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KOMU-TV
KOMU-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for Mid-Missouri that is licensed to Columbia. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter at its studios on US 63 southeast of downtown. The station can also be seen on Mediacom, Suddenlink, and Charter channel 7 as well as CenturyLink channel 8.
Owned by the University of Missouri and operated by the Missouri School of Journalism, KOMU is one of the only two commercial television stations in the United States to be owned by a public institution. The other is WVUA-CD, which is owned and operated by the University of Alabama.