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KRCG
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KRCG

Jefferson City/Columbia, Missouri
Branding KRCG
KRCG News
Channels Analog: 13 (VHF)
Digital: 12 (VHF)
Translators K110J 11 Sedalia
Affiliations CBS
Owner Barrington Broadcasting
Founded February 13, 1955
Call letters meaning K Robert C. Goshorn (Named in memory of original owner's father)
Former affiliations ABC (secondary, 1955-71)
UPN (secondary, 1995-2004)
Website www.krcg.com

KRCG, Channel 13 is the CBS affiliate for the Columbia/Jefferson City, Missouri television market. The station is licensed to Jefferson City.

The station was founded on February 13, 1955 and was owned by the Jefferson City News Tribune. The paper's publisher, Betty Goshorn Weldon, named the station in honor of her late father, Robert C. Goshorn. Goshorn had wanted to bring a television station to the area before he died in 1953. Ms. Weldon inherited the paper on his death and took over his dream. She thus became one of the first women to own and operate a television station.

KRCG has always been a CBS affiliate, and is the only station in the market that has retained the same primary network affiliation throughout its existence. The other network affiliates in the market (KOMU-TV and KMIZ-TV) have switched networks twice (first in 1982, then reverted back to their original networks in 1986).

From the 1960s through 1978, KRCG owned KMOS-TV, Channel 6, in Sedalia. KMOS was operated as a satellite of KRCG. In the 1970s, KMOS would break away from KRCG and air its own evening newscast. KRCG operated KMOS at a relatively low power level, and shyed away from selling KMOS to another commercial operator. KRCG and KOMU-TV, the NBC affiliate in Columbia, were the only two VHF network affiliates in the market, and it was feared that if KMOS was sold, the station could potentially become a full-power ABC affiliate. KRCG shared a secondary ABC affiliation with KOMU until ABC affiliate KCBJ-TV (now KMIZ), Channel 17, signed-on in Columbia in 1971. KRCG donated KMOS to Central Missouri State University (now the University of Central Missouri) in Warrensburg. At that time, KMOS was converted to a stand-alone PBS station. KRCG then signed-on a Sedalia translator, K11OJ.

In 1967, KRCG was sold to Kansas City Southern Industries, which retained the station until 1985, when it was sold to Price Communications Corporation. After three years KRCG was sold to Mel Wheeler, Inc., which owned the station until March 2005, when KRCG was purchased by Barrington Broadcasting. Its transmitter, the KRCG TV Tower built in 1957, is a 282.5 metre high guyed TV tower at Holts Summit, Missouri, at 38°41'30.0" N and 92°05'45.0" W.

KRCG has traditionally dominated the western (Jefferson City) side of the market.


[edit] Current Talent
Ladd Egan - Weekend Anchor/Reporter
Lee Gordon - Noon Weather
Chester Lampkin - Morning Meteorologist
Monica Madeja - Morning Anchor/Reporter
Mallory McGowin - Reporter
Kermit Miller - 6 & 10 Anchor
Touchdown Tony Mullen - Weekend Sports Anchor
Kyle Myers - Fill-in Weather
Zach Paul - Weekend Weather
Dick Preston - Morning and Noon Anchor
Mike Roberts - Chief Meteorologist
Mark Slavit - Columbia Bureau Chief
Teresa Snow - 5, 6, 10 Anchor
Rod Smith - Sports Director
Jeremy Stein - Sports Reporter
Amy Willenbrink - Reporter
Entrepreneur Adam Guy created a dessert bar called Encore at The Upper Crust as a way to get noticed in a crowded local restaurant scene.




Don Shrubshell photo
Adam Guy, owner of Encore at The Upper Crust, creates a dessert called Chocolate Decadence for the restaurant that caters to the after-dinner crowd. Encore will be featured along with restaurants in Boston and New York in a national TV news segment set to air Sunday.
Apparently it worked.

The downtown Columbia after-dinner spot at 904 Elm St. has been chosen along with eateries in Boston and New York for a national CBS News feature about the growing popularity of high-octane dessert restaurants sprouting across the country. The segment is set to air Sunday morning.

Guy said he found out about the story "out of the blue" after the restaurant phone rang during off hours and the caller ID showed a call from New York.

"I was intrigued, so I grabbed the phone, and it was Alan" Golds "from CBS News," Guy said. "He said I had been selected as part of a national television special on the dessert trend going on across America."

Guy said he was stunned after the call and began to think it might be a practical joke, but contact information from Golds and other information soon convinced him it was for real.

Golds, a 24-year CBS veteran who is one of the producers of the Sunday morning news broadcast, said today that local CBS affiliate KRCG-TV will do the production work tonight and send the results to New York for editing and blending with the two other restaurants into a three-minute segment.

Guy bought The Upper Crust restaurant about a year ago and focused on breakfast and lunch counter sales. He shunned joining a host of competitors vying for full-service evening diners, he said, and decided instead to forge a niche as the place to go after dinner for a wide array of unique desserts, wine, beer and coffee. The restaurant launched in August.

"It's for people who want more than just a slice of cake on a plate," Guy said.

Still in his early 20s, Guy also operates an Internet-based silicone wristband business, co-owns the Cold Stone Creamery ice cream shop in the same downtown building as The Upper Crust and performs magic shows on the side.

The broadcast, which airs on KRCG at 8 a.m., also will include footage from Finale in Boston and Chika Licious in New York.

Golds said he found out about Guy's Encore restaurant from a Tribune story and other articles on the Internet.

He already knew about Chika Licious, which features dessert appetizers, entrees and more, because he's a customer. The idea, he said, is to spotlight the trend of full-service dessert restaurants that are "more a focus on flavor than calories."

KRCG General Manager Betsy Farris said this morning that CBS officials told her the segment on dessert bars likely would run during the last half-hour of the 90-minute program.

She said the feature was a coup for Guy to be featured along with restaurants in New York and Boston.

"It's certainly out of the ordinary," she said.

When asked whether he was making any special preparation for tonight, Guy said, "Yeah, we're making sure that we're staffed properly."