KMBC-TV
KMBC-TV (channel 9) is a television station in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Hearst Television alongside CW affiliate KCWE (channel 29). The two stations share studios on Winchester Avenue in the Ridge-Winchester section of Kansas City, Missouri; KMBC-TV's transmitter is located in the city's Blue Valley section.
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Sister stations | KCWE |
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First air date | August 2, 1953 |
Former call signs | WHB-TV (shared operation, 1953–1954) |
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Call sign meaning | Midland Broadcasting Company (founding owners) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 65686 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 358 m (1,175 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°5′1″N 94°30′58″W |
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| Website | www |
KMBC-TV also serves as an alternate ABC affiliate for the St. Joseph market, as its transmitter also produces a city-grade signal that reaches St. Joseph proper and rural areas in the market's central and southern counties. The station is also available in that market on select cable providers (including Suddenlink Communications) as a secondary ABC outlet to KQTV (channel 2), which has served as the network's official St. Joseph station since it became a full-time affiliate in June 1967; KMBC-TV's near-ubiquitous cable distribution in St. Joseph dates back to KQTV's former status as a primary CBS affiliate from its September 1953 sign-on until the former KFEQ-TV disaffiliated from that network in 1967, a period in which the station supplemented its CBS offerings with a limited selection of ABC programs.