KRBK

For the television station in Sacramento, California, which formerly carried the KRBK callsign, see KMAX-TV.

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KRBK, virtual and UHF digital channel 49, is a primary Fox and secondary MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station serving Springfield, Missouri, United States that is licensed to Osage Beach. The station is owned by Koplar Communications. KRBK maintains studio facilities located on Enterprise Avenue in southeast Springfield, and its primary transmitter is located in Eldridge. The station uses a multi-site distributed transmission system using six digital transmitters located throughout the market to distribute its signal, all of which transmit on UHF channel 49.

History

The station first signed on the air on August 1, 2009; prior to signing on KRBK, Koplar Communications served as the founding owner of KPLR-TV in St. Louis – which it sold, along with Portland, Oregon sister station KWBP (now KRCW-TV), to Tribune Broadcasting in 2003 – and formerly owned KMAX-TV in Sacramento – which once bore the KRBK-TV call letters and which Koplar sold to the Paramount Stations Group in January 1998 (it is now owned by that company's successor CBS Television Stations). At the time KRBK signed on, MyNetworkTV programming had not been available in the market for several months, after Harrison-based KWBM (channel 31) switched to Daystar upon being sold to the network as part of Equity Media Holdings's auction of its television stations. The station originally branded as "KRBK-HD".

KRBK's transmitter was originally plotted to be located halfway between Springfield and Jefferson City in northern Laclede County, giving it rimshot (Grade B) signals within Springfield and Jefferson City. This is possible because Osage Beach spills into both Camden and Miller counties, and is thus split between the two markets. While Camden County is part of the Springfield market, Miller County is part of the Columbia-Jefferson City market. The transmitter was later moved to Eldridge, in northeastern Polk County, firmly in the Springfield market.

On June 20, 2011, Fox announced that it would end its affiliation with the network's Springfield charter affiliate, KSFX-TV (channel 27) following a dispute between the network and that station's owner Nexstar Broadcasting Group over Fox's proposal to increase the amount of retransmission consent fees that its stations must divide with the network; on that same day, Koplar signed an affiliation agreement with Fox to make KRBK the market's new affiliate. The switch became official on September 1, 2011, with KSFX-TV changing its call letters to KOZL-TV and became an independent station. With the addition of Fox programming on the station, KRBK relegated MyNetworkTV to a secondary affiliation, delaying its programming by two hours to 9:00 to 11:00 p.m.; as a result, KRBK is one of the few Fox-MyNetworkTV hybrid affiliates that carry both networks on the station's main channel (most Fox affiliates that also carry MyNetworkTV programming usually air the latter service on an additional digital subchannel). The station also changed its on-air branding to "Fox KRBK".

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming
49.1	720p	16:9	KRBK-DT	Main KRBK programming / Fox / my network TV program
49.2	480i	4:3		Me-TV

In 2013, KRBK launched a second digital subchannel carrying the classic television network Me-TV.

Programming

Syndicated programs broadcast by KRBK include Maury, The Office, Right This Minute, The Steve Wilkos Show, TMZ on TV, Dish Nation, Access Hollywood and Cops Reloaded. From 2010 to 2012, KRBK aired wraparound segments throughout its broadcast day featuring the "KRBK Street Team," who provided entertainment, sports and event-related stories.

Newscasts

In September 2012, KRBK began airing hourly weather forecast segments that were interspersed within its afternoon and evening syndicated programming. Local news programming on the station began in March 2013, with the debut of 6 News Breaks every weeknight (4:00pm, 5:00pm, 6:00pm, 9:00pm, 10:00pm & 11pm). Each News break consisted of 1 minute of News content, and 1 minute of Weather. In May of 2014, the Newsbreak was changed to a 10-minute newscast each weeknight at 9:00 p.m. (this began further delaying the start of MyNetworkTV's programming lineup to 9:10 p.m., with the programming service's local ad time now effectively taken up by the newscast); prior to its debut, KRBK was the largest Fox affiliate by market size that did not air any local news programming, either produced in-house or outsourced to another station. It remains the largest Fox affiliate that does not air a local newscast running 30 minutes or longer.

In addition, KRBK is one of the few "Big Four" network stations that airs the syndicated morning news and lifestyle program The Daily Buzz. It currently airs both hours of the program from 6:00 to 8:00 a.m.; as a result, it is one of a decreasing number of stations that carry the full two-hour broadcast (most stations now carry only one hour of the program). During the tenure of the "KRBK Street Team" segments, the station also ran wraparound segments during the program titled "Buzzed into the Ozarks".

Transmitters

In April 2013, KRBK improved its signal coverage through the implementation of a distributed single-frequency network, consisting of five specially engineered slot antennas positioned throughout the Springfield area – all of which broadcast high definition digital signals on UHF channel 49.

Due to this system, the station is unavailable over-the-air in Salem, located in the northeast part of the market, and is only available on cable television in that town.

City	HAAT	ERP	Coordinates	Location
Eldridge	100 m	92.3 kW	37°49′10″N 92°44′52″W	Northwest of Lebanon, just south of Eldridge
Polk	122 m	42.9 kW	37°43′26″N 93°16′32″W	Southwest of Pomme de Terre Lake
Springfield	191.8 m	170.9 kW	37°13′24.63″N 93°14′29.83″W	the KOLR studio-transmitter link tower behind the KOLR/KOZL-TV studios on Springfield's northeast side, near Downtown Airport
Stockton	104.4 m	88.8 kW	37°45′17.4″N 93°50′7.2″W	North of Stockton
Warsaw	119.1 m	43.7 kW	38°14′17.3″N 93°19′6.23″W	West of Warsaw, near the Truman Reservoir

In other media

The 2014 20th Century Fox film Gone Girl features KRBK's logo within the film's preview poster with news stories around the fictional kidnapping depicted in the film (whose setting takes place in KRBK's market area), along with a false search coordination website with the same logo. No real staff members were used in the film, and it is unknown at this time if a fictionalized version of the station will be part of the film.

External links

• FoxKRBK.com - KRBK official website
• MeTVOzarks.com - KRBK-DT2 ("Me-TV Ozarks") official website
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