KMOS-TV (channel 6) is a PBS member television station licensed to Sedalia, Missouri, United States.
However, it is carried on Charter Spectrum cable systems in Sedalia and Warrensburg as one of two Mid-Missouri stations provided (alongside ABC affiliate KMIZ, channel 17).
[3] Until February 17, 2009, KMOS also competed with KETC, the St. Louis PBS member station, on Mediacom cable systems in the market.
KETC has since been dropped from Mediacom's systems in Columbia and Jefferson City as of February 17, leaving KMOS to be the sole PBS station in these areas.
In July 1955, Deare Publications, publisher of the Sedalia Democrat newspaper, purchased 50% of KDRO-AM-TV from Hinlein.
Cook Paint and Varnish Company, owner of KMBC-TV, then bought KDRO-TV on January 28, 1959, and changed the call letters to the current KMOS-TV.
The station had always found the going difficult due to a limited viewer base, and becoming a full satellite of KMBC-TV ensured its survival.
Central took control of KMOS on August 15, 1978, and took it off the air for 16 months to give it a significant technical overhaul.
The tower is 0.2 metres (0.66 ft) higher than the previous record holder KYTV (TV) in Springfield, Missouri.