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KSHB-TV

December 15, 2023

KSHB-TV (channel 41) is a television station in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside Lawrence, Kansas–licensed independent station KMCI-TV (channel 38). Both stations share studios on Oak Street in southern Kansas City, Missouri, while KSHB-TV's transmitter is located at the Blue River Greenway in the city's Hillcrest section.

KSHB-TV
Channels
BrandingKSHB 41
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KMCI-TV
History
First air date
September 28, 1970 (53 years ago) (1970-09-28)
Former call signs
KBMA-TV (1970–1981)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 41 (UHF, 1970–2009)
  • Digital: 42 (UHF, 2003–2019)
Call sign meaning
Scripps-Howard Broadcasting
(former name of broadcasting division)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID59444
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT325 m (1,066 ft)
Transmitter coordinates38°58′42″N 94°32′1.8″W / 38.97833°N 94.533833°W / 38.97833; -94.533833
Links
Public license information
  • Public file
  • LMS
Websitewww.kshb.com

Channel 41 in Kansas City began broadcasting after years of delays as KBMA-TV on September 28, 1970. Owned by and named for the Business Men's Assurance Company, it was the second independent station for Kansas City to sign on the air within twelve months. However, it outlasted competitor KCIT-TV thanks to its superior financial backing and was the primary independent in the market in the 1970s and 1980s, airing syndicated reruns, movies, and local sports with occasional forays into local news programming. Scripps acquired majority control of the station in 1977 and renamed the station KSHB-TV four years later upon its relocation into its present studio facilities. It joined the Fox network at its inception in 1986 and debuted its first full-length news program in 1993.

An affiliation switch in 1994 converted KSHB-TV into the market's NBC affiliate as WDAF-TV (channel 4) became the new Fox affiliate. The station quadrupled its news staff, expanded its facilities, and modified its news format as a result of the change. However, it took years for the station to have much traction in the local news ratings, and it experienced turnover in personnel, management, and strategy.

History edit

KBMA-TV: Early years edit

In 1964 and 1965, the Federal Communications Commission received a series of applications proposing new television stations on channel 25 in Kansas City, a channel that had lay fallow since the 1954 closure of KCTY. The first came from Hawthorn Television of Chicago,[2] which was soon joined by Westport Television—led by William D. Grant, the president of the Business Men's Assurance Company (BMA)—as well as Midway Television of Rockford, Illinois,[3] a subsidiary of Massachusetts-based Springfield Television,[4] and another local group, Allied Television.[5]

The rapidly shifting field was also affected by two national overhauls of the UHF table of allocations in the span of a year. The channel 25 field was essentially split to two new channel assignments, 30 and 36. In October 1965, Westport got the construction permit for channel 30.[6] It was revised again in early 1966 to specify channel 41.[7] KBMA-TV, named for Business Men's Assurance,[8] continued to exist only on paper for another four and a half years after being assigned to channel 41. By the time Allied's station—which was reassigned channel 50 and began as KCIT-TV in October 1969—began broadcasting and gave Kansas City its first independent station, the station was still unbuilt and needed yet more time due to a local construction strike. It had not been able to find land for a studio site in Kansas City, Missouri, and had tentatively agreed to construct facilities in Fairway, Kansas, requiring FCC approval.[9]

 
Under BMA ownership, station officers were located in the BMA Tower.

The picture finally came into focus in 1970. The transmitter facility was built on WDAF-TV's tower, while station offices were located on the 18th floor of the BMA Tower. The station was automated, an innovation for that period, with a computer preparing station logs and switching video inputs.[10] The first telecast was made on the afternoon of September 28, 1970: after a welcome message from general manager Bob Wormington, the first program was the live cartoon show 41 Treehouse Lane, featuring host Ed Muscare.[11] Within a year, Kansas City had gone from being the largest U.S. market without an independent station to having two of them run by twin brothers. It almost did not turn out this way. In late 1969 and early 1970, negotiations had taken place between Allied and Westport Television. Shortly before KCIT began broadcasting, Grant proposed to buy a controlling stake in KCIT-TV, donate the studio equipment purchased for KBMA-TV and the channel 50 physical plant to local public television station KCSD-TV to become a two-channel operation, and move KCIT-TV to channel 41. He then later proposed merging the two stations on channel 50 and donating channel 41 to the University of Missouri. Stockholders in KCIT-TV rebuffed both overtures.[10] Within a year, however, KCIT-TV was out of business. It left the air on July 8, 1971,[12] citing a poor economy as its reason to shut down. The move bolstered channel 41, now the only independent in the market, which moved to pick up the preempted network programs channel 50 had carried in the Kansas City area and some of its syndicated programming inventory.[13]

Benno C. Schmidt of New York acquired controlling interest in the station in 1971, with BMA remaining a major creditor.[14] The insurer then repurchased a minority stake in Westport Television in 1975.[15] The station continued to be a technical innovator. In 1974, it engaged in a plan to feed Kansas City Royals home telecasts to cable systems in 12 states.[16] This business grew into a separate company, known as Target Network Television, by 1975.[17] In 1976, it filed the first application by any TV station for a satellite earth station,[18] becoming the second station in the United States to use one.[19]

In programming during the 1970s, channel 41 offered a wide variety of programming. When the Royals brought their television and radio operation in-house in 1972, KBMA-TV was selected as the originating station for the television network.[20] By 1975, it was the broadcast home of Royals baseball, Kansas City Kings basketball, and Kansas City Scouts hockey;[17] the Royals remained on channel 41 through 1979, moving to WDAF-TV.[21] Muscare continued as a host of horror and daytime movies before leaving in 1977.[22]

Schmidt and BMA sold Westport Television in 1977 to Scripps-Howard Broadcasting, the radio and television division of the E. W. Scripps Company, for $7.5 million.[23] Its first order of business was to construct a proper studio facility; KBMA-TV had been producing programs in facilities located near the BMA Tower, which only contained its offices. In May 1978, the company obtained approval to construct studios at Brush Creek and Oak on a site of land where neighbors had previously rejected a proposed post office; Scripps-Howard had considered and rejected sites at Crown Center and in Overland Park, Kansas.[24]

KSHB-TV: The independent and Fox years edit

On September 28, 1981, coinciding with the station's move into the completed Oak Street facility, the station's call letters were changed from KBMA-TV to KSHB-TV, representing owner Scripps-Howard Broadcasting. The call sign change coincided with a more aggressive programming attitude led by Wormington, which included increased local programming not possible without the larger facilities, which included two studios.[25][26][27] One of these new local programs was All Night Live, wraparound segments around films and classic reruns in the overnight hours; Muscare returned to the station as host.[22] A similar program in the late morning hours, A.M. Live, debuted in September 1982.[28] By this time, the station had grown with the spread of cable television in mid-America; it was seen in 600,000 cable households from Iowa to Arkansas.[26]

The 1980s saw increased competition. For the first time since 1971, the market had two independent stations after the December 1983 launch of KEKR-TV on channel 62.[29] However, that station initially failed to spend adequately on programming and did not attract much attention in the market.[30] KSHB-TV local programs included the Kings, who remained on the station even though they failed to attract significant advertising revenue;[31] they departed KSHB-TV after 10 years for KEKR-TV in the 1984–85 season.[32] At the same time, the station's regional cable coverage was waning. At the end of 1985, the cable systems in Wichita, Kansas, and Lincoln, Nebraska, removed channel 41 from their lineups, citing program duplication to other services; the loss of the Royals, the original reason for their addition in Wichita; copyright fees the systems paid to broadcast the distant station; and poor reception of KSHB-TV by microwave.[33][34]

KSHB became a charter affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company when that network launched on October 9, 1986.[35] The station had stronger programming with more first-run shows as a result of the Fox affiliation and a changing syndication market.[36] Wormington retired at the end of 1992, capping a 22-year run at channel 41 in which he had started and led the station, helped found the National Association of Independent Television Stations, and risen to vice chairman of the Fox affiliate board of governors.[37]

Wormington's replacement was Charlotte Moore English, the first woman and first Black person to be a general manager in Kansas City broadcast history.[38] English oversaw the rollout of a full-length local newscast, which debuted on August 1, 1993.[39]

As an NBC affiliate edit

See also: 1994–1996 United States broadcast television realignment

On May 23, 1994, as a result of Fox outbidding CBS for the rights to partial rights to the National Football League, New World Communications reached an agreement with Fox parent News Corporation in which the latter company purchased a 20 percent equity interest and reached a multi-year affiliation agreement with New World. Under the terms of the deal, New World would affiliate most of the twelve television stations that the company had either owned outright or was in the process of acquiring—specifically those affiliated with one of the "Big Three" networks—with the Fox network, once individual affiliation contracts with each of the stations' existing network partners expired.[40] The only NBC affiliate among the twelve stations was WDAF-TV.[41] Earlier in the month, New World had announced the purchase of WDAF-TV from Great American Communications alongside three other major-market stations.[42]

The result was that NBC needed a new affiliate in the Kansas City market and KSHB-TV was left without a network affiliation. Scripps owned three Fox affiliates, all of which lost the network in the New World switches. The other two local stations—CBS affiliate KCTV, owned by Meredith Corporation, and Hearst-owned and ABC-affiliated KMBC-TV—each resigned with their respective networks.[43] In the case of the former, Meredith stood ready to flip KCTV to NBC if CBS bypassed its Phoenix TV station, KPHO-TV, in a market where CBS was the displaced network.[44]

In late July, Scripps signed an affiliation agreement with NBC.[45] The switch was set for September 12, 1994, kickstarting a frantic month of changes in programming and personnel at KSHB-TV and WDAF-TV.[46] A newsroom that had 18 employees had to grow to more than 70 in order to begin the production of early evening newscasts by the end of 1994.[47] Plans were also floated to construct an addition to the Oak Street studio,[47] which was approved in 1996.[48] Dozens of syndicated programs were displaced in the market, particularly at KSHB-TV, which had to make room for NBC's larger program schedule; Fox Kids programs were not picked up by WDAF-TV and instead went to KSMO-TV.[49] A.M. Live also ended its twelve-year run on the air.[50] On the first day of the switch, Willard Scott broadcast the weather for The Today Show from the front lawn of the studios; later that week, Tom Brokaw anchored the NBC Nightly News from Kansas City.[51][52]

In April 1996, Scripps-Howard Broadcasting took over the operations of KMCI (channel 38) in Lawrence, Kansas, under a local marketing agreement with then-owner Miller Television;[53] that August, the station dropped its home shopping programming and relaunched as "38 Family Greats", in part utilizing programming to which channel 41 had held the rights but had not been able to air since the 1994 affiliation switch.[54] Exercising an option from the 1996 pact with Miller,[53] Scripps bought KMCI outright for $14.6 million in 2000, forming a legal duopoly with KSHB.[55] In July 2003, KSHB and KMCI relocated their transmitter facilities to an 1,164-foot (355 m) tower at the Blue River Greenway in the Hillcrest section of southern Kansas City.[56][57]

 
Former KSHB-TV logo as an NBC affiliate from 2012 until 2021

KSHB-TV was the primary NBC affiliate for St. Joseph—within range of its transmitter but defined as a separate media market—from 1994 until 2016, when KNPG-LD (channel 21) was relaunched as an NBC affiliate and displaced KSHB-TV from local satellite TV packages.[58] Suddenlink Communications, the primary cable provider in St. Joseph, then removed KSHB-TV from its lineup in 2017.[59]

A jury found in 2019 that KSHB-TV retaliated against former reporter Lisa Benson Cooper, who is Black; she was fired in 2018 after suing Scripps two years prior, alleging she had been passed over for job opportunities because of her race. Scripps alleged that she had not applied for the positions and cited other reasons, including social media posts, for her suspension and termination. Though the jury awarded damages on the retaliation claim stemming from her firing, it found against her claim of racial discrimination.[60] A second discrimination suit was filed by Demetrice "Dee" Jackson, who alleged that he had been passed over twice in favor of White men after applying to be sports director; this was settled out of court in February 2020, after the station released Jackson in late 2019.[60][61]

Local programming edit

News operation edit

Pre-1993 news edit

Beginning at the start of the 1980s, channel 41 dabbled in producing local news programming. In 1980, when Independent Network News debuted, the station began producing five-minute news briefs to air at the beginning and end of the program.[62] After moving into the Oak Street studios, KSHB-TV continually made noise about starting a full-length nightly newscast of its own, beginning with the 1982 hiring of a news director.[63] However, it took quite some time for any newscast to eventuate.[64]

41 Express began airing on June 2, 1985. The 15-minute 10 p.m. newscast had no traditional anchors—stories were read by a rotation of existing reporters and two announcers already heard on local radio—and prompted the station to expand its news staff from six to twelve people.[65][66] Despite the shorter length, the newscast—which used zippy graphics and segment titles—gave almost as much time to news coverage as the full-length newscasts on the local network affiliates (though with a heavier focus on national stories), with abbreviated weather and sports reports.[67] There were, however, drawbacks: news staffers were quick to bolt for openings at the established stations, where reporters were seen on camera and news approaches were more traditional.[68] The format was tweaked by May 1986, with more sightings of on-camera news anchors and reporters and an increased share of local news stories.[69] Ratings were also low,[19] and they failed to improve after 41 Express was moved to 11 p.m., after The Late Show, in late 1986; as a result, the newscast was canceled in January 1987 and replaced with more traditional news breaks.[70]

A return to news edit

By early 1993, KSHB-TV's news presence consisted of four prime time news briefs. However, Scripps began planning to launch a nightly 9 p.m. newscast for the station.[71] Mark Olinger was hired as news director; he had last worked at KSTW, an independent station in the Seattle market that produced local newscasts.[72] There, he had come under fire and ultimately quit in the middle of a ratings period, having orchestrated the layoffs or demotions of several veteran on-air personalities.[73] Olinger formulated a conversational style of news writing, with phrases like "cop" instead of "police officer", and derided the appearance of news sets at his network competitors as sterile "airline counters".[74]

On August 1, 1993, Fox 41 News at 9:00 debuted. The original Sunday–Thursday anchors were Pam Davis, a former soap opera actress and reporter in Sacramento, California, and Jim Condelles, who had last worked in Indianapolis.[39] While the newscast made heavy use of video, the format also de-emphasized weather, presented in a forecast running about 40 seconds each night, and lacked sports completely.[75] The anchors signed off each night by telling the viewer, "See ya!"[76]

NBC expansion edit

Concomitant with becoming an NBC affiliate in September 1994, the station moved its 9 p.m. newscast to 10 p.m. and immediately began the process of expanding its newsroom to eventually produce a full suite of local newscasts.[77] This required adding 54 people to an existing staff of 18.[78] It initially did little to change the young-skewing format adopted as a Fox affiliate, though the set was lightened to better match the NBC Nightly News.[79][47]

The news expansion took place over a period of nearly two years. The first new program to debut, in October 1994, was a half-hour early-evening newscast at 5:00 p.m., which was conceived as primarily containing feature reports geared toward women with segments like "Just for Women" and health feature "Howdaya Feel".[80] On March 13, 1995, a 6 p.m. newscast followed, emphasizing local and breaking news stories.[81] By this time, the newscast was adopting a more mainstream format, and Olinger and executive producer Jeff Burnside departed in December.[82] The news expansions were completed in June 1996 with the addition of a 90-minute weekday morning newscast at 5:30 a.m.[83]

Though the newsroom had successfully grown to the size and output expected of an NBC affiliate, the station's news ratings remained low. Barry Garron of The Kansas City Star cited the profusion of out-of-town news reporters and the general lack of stability; Condelles was demoted to weekends, a decision Garron panned as "a new shipment of razor blades" to an operation he characterized as sabotaging itself.[84] Lynn Heider became news director after Olinger; while she was credited by Aaron Barnhart of The Star with hiring Kansas City-area native Elizabeth Alex—who remained with the station until 2013[85]—and with setting up an investigative reporting unit, the station continued to be stuck in fourth place in the market, even if it was doing slightly better than before at 10 p.m. in retaining NBC prime time viewers who were switching to other stations for local news.[86]

In 1997, the station attempted a radical shakeup of its early evening news programming. It scrapped its separate 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. newscasts in favor of a single half-hour newscast at 6:30 p.m., where there was no local news offering in the market at the time and where stations rarely programmed their own newscasts.[87][88] The move was not a ratings or business success, and in March 1999, the station reverted to airing 5:00 and 6:00 newscasts. It also extended its morning news to two hours at the request of NBC, which was launching Early Today and wanted stations to program a full two hours of news between that program and The Today Show.[89]

Since acquiring KMCI-TV, at various points, channel 38 has aired newscasts from the KSHB-TV newsroom. The first local newscast at channel 38, at 9 p.m., debuted in 2000;[90] it was scrapped in 2003, a victim of low ratings.[91] News returned to channel 38 in 2015, when a 7 a.m. morning news extension was added.[92]

Action News edit

 
KSHB-TV's news helicopter, as seen in 2010

In January 2003, the station rebranded as "NBC Action News", removing references to the channel number; it also extended its morning newscast even further out to 4 a.m.[93] The brand was tweaked to "41 Action News" in 2012, with station management noting that people still called the station "channel 41" despite not having used the channel number in on-air promotion in nearly a decade.[94] Despite the brand having gone mostly unchanged, there had been significant turnover in management: between 1999 and 2014, KSHB-TV had four general managers and five news directors.[95]

For the first time in its history, KSHB-TV experienced ratings momentum in the late 2000s and early 2010s. It had stanched the bleeding of viewers: where 10 p.m. news viewership once represented a 40 percent decline from NBC's prime time lead-ins, by the time general manager Jim Swinehart retired in 2006, the station was actually gaining viewers for its late news compared to the preceding programming.[76] In November 2013, it registered a time slot win at 6 p.m., the first time in station history it had the number-one newscast at that time slot and culminating a steady rise dating back five years; it also eked out its first monthly win in late news during the February 2014 sweeps period, through the strength of having NBC's broadcast of the 2014 Winter Olympics as its lead-in, which helped increase its news ratings in the period by 46 percent. However, the station was still third in early morning news and at 10 p.m. outside of the Olympics.[95] The early 2010s also saw the station expand its morning newscast back to a 4:30 a.m. start,[96] add a 4:30 p.m. newscast in 2011 and expand it to a full hour at 4 in 2013,[97][98] and win the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for breaking news for its coverage of the natural gas explosion that leveled JJ's Restaurant in downtown Kansas City.[95]

The Action News brand was dropped in 2021 in favor of "KSHB 41 News" under general manager Kathleen Choal.[99]

Sports programming edit

Under a six-year agreement, KSHB and KMCI replaced KCTV as the official broadcast partners of the Kansas City Chiefs in 2019, giving the stations exclusive rights to team programming, including preseason contests beginning in 2020, plus marketing opportunities.[100][101]

On November 6, 2013, Scripps announced a broadcasting agreement between KSHB/KMCI and Sporting Kansas City, which gave KMCI the local broadcast television rights to the Major League Soccer (MLS) club's regular season matches and its pre-game and post-game shows beginning with the team's 2014 season. The deal also allowed both stations the rights to carry team-focused specials during the regular season.[102] The relationship between the Scripps stations and Sporting Kansas City continued through 2022, after which Apple assumed the rights, local and national, to all MLS teams.[103][104]

Non-news edit

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.[107][89] The introduction of a fourth hour of Today in 2007 and a desire to add more newscast hours were reasons for the cancellation.[106][108]

From 2015 to 2018, the station aired Nichols at Night, a locally produced late-night talk show hosted by former KMBC-TV weather anchor Joel Nichols; he had joined the station a year before to present a revived Kansas City Live.[109]

Notable former on-air staff edit

Technical information edit

Subchannels edit

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KSHB-TV[113]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
41.1 1080i 16:9 KSHB-TV Main KSHB-TV programming / NBC
41.2 480i Grit Grit
41.3 Laff Laff
41.4 4:3 GetTv GetTV
38.1 720p 16:9 KMCI-TV KMCI-TV (Independent)
38.2 480i Bounce Bounce TV (KMCI-DT2)
  Broadcast on behalf of another station

KSHB-TV transmits two subchannels of KMCI-TV, one of Kansas City's two ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) stations; channel 38 began broadcasting a ATSC 3.0 signal in August 2021.[114]

Analog-to-digital transition edit

KSHB-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 41, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 42, using virtual channel 41.[115] As part of the FCC's repack, KSHB-TV moved to channel 36 on February 11, 2019.[113]

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kshb, channel, television, station, kansas, city, missouri, united, states, affiliated, with, owned, scripps, company, alongside, lawrence, kansas, licensed, independent, station, kmci, channel, both, stations, share, studios, street, southern, kansas, city, m. KSHB TV channel 41 is a television station in Kansas City Missouri United States affiliated with NBC It is owned by the E W Scripps Company alongside Lawrence Kansas licensed independent station KMCI TV channel 38 Both stations share studios on Oak Street in southern Kansas City Missouri while KSHB TV s transmitter is located at the Blue River Greenway in the city s Hillcrest section KSHB TVKansas City MissouriUnited StatesChannelsDigital 36 UHF Virtual 41BrandingKSHB 41ProgrammingAffiliations41 1 NBC41 2 Grit41 3 Laff41 4 GetTVOwnershipOwnerE W Scripps Company Scripps Broadcasting Holdings LLC Sister stationsKMCI TVHistoryFirst air dateSeptember 28 1970 53 years ago 1970 09 28 Former call signsKBMA TV 1970 1981 Former channel number s Analog 41 UHF 1970 2009 Digital 42 UHF 2003 2019 Former affiliationsIndependent 1970 1986 Fox 1986 1994 Call sign meaningScripps Howard Broadcasting former name of broadcasting division Technical information 1 Licensing authorityFCCFacility ID59444ERP1 000 kWHAAT325 m 1 066 ft Transmitter coordinates38 58 42 N 94 32 1 8 W 38 97833 N 94 533833 W 38 97833 94 533833LinksPublic license informationPublic fileLMSWebsitewww wbr kshb wbr comChannel 41 in Kansas City began broadcasting after years of delays as KBMA TV on September 28 1970 Owned by and named for the Business Men s Assurance Company it was the second independent station for Kansas City to sign on the air within twelve months However it outlasted competitor KCIT TV thanks to its superior financial backing and was the primary independent in the market in the 1970s and 1980s airing syndicated reruns movies and local sports with occasional forays into local news programming Scripps acquired majority control of the station in 1977 and renamed the station KSHB TV four years later upon its relocation into its present studio facilities It joined the Fox network at its inception in 1986 and debuted its first full length news program in 1993 An affiliation switch in 1994 converted KSHB TV into the market s NBC affiliate as WDAF TV channel 4 became the new Fox affiliate The station quadrupled its news staff expanded its facilities and modified its news format as a result of the change However it took years for the station to have much traction in the local news ratings and it experienced turnover in personnel management and strategy Contents 1 History 1 1 KBMA TV Early years 1 2 KSHB TV The independent and Fox years 1 3 As an NBC affiliate 2 Local programming 2 1 News operation 2 1 1 Pre 1993 news 2 1 2 A return to news 2 1 3 NBC expansion 2 1 4 Action News 2 2 Sports programming 2 3 Non news 2 3 1 Notable former on air staff 3 Technical information 3 1 Subchannels 3 2 Analog to digital transition 4 References 5 External linksHistory editKBMA TV Early years edit In 1964 and 1965 the Federal Communications Commission received a series of applications proposing new television stations on channel 25 in Kansas City a channel that had lay fallow since the 1954 closure of KCTY The first came from Hawthorn Television of Chicago 2 which was soon joined by Westport Television led by William D Grant the president of the Business Men s Assurance Company BMA as well as Midway Television of Rockford Illinois 3 a subsidiary of Massachusetts based Springfield Television 4 and another local group Allied Television 5 The rapidly shifting field was also affected by two national overhauls of the UHF table of allocations in the span of a year The channel 25 field was essentially split to two new channel assignments 30 and 36 In October 1965 Westport got the construction permit for channel 30 6 It was revised again in early 1966 to specify channel 41 7 KBMA TV named for Business Men s Assurance 8 continued to exist only on paper for another four and a half years after being assigned to channel 41 By the time Allied s station which was reassigned channel 50 and began as KCIT TV in October 1969 began broadcasting and gave Kansas City its first independent station the station was still unbuilt and needed yet more time due to a local construction strike It had not been able to find land for a studio site in Kansas City Missouri and had tentatively agreed to construct facilities in Fairway Kansas requiring FCC approval 9 nbsp Under BMA ownership station officers were located in the BMA Tower The picture finally came into focus in 1970 The transmitter facility was built on WDAF TV s tower while station offices were located on the 18th floor of the BMA Tower The station was automated an innovation for that period with a computer preparing station logs and switching video inputs 10 The first telecast was made on the afternoon of September 28 1970 after a welcome message from general manager Bob Wormington the first program was the live cartoon show 41 Treehouse Lane featuring host Ed Muscare 11 Within a year Kansas City had gone from being the largest U S market without an independent station to having two of them run by twin brothers It almost did not turn out this way In late 1969 and early 1970 negotiations had taken place between Allied and Westport Television Shortly before KCIT began broadcasting Grant proposed to buy a controlling stake in KCIT TV donate the studio equipment purchased for KBMA TV and the channel 50 physical plant to local public television station KCSD TV to become a two channel operation and move KCIT TV to channel 41 He then later proposed merging the two stations on channel 50 and donating channel 41 to the University of Missouri Stockholders in KCIT TV rebuffed both overtures 10 Within a year however KCIT TV was out of business It left the air on July 8 1971 12 citing a poor economy as its reason to shut down The move bolstered channel 41 now the only independent in the market which moved to pick up the preempted network programs channel 50 had carried in the Kansas City area and some of its syndicated programming inventory 13 Benno C Schmidt of New York acquired controlling interest in the station in 1971 with BMA remaining a major creditor 14 The insurer then repurchased a minority stake in Westport Television in 1975 15 The station continued to be a technical innovator In 1974 it engaged in a plan to feed Kansas City Royals home telecasts to cable systems in 12 states 16 This business grew into a separate company known as Target Network Television by 1975 17 In 1976 it filed the first application by any TV station for a satellite earth station 18 becoming the second station in the United States to use one 19 In programming during the 1970s channel 41 offered a wide variety of programming When the Royals brought their television and radio operation in house in 1972 KBMA TV was selected as the originating station for the television network 20 By 1975 it was the broadcast home of Royals baseball Kansas City Kings basketball and Kansas City Scouts hockey 17 the Royals remained on channel 41 through 1979 moving to WDAF TV 21 Muscare continued as a host of horror and daytime movies before leaving in 1977 22 Schmidt and BMA sold Westport Television in 1977 to Scripps Howard Broadcasting the radio and television division of the E W Scripps Company for 7 5 million 23 Its first order of business was to construct a proper studio facility KBMA TV had been producing programs in facilities located near the BMA Tower which only contained its offices In May 1978 the company obtained approval to construct studios at Brush Creek and Oak on a site of land where neighbors had previously rejected a proposed post office Scripps Howard had considered and rejected sites at Crown Center and in Overland Park Kansas 24 KSHB TV The independent and Fox years edit On September 28 1981 coinciding with the station s move into the completed Oak Street facility the station s call letters were changed from KBMA TV to KSHB TV representing owner Scripps Howard Broadcasting The call sign change coincided with a more aggressive programming attitude led by Wormington which included increased local programming not possible without the larger facilities which included two studios 25 26 27 One of these new local programs was All Night Live wraparound segments around films and classic reruns in the overnight hours Muscare returned to the station as host 22 A similar program in the late morning hours A M Live debuted in September 1982 28 By this time the station had grown with the spread of cable television in mid America it was seen in 600 000 cable households from Iowa to Arkansas 26 The 1980s saw increased competition For the first time since 1971 the market had two independent stations after the December 1983 launch of KEKR TV on channel 62 29 However that station initially failed to spend adequately on programming and did not attract much attention in the market 30 KSHB TV local programs included the Kings who remained on the station even though they failed to attract significant advertising revenue 31 they departed KSHB TV after 10 years for KEKR TV in the 1984 85 season 32 At the same time the station s regional cable coverage was waning At the end of 1985 the cable systems in Wichita Kansas and Lincoln Nebraska removed channel 41 from their lineups citing program duplication to other services the loss of the Royals the original reason for their addition in Wichita copyright fees the systems paid to broadcast the distant station and poor reception of KSHB TV by microwave 33 34 KSHB became a charter affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company when that network launched on October 9 1986 35 The station had stronger programming with more first run shows as a result of the Fox affiliation and a changing syndication market 36 Wormington retired at the end of 1992 capping a 22 year run at channel 41 in which he had started and led the station helped found the National Association of Independent Television Stations and risen to vice chairman of the Fox affiliate board of governors 37 Wormington s replacement was Charlotte Moore English the first woman and first Black person to be a general manager in Kansas City broadcast history 38 English oversaw the rollout of a full length local newscast which debuted on August 1 1993 39 As an NBC affiliate edit See also 1994 1996 United States broadcast television realignment On May 23 1994 as a result of Fox outbidding CBS for the rights to partial rights to the National Football League New World Communications reached an agreement with Fox parent News Corporation in which the latter company purchased a 20 percent equity interest and reached a multi year affiliation agreement with New World Under the terms of the deal New World would affiliate most of the twelve television stations that the company had either owned outright or was in the process of acquiring specifically those affiliated with one of the Big Three networks with the Fox network once individual affiliation contracts with each of the stations existing network partners expired 40 The only NBC affiliate among the twelve stations was WDAF TV 41 Earlier in the month New World had announced the purchase of WDAF TV from Great American Communications alongside three other major market stations 42 The result was that NBC needed a new affiliate in the Kansas City market and KSHB TV was left without a network affiliation Scripps owned three Fox affiliates all of which lost the network in the New World switches The other two local stations CBS affiliate KCTV owned by Meredith Corporation and Hearst owned and ABC affiliated KMBC TV each resigned with their respective networks 43 In the case of the former Meredith stood ready to flip KCTV to NBC if CBS bypassed its Phoenix TV station KPHO TV in a market where CBS was the displaced network 44 In late July Scripps signed an affiliation agreement with NBC 45 The switch was set for September 12 1994 kickstarting a frantic month of changes in programming and personnel at KSHB TV and WDAF TV 46 A newsroom that had 18 employees had to grow to more than 70 in order to begin the production of early evening newscasts by the end of 1994 47 Plans were also floated to construct an addition to the Oak Street studio 47 which was approved in 1996 48 Dozens of syndicated programs were displaced in the market particularly at KSHB TV which had to make room for NBC s larger program schedule Fox Kids programs were not picked up by WDAF TV and instead went to KSMO TV 49 A M Live also ended its twelve year run on the air 50 On the first day of the switch Willard Scott broadcast the weather for The Today Show from the front lawn of the studios later that week Tom Brokaw anchored the NBC Nightly News from Kansas City 51 52 In April 1996 Scripps Howard Broadcasting took over the operations of KMCI channel 38 in Lawrence Kansas under a local marketing agreement with then owner Miller Television 53 that August the station dropped its home shopping programming and relaunched as 38 Family Greats in part utilizing programming to which channel 41 had held the rights but had not been able to air since the 1994 affiliation switch 54 Exercising an option from the 1996 pact with Miller 53 Scripps bought KMCI outright for 14 6 million in 2000 forming a legal duopoly with KSHB 55 In July 2003 KSHB and KMCI relocated their transmitter facilities to an 1 164 foot 355 m tower at the Blue River Greenway in the Hillcrest section of southern Kansas City 56 57 nbsp Former KSHB TV logo as an NBC affiliate from 2012 until 2021KSHB TV was the primary NBC affiliate for St Joseph within range of its transmitter but defined as a separate media market from 1994 until 2016 when KNPG LD channel 21 was relaunched as an NBC affiliate and displaced KSHB TV from local satellite TV packages 58 Suddenlink Communications the primary cable provider in St Joseph then removed KSHB TV from its lineup in 2017 59 A jury found in 2019 that KSHB TV retaliated against former reporter Lisa Benson Cooper who is Black she was fired in 2018 after suing Scripps two years prior alleging she had been passed over for job opportunities because of her race Scripps alleged that she had not applied for the positions and cited other reasons including social media posts for her suspension and termination Though the jury awarded damages on the retaliation claim stemming from her firing it found against her claim of racial discrimination 60 A second discrimination suit was filed by Demetrice Dee Jackson who alleged that he had been passed over twice in favor of White men after applying to be sports director this was settled out of court in February 2020 after the station released Jackson in late 2019 60 61 Local programming editNews operation edit Pre 1993 news edit Beginning at the start of the 1980s channel 41 dabbled in producing local news programming In 1980 when Independent Network News debuted the station began producing five minute news briefs to air at the beginning and end of the program 62 After moving into the Oak Street studios KSHB TV continually made noise about starting a full length nightly newscast of its own beginning with the 1982 hiring of a news director 63 However it took quite some time for any newscast to eventuate 64 41 Express began airing on June 2 1985 The 15 minute 10 p m newscast had no traditional anchors stories were read by a rotation of existing reporters and two announcers already heard on local radio and prompted the station to expand its news staff from six to twelve people 65 66 Despite the shorter length the newscast which used zippy graphics and segment titles gave almost as much time to news coverage as the full length newscasts on the local network affiliates though with a heavier focus on national stories with abbreviated weather and sports reports 67 There were however drawbacks news staffers were quick to bolt for openings at the established stations where reporters were seen on camera and news approaches were more traditional 68 The format was tweaked by May 1986 with more sightings of on camera news anchors and reporters and an increased share of local news stories 69 Ratings were also low 19 and they failed to improve after 41 Express was moved to 11 p m after The Late Show in late 1986 as a result the newscast was canceled in January 1987 and replaced with more traditional news breaks 70 A return to news edit By early 1993 KSHB TV s news presence consisted of four prime time news briefs However Scripps began planning to launch a nightly 9 p m newscast for the station 71 Mark Olinger was hired as news director he had last worked at KSTW an independent station in the Seattle market that produced local newscasts 72 There he had come under fire and ultimately quit in the middle of a ratings period having orchestrated the layoffs or demotions of several veteran on air personalities 73 Olinger formulated a conversational style of news writing with phrases like cop instead of police officer and derided the appearance of news sets at his network competitors as sterile airline counters 74 On August 1 1993 Fox 41 News at 9 00 debuted The original Sunday Thursday anchors were Pam Davis a former soap opera actress and reporter in Sacramento California and Jim Condelles who had last worked in Indianapolis 39 While the newscast made heavy use of video the format also de emphasized weather presented in a forecast running about 40 seconds each night and lacked sports completely 75 The anchors signed off each night by telling the viewer See ya 76 NBC expansion edit Concomitant with becoming an NBC affiliate in September 1994 the station moved its 9 p m newscast to 10 p m and immediately began the process of expanding its newsroom to eventually produce a full suite of local newscasts 77 This required adding 54 people to an existing staff of 18 78 It initially did little to change the young skewing format adopted as a Fox affiliate though the set was lightened to better match the NBC Nightly News 79 47 The news expansion took place over a period of nearly two years The first new program to debut in October 1994 was a half hour early evening newscast at 5 00 p m which was conceived as primarily containing feature reports geared toward women with segments like Just for Women and health feature Howdaya Feel 80 On March 13 1995 a 6 p m newscast followed emphasizing local and breaking news stories 81 By this time the newscast was adopting a more mainstream format and Olinger and executive producer Jeff Burnside departed in December 82 The news expansions were completed in June 1996 with the addition of a 90 minute weekday morning newscast at 5 30 a m 83 Though the newsroom had successfully grown to the size and output expected of an NBC affiliate the station s news ratings remained low Barry Garron of The Kansas City Star cited the profusion of out of town news reporters and the general lack of stability Condelles was demoted to weekends a decision Garron panned as a new shipment of razor blades to an operation he characterized as sabotaging itself 84 Lynn Heider became news director after Olinger while she was credited by Aaron Barnhart of The Star with hiring Kansas City area native Elizabeth Alex who remained with the station until 2013 85 and with setting up an investigative reporting unit the station continued to be stuck in fourth place in the market even if it was doing slightly better than before at 10 p m in retaining NBC prime time viewers who were switching to other stations for local news 86 In 1997 the station attempted a radical shakeup of its early evening news programming It scrapped its separate 5 00 and 6 00 p m newscasts in favor of a single half hour newscast at 6 30 p m where there was no local news offering in the market at the time and where stations rarely programmed their own newscasts 87 88 The move was not a ratings or business success and in March 1999 the station reverted to airing 5 00 and 6 00 newscasts It also extended its morning news to two hours at the request of NBC which was launching Early Today and wanted stations to program a full two hours of news between that program and The Today Show 89 Since acquiring KMCI TV at various points channel 38 has aired newscasts from the KSHB TV newsroom The first local newscast at channel 38 at 9 p m debuted in 2000 90 it was scrapped in 2003 a victim of low ratings 91 News returned to channel 38 in 2015 when a 7 a m morning news extension was added 92 Action News edit nbsp KSHB TV s news helicopter as seen in 2010In January 2003 the station rebranded as NBC Action News removing references to the channel number it also extended its morning newscast even further out to 4 a m 93 The brand was tweaked to 41 Action News in 2012 with station management noting that people still called the station channel 41 despite not having used the channel number in on air promotion in nearly a decade 94 Despite the brand having gone mostly unchanged there had been significant turnover in management between 1999 and 2014 KSHB TV had four general managers and five news directors 95 For the first time in its history KSHB TV experienced ratings momentum in the late 2000s and early 2010s It had stanched the bleeding of viewers where 10 p m news viewership once represented a 40 percent decline from NBC s prime time lead ins by the time general manager Jim Swinehart retired in 2006 the station was actually gaining viewers for its late news compared to the preceding programming 76 In November 2013 it registered a time slot win at 6 p m the first time in station history it had the number one newscast at that time slot and culminating a steady rise dating back five years it also eked out its first monthly win in late news during the February 2014 sweeps period through the strength of having NBC s broadcast of the 2014 Winter Olympics as its lead in which helped increase its news ratings in the period by 46 percent However the station was still third in early morning news and at 10 p m outside of the Olympics 95 The early 2010s also saw the station expand its morning newscast back to a 4 30 a m start 96 add a 4 30 p m newscast in 2011 and expand it to a full hour at 4 in 2013 97 98 and win the Alfred I duPont Columbia University Award for breaking news for its coverage of the natural gas explosion that leveled JJ s Restaurant in downtown Kansas City 95 The Action News brand was dropped in 2021 in favor of KSHB 41 News under general manager Kathleen Choal 99 Sports programming edit Under a six year agreement KSHB and KMCI replaced KCTV as the official broadcast partners of the Kansas City Chiefs in 2019 giving the stations exclusive rights to team programming including preseason contests beginning in 2020 plus marketing opportunities 100 101 On November 6 2013 Scripps announced a broadcasting agreement between KSHB KMCI and Sporting Kansas City which gave KMCI the local broadcast television rights to the Major League Soccer MLS club s regular season matches and its pre game and post game shows beginning with the team s 2014 season The deal also allowed both stations the rights to carry team focused specials during the regular season 102 The relationship between the Scripps stations and Sporting Kansas City continued through 2022 after which Apple assumed the rights local and national to all MLS teams 103 104 Non news edit 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 107 89 The introduction of a fourth hour of Today in 2007 and a desire to add more newscast hours were reasons for the cancellation 106 108 From 2015 to 2018 the station aired Nichols at Night a locally produced late night talk show hosted by former KMBC TV weather anchor Joel Nichols he had joined the station a year before to present a revived Kansas City Live 109 Notable former on air staff edit Chris Hernandez reporter 2004 2012 110 Russ Ptacek investigative reporter 2006 2012 111 112 Technical information editSubchannels edit The station s digital signal is multiplexed Subchannels of KSHB TV 113 Channel Res Aspect Short name Programming41 1 1080i 16 9 KSHB TV Main KSHB TV programming NBC41 2 480i Grit Grit41 3 Laff Laff41 4 4 3 GetTv GetTV38 1 720p 16 9 KMCI TV KMCI TV Independent 38 2 480i Bounce Bounce TV KMCI DT2 Broadcast on behalf of another station KSHB TV transmits two subchannels of KMCI TV one of Kansas City s two ATSC 3 0 NextGen TV stations channel 38 began broadcasting a ATSC 3 0 signal in August 2021 114 Analog to digital transition edit KSHB TV shut down its analog signal over UHF channel 41 on June 12 2009 the official date on which full power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate The station s digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre transition UHF channel 42 using virtual channel 41 115 As part of the FCC s repack KSHB TV moved to channel 36 on February 11 2019 113 References edit Facility Technical Data for KSHB TV Licensing and Management System Federal Communications Commission Lastelic Joe August 4 1964 Apply For a TV License Here Chicagoans Propose Operation on UHF Channel 25 The Kansas City Times Kansas City Missouri p 3 Archived from the original on August 30 2022 Retrieved January 31 2023 via Newspapers com Lastelic Joe February 12 1965 Four Bids to FCC For UHF Ties Here New York Firm Seeks Channel 65 and Three Ask Channel 25 The Kansas City Times Kansas City Missouri p 21 Archived from the original on February 2 2023 Retrieved January 31 2023 via Newspapers com Fourth Bid In For UHF Station Here L P Television Corp Would Have Antenna Atop P amp L Building The Kansas City Times Kansas City Missouri March 5 1965 p 18 Archived from the original on February 2 2023 Retrieved January 31 2023 via Newspapers com Notice The Kansas City Star Kansas City Missouri 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changing at Channel 41 The Kansas City Star Kansas City Missouri p 2 B Archived from the original on February 2 2023 Retrieved January 31 2023 via Newspapers com a b Nicely Steve August 27 1981 Spacious building awaits KBMA s growth The Kansas City Times Kansas City Missouri p C 2 Archived from the original on February 2 2023 Retrieved January 31 2023 via Newspapers com Nicely Steve September 11 1981 ABC takes a hard look at gene splicing The Kansas City Times Kansas City Missouri p C 2 Archived from the original on February 2 2023 Retrieved January 31 2023 via Newspapers com Jordan Gerald B September 19 1982 Local TV rolls out the reruns The Kansas City Star p 1E 3E Archived from the original on February 2 2023 Retrieved February 1 2023 via Newspapers com Garron Barry December 7 1983 Channel 62 to sign on today as KEKR TV The Kansas City Star Kansas City Missouri p 2B Archived from the original on February 2 2023 Retrieved January 31 2023 via Newspapers com Garron Barry January 13 1985 Channel 62 is going after greater visibility The Kansas City Star p 1 J 3 J Archived from the original on February 2 2023 Retrieved January 31 2023 via Newspapers com Covitz Randy July 23 1982 Comets moving in on Kings for a share of winter TV time The Kansas City Times p D 1 D 3 Archived from the original on February 2 2023 Retrieved February 1 2023 via Newspapers com Pulliam Kent June 12 1984 Team pleased with 20 game package Kings Channel 62 agree on TV contract The Kansas City Times p C 1 Archived from the original on February 2 2023 Retrieved February 1 2023 via Newspapers com Wichita turns off KSHB The Kansas City Times December 31 1985 p B 2 Archived from the original on February 2 2023 Retrieved February 1 2023 via Newspapers com Cablevision to drop KSHB add music video The Lincoln Star December 19 1985 p 26 Archived from the original on February 2 2023 Retrieved February 1 2023 via Newspapers com KSHB TV one of 79 stations choosing Fox programming The Kansas City Times 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Retrieved February 1 2023 via Newspapers com Garron Barry June 30 1985 Kansas City s beat the clock news The Kansas City Star p 1 J 3 J Archived from the original on February 2 2023 Retrieved February 1 2023 via Newspapers com Garron Barry September 30 1985 Channel 41 suffers staff defections The Kansas City Star p 2B Archived from the original on February 2 2023 Retrieved February 1 2023 via Newspapers com Garron Barry May 29 1986 A year later 41 Express is improving The Kansas City Star p 2C Archived from the original on February 2 2023 Retrieved February 1 2023 via Newspapers com Garron Barry January 30 1987 41 Express makes its last 15 minute run tonight The Kansas City Star p 2C Archived from the original on February 2 2023 Retrieved February 1 2023 via Newspapers com Hearne Christopher Jr April 3 1993 The battle behind the big fight The Kansas City Star p E 3 Archived from the original on February 2 2023 Retrieved February 1 2023 via Newspapers com KSHB hires news director plans 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Archived from the original on March 10 2016 Retrieved March 5 2016 Chris Hernandez leaves Unicorn Theatre for City Hall communications gig The Pitch June 26 2013 Archived from the original on February 8 2023 Retrieved February 8 2023 Kendall Justin February 29 2012 Mr Ptacek Goes to Washington KSHB s Russ Ptacek lands his dream job and it isn t here The Pitch Archived from the original on July 31 2017 Retrieved August 4 2017 Sommer Will May 3 2013 Russ Hour Washington City Paper Archived from the original on February 5 2023 Retrieved February 5 2023 a b RabbitEars TV Query for KSHB RabbitEars Archived from the original on March 3 2016 Retrieved March 4 2016 Eight Stations Launch NextGen TV In Kansas City TVNewsCheck August 24 2021 Archived from the original on September 24 2021 Retrieved February 1 2023 DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds PDF Federal Communications Commission Archived from the original PDF on August 29 2013 Retrieved March 24 2012 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