KMBC-TV
 
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Kansas City, Missouri–Kansas City, Kansas United States |
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| City | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Branding | KMBC Channel 9 (general) KMBC 9 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
Kansas City's #1 TV Station (general) The Team You Trust (news) |
| Channels |
Digital: 29 (UHF) Virtual: 9 () |
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Hearst Television (Hearst Stations Inc.) |
| First air date | August 2, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | Midland Broadcasting Company (founding owners) |
| Sister station(s) | KCWE |
| Former callsigns | WHB-TV (shared operation, 1953–1954) |
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| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 358 m |
| Facility ID | 65686 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°5′2.8″N 94°30′56.9″W / 39.084111°N 94.515806°WCoordinates: 39°5′2.8″N 94°30′56.9″W / 39.084111°N 94.515806°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KMBC-TV, virtual channel 9 (UHF digital channel 29), is the ABC-affiliated television station serving Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas, United States. The station is owned by the Hearst Television subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation, as part of a duopoly with CW affiliate KCWE (channel 29). The two stations share studio facilities located at the Winchester Business Center on Winchester Avenue and East 63rd Street (near Swope Park, off of I-435) in southeastern Kansas City, Missouri; KMBC-TV maintains transmitter facilities located near the Blue River in eastern Kansas City. On cable, KMBC is available on Charter Communications, Comcast, and SureWest channel 12, and AT&T U-verse channel 9.
KMBC also serves as an alternate ABC affiliate for the Saint Joseph market (which borders the northern portions of the Kansas City Designated Market Area), as its transmitter also produces a city-grade signal that reaches Saint 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) and on satellite via DirecTV and Dish Network, as a secondary ABC outlet to KQTV (channel 2), which has served as the network's official Saint Joseph station since it became a full-time affiliate in June 1967; KMBC's near-ubiquitous cable distribution in Saint 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.
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