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KQFX-LD (channel 22), branded Fox 22, is a low-power television station licensed to Columbia, Missouri, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Columbia–Jefferson City media market. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) alongside dual ABC/MyNetworkTV affiliate KMIZ (channel 17, also licensed to Columbia); the stations together are branded as the "Networks of Mid-Missouri". The two stations share studios on the East Business Loop 70 in Columbia; KQFX-LD's transmitter is located west of Jamestown near the Moniteau–Cooper county line.
In addition to its own digital signal, KQFX-LD is simulcast in high definition on KMIZ's fourth digital subchannel (17.4) from the same transmitter site.
KQFX-LD is the successor to three different low-power TV stations, two in Columbia and one in Jefferson City, the oldest of which began broadcasting in 1990. Benedek Broadcasting brought the Fox network to Mid-Missouri in 1997 by acquiring two of them and running them alongside KMIZ. The third was acquired in 2003 and is the current license on which the station has operated since the digital television transition in 2009. KQFX offers morning and late newscasts produced by KMIZ.
In 1997, Karpowicz sold K02NQ and K11TB in Jefferson City to Benedek Broadcasting, the owners of Columbia ABC affiliate KMIZ (channel 17). The stations were relaunched as Mid-Missouri's first in-market and full-time Fox affiliate, carried on cable channel 11. Part-time Fox programming was previously seen as a secondary affiliation on CBS station KRCG-TV (until 1996), while full-time programming from Fox can be seen at the time on cable via neighboring sandwiched stations or Foxnet, but many cable systems in the Mid-Missouri region continued to show full-time Fox programming from other markets (Kansas City, Springfield, and St. Louis) due to the station's low-power signal.
Koenig died in February 2000. Three years later, Tom sold K11SN to JW Broadcasting, the new owners of KMIZ. JW added a 9 p.m. local newscast from KMIZ to "Fox 11", now also known as KQFX, in 2003.
On June 14, 2009, two days after the digital television transition for full-power stations, KQFX moved from channel 38 to digital operations on channel 22 on the former K11SN/KZOU-LP license and became "Fox 22". KMIZ had been using channel 22 for pre-transition digital operations.
In 2012, JW Broadcasting sold KMIZ and KQFX-LD to the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) for $16 million. NPG lengthened the weeknight prime time newscast on KQFX from 30 to 60 minutes in 2013.
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