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KSHB-TV, virtual channel 41 (UHF digital channel 42) is the NBC-affiliated television station serving Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas. Owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, it is sister to independent station KMCI-TV (as the company's only legal full-power station duopoly) and both station share studios on Oak Street and Cleaver Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. It broadcasts its signal on from a transmitter at the Blue River Greenway in the city's Hillcrest section.

As the Saint Joseph market does not have an NBC affiliate of its own, KSHB serves as a default affiliate for the area as its transmitter provides a city-grade signal in St. Joseph proper, and it is available on cable and satellite in the area.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming
41.1 1080i 16:9 KSHB-DT Main KSHB-TV programming / NBC
41.2 480i KSHB-WX Cozi TV

Analog-to-digital transition

KSHB-TV discontinued its analog signal on June 12, 2009, as part of the digital television transition. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 42; however through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display its virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 41.[1][2]

History

Channel 41 signed on August 10, 1970, using the callsign KBMA-TV (standing for Businessmen's Assurance Company of America, which provided initial funds for the station's founding), and was originally owned by Wilson D. Grant. Its first studio was located in the BMA Tower, and its first local program was an afternoon children's show with cartoons called 41 Treehouse Lane.

KBMA was originally an independent – the second in the Kansas City market. However, it had stronger financing and programming than the city's original independent, KCIT-TV (channel 50, now KPXE-TV). KCIT went off the air in 1971, and for the next 12 years, channel 41 was the only general entertainment station in Kansas City (channel 50 eventually signed on once again in 1978, but as a religious station). From the early 1970s through the 1980s, it was available on many cable systems in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma, effectively becoming a regional superstation – this included many large Midwestern cities that did not have independent stations of their own, such as Des Moines, Omaha, Lincoln and Wichita.

KBMA was sold to Scripps Howard Broadcasting in 1977. To reflect its new ownership, the station later changed its call letters to KSHB-TV in 1981. The station acquired some strong off-network sitcoms and movie packages and remained the area's leading independent station. The station affiliated with the upstart Fox network in 1986,[3] but it remained essentially an independent station since Fox only provided a couple of hours of network programming a day. During its Fox affiliation, KSHB was known on-air as "Fox 41". The station began to add a few talk and reality shows in the early 1990s.

On May 22, 1994, New World Communications announced an affiliation agreement with the Fox Broadcasting Company, months after that network won the broadcast rights to NFC football games. This resulted in most of New World's stations switching their network affiliations from various "Big Three" networks to Fox. One of the stations involved was Kansas City's longtime NBC affiliate, WDAF-TV (channel 4). NBC sought to find a new affiliate, eventually finding one in KSHB.[4] On September 12, 1994, WDAF ended its NBC affiliation after 45 years and took over the Fox affiliation, while Fox Kids programming moved to KSMO-TV (channel 62). Meanwhile, NBC agreed to affiliate with KSHB on the condition that KSHB run as much local news as WDAF had as an NBC affiliate, and as a result, launched newscasts in the morning and at 5 and 6 p.m., and moved its 9 p.m. newscast to 10 p.m. KSHB was not part of the Scripps-ABC affiliation deal due to ABC's long-term affiliation contract with KMBC-TV (channel 9). For a four-year period, KSHB aired most Kansas City Chiefs games as part of NBC's broadcast contract to the American Football Conference; KSHB lost these rights to KCTV in 1998 when the AFC package moved to CBS.

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Former logo, used from 2003-2012.

Scripps Howard began to manage KMCI (channel 38) in 1996,[5] and moved KSHB's sitcoms to that station. From 2000 to 2003, KSHB also produced a 30-minute 9 p.m. newscast on KMCI; by the time it was canceled, the newscast was called 38 News Now and had completely differentiated itself from KSHB, using different graphics, different (and drastically smaller) set, and a different all-percussion theme.

Programming

Syndicated programming on KSHB includes The Doctors, The Jeff Probst Show, Comics Unleashed and Jeopardy!. It runs the entire NBC network schedule (though airs Early Today 30 to 60 minutes earlier than most NBC stations in the Central Time Zone at 3:30 a.m., in line with the Eastern Time scheduling of the program).

News operation

KSHB-TV presently broadcasts 32 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with five hours on weekdays, four hours on Saturdays and 2½ hours on Sundays). KSHB is also one of ten television stations that air consumer reports from John Matarese of ABC affiliate (and sister station) WCPO in Cincinnati. Although KSHB's newscast ratings are generally lower than WDAF, KCTV (channel 5) and KMBC-TV (and NBC's ratings have been lower than ABC, CBS and Fox for the past several years), the station has seen some slow growth in the last several years. In fact, KSHB is now solidly the #2 station at 5 and 6 p.m., and seems to have risen to third in the morning at 6 a.m. However given NBC's very poor performance in primetime, its late night newscast at 10 p.m. still struggles and it consistently comes in fourth, and also a close third at a margin small enough to where KSHB is in a battle of sorts with WDAF for the third place spot.

The station ran news programming in various formats for years prior to joining NBC. As an independent station, KSHB (then KBMA) broadcast news updates with reports supplied by UPI over a 41 Newsbreak slide. The station did live news updates during prime time and ran a 15-minute local newscast at 10 p.m. as 41 Express during the 1980s. The current news department launched in August 1993, when KSHB began producing a 9 p.m. newscast called Fox 41 News at Nine, anchored by Jim Condelles and Pam Davis. The following year when KSHB picked up the NBC affiliation, its newscasts became known as 41 News, and started running at 5, 6, and 10 p.m. on weeknights, and 5 and 10 p.m. on weekends.[6] In 1997, the station cancelled its 5 and 6 p.m. newscasts in favor of a pre-primetime newscast at 6:30 p.m.; that newscast was dropped in March 1999, and newscasts were reinstated at 5 and 6 p.m.[7]

KSHB has since become a more news-intensive operation – to the point where the station currently brands itself as 41 Action News. The Action News branding, as a UHF owned by Scripps, is also shared with sister stations WFTS in Tampa-St. Petersburg and WXYZ-TV in Detroit (both of which are ABC affiliates). But in the case of the Kansas City market, KSHB is the second station to use the branding – dating from when WDAF used it for its news branding back when it was an NBC affiliate. The Action News branding was originally adopted in 2003 as NBC Action News for both general entertainment programming and newscasts, the on-air branding was changed (with very little promotion) to 41 Action News on February 5, 2012 beginning with its 10 p.m. newscast (following NBC's coverage of Super Bowl XLVI) after the station realized that most viewers still referred to KSHB as "channel 41."[8]

In September 2005, KSHB debuted a mid-morning chat program, Kansas City Live, which was similar to Kansas City Today which aired on the station in the late 1990s, and AM Live which aired in the 1980s; the show was cancelled in early 2008, replaced with a late-morning newscast at 11 a.m. KSHB became the second station in the Kansas City market (behind KMBC, channel 9) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition on April 24, 2008, starting with its 11 a.m. newscast. The new high definition set was unveiled on August 8, 2008. In November 2009, KSHB-TV introduced a new red and brown graphics package and new news theme on its newscasts, a standardized package produced by a graphics hub based out of sister station WFTS-TV in Tampa that became utilized on most Scripps-owned stations.[9]

On February 6, 2010, it was announced that KSHB's assistant news director and general manager would both be resigning from the station. The assistant news director would move to WFTX-TV in Cape Coral, Florida to become the station's new news director (the fifth in seven years at the station). The station's general manager announced that he would be taking an early retirement, thus the reason for his resignation. He had been associated with the station for 15 years and officially stepped down on March 5, 2010. On February 25, 2010, KSHB's new general manager was announced.

On August 19, 2010 KSHB management announced that it was adding an additional four hours of newscasts to its lineup; this included re-expanding morning newscast to a 4:30 a.m. start time on August 23 (at one point[when?], the morning newscast began straight at 4 a.m.), extending their Saturday morning newscast from one hour from 8-9 a.m. to two hours from 8-10 a.m. on September 4, and adding an hour-long Saturday evening 6 p.m. newscast on that same date.[10] It was also announced that former WDAF-TV sports director Frank Boal (who had earlier announced in 2009 that he was retiring from the television industry) would be joining the station for the station's football season coverage. On August 29, 2011, KSHB debuted a half-hour 4:30 p.m. newscast, which utilizes social media platforms to allow viewers to interact with the newscast.[11] On August 1, 2011, KSHB began rebroadcasting its 11 a.m. midday newscast on sister station KMCI at noon on weekdays. On April 8, 2013, an additional newscast was added at 4 p.m., giving the station a 90-minute block of local news leading up to the 5:30 p.m. broadcast of NBC Nightly News.[12]

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

  • 41 News Update (1981–1985)
  • 41 Express (1985–1988)
  • KSHB TV-41 Newsbreak (1988–1991)
  • Fox 41 News at Nine (1993–1994)
  • 41 News (1994–1999)
  • NBC 41 News (1999–2003)
  • NBC Action News (2003–2012)[13]
  • 41 Action News (2012–present)

Station slogans

  • "Kansas City's 41" (1980s)
  • "Entertainment Around the Clock" (1992)
  • "It's NBC on 41" (1994)
  • "The Answers You're Looking For" (1996–1999)
  • "Kansas City's In-Depth News" (1999–2003)
  • "Your Source for Breaking News" (2003–2005)
  • "Complete Coverage" (2005–2008; news slogan)
  • "Stand Up and Tell 'em You're from KC" (2005; used in image campaign using Frank Gari's "Turn To...")
  • "Always On" (2005–2008; general slogan)
  • "Kansas City's Breaking News Leader" (2008–present)
  • "Kansas City's Weather Leader" (weather slogan; 2008–present)

News team

Current on-air staff

ANCHORS

Mark Clegg (weeknights at 4, 5, 6 and 10pm)

Christa Dubill (weeknights at 4, 5 and 10pm)

Jadiann Thompson (weeknights at 6pm)

JiaoJiao Shen (weekdays 4:30-7am)

Cynthia Newsome (weekdays 11am)

Amy Hawley (weekends 5, 6 and 10pm)

Lindsay Shively (weekend mornings 8am)

41 ACTION WEATHER TEAM

Chief Meteorologist Gary Lezak (AMS Seal of Approval; weekdays at 4, and weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.)

Brett Anthony (AMS and NWA Seals of Approval; weekday mornings on 41 Action News Today from 4:30-7 a.m. and weekdays at 11 a.m.)

Jeff Penner (AMS Seal of Approval; fill-in meteorologist, also weather producer).[14]

Kalee Dionee (Weekend mornings and evenings, weekday morning fill-in)

41 ACTION SPORTS

sports director Jack Harry (weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.)

Lance Veeser (Saturdays at 6 and weekends at 5 and 10 p.m.; also sports reporter)

Sports contributor/analyst Frank Boal (also fill-in sports anchor)

The station's general assignment reporters are Lisa Benson (weeknight reporter); Marissa Cleaver; Christina Medina; Jake Peterson; Syed Shabbir; Lindsay Shively (weekday morning multimedia journalist); Zach Tecklenburg; and Beth Vaughn. Investigative reporters are Ryan Kath (also general assignment reporter), Keith King and John Matarese (consumer reporter, based out of WCPO in Cincinnati).[14]

Former on-air staff

  • Najahe Sherman - weekend morning anchor (2010–2013)
  • Lance Veeser - Friday & Saturday evening Sports anchor (2006-2013) Currently Sports Director at WKOW-TV in Madison, WI

References

  1. ^ DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds
  2. ^ KC TV stations will delay digital-only switch, Kansas City Business Journal, February 6, 2009.
  3. ^ Fox Broadcasting Co. reaches affiliate agreements with 79 TV stations to exclusively broadcast offered programming, PR Newswire (via HighBeam Research), August 4, 1986.
  4. ^ THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Scripps Deal With NBC, The New York Times, August 1, 1994.
  5. ^ Scripps to Run TV Station in Lawrence, Kan., The Cincinnati Post (via HighBeam Research), March 28, 1996.
  6. ^ Starting from scratch: in the wake of sales and affiliation changes, stations face the challenge of creating a news department, Broadcasting & Cable (via HighBeam Research), September 4, 1995.
  7. ^ Kansas City reshuffle, Broadcasting & Cable (via HighBeam Research), March 8, 1999.
  8. ^ KSHB Re-Brands Itself
  9. ^ Dickson, Glen. "Scripps' Graphics Overhaul.", Broadcasting & Cable, February 9, 2009. HighBeam Research, February 16, 2011.
  10. ^ [1]
  11. ^ Local News Periods Keep Expanding in Kansas City
  12. ^ [2]
  13. ^ KSHB 41 News Open (2010)
  14. ^ a b Meet the Team, KSHB.com.
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