KCWE
Encyclopedia
KCWE is the CW
-affiliated television station
for the Kansas City Metropolitan Area
licensed to the Missouri
side. It broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 31 (or virtual channel
29.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter at the East 23rd Street/Topping Avenue intersection in Kansas City, Missouri
's Blue Valley section. Owned by Hearst Television, KCWE is sister to ABC
affiliate KMBC-TV
and the two outlets share studios on Winchester Avenue in the city's Swope Park
Ridge-Winchester section along I-435
.
The station can also be seen on Comcast
channel 2, Time Warner Cable
channel 7, and SureWest
channel 16. There is a high definition feed provided on Comcast digital channel 236, SureWest digital channel 615, and Time Warner
Cable digital channel 1431. Syndicated
programming on the station includes The New Adventures of Old Christine
, Extra
, Maury
, The Big Bang Theory
, The Dr. Oz Show
and 30 Rock
among others.
. The service is not available on SureWest digital systems at the present time.
KCWE ceased analog transmission on December 15, 2008 two months before the originally scheduled 2009 analog shutdown
for full-service stations. The UHF channel 29 allotment was subsequently taken over by the digital signal of sister station KMBC. On March 3, 2009, the station began airing This TV on a new second digital subchannel.
affiliate K29CF. To make way for a new full-powered station, that station moved in the mid-1990s to channel 48, becoming K48FS. Today, that station (with the calls KUKC-LP
) serves as the market
's low-powered Univision
affiliate.
What is now KCWE signed-on September 14, 1996 as WB
affiliate KCWB (Kansas City's WB). It was locally-owned but managed through a local marketing agreement
(LMA) by Hearst Corporation
(owner of KMBC). Initially the station ran a mix of cartoons, recent off network sitcoms, talk shows, court shows, and movies. Operation of KCWB was taken over by Hearst-Argyle Television (now Hearst Television) in 1997, after the merger of Hearst Corporation's broadcasting division with Argyle Television Holdings II.
In January 1998, KSMO, previously a UPN
affiliate, joined The WB after its owner, Sinclair Broadcast Group
, cut an affiliation deal with the network. KCWB subsequently joined UPN, but still offered Kids' WB
(now Toonzai) until June of that year because KSMO still held a contract to air Fox Kids
(which was not shown on the area's Fox
station, WDAF-TV
); at that time, Fox Kids moved to KCWB as well. Channel 29 would change its calls to the current KCWE on August 24, 1998. Hearst bought the station outright in 2001; however, Hearst-Argyle continued to consider KCWE to be managed rather than owned by the company for several years thereafter, as the station was officially owned by an indirect subsidiary of Hearst Corporation as opposed to Hearst-Argyle (then a publicly-traded company controlled by Hearst).
For most of its tenure as a WB affiliate, KCWB's "WB29" logo was similar to the "WB32" logo used on sister station WWWB-TV in Tampa Bay, Florida. Following the switch to UPN, KCWE briefly used the branding "KC29," ultimately becoming "More TV 29" for several years to once again match its Tampa Bay sister, by then WMOR-TV
. KCWE would drop the "More TV" moniker by 2005 (in favor of using its call letters and the slogan "Kansas City's UPN"), but would retain the logo style for most of the remainder of UPN's existence. KMBC would bring back the branding (as "MOREtv Kansas City") on September 14, 2010 when it began airing general entertainment programming on weeknights from 6 until 11 on its second digital subchannel
that was otherwise affiliated with The Local AccuWeather Channel
. KCWE dropped Fox Kids in the Fall of 1999 for more talk and reality programming; Fox Kids programming then moved to KMCI-TV. Channel 29 ceased carrying children's programming on weekdays altogether when UPN ended its daily morning national children's programming block.
On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced the two networks would end broadcasting and merge to form The CW. On March 7, The CW and Hearst announced KCWE would become Kansas City's CW affiliate. As the station already had "CW" in its call letters, station management said it would take advantage of this and leave them unchanged. The old logo was dispensed altogether in August 2006 when KCWE's new logo reflecting the CW affiliation was released. The new network began broadcasting on September 18.
In late-March of 2009, Hearst applied to transfer KCWE's license from its indirect subsidiary (doing business as
"KCWE-TV Company") directly to the larger Hearst Television subsidiary with the transfer being completed on May 1. As it operates in the KMBC duopoly, the station might take on responsibility to run ABC programming in the event of news emergencies (such as severe weather
), sporting events, and/or the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
when KMBC cannot do so. Since the tiny St. Joseph, Missouri market has a cable-only
CW station, KCWE unofficially serves as that area's off-air affiliate. In 2010, it aired all Kansas City Wizards
MLS
games except those already under a national broadcast agreement.
. KCWE's weekday morning program competes with an in-house morning newscast on WDAF-TV and an hour-long newscast on KSMO that is produced by its sister station KCTV
.
On September 14, 2010, KMBC added a third option for primetime news to the Kansas City airways. Known as KMBC 9 News at 9 on KCWE, the half-hour weeknight-only program also airs against a half-hour nightly local newscast seen on KSMO (launched in the fall of 2005 and also produced by KCTV) and a nightly in-house 9 p.m. newscast that WDAF has aired since it affiliated with Fox in September 1994. The weeknight newscast on KCWE airs commercial-free for the first nine minutes (a play on its sister station's on-air branding) featuring the day's top headlines and an updated weather forecast segment within that time. As is the case on KMBC, all local newscasts seen on KCWE is aired in high definition.
First Alert Weather
Sports team
Reporters
Hearst Washington Bureau
The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
-affiliated television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for the Kansas City Metropolitan Area
Kansas City Metropolitan Area
The Kansas City Metropolitan Area is a fifteen-county metropolitan area that is anchored by Kansas City, Missouri and is bisected by the border between the states of Missouri and Kansas. As of the 2010 Census, the metropolitan area has a population of 2,035,334. The metropolitan area is the...
licensed to the Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
side. It broadcasts a high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
digital signal on UHF channel 31 (or virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
29.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter at the East 23rd Street/Topping Avenue intersection in Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
's Blue Valley section. Owned by Hearst Television, KCWE is sister to ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
affiliate KMBC-TV
KMBC-TV
KMBC-TV virtual channel 9 is a television station affiliated with the ABC television network, located in Kansas City, Missouri. KMBC-TV is owned by Hearst Television and its studios are located on Winchester Ave. near Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri. The station's high guyed mast broadcast...
and the two outlets share studios on Winchester Avenue in the city's Swope Park
Swope Park
Swope Park is an 1805-acre city park within the city of Kansas City, Missouri. It is the 29th-largest municipal park in the United States , and the largest park in Kansas City. It is named in honor of Colonel Thomas H. Swope, a philanthropist who donated the land to the city in 1896...
Ridge-Winchester section along I-435
Interstate 435
Interstate 435 is an Interstate Highway beltway that encircles much of the Kansas City, Missouri Metropolitan Area in the states of Kansas and Missouri, USA.- Route description :...
.
The station can also be seen on Comcast
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...
channel 2, Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
channel 7, and SureWest
Surewest
SureWest is a Roseville, CA based telecommunications company, servicing the Greater Sacramento Valley and Kansas City region markets. SureWest was founded in 1914 by William Doyle as the Roseville Telephone Company - SureWest became the official name in 2003...
channel 16. There is a high definition feed provided on Comcast digital channel 236, SureWest digital channel 615, and Time Warner
Time Warner
Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...
Cable digital channel 1431. Syndicated
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
programming on the station includes The New Adventures of Old Christine
The New Adventures of Old Christine
The New Adventures of Old Christine is an American comedy series starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus which ran for five seasons on CBS from March 13, 2006, to May 12, 2010...
, Extra
Extra (TV series)
Extra is an American entertainment television news program covering events and celebrities which debuted on September 5, 1994 in syndication. It is produced at Victory Studios in Glendale, California by Telepictures Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television Distribution...
, Maury
Maury (TV series)
Maury is a syndicated American tabloid talk show hosted by Maury Povich.When the series first aired in 1991, the show was called The Maury Povich Show and was produced by MoPo Productions in association with Paramount Domestic Television...
, The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the show, along with Steven Molaro. All three also serve as head writers...
, The Dr. Oz Show
The Dr. Oz Show
The Dr. Oz Show is an American syndicated television talk show, hosted by Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and teaching professor at Columbia University who became famous for his appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show from 2004 until 2009....
and 30 Rock
30 Rock
30 Rock is an American television comedy series created by Tina Fey that airs on NBC. The series is loosely based on Fey's experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live...
among others.
Digital programming
On KCWE-DT2, Comcast digital channel 235, and Time Warner Cable digital channel 975 is This TVThis TV
This TV is a United States general entertainment television network, with a large emphasis in its programming on movies....
. The service is not available on SureWest digital systems at the present time.
| Channels | Name | Video | Aspect Aspect ratio The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements,... |
Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29.1 | KCWE-DT | 1080i 1080i 1080i is the shorthand name for a high-definition television mode. The i means interlaced video; 1080i differs from 1080p, in which the p stands for progressive scan. The term 1080i assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a frame size of 1920×1080 pixels... |
16:9 16:9 16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ... |
Main KCWE programming / The CW |
| 29.2 | This-KC | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
4:3 | "This TV Kansas City" |
KCWE ceased analog transmission on December 15, 2008 two months before the originally scheduled 2009 analog shutdown
DTV transition in the United States
The DTV transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of free over-the-air television programming...
for full-service stations. The UHF channel 29 allotment was subsequently taken over by the digital signal of sister station KMBC. On March 3, 2009, the station began airing This TV on a new second digital subchannel.
History
The analog UHF channel 29 allotment was originally home to low-powered ValueVisionShopNBC
ShopNBC is an American broadcast and cable home shopping network, owned and operated by ValueVision Media, which is in turn 30% owned by GE Equity and NBC Universal...
affiliate K29CF. To make way for a new full-powered station, that station moved in the mid-1990s to channel 48, becoming K48FS. Today, that station (with the calls KUKC-LP
KUKC-LP
KUKC-LP is a low-powered broadcast television station in Kansas City, Missouri and is licensed to the city with offices in Kansas City,Missouri. KUKC is a licensed Univision network affiliate and the only Spanish-language television station in the area. KUKC-LP is the only local Univision affiliate...
) serves as the market
Media market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content...
's low-powered Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
affiliate.
What is now KCWE signed-on September 14, 1996 as WB
The WB Television Network
The WB Television Network is a former television network in the United States that was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros...
affiliate KCWB (Kansas City's WB). It was locally-owned but managed through a local marketing agreement
Local marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...
(LMA) by Hearst Corporation
Hearst Corporation
The Hearst Corporation is an American media conglomerate based in the Hearst Tower, Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. Founded by William Randolph Hearst as an owner of newspapers, the company's holdings now include a wide variety of media...
(owner of KMBC). Initially the station ran a mix of cartoons, recent off network sitcoms, talk shows, court shows, and movies. Operation of KCWB was taken over by Hearst-Argyle Television (now Hearst Television) in 1997, after the merger of Hearst Corporation's broadcasting division with Argyle Television Holdings II.
In January 1998, KSMO, previously a UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
affiliate, joined The WB after its owner, Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group
The Sinclair Broadcast Group is an American telecommunications company that operates the largest number of local television stations in the United States. Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, it owns a total of 57 stations across the country in 35 primarily small and medium markets, many of...
, cut an affiliation deal with the network. KCWB subsequently joined UPN, but still offered Kids' WB
Kids' WB
Kids' WB! was Warner Bros. American childrens programing division brand for The WB Television Network. In September 2006, the block moved to The CW Television Network. The CW is the result of The WB's merger with UPN in 2006...
(now Toonzai) until June of that year because KSMO still held a contract to air Fox Kids
Fox Kids
Fox Kids was the Fox Broadcasting Company's American children's programming division and brand name from September 8, 1990 until September 7, 2002. It was owned by Fox Television Entertainment airing programming on Monday–Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings.Depending on the show, the...
(which was not shown on the area's Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
station, WDAF-TV
WDAF-TV
WDAF-TV, virtual channel 4.1, is the Fox-affiliated television station serving the Kansas City, Missouri-Kansas designated market area. The station is owned by Local TV LLC, the media arm of private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners. Its studios and transmitter are located in the Signal Hill...
); at that time, Fox Kids moved to KCWB as well. Channel 29 would change its calls to the current KCWE on August 24, 1998. Hearst bought the station outright in 2001; however, Hearst-Argyle continued to consider KCWE to be managed rather than owned by the company for several years thereafter, as the station was officially owned by an indirect subsidiary of Hearst Corporation as opposed to Hearst-Argyle (then a publicly-traded company controlled by Hearst).
WMOR-TV
WMOR-TV is an independent television station in the Tampa Bay television market . It is licensed to Lakeland, with studios in Tampa. The station is owned by the Hearst Corporation.-History:...
. KCWE would drop the "More TV" moniker by 2005 (in favor of using its call letters and the slogan "Kansas City's UPN"), but would retain the logo style for most of the remainder of UPN's existence. KMBC would bring back the branding (as "MOREtv Kansas City") on September 14, 2010 when it began airing general entertainment programming on weeknights from 6 until 11 on its second digital subchannel
Digital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual...
that was otherwise affiliated with The Local AccuWeather Channel
The Local AccuWeather Channel
The Local AccuWeather Channel is a 24-hour, weather-oriented, commercially sponsored broadcast and cable television network in the United States owned and operated by AccuWeather, Inc., which is headquartered in State College, Pennsylvania....
. KCWE dropped Fox Kids in the Fall of 1999 for more talk and reality programming; Fox Kids programming then moved to KMCI-TV. Channel 29 ceased carrying children's programming on weekdays altogether when UPN ended its daily morning national children's programming block.
On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced the two networks would end broadcasting and merge to form The CW. On March 7, The CW and Hearst announced KCWE would become Kansas City's CW affiliate. As the station already had "CW" in its call letters, station management said it would take advantage of this and leave them unchanged. The old logo was dispensed altogether in August 2006 when KCWE's new logo reflecting the CW affiliation was released. The new network began broadcasting on September 18.
In late-March of 2009, Hearst applied to transfer KCWE's license from its indirect subsidiary (doing business as
Doing business as
The phrase "doing business as" is a legal term used in the United States, meaning that the trade name, or fictitious business name, under which the business or operation is conducted and presented to the world is not the legal name of the legal person who actually own it and are responsible for it...
"KCWE-TV Company") directly to the larger Hearst Television subsidiary with the transfer being completed on May 1. As it operates in the KMBC duopoly, the station might take on responsibility to run ABC programming in the event of news emergencies (such as severe weather
Severe weather
Severe weather phenomena are weather conditions that are hazardous to human life and property.- Examples Include :Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and , instability in the...
), sporting events, and/or the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
The MDA Labor Day Telethon is an annual telethon in the United States to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association . The first MDA telethon was during the Thanksgiving Day weekend of 1952 and titled Party for MDA. It has been held annually since 1966...
when KMBC cannot do so. Since the tiny St. Joseph, Missouri market has a cable-only
The CW Plus
The CW Plus is a group of primarily digital sub-channels, analog, and non-broadcast cable television outlets for the CW Television Network, for markets below the top 99 television media markets in the United States....
CW station, KCWE unofficially serves as that area's off-air affiliate. In 2010, it aired all Kansas City Wizards
Kansas City Wizards
Sporting Kansas City is an American professional soccer club based in Kansas City, Kansas that competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States of America and Canada...
MLS
Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . The league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada...
games except those already under a national broadcast agreement.
Newscasts
For many years, KCWB/KCWE aired no local newscasts despite being operated by KMBC. Station management cited a fear of "cannibalizing" KMBC's audience as a reason for not expanding news offerings to channel 29. This policy was abandoned on March 3, 2008, when KMBC added a two-hour extension of its weekday morning newscast. Known as KMBC 9 FirstNews on KCWE, the broadcast can be seen from 7 to 9 a.m., while KMBC airs Good Morning AmericaGood Morning America
Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...
. KCWE's weekday morning program competes with an in-house morning newscast on WDAF-TV and an hour-long newscast on KSMO that is produced by its sister station KCTV
KCTV
KCTV channel 5 is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Kansas City Metropolitan Area that is licensed to the Missouri side. Owned by the Meredith Corporation, the station is sister to MyNetworkTV affiliate KSMO-TV and the two share facilities on Shawnee Mission Parkway KCTV channel 5 is...
.
On September 14, 2010, KMBC added a third option for primetime news to the Kansas City airways. Known as KMBC 9 News at 9 on KCWE, the half-hour weeknight-only program also airs against a half-hour nightly local newscast seen on KSMO (launched in the fall of 2005 and also produced by KCTV) and a nightly in-house 9 p.m. newscast that WDAF has aired since it affiliated with Fox in September 1994. The weeknight newscast on KCWE airs commercial-free for the first nine minutes (a play on its sister station's on-air branding) featuring the day's top headlines and an updated weather forecast segment within that time. As is the case on KMBC, all local newscasts seen on KCWE is aired in high definition.
News team
Anchors- Kelly Eckerman - weekends at 9 p.m.; also weeknight reporter
- Kris Ketz - weekday mornings (7-9 a.m.); also reporter
- Larry MooreLarry Moore (reporter)Larry Moore is a television newscaster in Kansas City, Missouri, United States for over 3 decades. He has been called “Mr. Kansas City” due to his local prominence...
- weeknights at 9 p.m. - Lara Moritz - weeknights at 9 p.m.
- Donna Pitman - weekday mornings (7-9 a.m.)
First Alert Weather
- Bryan Busby (AMSAmerican Meteorological SocietyThe American Meteorological Society promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. Founded in 1919, the American Meteorological Society has a membership...
Seal of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 9 p.m., also heard on KPRSKPRSKPRS is an Urban contemporary radio station that broadcasts on the 103.3 MHz frequency licensed to Kansas City. The station's playlist consists of hip-hop, R&B, soul, jazz, and gospel music...
-FM - Joel Nichols - weather anchor; weekday mornings, also heard on KMBZ-AM-FM
- Erin Little (member, AMS) - meteorologist; weekends at 9 p.m.
- Lisa Teachman (AMS Seal of Approval; member, NWANational Weather AssociationThe National Weather Association is an American professional association with a mission to support and promote excellence in operational meteorology and related activities...
) - meteorologist; fill-in
Sports team
- Len DawsonLen DawsonLeonard Ray "Len" "Lenny" Dawson is a former American collegiate and Professional Football quarterback who attended Purdue University and went on to play for three professional teams, most notably the Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs...
- sports directorSports DirectorA sports director is an individual at a television or radio station who is in charge of the sports department. In local news, the sports director is typically the station's primary sportscaster, and often anchors the primetime newscasts on weekdays. They are in charge of sports programming and...
emeritusEmeritusEmeritus is a post-positive adjective that is used to designate a retired professor, bishop, or other professional or as a title. The female equivalent emerita is also sometimes used.-History:...
; also sports reporter and fill-in sports anchor - Nick Griffith - sports anchor; weeknights at 9 p.m., also sports reporter and producer
- Karen Kornacki - sports anchor; weekends at 9 p.m., also sports reporter
Reporters
- Maria Antonia - also fill-in anchor
- Martin Augustine
- Peggy Breit
- Bev Chapman
- Diane Cho
- Jana Corrie - weekday morning reporter
- Cliff Judy
- Micheal Mahoney
- Marcus Moore
- Justin Robinson - weekday morning reporter
- Johnny Rowlands - helicopter pilot and weekday morning traffic
- Kerri Stowell - weekday morning traffic and fill-in news anchor
- Brenda Washington
Hearst Washington Bureau
- Kate Amara - weekday morning Washington Bureau reporter
- Sally Kidd - Washington Bureau reporter
- Nikole Killion - Washington Bureau reporter