a newly created tertiary subchannel on June 22. On September 1, 2018, Movies! was replaced by the Justice Network. Programming Syndicated programs broadcast on KCWE include The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Judge Jerry, Maury and The Steve Wilkos Show, among others. As it is a sister station to KMBC, the station may take on responsibility of running ABC network programs in the event that KMBC is unable to carry them because of extended breaking news or severe weather coverage, or commitments to broadcasts of sporting events. Sports programming On February 6, 2010, Hearst Television announced a broadcasting agreement with the Kansas City Wizards (now Sporting Kansas City), which would give KCWE the local broadcast television rights to regular season games from the Major League Soccer (MLS) club that are not broadcast nationally over-the-air or on cable television, and its pre-game and post-game shows beginning with the team's 2010 season. The deal also allowed channel 29 the rights to carry team-focused specials during the regular season. Independent station KMCI took over the local television rights to the renamed Sporting Kansas City, beginning with the team's 2014 season. Newscasts , KMBC-TV produces 17 hours of locally produced newscasts each week for KCWE (with three hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). Despite being operated by KMBC, Channel 9 did not produce any local newscasts for KCWB/KCWE for much of the station's history under Hearst management. KMBC station management explained its reasoning for not expanding its news offerings to channel 29 as a concern that adding news programming to KCWE would result in a "cannibalizing" of KMBC's audience. This would change on March 3, 2008, when KMBC began producing a two-hour extension of its morning newscast for the station, under the title KMBC 9 FirstNews on KCWE, which airs weekdays from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. and has been broadcast in high definition since its premiere. In addition to airing opposite Good Morning America on KMBC, the program competes against the third and fourth full hours of Fox affiliate WDAF-TV's 6½-hour in-house morning newscast, which has been the ratings leader in the time slot since the program expanded into the time period upon Channel 4's switch from NBC to Fox in September 1994. FirstNews on KCWE would gain additional competition on February 7, 2011, when KCTV began producing an hour-long extension of its morning newscast, then