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After the 1996 sale of WHO-TV in Des Moines, KCRG-TV was the only locally owned and operated television station left in Iowa. KCRG started broadcasting in high-definition television in January 2003. The station also had the first news helicopter in Iowa, "NewsCopter 9". KCRG's broadcasts became digital-only, effective June 12, 2009.
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Cedar Rapids Waterloo: Cedar Rapids: 2 29 KGAN: CBS: Fox on 2.2, Quest on 2.3 : 9 32 KCRG-TV: ABC: MyNetworkTV on 9.2, The CW on 9.3
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.
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American broadcast television television network owned by the Disney Media Networks subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, which originated in 1927 as the NBC Blue radio network, and five years after its 1942 divorce from NBC and purchase by Edward J. Noble (adopting its current name the following year), expanded into television in April 1948.
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 ...
However, as of October 2011, KCRG-TV digital channel 9.2 is carrying the MyNetworkTV programming service on a delayed basis from 12 to 2 a.m. KWKB was the last CW-affiliated station that carried MyNetworkTV on the same feed as The CW until 2014, when Columbia, South Carolina's existing MyNetworkTV affiliate WKTC, and later in 2016, when Chicago ...
Initially a stand-alone ABC affiliate, the station was sold to KMBC-TV in Kansas City (from whose feed KDRO-TV was receiving ABC network programming) in 1959 and became a full-time satellite. The station was then sold to CBS affiliate KRCG (who had a secondary affiliation with ABC) in 1961, and became a semi-satellite of that station.
Until 2018 when KGKC-LD started carrying Telemundo, KUKC had the distinction of being the only standalone Spanish-language television station in the Kansas City market (KSMO-TV (channel 62) carried MundoMax on its second digital subchannel before that network's shutdown in late November 2016), but remains the only Univision network affiliate in ...