carrying programming from both the Red and Blue networks. Cox and Baxter also founded KOAM-TV in 1953, an NBC affi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Williams
Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is an American journalist and television news anchor. He was a correspondent for ''NBC Nightly News'' starting in 1993, before his promotion to anchorman, anchor and managing editor of the broadcast in 2004. In February 2015, Williams was suspended by NBC News for six months for "misrepresent[ing] events which occurred while he was covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraq War in 2003". Four months after the incident came to light, the network removed him from ''NBC Nightly News'' permanently and reassigned him as the breaking news anchor for MSNBC. In September 2016, Williams became the host of MSNBC's political news show, ''The 11th Hour (news program), The 11th Hour''. Williams announced in November 2021 that he would be leaving MSNBC and NBC News at the completion of his contract the following month, when he hosted his final episode of ''The 11th Hour''. On October 17, 2024, Williams was announced as the host for Election Night cov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morgan Murphy Media
The Evening Telegram Company, d/b/a Morgan Murphy Media, is an American television and radio company based in Madison, Wisconsin. The company is named for publisher Morgan Murphy, who expanded the business after he took over from his grandfather, who founded the '' Superior Evening Telegram'' (now owned by Forum Communications). History The company traces its roots to the founding of the ''Superior Evening Telegram'' in 1890 by John T. Murphy. He died in 1932, and the business passed to his son John Morgan Murphy, who acquired several other newspapers in the Upper Midwest and also expanded into broadcasting. The company sold off its print interests in 2003, leaving only its former broadcasting division. Nevertheless, it is still legally incorporated as the "Evening Telegram Company." The company was known as Morgan Murphy Stations until 2007, when its trade name was slightly changed to Morgan Murphy Media. On May 10, 2017, the company announced that it would acquire Saga Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SagamoreHill Broadcasting
SagamoreHill Broadcasting LLC is a privately held American holding company that owns 13 television stations based in the Great Lakes and southern United States regions. The company is a joint venture of the investment firm Duff Ackerman & Goodrich of San Francisco, California and former Benedek Broadcasting and Spartan Communications executive Louis Wall (who is also CEO of the group). The company is headquartered in Augusta, Georgia. History The company was founded in 2003. In 2005, SagamoreHill Broadcasting acquired KXLT-TV in Rochester, Minnesota as a result of Quincy Newspapers' purchase of Shockley Communications (the former owner of KXLT-TV), and Quincy could not buy KXLT outright due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules governing duopolies. In 2007, SagamoreHill Broadcasting acquired WLTZ in Columbus, Georgia from J. Curtis Lewis. On July 23, 2008, SagamoreHill Broadcasting acquired the license of KZTV in Corpus Christi, Texas to comply with Federal Communic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma City Thunder
The Oklahoma City Thunder are an American professional basketball team based in Oklahoma City. The Thunder compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Northwest Division (NBA), Northwest Division of the Western Conference (NBA), Western Conference. The team plays its home games at Paycom Center. The Thunder's NBA G League affiliate is the Oklahoma City Blue, which it owns. The Thunder are the only team in the Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada, major professional North American sports leagues based in the state of Oklahoma. Oklahoma City previously hosted the New Orleans Hornets for two seasons following Effect of Hurricane Katrina on the New Orleans Hornets, devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The team was originally established as the Seattle SuperSonics, an expansion team that joined the NBA for the 1967–68 NBA season, 1967–68 season The SuperSonics Seattle SuperSonics relocation to Oklahoma Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023–24 Oklahoma City Thunder Season
The 2023–24 Oklahoma City Thunder season was the 16th season of the franchise in Oklahoma City and the 58th in the National Basketball Association (NBA). After a win over the Rockets on February 27, the Thunder improved on their 40–42 record from the previous year. After a win over the New Orleans Pelicans, the Thunder reached 50 wins for the first time since 2016. On March 31, 2024, the Thunder clinched their first playoff berth since 2020 after a win against the New York Knicks. They eventually clinched their first division title since 2016, along with the top seed in the Western Conference for the first time since 2013. The Thunder became the youngest team to earn the 1-seed since seeding began in 1984 (with an average age almost two years younger than the previous record holder, the 2004–05 Phoenix Suns). In the playoffs, the Thunder swept the New Orleans Pelicans, 4–0 in the first round, making them the youngest team ever to win a playoff series, surpassing the 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KAVU-TV
KAVU-TV (channel 25) is a television station in Victoria, Texas, United States, affiliated with American Broadcasting Company, ABC. Owned by Morgan Murphy Media, it is the largest station in the Victoria Television Group, which also includes the low-power broadcasting#Television, low-power affiliates of NBC (KMOL-LD, channel 17), CBS (KXTS-LD, channel 41), Univision (KUNU-LD, channel 21), Telemundo (KVTX-LD, channel 45), and Cozi TV (KQZY-LD, channel 33); additionally, Morgan Murphy provides certain services to Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox affiliate KVCT (channel 19) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with SagamoreHill Broadcasting. The Victoria Television Group studios are located on North Navarro Street, with transmitter facilities on Farm to Market Road 236 west of the city. KAVU-TV was established in 1982 as the second full-service TV station in Victoria. In 1989, a bank that came to have financial interests in KAVU and its primary competitor, KVCT, consolidated the two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KSNF
KSNF (channel 16) is a television station licensed to Joplin, Missouri, United States, serving the Joplin, Missouri–Pittsburg, Kansas media market#Television, television market as an affiliate of NBC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which provides certain services to American Broadcasting Company, ABC affiliate KODE-TV (channel 12, also licensed to Joplin) under local marketing agreement, joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with owner Mission Broadcasting. The two stations share studios on South Cleveland Avenue in Joplin, where KSNF's transmitter is also located. History The station first signed on as KUHI-TV (for "Ultra High Frequency") on January 4, 1968, as a CBS affiliate. KUHI was the first station in the Joplin–Pittsburg market to broadcast on the UHF band. It was originally owned by Marvin Caldwell & Associates. Mid-America Broadcasting sold the station to the owners of the Kansas State Network and changed its call letters to KTVJ ("Television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KODE-TV
KODE-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Joplin, Missouri, United States, serving as the American Broadcasting Company, ABC affiliate for the Joplin, Missouri–Pittsburg, Kansas television market. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting, which maintains local marketing agreement, joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Nexstar Media Group, owner of NBC affiliate KSNF (channel 16, also licensed to Joplin), for the provision of certain services. The two stations share studios on South Cleveland Avenue in Joplin, where KODE-TV's transmitter is also located. History The station began broadcasting on September 26, 1954, as KSWM-TV (for Southwestern Missouri) and was a primary CBS affiliate, but shared ABC with then-NBC affiliate KOAM-TV. It was locally founded by Austin Harrison who also owned radio station KSWM (1230 AM; now KZYM). It originally operated from studios and transmitter located on West 13th Street in Joplin. Harrison sold his stations to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pittsburg, Kansas
Pittsburg is a city in Crawford County, Kansas, Crawford County, Kansas, United States, located in southeast Kansas near the Missouri state border. It is the most populous city in Crawford County and southeast Kansas. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 20,646. It is the home of Pittsburg State University. History On October 23, 1864, a wagon train of refugees had come from Fort Smith, Arkansas, and was escorted by troops from the 6th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, 6th Kansas Cavalry under the command of Col. William Campbell. These were local men from Cherokee, Crawford, and Bourbon counties. Their enlistment was over, and they were on their way to Fort Leavenworth to be dismissed from service. They ran into the 1st Indian Brigade led by Maj. Andrew Jackson Piercy near the current Pittsburg Waste Water Treatment Plant. They continued to the north when a small group of wagons broke away in an unsuccessful rush to safety. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shared Services
Shared services is the provision of a service by one part of an organization or group where that service had previously been found in more than one part of the organization or group. Thus the funding and resourcing of the service is shared and the providing department effectively becomes an internal service provider. The key here is the idea of 'sharing' within an organization or group. This sharing needs to fundamentally include shared accountability of results by the unit from where the work is migrated to the provider. The provider, on the other hand, needs to ensure that the agreed results are delivered based on defined measures ( KPIs, cost, quality etc.). Overview Shared services is similar to collaboration that might take place between different organizations such as a Hospital Trust or a Police Force. For example, adjacent Trusts might decide to collaborate by merging their HR or IT functions. There are two arguments for sharing services: [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
