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KSHB-TV
Kansas City, Missouri
Branding	NBC Action News
Slogan	Your NBC Action News Station Complete Coverage Always On
Channels	Analog: 41 (UHF) Digital: 42 (UHF)
Affiliations	NBC NBC Weather Plus (DT2)
Owner	The E. W. Scripps Company (Scripps Howard Broadcasting Company)
Founded	August 10, 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, channel 41 (a.k.a. NBC Action News), is the NBC network affiliate serving the entire Kansas City, Missouri metropolitan area. It's 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. Action WeatherPlus is offered on KSHB's digital station.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Logos 2 News Personalities 2.1 Current On-Air Talent 3 News/Station Presentation 3.1 Newscast Titles 3.2 Station Slogans 4 External links

Channel 41 signed on August 10, 1970 as KBMA-TV (for Business Men's Asurrance, which provided initial funds for the station's founding), owned by Wilson D. Grant. KBMA was originally an independent station--the second in Kansas City. However, it had stronger financing and programming than the city's original independent, KCIT-TV (channel 50, now KPXE). 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. This included many large Midwestern cities that didn't 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 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 signed a longterm affiliation deal with New World Communications' television stations in 1994, including longtime NBC affiliate WDAF-TV. NBC agreed to affiliate with KSHB on the condition that KSHB 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 WDAF, KMBC-TV and KCTV (and NBC's ratings have been lower than ABC, CBS and Fox in the past three years), the station has seen some slow growth in the last several 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 syndicated game shows Jeopardy! & Wheel Of Fortune, which were both formerly seen on KCTV.

KSHB logo when it was a Fox affiliate. This particular graphic is from 1993-94, seen on the open of Fox 41 News at 9:00.

KSHB-TV logo when it became an NBC affiliate. It 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

Anchors

• Elizabeth Alex, weekday evening anchor
• Mark Clegg, weekday evening anchor
• Christa Dubill, morning anchor
• Jeff Vaughn, morning anchor
• Cynthia Newsome, weekend anchor/health reporter
• Keith King, weekend anchor/investigative reporter

Reporters

• Lisa Benson
• Marissa Cleaver
• Amy Hawley
• Chris Hernandez
• Meredith Hoenes, Kansas City Live co-host
• Ryan Kath
• Jennifer Kolbusz
• Janet Koziol
• Darren Mark
• Mike Marusarz
• Russ Ptacek, freelance
• Larry Seward
• Jen Strathman, Call For Action reporter

NBC Action Weather Team

• Gary Lezak, chief meteorologist
• Brett Anthony, morning meteorologist/Kansas City Live co-host
• Jeremy Nelson, weekend meteorologist
• Jeff Penner, weather producer

NBC Action Sports Team

• Jack Harry, sports director
• Leon Liebl, weekend sports anchor
• Lance Vesser, sports reporter

• 41 Express (Mid 1980s)
• KSHB TV41 News Update (1988-1993)
• FOX41 News At Nine (1993-94)
• NBC41 News (1994-2003)
• NBC Action News (2003-present)

• Kansas City's 41 (1980's)
• Your NBC Action News Station (2003-present; primary news slogan)
• Complete Coverage (2003-present; secondary news slogan)
• Always On (2003-present; slogan for non-news programming)

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• KSHB-TV 41 NBC Action News Homepage
• "Uncle Ed" Tribute Page at SpookyToms.com
• "Crematia Mortem" Tribute Page at SpookyToms.com
• Publicity image of "Crematia Mortem" at GoulFinger.com
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KSHB-TV

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Kansas City market  (Nielsen DMA #31)
WDAF 4 (Fox) - KCTV 5 (CBS) - KMBC 9 (ABC) - KUJH-LP 14 / K27FR 27 (Ind) - KCPT 19 (PBS) - KCWE 29 (The CW) - KCDN-LP 35 (DS) - KMCI 38 (Ind) - KSHB 41 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) - K45IO 45 (HSN) - KUKC-LP 48 (UNI) - KPXE 50 (ION) - KSMO 62 (MNTV) Out-of-market stations available on cable KTWU 11 (PBS, Topeka) Local cable television channels Metro Sports - 6 News Lawrence

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Ottumwa / Kirksville market  (Nielsen DMA #200)
KTVO 3 (ABC) - KYOU 15 / K34CW 34 (Fox) - K18GU 18 (PBS/IPTV) - K23CI 23 (CBS) - K27CV 27 (NBC) - K42AM 42 (TBN) Out-of-market stations available on cable Kansas City: KCTV 5 (CBS) - KCPT 19 (PBS) - KSHB 41 (NBC) Des Moines: WOI 5 (ABC) - KDSM 17 (Fox) - KFPX 39 (ION)

v • d • e Broadcast television in the St. Joseph market (Nielsen DMA #201)
KQTV 2 (ABC) - KTAJ 16 (TBN) - K46FG 46 (PBS/NET) Out-of-market stations available on cable Kansas City: WDAF 4 (Fox) - KCTV 5 (CBS) - KCPT 19 (PBS) - KCWE 29 (The CW) - KSHB 41 (NBC) - KPXE 50 (ION) Topeka: KTWU 11 (PBS) - WIBW 13 (CBS) - KSNT 27 (NBC) - KTKA 49 (ABC) Local cable television channels "WBJO" 6 (The CW)

v • d • e NBC Network Affiliates in the state of Missouri
KYTV 3 (Springfield) - KSDK 5 (St. Louis) - KOMU 8 (Columbia) - KSNF 16 (Joplin) - KSHB 41 (Kansas City)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, PBS and Other stations in Missouri

v • d • e The E.W. Scripps Company
Corporate Leadership: Kenneth W. Lowe (President & CEO) Newspapers owned by Scripps Howard News Television Stations owned by Scripps Howard Broadcasting ABC: KNXV · WCPO · WEWS · WFTS · WMAR · WXYZ • Independent Station: KMCI • NBC: KJRH · KSHB · WPTV Cable Television Networks owned by Scripps Networks Other Assets held by Scripps Interactive Media
Annual Revenue: $2.2 billion USD (2004) · Employees: 10,000 · Stock Symbol: NYSE: SSP · Website: www.scripps.com