KYOU-TV launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 15.2 on January 1, 2015, which originally operated as an affiliate of digital multicast network Grit. On January 8, 2018, American Spirit Media announced it had reached a long-term agreement with NBC to provide the network's programming over its DT2 subchannel starting later that month, a transaction that would mark the return of an in-market NBC station in the Ottumwa–Kirksville market after KTVO discontinued a secondary affiliation with that network in 1974. New Moon Communications had planned to launch a standalone, low-power NBC station in Ottumwa–Kirksville in the fall of 2011, following its purchase of a former Trinity Broadcasting Network translator station (recalled as KUMK-LP); however, New Moon was never able to commence any of the new major network-affiliated stations they planned to launch in several markets (most of which were slated to be NBC affiliates), and the license was cancelled in March 2014.