KSOT-TV

KSOT-TV, virtual channel 7 (UHF digital channel 21), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to, United States, serving the Southern Ozarks (Mountain View–Mountain Home–Fairfield Bay–Harrison) television market. The station has been locally owned by the Southern Ozarks Broadcasting Corporation since its inception, alongside KSOT (720 AM) and KSOT-FM (89.5 FM). The three stations share studios on Mill Pond Road in Mountain View, where KSOT-TV's transmitter is also located.

History
The first television station in the Southern Ozarks region, KSOT-TV began operations on channel 7 on November 1, 1956. The station was founded by businessman Edward K. Every Sr., and began as a primary NBC affiliate, but in its early years maintained a secondary relationship with CBS and ABC. It lost ABC to KHRS (channel 16; now Fox affiliate KOFX-TV) in 1960 and CBS to KOZT-TV (channel 29) in 1962.

Until 2013, KSOT-TV did not carry any of NBC's overnight programming (such as it's poker programming, for example Poker After Dark). Instead, the station would sign off every night (on Saturdays, the station signed off after Saturday Night Live), making it one of the few remaining stations in the country to do so. However, many Southern Ozarks region viewers could still receive NBC's overnight programming via either or  over-the-air or on cable.

In August 2020, KSOT-TV was admonished by the FCC for deliberately airing political ads, especially attack ads, during lesser-viewed programs such as the E/I The More You Know children's programming block, Dateline NBC and certain local programming as an act of malicious compliance with FCC regulations requiring over-the-air commercial TV stations with licenses issued by the FCC to air political ads by both parties, whether it be attack ads or more traditional political ads.