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channel 21, is a low-powered YTA TV-

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television station licensed to Joplin, Missouri, United States. The station is owned by the Board of Governors at Missouri Southern State University.RabbitEars.Info -- Query for KGCS-LD
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History

The station began in September 1984 as MSTV, a cable-exclusive student-access television station. Student-produced programming was the main staple for the channel. The channel began broadcasting city council meetings in Joplin, and those broadcasts still happen on the station in the present.�
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for the over-the-air signal was issued in January 1986, it was not on the air until sometime in 1988. In 1988, the station launched as K57DR, operating on

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channel 57. The transmitter was erected just before the signal went on the air. In 1995, the station's callsign was changed to KGCS-LP. The station's digital signal on UHF channel 22 has been on the air since 2008, and the station changed the call letters to the current KGCS-LD in July 2009 after voluntarily shutting down their analog signal.

References

External links

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KGCS-TV Website
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