KSMO-TV
Encyclopedia
KSMO-TV, virtual channel
62, is the MyNetworkTV
-affiliated television station
for the Kansas City Metropolitan Area
licensed to the Missouri
side. It broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 47 from a transmitter in Independence, Missouri
. On cable, KSMO can be seen in standard definition on channel 10 on Time Warner
and Surewest
with high definition on digital channel 1010 on Time Warner
only.
Owned by the Meredith Corporation
, the station is sister to CBS
affiliate KCTV
and the two share studios on Shawnee Mission Parkway
(U.S. 56
/U.S. 169
) in Fairway, Kansas
. Syndicated
programming on KSMO includes: Everybody Loves Raymond
, The Wendy Williams Show
, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
, Friends
, and Tyler Perry's House of Payne
.
(FCC) license. It was the second conventional independent in Kansas City, after KBMA-TV (channel 41, now KSHB-TV
). Locally owned, it was a typical independent running cartoons, drama shows, old movies, religious shows, westerns, and sitcoms.
The new station's slogan was "Super 62" but the launch was anything but that. It only had three local commercials on its first day of operation that included: a "Candelite Music" LP collection of Elvis songs, a "Candelite" collection of country songs, and an ad for a modeling school. These commercials ran in nearly every break if the station was not showing a slide of its logo. The picture was substandard with a mysterious black bar at the top of most programs and commercials.
In 1985, the station was sold to Media Central and renamed KZKC. It added more sitcoms and movies and moved away from religious shows. It experimented with a "complete and uncut" gimmick for airing movies. That policy led to trouble when the station aired Private Lessons
, a film known for its frontal nudity and a relationship between a high school student and a maid. KZKC would be fined by the FCC after a viewer complaint about the film's content and nudity. The violation made TV Guide
's annual J. Fred Muggs
awards (a list of those in television who "made monkeys of themselves").
The KZKC call sign was used in fictional form on the sitcom Malcolm & Eddie
which was set in Kansas City. It was the name of the fictional radio station where Malcolm-Jamal Warner
's character Malcolm McGee worked during the first two seasons of the series. Ironically, when the series went on-the-air in 1996, KSMO was an affiliate of UPN
(the network which carried the show) although the KZKC calls were changed five years earlier.
The station remained unprofitable and was later sold to Abry in 1988 and later renamed KSMO-TV in 1991. The new ownership put ballots in the local television guide asking for programming advice hence the check mark in the "O" of KSMO's new logo. Under Abry, the station began to turn a profit. It failed to land the Fox
affiliation, which went to KSHB, but held its own with a syndication lineup of cartoons, sitcoms, a few talk, reality shows, and movies. In March 1993, KSMO announced that it had entered into a three-year, $11 million contract to become the exclusive local broadcaster of Kansas City Royals
baseball games; two months later, ABC
and NBC
announced the formation of The Baseball Network
. In June 1994, the station sued the Royals for breach of contract arguing that NBC affiliate WDAF-TV
and ABC affiliate KMBC-TV
would each carry at least five primetime Royals telecasts in July and August, compared with only one or two national Royals games carried previously and that the Royals were obligated to renegotiate their local deal per a clause in the contract.
KSMO picked up some of KSHB's programming including Fox Kids
in 1994 after KSHB swapped affiliations with WDAF and became an NBC affiliate. WDAF, like most Fox stations owned by New World Communications
, opted for Saturday morning news. That year, Abry merged with the Sinclair Broadcast Group
. KSMO took the UPN affiliation starting on January 16, 1995. However, it still essentially programmed as an independent station
since UPN only provided programming for a few nights out of the week at that time.
KSMO became a WB affiliate in January 1998 after Sinclair cut an affiliation deal with The WB switching most of its independent stations and UPN affiliates to that network. The Fox Kids programming remained on KSMO until June 1998 and the Kids WB programming block remained on former WB affiliate KCWB (now KCWE
) even after dropping the primary WB programming and switching to UPN until that June as well. At the time KSMO picked up Kids WB, Fox Kids went to KCWB. As time went on, the older sitcoms and most of the cartoons would make way for more talk and reality shows as well as court shows. Early in 2006, weekday Kids WB programming was discontinued nationally, making KSMO the last station in the market running weekday cartoons.
The Meredith Corporation
bought the station in 2005 and made KSMO a sister station to CBS
affiliate KCTV
. On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced that they would cease broadcasting and merge. The new combined network would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents: CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros.
unit of Time Warner
. On February 22, News Corporation
announced that it would start up another new broadcast television network called MyNetworkTV. The new network, which would be sister to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created in order to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming independent. It was also created to compete against The CW.
It was confirmed on March 7 that KCWE would become Kansas City's CW affiliate after an announcement by the network and its owner Hearst Television. Two days later, KSMO was announced as Kansas City's MyNetworkTV affiliate and branded as "My KSMO TV". The last day WB programming aired on KSMO was on September 4. It continued to air WB daytime programming until September 15. KCWE began broadcasting The CW on September 18. Since MyNetworkTV does not air programming on weekend evenings, KSMO normally airs movies from 7 to 9. The station became the new home for Kansas Jayhawks
basketball games starting in late-2009. It also takes on the responsibility of airing CBS programming whenever KCTV is not able to do so such as during long-form breaking news alerts, severe weather emergencies, or the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
.
At some point in time, KSMO removed the "My" portion of the branding as many affiliates of the network began dropping network references due to it becoming more of a primetime programming service than a true network. KSMO retains the 'blue TV' component of the network's logo. In June of 2011, KSMO announced they would be broadcasting high school football games starting that fall.
Anchors
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Sports team
Reporters
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....
62, is the MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
-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
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...
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 47 from a transmitter in Independence, Missouri
Independence, Missouri
Independence is the fourth largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri, and is contained within the counties of Jackson and Clay. It is part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area...
. On cable, KSMO can be seen in standard definition on channel 10 on Time Warner
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
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...
with high definition on digital channel 1010 on 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...
only.
Owned by the Meredith Corporation
Meredith Corporation
The Meredith Corporation is a media conglomerate based in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The company has two divisions, National Media and Local Media.-History:...
, the station is sister to CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
affiliate 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...
and the two share studios on Shawnee Mission Parkway
Shawnee Mission Parkway
Shawnee Mission Parkway is a stretch of roadway in Johnson County, Kansas and Jackson County, Missouri . Its western terminus at K-7 in Shawnee, Kansas and its eastern terminus at Ward Parkway in Kansas City, Missouri...
(U.S. 56
U.S. Route 56
U.S. Route 56 is an east–west United States highway that runs for in the Midwestern United States. The highway's eastern terminus is at U.S. Route 71 in Kansas City, Missouri. Its western terminus is at Interstate 25 Business in Springer, New Mexico. Much of it follows the Santa Fe...
/U.S. 169
U.S. Route 169
U.S. Route 169 currently runs for 966 miles from the city of Virginia, Minnesota to Tulsa, Oklahoma at U.S. Route 64.-Oklahoma:U.S. Highway 169 is a major south–north highway spanning in Oklahoma. The southern terminus for US-169 is Memorial Drive...
) in Fairway, Kansas
Fairway, Kansas
Fairway is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. The population was 3,952 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Fairway is located at...
. 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 KSMO includes: Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. Many of the situations from the show are based on the real-life experiences of lead actor Ray Romano, creator/producer Phil Rosenthal and the show's writing staff...
, The Wendy Williams Show
The Wendy Williams Show
The Wendy Williams Show is a syndicated talk show hosted by Wendy Williams that premiered on July 14, 2008, as six-week sneak peek, in Detroit, Dallas, Los Angeles, and New York City. The test run was picked up for a full season that began its run on July 13, 2009 in over 70% of the country in...
, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced...
, Friends
Friends
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
, and Tyler Perry's House of Payne
Tyler Perry's House of Payne
Tyler Perry's House of Payne is an American comedy-drama television series created and produced by playwright, director, and producer Tyler Perry. The show revolves around a multi-generational family living under one roof in Atlanta, Georgia led by patriarch Curtis Payne and his wife Ella...
.
Digital programming
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:| Virtual channel |
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| 62.1 | 47.1 | 720p 720p 720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan... |
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 KSMO-TV / MyNetworkTV HD MyNetworkTV MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation... programming |
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| 62.2 | 47.2 | 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 | Bounce TV Bounce TV Bounce TV is a United States television network airing on digital terrestrial television stations. Promoted as "the first 24/7 digital multicast broadcast network created exclusively for African Americans," Bounce TV launched on September 26, 2011 and features programming geared toward blacks in... ; television series and movies aimed at African-Americans |
History
The station signed-on September 12, 1983 as KEKR-TV broadcasting an analog signal on UHF channel 62. Its call letters came from the congressman who helped the station obtain a Federal Communications CommissionFederal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) license. It was the second conventional independent in Kansas City, after KBMA-TV (channel 41, now KSHB-TV
KSHB-TV
KSHB-TV, virtual channel 41, is the NBC-affiliated television station serving the entire Kansas City metropolitan area; the station is commonly known by its branding NBC Action News. It is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, alongside independent station KMCI as the company's only existing duopoly...
). Locally owned, it was a typical independent running cartoons, drama shows, old movies, religious shows, westerns, and sitcoms.
The new station's slogan was "Super 62" but the launch was anything but that. It only had three local commercials on its first day of operation that included: a "Candelite Music" LP collection of Elvis songs, a "Candelite" collection of country songs, and an ad for a modeling school. These commercials ran in nearly every break if the station was not showing a slide of its logo. The picture was substandard with a mysterious black bar at the top of most programs and commercials.
In 1985, the station was sold to Media Central and renamed KZKC. It added more sitcoms and movies and moved away from religious shows. It experimented with a "complete and uncut" gimmick for airing movies. That policy led to trouble when the station aired Private Lessons
Private Lessons (1981 film)
Private Lessons is the title of an American comedy film released in 1980. The film starred Sylvia Kristel, Howard Hesseman, Eric Brown, and Ed Begley, Jr.The screenplay was written by Dan Greenburg, who wrote the original source novel, Philly...
, a film known for its frontal nudity and a relationship between a high school student and a maid. KZKC would be fined by the FCC after a viewer complaint about the film's content and nudity. The violation made TV Guide
TV Guide
TV Guide is a weekly American magazine with listings of TV shows.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews and crossword puzzles...
's annual J. Fred Muggs
J. Fred Muggs
J. Fred Muggs is a chimpanzee that was the mascot for NBC's Today Show from 1953 to 1957.The show debuted in 1952, with amiable host Dave Garroway. The show was in trouble initially; the addition of J. Fred Muggs boosted ratings and helped win advertisers...
awards (a list of those in television who "made monkeys of themselves").
The KZKC call sign was used in fictional form on the sitcom Malcolm & Eddie
Malcolm & Eddie
Malcolm & Eddie is an American television sitcom that premiered August 26, 1996 on the UPN Network, and ran for four seasons. This series starred Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Eddie Griffin in the lead roles. This show was canceled after its fourth season, and aired its final episode on May 22, 2000...
which was set in Kansas City. It was the name of the fictional radio station where Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Malcolm-Jamal Warner is an American television actor, film director, and musician. He is best known for his role as Theo Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show. Additionally, he appeared as Malcolm McGee on the UPN sitcom Malcolm & Eddie. He is currently starring as Dr...
's character Malcolm McGee worked during the first two seasons of the series. Ironically, when the series went on-the-air in 1996, KSMO was an affiliate of 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...
(the network which carried the show) although the KZKC calls were changed five years earlier.
The station remained unprofitable and was later sold to Abry in 1988 and later renamed KSMO-TV in 1991. The new ownership put ballots in the local television guide asking for programming advice hence the check mark in the "O" of KSMO's new logo. Under Abry, the station began to turn a profit. It failed to land the 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...
affiliation, which went to KSHB, but held its own with a syndication lineup of cartoons, sitcoms, a few talk, reality shows, and movies. In March 1993, KSMO announced that it had entered into a three-year, $11 million contract to become the exclusive local broadcaster of Kansas City Royals
Kansas City Royals
The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From 1973 to the present, the Royals have played in Kauffman Stadium...
baseball games; two months later, 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...
and NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
announced the formation of The Baseball Network
The Baseball Network
The Baseball Network was a short-lived television broadcasting joint venture between ABC, NBC, and Major League Baseball. Under the arrangement, beginning in the 1994 season, the league produced its own in-house telecasts of games, which were then brokered to air on ABC and NBC...
. In June 1994, the station sued the Royals for breach of contract arguing that NBC affiliate 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...
and ABC 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...
would each carry at least five primetime Royals telecasts in July and August, compared with only one or two national Royals games carried previously and that the Royals were obligated to renegotiate their local deal per a clause in the contract.
KSMO picked up some of KSHB's programming including 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...
in 1994 after KSHB swapped affiliations with WDAF and became an NBC affiliate. WDAF, like most Fox stations owned by New World Communications
New World Communications
New World Pictures was an independent motion picture and television production company, and later television station owner in the United States from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s...
, opted for Saturday morning news. That year, Abry merged with the 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...
. KSMO took the UPN affiliation starting on January 16, 1995. However, it still essentially programmed as an independent station
Independent station
An independent station is in the category of television terminology used to describe a television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not affiliated with any television network....
since UPN only provided programming for a few nights out of the week at that time.
KSMO became a WB affiliate in January 1998 after Sinclair cut an affiliation deal with The WB switching most of its independent stations and UPN affiliates to that network. The Fox Kids programming remained on KSMO until June 1998 and the Kids WB programming block remained on former WB affiliate KCWB (now KCWE
KCWE
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 from a transmitter at the East 23rd Street/Topping Avenue intersection in Kansas City, Missouri's Blue Valley section...
) even after dropping the primary WB programming and switching to UPN until that June as well. At the time KSMO picked up Kids WB, Fox Kids went to KCWB. As time went on, the older sitcoms and most of the cartoons would make way for more talk and reality shows as well as court shows. Early in 2006, weekday Kids WB programming was discontinued nationally, making KSMO the last station in the market running weekday cartoons.
The Meredith Corporation
Meredith Corporation
The Meredith Corporation is a media conglomerate based in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The company has two divisions, National Media and Local Media.-History:...
bought the station in 2005 and made KSMO a sister station to CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
affiliate 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 January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced that they would cease broadcasting and merge. The new combined network would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents: CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
unit of 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...
. On February 22, News Corporation
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...
announced that it would start up another new broadcast television network called MyNetworkTV. The new network, which would be sister to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created in order to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming independent. It was also created to compete against The CW.
It was confirmed on March 7 that KCWE would become Kansas City's CW affiliate after an announcement by the network and its owner Hearst Television. Two days later, KSMO was announced as Kansas City's MyNetworkTV affiliate and branded as "My KSMO TV". The last day WB programming aired on KSMO was on September 4. It continued to air WB daytime programming until September 15. KCWE began broadcasting The CW on September 18. Since MyNetworkTV does not air programming on weekend evenings, KSMO normally airs movies from 7 to 9. The station became the new home for Kansas Jayhawks
Kansas Jayhawks
The sports teams at the University of Kansas are known as the Jayhawks. They are one of three schools in the state of Kansas that participate in NCAA Division I. The Jayhawks are also a member of the Big 12 Conference...
basketball games starting in late-2009. It also takes on the responsibility of airing CBS programming whenever KCTV is not able to do so such as during long-form breaking news alerts, severe weather emergencies, 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...
.
At some point in time, KSMO removed the "My" portion of the branding as many affiliates of the network began dropping network references due to it becoming more of a primetime programming service than a true network. KSMO retains the 'blue TV' component of the network's logo. In June of 2011, KSMO announced they would be broadcasting high school football games starting that fall.
Newscasts
KCTV produces 8½ hours of local news each week for KSMO. This includes an hour-long extension of KCTV 5 More in the Morning weekday mornings from 7 until 8 and nightly half-hour prime time show at 9 (which launched in Fall 2005) and competes against WDAF's hour-long broadcast. The weekday morning show airs against local broadcasts on WDAF and KCWE. KSMO also airs a public affairs show known as Your Kansas City on Sunday afternoons at 1 that is hosted by Dana Wright. KCTV began airing its newscasts in high definition on October 20, 2008 and the KSMO shows were included in the upgrade. At some point in time, KSMO began simulcasting KCTV's weekday noon newscast. At another point in time, KSMO also began simulcasting KCTV's 10 p.m. newscast on Saturday nights.Anchors
- Greg Adaline - weekday mornings and noon
- Amy Anderson - weekends at 9 and Saturdays at 10 p.m.; also weekday reporter
- Kelly Jones - weekday mornings and noon
- Karen Fuller - weeknights at 9 p.m.
- Brad Stephens - weeknights at 9 p.m.
StormTrack 5 Weather
- Chris Suchan (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...
Certified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast Meteorologist is a rating for meteorologists given by the American Meteorological Society.The Certified Broadcast Meteorologist program was established to raise the professional standard in broadcast meteorology and encourage a broader range of scientific understanding,...
and 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...
Seal of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 9 p.m. (starts the week of October 24) - Gary Amble (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekday mornings and noon
- Tom Wachs (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekends at 9 and Saturdays at 10 p.m.
Sports team
- Michael Coleman - sports director; Sunday-Thursdays at 9 p.m.
- Neal Jones - sports anchor; Friday-Saturdays at 9 and Saturdays at 10 p.m., also sports reporter
Reporters
- Stacey Cameron - investigative reporter
- Eric Chaloux
- Iris Hermosillo - Que Pasa, KC? host
- Jeanene Kiesling
- Amber Jenne
- Bonyen Lee
- Christina Medina - weekday morning and noon reporter
- Sandra Olivas
- Heather Staggers
- Matt Stewart
- Dana Wright - chief investigative reporter and Your Kansas City host