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As part of a major overhaul of the station's news programming, in 1993, longtime sportscaster Don Fortune and reporter Marty Lanus were let go. [66] At that time, the station also launched weekend morning newscasts, becoming the second Kansas City outlet to do so behind WDAF-TV and complementing the launch of weekday morning news a year earlier.
KMBC-TV presently broadcasts 34 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with five hours each weekday and 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to local news programming, it is the third-highest newscast output among the Kansas City market's television stations. KMBC also produces 22 ...
In September 2005, KSHB debuted a locally produced mid-morning talk show titled Kansas City Live. [105] This show aired until January 2008 [106] and was the first such program on the station since Kansas City Today, which aired between 1998 and 1999; despite making money, [105] it was a casualty of the introduction of Later Today by NBC.
The station made an intensive push to become the market's sports station, picking up rights packages including Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, and UMKC basketball, Kansas City Blades hockey, and—starting in 1993—65 Kansas City Royals baseball games each year, which was more than longtime rightsholder WDAF-TV had ever carried in its 13-year ...
The Call, local African-American news, weekly [8] Kansas City Business Journal, business news, weekly [9] The Kansas City Globe, local African-American news, weekly [10] Kansas City Hispanic News, local Hispanic news, weekly [11] Metro Voice Newspaper, local Christian digital news [12] National Catholic Reporter, Roman Catholic news, bi-weekly [13]
The two stations share studios on Winchester Avenue in the Ridge-Winchester section of Kansas City, Missouri; KCWE's transmitter is located in the city's Blue Valley section. Originally proposed for channel 32, channel 29 went on the air in September 1996 as KCWB, Kansas City's first local affiliate of The WB.
In September 2023, the channel was relaunched as Spectrum News 1 Kansas City, adding local and national news programming to the existing sports coverage. [5] During the day, local news headlines are aired every 30 minutes supplemented by news from Spectrum News+, Spectrum's national channel offering curated coverage from its local news channels.
Pages in category "Television stations in the Kansas City metropolitan area" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .