It has been the same old story for years in Kansas City. KMBC, the ABC affiliate with the veteran team of anchors and reporters, has dominated the ratings in virtually every time slot.
Some believe Larry Moore began anchoring the news at KMBC when the Civil War broke out.
Not only has KMBC dominated TV ratings in KC, but is often the top-rated ABC affiliate in the country.
However, this is not your average TV Sweeps period. KMBC has lost a sizable portion of its viewing audience in a bitter dispute over fees between its parent, Hearst TV, with Time Warner Cable. KMBC has been off-the-air since late Monday night.
On Tuesday, the ratings were skewed because Fox4 was hosting the Major League Baseball All-Star game and won those time slots handily in KC (nationally the game was a ratings disaster).
The Wednesday ratings (below) show KMBC still managing to winning the morning slots without TWC customers, but the rest of the day is literally a free-for-all. KSHB, the upcoming NBC affiliate, captured the 5 p.m and 6 p.m. news segments handily. KCTV won the coveted
4:30am RATINGS/SHARE
KMBC 1.6/8
KCTV 1.3/7
WDAF 1.2/6
KSHB 0.6/3
6am
KMBC 3.2/13
WDAF 2.7/11
KSHB 1.6/7
KCTV 1.3/5
5pm
KSHB 6.1/14
KMBC 4.4/10
WDAF 4.0/9
KCTV 3.9/9
6pm
KSHB 6.7/13
KMBC 5.8/12
WDAF 5.1/10
KCTV 3.4/7
10pm
KCTV 5.5/10
KMBC 5.2/9
WDAF 5.2/9
KSHB 4.6/8
Well apparently some people don’t even believe that KMBC’s ratings are THIS high given their extreme loss of viewers/viewership.
Perhaps you should try to look into this…
FOGEL’S SHOW OFF THE AIR ALREADY!!
Well, I thought it would all be settled by now…what do I know?!
You are kind to do a story about me and the return of “M-I-L” and for two weeks the show is on and I do a piece with Joel Nichols and then…KAPUT!
It took me 45 years (!!!!!) to return to weekly TV and, in one fell swoop, it disappeared.
Are we having fun yet?
(Actually, John, for me the worst is I can no longer work out between 4 and 5:00 every morning and watch my old friends on 9…hard to find a better channel at that hour…oh, well, such are the vagaries of life….)
Note: The battle between Time Warner and Hearst (KMBC) knocked KC icon Jerry Fogel’s former “Mother-in-Law” series off the air only a few weeks after it began airing on MeTV.