KCTV

KCTV

Kansas City, Missouri United States
Channels	Digital: 24 (UHF) Virtual: 5
Branding	KCTV 5
Programming
Affiliations	5.1: CBS for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Gray Television (Gray Television Licensee, LLC)
Sister stations	KSMO-TV
History
First air date	September 27, 1953 (70 years ago) (1953-09-27)
Former call signs	KCMO-TV (1953–1983)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 5 (VHF, 1953–2009)
Former affiliations	ABC (1953–1955) DuMont (secondary, 1954–1955)
Call sign meaning	Kansas City's Television
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	41230
ERP	1,000 kW
HAAT	344 m (1,129 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	39°4′14.4″N 94°34′57.5″W / 39.070667°N 94.582639°W / 39.070667; -94.582639
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.kctv5.com

KCTV (channel 5) is a television station in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Gray Television alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate KSMO-TV (channel 62). The two stations share studios on Shawnee Mission Parkway in Fairway, Kansas; KCTV's transmitter facility, the KCTV Broadcast Tower, is located in the Union Hill section of Kansas City, Missouri.

Channel 5 was the fourth television channel to go on the air in Kansas City; KCMO-TV began broadcasting on September 27, 1953, as the television adjunct of KCMO radio.^[a] Originally an ABC affiliate, it switched to CBS in 1955 as part of a group affiliation agreement negotiated by the Meredith Corporation, which agreed to buy KCMO radio and television less than a week after KCMO-TV began broadcasting. In 1956, the present tower, a Kansas City landmark, was constructed to broadcast the station.

Over protests from Kansas City civic leaders, KCMO-TV moved its studio facilities to Fairway, Kansas, at the end of 1977. Meredith sold the KCMO radio stations in 1983; as this required the television station to change its call sign, it paid a Texas station $25,000 to release the call sign KCTV for use in Kansas City. Gray acquired Meredith in 2021.

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