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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 ...
They again failed to make the playoffs in the 1980–1981 season, and Schoenstadt moved the team once more, this time to Kansas City, Missouri, rebranding them the Kansas City Comets. The Comets failed to qualify for the playoffs in the 1981–1982 season , but were thereafter consistent playoff contenders, making a total of seven playoff ...
The Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL) have had 13 head coaches in their franchise history. The franchise was founded in 1960 by Lamar Hunt and were known as the Dallas Texans when the team was located in Dallas, Texas. [1] The team relocated to Kansas City, Missouri and were renamed the Chiefs in
It closed permanently in 1986. [1] In 1996 Marriott Hotels bought the Muehlebach and made it into an extension of the Kansas City Marriott Downtown, a huge adjacent hotel originally built in 1985 as the Vista International Hotel. They imploded the 1952 Muehlebach Tower annex building and in 1998 built a new, modern Muehlebach tower in its place ...
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 news was received, per a report in Variety, with "puzzlement" in Kansas City, where KMBC radio was the sixth-oldest CBS affiliate with more than 25 years of service to the network. [21] KCMO-TV joined CBS and KMBC-TV joined ABC on September 28, 1955, with their radio counterparts exchanging affiliations on December 1. [ 22 ]
On March 20, 2009, Blackhand Strawman, a documentary of Kansas City's organized crime history, was released in theaters in Kansas City. On March 1, 2011, retired FBI agent William Ouseley published his history of the KC crime family from 1950 to 2000 in a book titled Mobsters in Our Midst .
1986 is an American news magazine television series that aired on NBC from June 10 to December 30, 1986. [1] The lead anchors were Roger Mudd and Connie Chung . Maria Shriver also contributed to the program.