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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 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 Time Warner Cable and SureWest channel 3, and Google Fiber and AT&T U-verse channel 5. As the Saint Joseph market does not have a CBS affiliate of its own (as original CBS affiliate KQTV became a full-time ABC affiliate in 1967), KCTV serves as a default affiliate for the area as its transmitter provides a city-grade signal in St. Joseph proper; it is also available on cable and satellite providers in that market. ==History== The station first signed on the air on September 27, 1953 as KCMO-TV (for Kansas City, MissOuri). Founded by the KCMO Broadcasting Corporation, owners of radio station KCMO (then at 810 AM, now at 710 AM), it originally served as a primary ABC and secondary DuMont affiliate. The station originally operated from studio facilities located on East 31st Street, where its transmitter remains to this day (see below). On October 2, six days after its debut, Meredith Engineering purchased KCMO radio and KCMO-TV; the sale was completed less than two months later in December 1953.〔''Chillicothe Constitution'', October 3, 1953.〕 In September 1955, CBS moved its Kansas City affiliation from KMBC-TV (channel 9) to channel 5; it received the CBS affiliation as compensation for the loss of the network on another Meredith-owned station, KPHO-TV in Phoenix, Arizona (which lost the CBS affiliation to KOOL-TV (now KSAZ-TV), from which it would re-assume the network's Phoenix affiliation 39 years later);〔("Five Meredith stations become CBS affiliates." ) ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', January 24, 1955, pg. 62.〕 KMBC, meanwhile, would assume the ABC affiliation. KCMO-TV lost the DuMont affiliation when that network ceased operations on August 6, 1956. KCMO-TV branded as "Television 5" until 1966 (around this time, it began using a logo similar to that of Bay City, Michigan sister station WNEM-TV), it was then simplified to "TV 5", which remained in use until 1985. Meredith sold KCMO-AM and sister radio station KCMO-FM (94.9) in 1983, but retained ownership of KCMO-TV. The station's call letters were changed to the current KCTV on March 7 of that year (based on the familiarity of the "TV 5" branding). It also vacated its original studios (now occupied by PBS member station KCPT (channel 19)), relocating its operations to a new facility on Shawnee Mission Parkway in Fairway, Kansas. The "TV 5" branding was discontinued in 1990; however, KCTV's logo has continued to subtly reference that brand, by changing the font of the "TV" (as done from 1990 to 1999), bolding the "TV" (as done from 1999 to 2002) or connecting the "T" and "V" (as done from 2002 to 2012). When New World Communications acquired NBC affiliate WDAF-TV (channel 4) in 1994 with the intent to switch that station to Fox, NBC briefly held discussions to affiliate with KCTV. However, CBS persuaded Meredith to switch NBC-affiliated WNEM-TV and independent station KPHO-TV to that network as a condition of keeping the CBS affiliation on channel 5. As KMBC-TV was in the middle of a long-term affiliation agreement with ABC, NBC was forced to affiliate with soon-to-be-former Fox station KSHB-TV (channel 41). In November 2004, Meredith purchased WB affiliate KSMO-TV (channel 62, now a MyNetworkTV affiliate) from the Sinclair Broadcast Group, creating the third television station duopoly in the Kansas City market.〔(CBS affiliate takes over WB station in Kansas City, Mo. ), Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (via HighBeam Research), November 13, 2004.〕 On September 8, 2015, Richmond, Virginia-based Media General announced that it would acquire the Meredith Corporation for $2.4 billion, with the combined group to be renamed Meredith Media General once the sale is finalized. The sale would mark the first change of ownership for the station since it was purchased by Meredith in 1953, and would put KCTV and KSMO-TV under common ownership with Media General's existing virtual triopoly in the adjacent Topeka market between NBC affiliate KSNT, Fox affiliate KTMJ-CD and ABC affiliate KTKA-TV. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KCTV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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