a desire to add more newscast hours were reasons for the cancellation. From 2015 to 2018, the station aired Nichols at Night, a locally produced late-night talk show hosted by former KMBC-TV weather anchor Joel Nichols; he had joined the station a year before to present a revived Kansas City Live. Notable former on-air staff Chris Hernandez – reporter (2004–2012) Russ Ptacek – investigative reporter (2006–2012) Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: KSHB-TV transmits two subchannels of KMCI-TV, one of Kansas City's two ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) stations; channel 38 began broadcasting a ATSC 3.0 signal in August 2021. Analog-to-digital transition KSHB-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 41, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 42, using virtual channel 41. As part of the FCC's repack, KSHB-TV moved to channel 36 on February 11, 2019. References External links Television stations in the Kansas City metropolitan area NBC network affiliates Grit (TV network) affiliates Laff (TV network) affiliates E. W. Scripps Company television stations Television channels and stations established in 1970 1970 establishments in Missouri National Hockey League over-the-air television broadcasters Kansas City Kings Kansas City Scouts Major League Soccer over-the-air television broadcasters Sporting Kansas City broadcasters