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KRCG history
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The station was founded on February 13, 1955, and was owned by the Jefferson City News Tribune.
In 1961, the News Tribune bought KMOS-TV (channel 6) in Sedalia, operating it as a full-time satellite station for the western portion of the market.
In 1967, KRCG and KMOS were sold to Kansas City Southern Industries.
KRCG has always been a CBS affiliate, although it had shared some ABC programming with KOMU-TV (channel 8) until KCBJ-TV (channel 17, now KMIZ-TV) signed on in 1971.
In 1978, Kansas City Southern donated KMOS to Central Missouri State University (now the University of Central Missouri) in Warrensburg.
In 1985, Kansas City Southern sold the station to Price Communications.
On February 28, 2013, Barrington Broadcasting announced the sale of its entire group, including KRCG, to Sinclair Broadcast Group.
In August 2014, KRCG launched its first digital subchannel, broadcasting GetTV programming on PSIP channel 13.2.
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