ShopTalk | Social Media KOMU Puts Local News on a Global Platform Using Google+ Hangouts By Merrill Knox on Sep. 30, 2011 - 2:02 PM As local stations nationwide struggled with how to replace “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in their programming lineup, a new idea emerged at KOMU, the NBC-affiliate in Columbia, MO: a social-media driven newscast that would ...