KOZL-TV

KOZL-TV (channel 27) is a television station in Springfield, Missouri, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Osage Beach–licensed Fox affiliate KRBK (channel 49); Nexstar also provides certain services to CBS affiliate KOLR (channel 10) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Mission Broadcasting. The stations share studios on East Division Street in Springfield; KOZL-TV's transmitter is located on Switchgrass Road, north of Fordland.

The Midland Television Corporation, a group of Springfield businessmen led by Ken Meyer, built the station at KMTC in 1968. It was Springfield's ABC affiliate but languished in local news ratings, trailing the established KOLR and KYTV. In 1985, Charles Woods bought the station and renamed it KDEB-TV after his daughter Deborah, who became station manager. When Woods bought the station, it was in the middle of a fight for its affiliation with the recently built KSPR (channel 33), which successfully obtained the ABC affiliation in 1986. Woods contested the action and sued ABC; even though he obtained a favorable jury verdict, a federal judge overturned it. KDEB instead became a Fox affiliate in 1987 and became more competitive with improved network programming.

The station was sold three times in the 1990s; the third owner, Quorum Broadcasting, entered into the first version of the LMA with KOLR in 1999. Under common operation with KOLR, KDEB introduced a 9 p.m. local newscast, and KOLR helped KDEB recover from the November 2001 collapse of its tower, leaving it at reduced power for nearly two months. Nexstar acquired KDEB-TV in 2003; the station changed call signs to KSFX-TV in 2005. When Nexstar and Fox entered into a dispute over terms of their affiliation agreement in 2011, Fox moved its affiliation to KRBK, leaving channel 27 to become an independent station as KOZL-TV.