KPLR-TV

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KPLR-TV (channel 11), branded STL 11, is a television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, serving as the local outlet for The CW. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Fox affiliate KTVI (channel 2); Nexstar's Tegna subsidiary owns NBC affiliate KSDK (channel 5). KPLR-TV and KTVI share studios on Ball Drive in Maryland Heights; KPLR-TV's transmitter is located in Sappington, Missouri. The station first signed on the air on April 28, 1959, as the first independent station in Missouri. The station's call letters were derived from the name of its founding owner, St. Louis real estate developer and hotelier Harold Koplar. Despite losing in his quest to build the station from the ground up, events effectively outside his control would allow him to acquire the license for the station in 1958. CBS was originally granted a construction permit by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build channel 11 in January 1957, prevailing over three other locally based competitors. But eight months later, CBS decided instead to purchase its existing St. Louis affiliate, KWK-TV (channel 4). As a condition of the channel 4 purchase, the FCC required CBS to relinquish the channel 11 license and construction permit. CBS did so by transferring it to the Koplar group, known as "220 Television, Incorporated", for no financial consideration.