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KOSA-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Odessa, Texas, United States, serving as the CBS affiliate for the Permian Basin area. It is owned by Gray Media alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate KWWT (channel 30), CW+ affiliate KCWO-TV (channel 4), Telemundo affiliate KTLE-LD (channel 20), and 365BLK affiliate KMDF-LD (channel 22). The five stations share studios inside the Music City Mall on East 42nd Street in Odessa, with a secondary studio and news bureau in downtown Midland; KOSA-TV's transmitter is located on FM 866 west of Odessa. The station is relayed on low-power translator in Big Spring.
On November 26, 1983, a air charter twin-engine Beechcraft B100 King Air turboprop was flying from Fort Worth to Odessa NTSB accident synopsis for B100 N1910L retrieved November 27, 2009 when it fell nose first, crashed and burned on impact. It killed all eight on board, instantly, some burned beyond recognition. Six of the victims were KOSA-TV station employees who had been away filming high school football playoffs. The plane burned for about four hours before firemen could extinguish the blaze. A charred and twisted heap of metal was all that remained.
The victims were eventually identified as assistant news director Gary Hopper, 32, of Midland; sports director Jeff Shull, 25, of Odessa; chief engineer Bobby Stephens, 47, of Odessa; assistant chief engineer Edward Monette, 26, of Odessa; production assistants Bruce Dyer, 26, of Midland and Brent Roach, 24, of Odessa; pilot Keith Elkin, 29, of Midland; and Jay Alva Price, 37, of Midland, a helper for the station at football games and Hopper's brother-in-law.
Local real estate company Investment Corporation of America (ICA) purchased the station from Benedek Broadcasting in 2000. On May 20, 2015, Gray Television announced that it would acquire KOSA-TV from ICA for $33.6 million; the sale was completed on July 1. The deal reunited KOSA-TV with several of its former Benedek sister stations, as Gray acquired most of Benedek's stations following the latter's bankruptcy in 2002.
By fall 2017, the over-the-air digital signal of KOSA-DT2 had been upgraded into 720p high definition, thus giving viewers in the Odessa–Midland market over-the-air access to MyNetworkTV's high definition feed for the first time.
On June 25, 2018, Gray announced it had reached an agreement with Montgomery, Alabama-based Raycom Media to merge their respective broadcasting assets (consisting of Raycom's 63 existing owned-and/or-operated television stations, including competing NBC affiliate KWES-TV (channel 9) and its satellite KWAB-TV (channel 4), and Gray's 93 television stations) under Gray's corporate umbrella. The cash-and-stock merger transaction valued at $3.6 billion—in which Gray shareholders would acquire preferred stock currently held by Raycom—required divestment of either KOSA-TV or KWES-TV due to FCC ownership regulations prohibiting common ownership of two of the four highest-rated stations in a single market (as well as more than two stations in any market). Gray announced it would retain KOSA-TV, and sell KWES-TV to an unrelated third party. On August 20, it was announced that Tegna Inc. would buy KWES and sister station WTOL in Toledo, Ohio for $105 million. However, Gray retained KWAB and converted it to a CW+ affiliate under the callsign KCWO, "Call Sign History", CDBS Public Access, Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved February 15, 2019. with a simulcast on KOSA's second digital subchannel. The sale was completed on January 2, 2019. "Gray Completes Acquisition of Raycom Media and Related Transactions", Gray Television, January 2, 2019. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
On July 24, 2020, it was announced that Gray would purchase MeTV affiliate KWWT, and sister low-power station, KMDF-LD for $1.84 million, pending FCC approval. Gray sought a failing station waiver as the Odessa–Midland market would not have at least eight independent voices after the transaction (KCWO-TV is licensed as a satellite of KOSA-TV despite airing different programming).
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Request for Failing Station Waiver In addition, Gray also announced that after the sale, KWWT would move its operations to the shared KOSA/KCWO facility in Odessa. The FCC granted the waiver on September 14. "Letter", CDBS Public Access, Federal Communications Commission, September 14, 2020. Retrieved September 20, 2020. The sale was completed on September 30. "CBS7 Media Group continues to grow", KOSA-TV, September 30, 2020. Retrieved October 1, 2020. "Consummation Notice", CDBS Public Access, Federal Communications Commission, October 1, 2020. Retrieved October 1, 2020. "Consummation Notice" (KMDF-LD), CDBS Public Access, Federal Communications Commission, October 1, 2020. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
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