Meredith Local Media division, including KSMO and KCTV, for $2.7 billion. The sale was completed on December 1. Newscasts While Sinclair had first intended to establish a News Central newscast in Kansas City, that had not materialized by the time Sinclair outsourced most of KSMO-TV's operations to Meredith. Meredith, however, pledged to extend KCTV's newsroom to KSMO-TV as part of its proposal to win the FCC waiver it needed to purchase the station. The 30-minute KCTV 5 News at 9:00 debuted in October 2005, following the closure of the Meredith purchase, promising the same experience "lock, stock, and barrel" as the station offered at 10 p.m. even though KCTV general manager Kirk Black had previously declared it would have its own presentation style. By 2010, the station was also airing a 7 a.m. morning newscast and simulcasting a noon newscast also aired on KCTV. On August 4, 2014, KCTV began producing a half-hour newscast at 6:30 p.m. for KSMO, utilizing the same anchor team as the 6:00 p.m. newscast on channel 5. This newscast had been canceled by 2018, when KCTV shifted to airing news in the 7 p.m. hour. Technical information Subchannels The station's channels are carried in ATSC 1.0 format on the multiplexed digital signals of other Kansas City television stations: Analog-to-digital conversion KSMO-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 62, 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 47, using virtual channel 62. The station was then repacked to channel 32 in April 2019. ATSC 3.0 On August 24, 2021, KSMO-TV converted to ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) broadcasting as one of two 3.0 transmitters in Kansas City. KSMO-TV hosts the main subchannels of KCTV, KMBC-TV, and KCWE; those stations in turn broadcast its five subchannels in ATSC 1.0 format. References External links KCTV website MyNetworkTV affiliates TheGrio affiliates Dabl affiliates Cozi TV affiliates Comet (TV network) affiliates Gray Television Television channels and stations established in 1983 Television stations in the Kansas City metropolitan area ATSC 3.0 television stations Former Meredith Corporation subsidiaries 1983 establishments in Missouri