 Today, NATF has evolved into the annual Hear Now Festival, which features public listening sessions and performances by many renowned audio performance producers in Kansas City, Missouri .In 1977, KOPN's parent, The New Wave Corporation, sought to bring public television and PBS programming to Columbia.The University of Missouri owns and operates full power TV station KOMU as a commercial NBC affiliate and not a public television station and thus there was no public TV signal available in mid-Missouri.