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News logo. 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 ...
In January 1972, after 4 years at KMBC, Moore became the primary news anchor until 1979. He had a brief stint in 1980 as a weekend anchor for WLS-TV, the ABC owned-and-operated station in Chicago. He left WLS in 1982 to become co-anchor at KPIX-TV in San Francisco for 2 years; leaving abruptly, possibly related to his lymphoma, a type of cancer ...
This was the first VHF station construction permit awarded in Kansas City since the end of the freeze; a UHF station, KCTY, had been awarded for channel 25. [9] The grant of KCMO-TV's permit spurred KMBC and WHB, applicants for channel 9, to combine their bids and seek shared-time use of the channel. [10] The FCC promptly approved on June 25 ...
KCWE (channel 29) is a television station in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, affiliated with The CW.It is owned by Hearst Television alongside ABC affiliate KMBC-TV (channel 9).
Channel 9: KMBC-TV (original) – CBS – Kansas City (August 1, 1953 – June 9, 1954, shared time with WHB-TV) Channel 14: KACY – St. Louis (October 31, 1953 – April 2, 1954)
During this time period, WDAF slowly improved its ratings standing in a competitive market. While the morning news race had grown tighter between WDAF and KMBC, the station was second in early evening news and third in late news by 2010. [126] The 9 p.m. newscast was outrating competing newscasts from KCTV (on KSMO-TV) and KMBC-TV (on KCWE). [127]
In 1928, Midland Broadcasting bought the station and renamed it KMBC for Midland Broadcasting Company. In 1953, Midland put KMBC-TV on the air as a shared time arrangement with another local radio station owner. Cook Paint and Varnish Company bought the Midland holdings in 1954. KMBC-AM-TV operated out of the Lyric Theatre.
On July 20, 1958, KDRO-TV became an ABC affiliate. ABC refused to give it a network feed to protect the rights of Kansas City's main ABC affiliate, KMBC-TV (channel 9). Station engineers switched to and from KMBC-TV's signal whenever ABC network programming was on the air.