time lead-ins, by the time general manager Jim Swinehart retired in 2006, the station was actually gaining viewers for its late news compared to the preceding programming. In November 2013, it registered a time slot win at 6 p.m., the first time in station history it had the number-one newscast at that time slot and culminating a steady rise dating back five years; it also eked out its first monthly win in late news during the February 2014 sweeps period, through the strength of having NBC's broadcast of the 2014 Winter Olympics as its lead-in, which helped increase its news ratings in the period by 46 percent. However, the station was still third in early morning news and at 10 p.m. outside of the Olympics. The early 2010s also saw the station expand its morning newscast back to a 4:30 a.m. start, add a 4:30 p.m. newscast in 2011 and expand it to a full hour at 4 in 2013; and win the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for breaking news for its coverage of the natural gas explosion that leveled JJ's Restaurant in downtown Kansas City. The Action News brand was dropped in 2021 in favor of "KSHB 41 News" under general manager Kathleen Choal. Sports programming Under a six-year agreement, KSHB and KMCI replaced KCTV as the official broadcast partners of the Kansas City Chiefs in 2019, giving the stations exclusive rights to team programming, including preseason contests beginning in 2020, plus marketing opportunities. On November 6, 2013, Scripps announced a broadcasting agreement between KSHB/KMCI and Sporting Kansas City, which gave KMCI the local broadcast television rights to the Major League Soccer (MLS) club's regular season matches and its pre-game and post-game shows beginning with the team's 2014 season. The deal also allowed both stations the rights to carry team-focused specials during the regular season. The relationship between the Scripps stations and Sporting Kansas City continued through 2022, after which Apple assumed the rights, local and national, to all MLS teams. Non-news In September 2005, KSHB debuted a locally produced mid-morning talk show titled Kansas City Live. This show aired until January 2008 and was the first such program on the station since Kansas City Today, which aired between 1998 and 1999; despite making money, it was a casualty of the introduction of Later Today by NBC. The introduction of a fourth hour of Today in 2007 and