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A local lawmaker is pushing for legislation that would create pricing transparency for prescription drugs.
01/01/2026

A local lawmaker is pushing for legislation that would create pricing transparency for prescription drugs.

St. Mary’s-Colgan girls basketball senior guard Jakayla Davis is our Athlete of the Week! Fresh off a 42 point performan...
01/01/2026

St. Mary’s-Colgan girls basketball senior guard Jakayla Davis is our Athlete of the Week! Fresh off a 42 point performance, our Lauren Burgess caught up with Davis to learn the key to her suc…

WATCH: McDonald County Boys Basketball finishes 1-2 overall at the Neosho Holiday Classic following a loss to Pea Ridge ...
01/01/2026

WATCH: McDonald County Boys Basketball finishes 1-2 overall at the Neosho Holiday Classic following a loss to Pea Ridge in the 5th-place game. See the highlights below!

WATCH: Joplin Girls Basketball capped off the Neosho Holiday Classic with a big win over the hosts to claim a 5th place ...
01/01/2026

WATCH: Joplin Girls Basketball capped off the Neosho Holiday Classic with a big win over the hosts to claim a 5th place finish. See the highlights below!

WATCH: Neosho boys basketball takes down Crooked Oak to secure the Neosho Holiday Classic Championship.
01/01/2026

WATCH: Neosho boys basketball takes down Crooked Oak to secure the Neosho Holiday Classic Championship.

A Stone County judge has dismissed more than 60 felony charges against a Branson duck boat captain and two supervisors i...
01/01/2026

A Stone County judge has dismissed more than 60 felony charges against a Branson duck boat captain and two supervisors involved in the July 2018 deadly Ride the Ducks sinking, which resulted in the…

Downstream Casino Resort is hosting its annual New Year’s Eve Party with live music, food trucks, dancing, specialty coc...
12/31/2025

Downstream Casino Resort is hosting its annual New Year’s Eve Party with live music, food trucks, dancing, specialty cocktails and giveaways, expecting to draw thousands of attendees.

The City of Miami is hosting its first ever midnight ball drop to celebrate New Year’s Eve, featuring fireworks and a ba...
12/31/2025

The City of Miami is hosting its first ever midnight ball drop to celebrate New Year’s Eve, featuring fireworks and a ball drop, in anticipation of the 100th anniversary of Route 66 which is …

GROVE, Okla. – The Delaware County Sheriff’s office released information that a 10-day-old infant died on Dec. 29. Delaw...
12/31/2025

GROVE, Okla. – The Delaware County Sheriff’s office released information that a 10-day-old infant died on Dec. 29. Delaware County Sheriff Public Information Captain Josh Bynum confirme…

A Bourbon County man is arrested on child p**n charges.
12/31/2025

A Bourbon County man is arrested on child p**n charges.

The Joplin Board of Education is preparing to put a $40 million no-tax-increase bond issue on the April 7 ballot to pay ...
12/31/2025

The Joplin Board of Education is preparing to put a $40 million no-tax-increase bond issue on the April 7 ballot to pay for upgrades at older elementary schools, the high school, and facilities nea…

DEVELOPING: The Kansas City International Airport is on lockdown Wednesday morning, airport police confirmed.
12/31/2025

DEVELOPING: The Kansas City International Airport is on lockdown Wednesday morning, airport police confirmed.

The Kansas City International Airport is on lockdown Wednesday morning, airport police confirmed to FOX4.

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KODE-TV, virtual channel 12 (UHF digital channel 43), is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Joplin, Missouri, United States and also serving Pittsburg, Kansas. The station is owned by Mission Broadcasting; Nexstar Media Group, which owns NBC affiliate KSNF (channel 16, also licensed to Joplin), operates KODE-TV under joint sales and shared services agreements. The two stations share studios and transmitter facilities at 1502 South Cleveland Avenue in Joplin.

The station began broadcasting on September 26, 1954 as KSWM-TV (for SouthWestern Missouri) and was a primary CBS affiliate, but shared ABC with then-NBC affiliate KOAM-TV. It was locally founded by Austin Harrison who also owned radio station KODE AM 1230 (now KZYM). It originally operated from studios and transmitter located on West 13th Street in Joplin. Harrison sold the station to Friendly Broadcasting, owners of WSTV (now WTOV-TV) in Steubenville, Ohio in 1956. In 1957, the call letters were changed to the current KODE-TV.

Friendly then sold both KODE and WRGP (now WRCB) in Chattanooga, Tennessee to Massachusetts-based United Printers & Publishers in 1961. Gilmore Broadcasting of Kalamazoo, Michigan bought the KODE stations in 1962.