High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! KOMU-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for Mid-Missouri licensed to Columbia. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter at studios on US 63 southeast of downtown. The station can also be seen on Mediacom, Suddenlink, and Charter channel 7 as well as CenturyLink channel 8. Syndicated programming on the station includes: Wheel of Fortune, Oprah, Dr. Phil, and Rachael Ray. Owned by the University of Missouri and operated by the Missouri School of Journalism, KOMU is one of only two commercial television stations in the United States to be owned by a public institution, the other being WVUA-CA, owned and operated by the University of Alabama.