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HIGHLIGHTS: Nevada Volleyball is 1-0 to begin the 2025 season after a 3-0 sweep over Joplin the season opener tonight. G...
09/03/2025

HIGHLIGHTS: Nevada Volleyball is 1-0 to begin the 2025 season after a 3-0 sweep over Joplin the season opener tonight. Grab our highlights below.

We continue our 2025 high school football preview series with a look at the Liberal Bulldogs. Hear from fifth-year head ...
09/03/2025

We continue our 2025 high school football preview series with a look at the Liberal Bulldogs. Hear from fifth-year head coach Garrett Zoucha and a pair of senior players on what to expect from the …

WATCH: Carl Junction Softball extends their early season record to 4-1 with a 13-8 victory on the road versus McDonald C...
09/03/2025

WATCH: Carl Junction Softball extends their early season record to 4-1 with a 13-8 victory on the road versus McDonald County.

Carl Junction will have to wait a little longer before finding its interim mayor.
09/03/2025

Carl Junction will have to wait a little longer before finding its interim mayor.

Carl Junction will have to wait a little longer before finding its interim mayor.

NEWS: MSSU Football’s Zach Bergmann was just named this week’s MIAA Defensive Player of the Week. Check out some of his ...
09/03/2025

NEWS: MSSU Football’s Zach Bergmann was just named this week’s MIAA Defensive Player of the Week. Check out some of his highlights in MSSU’s Week 1 win below.

Health officials in Jasper County are warning of an uptick in whooping cough cases.
09/03/2025

Health officials in Jasper County are warning of an uptick in whooping cough cases.

Health officials in Jasper County are warning of an uptick in whooping cough cases.

Many health care providers are starting to get in their stock of vaccine, and are encouraging patients to get the shot.
09/03/2025

Many health care providers are starting to get in their stock of vaccine, and are encouraging patients to get the shot.

A chase involving a reported stolen vehicle ends in a crash at 7th and Schifferdecker.
09/03/2025

A chase involving a reported stolen vehicle ends in a crash at 7th and Schifferdecker.

Missouri’s Senate Bill 150 creates the Career Tech Certificate program, which covers the cost of tuition, books and fees...
09/03/2025

Missouri’s Senate Bill 150 creates the Career Tech Certificate program, which covers the cost of tuition, books and fees for short term training, allowing recent high school graduates to rece…

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July 2018 - Joplin News 1st (#joplinnewsfirst) joins www.fourstateshomepage.com as digital reporter.

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.