Fox Sports Kansas City

Fox Sports Kansas City

Launched	March 31, 2008 (2008-03-31)
Network	Fox Sports Networks
Owned by	Fox Entertainment Group (21st Century Fox)
Picture format	720p (HDTV) 480i (SDTV)
Country	United States
Language	English
Broadcast area	Kansas City metropolitan area Western and Central Missouri Kansas Eastern Nebraska Iowa Nationwide (via DirecTV; games only)
Headquarters	St. Louis, Missouri
Replaced	Fox Sports Midwest (within designated broadcast area)
Sister channel(s)	Fox Sports Midwest Fox Sports Indiana
Website	foxsports.com/kansas-city
Availability (some events may air on overflow feed Fox Sports Kansas City Plus due to event conflicts)
Satellite
DirecTV	672 (SD) 672-1 (HD)
Cable
Time Warner Cable (Kansas City metropolitan area)	59 or 309 Fox Sports Kansas City (SD) 1750 Fox Sports Kansas City (HD) 5 Fox Sports Kansas City Plus (SD)
SureWest (Kansas City metropolitan area)	30 Fox Sports Kansas City (SD) 649 Fox Sports Kansas City (HD) 66 Fox Sports Kansas City Plus (SD)
Available on most other cable systems in designated broadcast area	Consult your local cable provider or program listings source for channel availability
IPTV
AT&T U-verse	750 (SD) 1750 (HD)
Google Fiber (Kansas City metropolitan area)	205 (HD)
Streaming media
Fox Sports Go	www.foxsportsgo.com/ (U.S. cable internet subscribers only; requires login from participating providers to stream content; some events may not be available due to league rights restrictions)

Fox Sports Kansas City is an American regional sports network owned by Fox Cable Networks, a unit of the Fox Entertainment Group division of 21st Century Fox, and operates as an affiliate of Fox Sports Networks. The channel broadcasts coverage of professional, collegiate, and high school sports events both within and outside the Kansas City area. It maintains offices and master control operations at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri.

Fox Sports Kansas City is available on cable providers throughout western and central Missouri, Kansas, eastern Nebraska, and Iowa; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV.

History

Fox Sports Kansas City logo, used from 2008 to 2012.

Originally operating as a subfeed of Fox Sports Midwest, the network formally announced that it would spin-off Fox Sports Kansas City as a separate channel on January 24, 2008 after Fox Sports Midwest signed an exclusive long-term broadcast agreement with the Kansas City Royals. The agreement was struck following the dissolution of the Royals Sports Television Network, a regional network formed in 2003 to broadcast games and analysis programs for the Major League Baseball franchise, which distributed its event telecasts to broadcast and cable affiliates throughout the Midwestern and South Central United States.^[1] Specifically, Fox Sports Kansas City was created to avoid scheduling conflicts with coverage of St. Louis Cardinals games televised by Fox Sports Midwest.

Programming

Fox Sports Kansas City holds the exclusive regional cable television rights to the Kansas City Royals, and produces the Major League Baseball team's pre-game and post-game show Royals Live and the weekly magazine program Royals Insider. During the college football season, the channel broadcasts Kansas Jayhawks and Kansas State Wildcats games in different time slots to avoid scheduling conflicts; the channel also broadcasts Kansas State Wildcats basketball and volleyball and baseball from the Wildcats and Kansas Jayhawks.

The channel also carries select events televised by Fox Sports Midwest including games from the St. Louis Blues (NHL); basketball, volleyball, baseball and wrestling events from the Missouri Tigers, with the university's college football games televised on an alternate feed.^[1]

Other sports programming on the network includes Big 12 Conference regular season women's basketball and baseball games, and championship matches from both conference-sanctioned sports; regular season and championship basketball games from the Missouri Valley Conference; college coaches' shows; football and basketball championships from the Missouri State High School Activities Association; and NBA games from the Oklahoma City Thunder televised by Fox Sports Oklahoma.^[1]

Other services

Fox Sports Kansas City HD

Fox Sports Kansas City HD is a high definition simulcast feed of Fox Sports Kansas City, which broadcasts in the 720p format. HD content broadcast on the feed including the channel's entire slate of Royals game telecasts, as well as game telecasts and other programming distributed national by Fox Sports Networks.

Notable on-air staff

Kansas City Royals telecasts

Rex Hudler – play-by-play commentary
Steve Physioc – play-by-play commentary
Ryan Lefebvre – play-by-play commentary
Jeff Montgomery – play-by-play commentary
Denny Matthews - play-by-play

References

1 2 3 "FSN Announces Launch of FSN Kansas City". Fox Sports (Press release). January 24, 2008.

External links

Official website

Fox Sports

Current properties:

U.S. Networks:

National

Regional

Arizona
Detroit
Florida / Sun
Midwest (subfeeds: Indiana, Kansas City)
North
Ohio / SportsTime Ohio
Southeast / South (subfeeds: Carolinas, Tennessee)
Southwest (subfeeds: Oklahoma, New Orleans)
West / Prime Ticket (subfeed: San Diego)
Wisconsin
YES Network

Affiliated	CSN Mid-Atlantic MASN2 NESN Root Sports (Northwest, Pittsburgh, Rocky Mountain / Utah)

International:

Africa
Asia
Australia
Brazil
Fox Sports and Entertainment (Japan)
Fox Sports Racing (Canada/Caribbean)
Italy
JTBC3 Fox Sports (Korea)
Latinoamerica
Middle East
Netherlands (Fox Sports Eredivisie/Fox Sports International)
Turkey

Other properties:

Fox Footy
Fox Sports News
- Australia
- Asia
Fuel TV (Europe, Middle East and Africa)
Star Sports
- Asia
- China
- Korea

Digital Media

Former programs:

Future programs:

Defunct networks:

Fox Football Channel
Fox Footy Channel
Fox Sports Houston
Fox Sports Türkiye
Fox Sports World Canada
Fox Soccer
Fuel TV Australia
Fuel TV Portugal (current owned by Fuel TV Global)
FSN Chicago
Prime Network
Speed
Speed Australia
SportsChannel America

Television stations in Kansas City

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Local stations	WDAF-TV (4.1 Fox, 4.2 Antenna TV, 4.3 This TV) KCTV (5.1 CBS) KMBC-TV (9.1 ABC, 9.2 Me-TV) KCPT (19.1 PBS, 19.2 PBS Encore, 19.3 Create) KCKS-LD (25.1 This!, 25.2 Justice TV, 25.3 Q, 25.4 Heartland, 25.5 NewsMax, 25.6 WeatherNation, 25.7 MiCasa, 25.8 Untamed Sports, 25.9 The Works, 25.10 Buzzr ) KCWE (29.1 The CW, 29.2 Movies!) KCDN-LD (35.1 DS) KMCI-TV (38.1 Ind., 38.2 Bounce, 38.3 Escape, 38.4 Grit) KSHB-TV (41.1 NBC, 41.2 Cozi TV, 41.3 Laff) K45IO-D (45.1 HSN) KUKC-LP 48 (UNI) KPXE-TV (50.1 Ion, 50.2 Qubo, 50.3 Life, 50.4 Ion Shop, 50.5 QVC Over Air, 50.6 HSN) KSMO-TV (62.1 MNTV, 62.2 MundoMax)

Local cable channels	Fox Sports Kansas City Jayhawk Television Network Time Warner Cable Sports Channel 6 News Lawrence

Adjacent locals	St. Joseph KQTV (2.1 ABC) KTAJ-TV (16.1 TBN, 16.2 Church, 16.3 Smile/JUCE TV, 16.4 Enlace, 16.5 Salsa ) KBJO-LD (21.1 The CW) KNPN-LD (26.1 Fox, 26.2 News-Press 3 NOW, 26.4 TMD) Sedalia KMOS-TV (6.1 PBS, 6.2 Create, 6.3 World) Topeka KTWU (11.1 PBS, 11.2 MHz/PBS Kids, 11.3 Create/PBS Encore) WIBW-TV (13.1 CBS, 13.2 MNTV/Me-TV) KSNT (27.1 NBC, 27.2 Fox) KTKA-TV (49.1 ABC, 49.2 WX, 49.3 The CW)

Defunct stations	KUJH-LP 14 (Ind.) KCTY 25 (DuMont)

See also St. Joseph TV Topeka TV Omaha TV Des Moines TV Columbia/Jefferson City TV

Kansas City Royals

Based in Kansas City, Missouri

The franchise

Ballparks

Municipal Stadium; Kauffman Stadium
Spring training: Terry Park; Baseball City Stadium; Surprise Stadium

Culture

Lore

Rivalries

St. Louis Cardinals

Team Hall of Fame

Minors

AAA: Omaha Storm Chasers
AA: Northwest Arkansas Naturals
A Adv.: Wilmington Blue Rocks
A: Lexington Legends
Rookie Adv.: Idaho Falls Chukars; Burlington Royals
Rookie: AZL Royals; DSL Royals

Key personnel

Owner: David Glass
General Manager: Dayton Moore
Manager: Ned Yost

World Series
championships (2)

1985
2015

American League
pennants (4)

Division titles

West: 1976; 1977; 1978; 1980; 1981 (second half); 1984; 1985
Central: 2015
Wild Card: 2014

Seasons (48)

1960s	1969

1970s	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

1980s	1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

1990s	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

2000s	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

2010s	2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

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