KCTV
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Kansas City, Missouri/Kansas City, Kansas United States |
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| City | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Branding | KCTV 5 (general) KCTV 5 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | KCTV 5 Stands for Kansas City |
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Digital: 24 (UHF) Virtual: 5 () |
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| Owner | Meredith Corporation |
| First air date | September 27, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | Kansas City's TeleVision |
| Sister station(s) | KSMO-TV |
| Former callsigns | KCMO-TV (1953–1983) |
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| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 344 m |
| Facility ID | 41230 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°4′14.4″N 94°34′57.5″W / 39.070667°N 94.582639°WCoordinates: 39°4′14.4″N 94°34′57.5″W / 39.070667°N 94.582639°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KCTV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 24), is a CBS-affiliated television station serving Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas, United States. The station is owned by the Meredith Local Media subsidiary of the Meredith Corporation, as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate KSMO-TV (channel 62). The two stations share studio facilities located on Shawnee Mission Parkway (U.S. 56/U.S. 169) in Fairway, Kansas; KCTV maintains transmitter facilities located on East 31st Street in the Union Hill section of Kansas City, Missouri (adjacent to the studios of PBS member station KCPT (channel 19)). On cable, the station is available on Charter Communications, Comcast and SureWest channel 3, and Google Fiber and AT&T U-verse channel 5.
KCTV also serves as an alternate CBS affiliate for the Saint Joseph market, which borders the northern portions of the Kansas City Designated Market Area (KQTV (channel 2), as KFEQ-TV, originally operated as a primary CBS affiliate from September 1953 until June 1967, when it became a full-time ABC affiliate). The station is available in that market on cable providers (including Suddenlink Communications) and on satellite via DirecTV and Dish Network; its transmitter also produces a city-grade signal that reaches Saint Joseph proper and rural areas in the market's central and southern counties. Since KNPG-LD (channel 21) converted into an NBC affiliate on November 1, 2016, giving the market over-the-air access to four of the six major broadcast networks, KCTV and sister station KSMO-TV are the only remaining Kansas City-based stations that act as default carriers of networks not currently affiliated with either of Saint Joseph's four existing commercial television stations. However, on June 1, KNPG-LD's sister station KBJO-LD, currently affiliated with the Spanish-language Telemundo network, will become a CBS affiliate, ending out-of-market reliance on KCTV.
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