NbcActionNews.com - News provided by a Kansas City television station
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KSHB
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Channel 41 began broadcasting on-air as independent station KBMA in September of 1970. The station call letters were name for "The Business Men's Assurance Company," who provided the initial funding for the station. The Scripps Howard Broadcasting Company purchased the station in 1979 and changed the call letters to KSHB two years later. KSHB quickly became one of the strongest rated independent stations in the country. In April of 1987 KSHB became of the country's original FOX affiliates adding network prime-time programming and the Fox Kids Network. On September 14, 1994, KSHB became Kansas City's NBC affiliate and is proud to continue to be affiliated with the peacock network today.
KSHB-TV, Kansas City's NBC Action News Station, is the market's fastest growing news outlet. Your NBC Action News Station is also credited with a number of technological "firsts," including being the first computer-automated television station in the United States, and being the first in the nation to use a satellite for point-to-point program transmission. KSHB-TV also originated the first cable television network, separate from its over the air programming, called Target network Television. On June 12, 2006 KSHB-TV will launch the first all-digital multi-cast channel in Kansas City available to both over-the-air and cable viewers. WeatherPlus will be a 24-hour local weather channel providing local forecasting and weather alerts as well as national weather updates and forecasting. KSHB-TV operates Scripps owned KMCI-TV, "38 The Spot" also in Kansas City.
Our 75,000 square foot state-of-the-art broadcast and production center, located on the Country Club Plaza is with 12 satellite dishes, remote production, teleconferencing capabilities and AVID editing suites dedicated to commercial production.
