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www.kimt.com
KIMT-TV (formerly KGLO-TV)
went on the air at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 15, 1954. A CBS and DuMont
television affiliate, KGLO-TV first broadcast on channel 3 with 100,000
watts effective radiated power, the maximum permitted in its day on that
channel. The audience included more than half a million people and the
signal blanketed what was referred to as "The Golden Triangle" including
Mason City, Iowa and Austin and Albert Lea, Minnesota. Signals were
reported as far away as Gary, Indiana and Rochester, Minnesota.
In August of 1977 FCC regulations required the combined ownership of the
Globe Gazette, KGLO radio and KGLO-TV to be separated as it would no
longer be allowed to own a television and a radio station in the same
community. KGLO-TV was sold to B-Y Communications and with this change in
ownership came the change in the call letters to KIMT-TV - the "IMT"
representing "Iowa-Minnesota Television". In June of 1980, Daily Telegraph
Printing Company, based in Bluefield, West Virginia, purchased the
station. Ownership changed again on June 29, 1984 when KIMT-TV was
acquired by Spartan Radiocasting Company (later to become Spartan
Communications). Ownership switched to the Media General Broadcasting
group based out of Richmond, Virginia in April of 2000.
KIMT-TV has grown and innovated along with the television broadcasting
industry, bringing news and programming from black and white to the
implementation of digital television in May of 2002 and expansion to high
definition television. The current demographic area viewing audience, now
referred to as the "Rochester, Minnesota DMA", has tripled and is closer
to four times the viewership of 1954. KIMT News Channel 3 is moving into
the future with determination in bringing North Iowa and Southern
Minnesota top news coverage, the latest in meteorology equipment and top
rated CBS prime programming.
Information taken from
www.kimt.com
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