Due to favorable geographical conditions (e.g., altitude—Fordland is approximately 300 feet higher in elevation than Springfield), numerous Springfield-based media outlets, such as KYTV (TV), KOLR, KOZL-TV, KSPR, and others, have located their transmitting towers in or near Fordland.
KOZL-TV, a television station (channel 27) licensed to serve Springfield, Missouri, United States, which held the call sign KDEB-TV from 1985 to 2005
In 1986, ABC dropped its affiliation with KDEB and moved it to three-year old KSPR.
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The station was one of many Fox affiliates that planned to decline O. J. Simpson's two-night interview special with Judith Regan on November 27 and 29, 2006 called If I Did It.
KOZL-TV, a television station (channel 27) licensed to Springfield, Missouri, United States, which held the call sign KSFX-TV from 2005–2011
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The move came after Nexstar was stripped of its Fox affiliations for WTVW in Evansville, WFFT-TV in Fort Wayne and KSFX-TV in Springfield, Missouri following a dispute between Nexstar and Fox during affiliation renewal negotiations over the amount of local stations' retransmission consent fees that Fox demanded the stations share with the network.