KSHB-TV

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KSHB-TV
Kansas City, Missouri
Branding	Your NBC Action News Station
Slogan	Complete Coverage
Channels	41 (UHF) analog, 42 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	NBC (since 1994)
Owner	The E. W. Scripps Company
Founded	1970
Call letters meaning	K Scripps Howard Broadcasting
Former callsigns	KBMA-TV (1970-1981)
Former affiliations	Independent (1970-86), Fox (1986-94)
Website	www.nbcactionnews.com

KSHB-TV 41 (a.k.a. NBC Action News) is the NBC network affiliate serving the entire Kansas City, Missouri metropolitan area. It is owned and operated alongside KMCI 38 The Spot as The E.W. Scripps Company's only existing duopoly. It runs NBC's entire schedule, along with first-run talk and reality shows, and about 30 hours a week of local news.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Logos 2 Newscasts 3 News Personalities 3.1 Current 3.1.1 Anchors 3.1.2 Weather Department 3.1.3 Sports 3.1.4 Reporters 3.2 Former 4 Past Local Programming 5 External links

[edit] History

Channel 41 signed on in 1970 with a general entertainment format. The station ran cartoons, sitcoms, old movies, drama shows, and religious programs. It transmitted under the KBMA-TV call letters (The Business Men's Administration Company, which provided initial funds for the station's founding), and it was owned by Wilson D. Grant. KBMA was originally an independent station.

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 newly-founded Fox network in 1986, becoming FOX 41, but remained essentially an independent station since Fox only provided a couple of hours of network programming a day. The station began to add a few talk and reality shows in the early 1990s.

Fox agreed to affiliate with New World Communications' television stations in 1994, including WDAF. As such, NBC (which was displaced from WDAF) agreed to affiliate with KSHB, on the condition that KSHB build a news department, and run as much local news as WDAF had as an NBC affiliate. The station had already run news in various formats for years. In its KBMA days, UPI news updates would air over a "41 Newsbreak" slide. The station did live news updates during prime time and 15 minutes of local news at 10pm as "41 Express" during the 1980s. As a Fox affiliate, it started "Fox 41 News at Nine," an edgy, MTV-esque half-hour of local and national news with the closing words "See Ya!"

In September of 1994, Fox's primetime and sports programming moved to WDAF, and Fox Kids moved to KSMO. KSHB became an NBC affiliate, and launched newscasts in the morning and at 5pm, 6pm and 10pm.

Scripps Howard began to manage KMCI in 1996, and moved KSHB's sitcoms to that station. At one point, KSHB also produced a 30-minute newscast at 9pm on KMCI. Currently, KSHB produces a 30-minute sports show for KMCI, but no newscast.

KSHB has since become a more news-intensive operation - to the point where the station currently brands itself as Your NBC Action News Station, rather than by its call letters or channel number. Although KSHB's newscast ratings are generally lower than KMBC, WDAF, and KCTV, the station has seen appreciable growth in recent years.

The "Action News" branding, as a UHF owned by Scripps, is also shared with sister station WFTS in Tampa-St. Petersburg, which is an ABC affiliate. 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.

In September 2005, KSHB started its mid-morning chat program, "Kansas City Live." This show is similar to "Kansas City Today" which aired on the station in the late 1990s, and "AM Live" which aired in the 1980s.

Today, KSHB is home to sydnicated game shows Jeopardy! & Wheel Of Fortune, which were both formerly seen on KCTV.

[edit] Logos

KSHB logo when it was a Fox affiliate. This particular graphic is from 1992-1994, seen on the open of Fox 41 News at 9:00.

KSHB-TV logo when it became an NBC affiliate. They had a different logo when it became "NBC 41" in 1994. However, this logo was used from 1995-1999.

KSHB-TV logo from 1999 to 2003.

Former "NBC 41 News" logo

[edit] Newscasts

Weekdays

• NBC Action News Today - 5:00 - 7:00AM
• Kansas City Live - 10:00 - 11:00AM
• NBC Action News at 5PM - 5:00 - 5:30PM
• NBC Action News at 6PM - 6:00 - 6:30PM
• NBC Action News at 10PM - 10:00 - 10:35PM

Saturday

• NBC Action News at 5PM - 5:00 - 5:30PM
• NBC Action News at 10PM - 10:00 - 10:30PM

Sunday

• NBC Action News at 5PM - 5:00 - 5:30PM
• NBC Action News at 10PM - 10:00 - 10:30PM
• NBC Action Sports - 10:30 - 11:00PM

[edit] News Personalities

[edit] Current

[edit] Anchors

• Elizabeth Alex - 5, 6, 10 PM
• Mark Clegg - 5, 6, 10 PM
• Keith King - 6 & 10 PM anchor weekends
• Sally Moore - "NBC Action News Today"
• Cynthia Newsome - 6 & 10 PM anchor weekends

[edit] Weather Department

• Brett Anthony - "NBC Action News Today"
• [[ ]] - Weekend 6 & 10 PM
• Gary Lezak - Chief Meteorologist, 5, 6, 10 PM
• Jeff Penner - Substitute meteorologist

[edit] Sports

• Jack Harry - Sports director, 5, 6 PM weekdays, 10 PM Sundays
• Leon Liebl - Sports anchor, weekends/reporter
• Lance Veeser - Sports reporter

[edit] Reporters

• Lisa Benson
• Marissa Cleaver
• Amy Hawley
• Chris Hernandez
• Meredith Hoenes, "Kansas City Live" host
• Ryan Kath
• Jennifer Kolbusz
• Darren Mark
• Mike Marusarz
• Anne Peterson, health contributor
• Larry Seward
• Jenn Strathman, Call for Action Reporter
• Nichole Teich, investigative reporter

[edit] Former

• Tom Lawrence - 5, 6, 10 PM, moved to WDAF-TV
• Kathy Quinn - "NBC 41 Today" anchor, moved to KCTV, now at WDAF-TV
• Taunia Hottman - "NBC 41 Today", "NBC Action News Today" traffic reporter, moved to KUSA-TV
• Kevin Petrehn - "Call for Action", moved to KCTV
• Ron Mott - Reporter, moved to NBC News
• George Kiriyama - Reporter, moved to KNTV, San Jose, CA
• Jade Hernandez - Reporter, moved to KTVU, San Francisco
• Bridget Cannata - Reporter, moved to KOVR, Sacramento
• Brian Webb - "NBC Action News Today", moved to KTVK, Phoenix

[edit] Past Local Programming

• The Mother Nature Show, hosted by Mary Lou Anderson
• All Night Live, hosted by "Uncle Ed"
• The Creature Feature, hosted by "Crematia Mortem"

[edit] External links

• KSHB NBC Action News Homepage
• "Uncle Ed" Tribute Page
• Image of Mary Lou Anderson as "Mother Nature" on KSHB
• Image of "Uncle Ed"
• Image of "Crematia Mortem"
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KSHB-TV