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Retro: Kansas City, MO-Topeka, KS September 12, 1994 (Day of affilation switch)

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From the Lawrence Journal-World via Google News Archive.
TV Guide listing originally printed in a grid format. Some program titles may be incomplete.

WDAF-TV Ch. 4 Kansas City, MO (First day of being a Fox affilate)
6:00PM News
6:30PM Entertainment Tonight
7:00PM Melrose Place "I Am Curious, Melrose" (Season Premiere) (First Fox program aired on WDAF-TV)
8:00PM Party of Five "Pilot"
9:00PM News (First 9PM newscast aired on WDAF-TV)
10:00PM News
10:30PM A Current Affair
11:00PM The Newz (Series Premiere)
11:30PM The Jon Stewart Show (Series Premiere)
12:30AM Home Business Opportunities
1:00AM Marilu (Series Premiere)

KCTV-TV Ch. 5 Kansas City, MO (CBS)
6:00PM News
6:30PM Wheel of Fortune
7:00PM The Nanny
7:30PM Dave's World "I Lost It at the Movies"
8:00PM Murphy Brown
8:30PM Love & War "Slow Boat to China"
9:00PM Northern Exposure "Blood Ties"
10:00PM News
10:35PM The Late Show with David Letterman
11:35PM Married... With Children
12:05AM Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
12:35AM Judge for Yourself

KMBC-TV Ch. 9 Kansas City, MO (ABC)
6:00PM News
6:30PM Inside Edition
7:00PM Coach "Pros and Cons"
7:30PM Blue Skies
8:00PM NFL Football: Chicago Bears at Philadelphia Eagles. From Veterans Stadium.
11:00PM News
11:35PM M*A*S*H
12:05PM Nightline
12:05PM The Rush Limbaugh Show
12:35AM The Jerry Springer Show

KTWU-TV Ch. 11 Topeka, KS (PBS)
6:00PM The McNeil/Lehrer Newshour
7:00PM Metropolitan Opera Presents "Elektra"
9:00PM Overture: East Meets West
10:00PM Hannah USA
10:30PM Nightly Business Report
11:00PM America eith Dennis Wholey
11:30PM TechnoPolitics
12:00AM The Write Course "Process and Analysis" (KTWU-TV usually went Off Air at this time.)
12:30AM The Write Course "Definition"
1:00AM The Write Course "Argumentation"

WIBW-TV Ch. 13 Topeka, KS (CBS)
6:00PM News
6:30PM Wheel of Fortune
7:00PM The Nanny
7:30PM Dave's World "I Lost It at the Movies"
8:00PM Murphy Brown
8:30PM Love & War "Slow Boat to China"
9:00PM Northern Exposure "Blood Ties"
10:00PM News
10:35PM The Late Show with David Letterman
11:35PM The Rush Limbaugh Show
12:05AM The Newz (Series Premiere)
12:35AM Dennis Prager
1:05AM News

KCPT-TV Ch. 19 Kansas City, MO (PBS)
6:00PM The McNeil/Lehrer Newshour
7:00PM Hermitage: A Russian Odyessy "From Czars to Commissars, A Museum Survives"
8:00PM Great Performances "Pavarotti and the Italian Tenor"
9:00PM Starring Natalie Wood
10:00PM Nightly Business Report
10:30PM MotorWeek
11:00PM Charlie Rose
12:00AM (Off Air)

KSNT-TV Ch. 27 Topeka, KS (NBC)
6:00PM News
6:30PM A Current Affair
7:00PM The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air x2
8:00PM Movie: "A Perfect Stranger" (1994)
10:00PM News
10:35PM The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
11:35PM Late Night with Conan O'Brien
12:35AM News (KSNT-TV didn't clear Later)
1:05AM (Off Air)

KSHB-TV Ch. 41 Kansas City, MO (First day of being an NBC affilate)
6:00PM Star Trek: The Next Generation
7:00PM The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air x2
8:00PM Movie: "A Perfect Stranger" (1994)
10:00PM News
10:35PM The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
11:35PM Coach "Hurly Burleigh"
12:05AM Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1:05AM Later

KTKA-TV Ch. 49 Topeka, KS (ABC, Fox)
6:00PM Designing Women
6:30PM Roseanne "The Back Story"
7:00PM Coach "Pros and Cons"
7:30PM Blue Skies
8:00PM NFL Football: Chicago Bears at Philadelphia Eagles. From Veterans Stadium.
11:00PM News
11:35PM Married... With Children
12:05AM Nightline
12:35AM Designing Women
1:05AM News

KSMO-TV Ch. 62 Kansas City, MO (IND)
6:00PM The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air "Pilot"
6:30PM Cops
7:00PM Movie: "The Delta Force" (1986)
9:00PM Highlander: The Series
10:00PM Designing Women "The Fur Flies"
10:30PM In The Heat of the Night
11:30PM Matlock
12:30AM Top Cops
1:00AM Love Connection
 
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I'm surprised that FOX and NBC would flip like that in a market like Kansas City. NBC still had the AFC rights for NFL Football in 1994, so that means most Kansas City Chiefs games were on NBC. Switching to Fox means you lose the Chiefs games but get the NFC, was that really a big difference in ratings? I don't think Fox had an advantage in prime time ratings, NBC was about to start a 5 year stretch of Seinfeld and ER alternating being the top-rated show of the year.
 
NoDakObserver said:
I'm surprised that FOX and NBC would flip like that in a market like Kansas City. NBC still had the AFC rights for NFL Football in 1994, so that means most Kansas City Chiefs games were on NBC. Switching to Fox means you lose the Chiefs games but get the NFC, was that really a big difference in ratings? I don't think Fox had an advantage in prime time ratings, NBC was about to start a 5 year stretch of Seinfeld and ER alternating being the top-rated show of the year.
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WDAF was sold to New World Communications, who had 20% equity in FOX and per the agreement most stations owned at the time (or was in the process of being bought) switched to FOX once the existing contract was up. Basically New World wanted FOX on a VHF station (with a couple exceptions)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994–1996_United_States_broadcast_TV_realignment
 
I knew about the Fox-New World merger, & that other TV stations were also involved. I also knew that WDAF-TV was the only station involved in the merger that was an NBC affilate that actually switched to Fox (Former sister stations WVTM-TV Ch. 13 in Birmingham, AL & KNSD-TV Ch. 39 were sold to NBC, with WVTM-TV later being sold to Media General & later to Hearst, ironically making it a sister station to WDAF-TV's rival KMBC-TV Ch. 9), as well that the Kansas City Chiefs are an AFC team. One thing that I remember was that WDAF-TV did air some Chiefs preseason games locally in the late 90's. They also continue to air the occasional Chiefs games that Fox carries.
 
WheelRob said:
Wheel of Fortune is now on WDAF in Kansas City, but WIBW still carries it in Topeka to this day.
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Going a little bit off-topic, but the first TV station in the Kansas City, MO-KS area to air the nighttime version of Wheel of Fortune was ABC affilate KMBC-TV Ch. 9. KMBC-TV aired the show from 1983 to 1988. After that the show was aired on CBS affilate KCTV-TV Ch. 5 from 1988 to 2003. It then moved to NBC affilate KSHB-TV Ch. 41 in 2003 & they aired it until 2012 at which time the show moved to Fox affilate WDAF-TV Ch. 4.
1984 promo for Wheel of Fortune on KMBC-TV Ch. 9.
https://youtu.be/gcUbZwZ0ejM?t=47
 
Here are some additional listings from the Kansas City Star, including what KYFC-TV was showing on this day, along with some corrections. The Kansas City Star only included primetime listings for the Topeka, KS TV stations in its Sunday Star TV listings.
WDAF-TV, Ch. 4 (NBC), Kansas City, MO (First day as a Fox affilate.)
5:30AM This Mornings Business
6:00AM News
6:30AM News
7:00AM The Morning Show (First broadcast.)
9:00AM Marilu (Series Premiere)
10:00AM Jenny Jones
11:00AM Geraldo
12:00PM News
1:00PM MOVIE: "Grevious Bodily Harm" (1988) (WDAF-TV ran movies in this timeslot, as filler, for about a week.)
3:00PM Maury Povich
4:00PM American Journal
4:30PM A Current Affair
5:00PM News
6:00PM News
6:30PM Entertainment Tonight
7:00PM Melrose Place "I Am Curious, Melrose" (Season Premiere) (First Fox program aired on WDAF-TV.)
8:00PM Party of Five "Pilot"
9:00PM PrimeTime (First 9PM newscast aired on WDAF-TV.)
10:00PM News
10:35PM A Current Affair
11:05PM The Newz (Series Premiere)
11:35PM The Jon Stewart Show (Series Premiere)
12:35AM Paid Program (Home Business Opportunities)
1:05AM Marilu (Series Premiere - Not listed in Kansas City Star.)

KCTV-TV Ch. 5 Kansas City, MO (CBS)
5:00AM AgDay
5:30AM CBS Morning News
6:00AM News This Morning
7:00AM CBS This Morning
9:00AM Regis & Kathie Lee
10:00AM Price is Right
11:00AM Young & the Restless
12:00PM News
12:30PM Bold & the Beautiful
1:00PM As the World Turns
2:00PM Guiding Light
3:00PM Ricki Lake
4:00PM Hard Copy
4:30PM Jeopardy!
5:00PM News
5:30PM CBS News
6:00PM News
6:30PM Wheel of Fortune
7:00PM The Nanny
7:30PM Dave's World "I Lost It at the Movies"
8:00PM Murphy Brown
8:30PM Love & War "Slow Boat to China"
9:00PM Northern Exposure "Blood Ties"
10:00PM News
10:35PM The Late Show with David Letterman
11:35PM Married... With Children
12:05AM Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
12:35AM Judge for Yourself
1:35AM Jones & Jury
2:05AM Last Call (Series Premiere)
2:35AM Family Feud
3:05AM Up to the Minute

KMBC-TV Ch. 9 Kansas City, MO (ABC)
5:30AM ABC News This Morning
6:00AM FirstNews
7:00AM Good Morning America
9:00AM Sally Jessy Raphael
10:00AM Rolonda
11:00AM Mike & Maty
11:30AM Loving
12:00PM All My Children
1:00PM One Life to Live
2:00PM General Hospital
3:00PM Donahue
4:00PM Oprah Winfrey
5:00PM News
5:30PM ABC News
6:00PM News
6:30PM Inside Edition
7:00PM Coach "Pros and Cons"
7:30PM Blue Skies
8:00PM NFL Football: Chicago Bears at Philadelphia Eagles. From Veterans Stadium.
11:00PM News
11:35PM M*A*S*H
12:05PM Nightline
12:05PM The Rush Limbaugh Show
12:35AM The Jerry Springer Show
1:35AM (Nothing Listed)
2:05AM News
2:35AM World News Now

KCPT-TV Ch. 19 Kansas City, MO (PBS)
5:00AM Instructional TV
6:30AM Bloomberg Business News
6:45AM A.M. Weather (I would like to know when this show was last produced?)
7:00AM Barney & Friends
7:30AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:00AM Sesame Street
9:00AM Instructional TV
12:00PM Sesame Street
1:00PM Instructional TV
3:00PM Barney & Friends
3:30PM Storytime
4:00PM Sesame Street
5:00PM Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
5:30PM Reading Rainbow
6:00PM The McNeil/Lehrer Newshour
7:00PM Hermitage: A Russian Odyessy "From Czars to Commissars, A Museum Survives"
8:00PM Great Performances "Pavarotti and the Italian Tenor"
9:00PM Starring Natalie Wood
10:00PM Nightly Business Report
10:30PM MotorWeek
11:00PM Charlie Rose

KSHB-TV Ch. 41 Kansas City, MO (First day as a NBC affilate.)
6:00AM Captain Planet & the Planeteers
6:30AM Pink Panther (Probably the "New" one from 1993.)
7:00AM Today (First NBC program broadcast on KSHB-TV.)
9:00AM Dear John
9:30AM Newhart
10:00AM Leeza
11:00AM Jane Whitney
12:00PM Andy Griffith
12:30PM Beverly Hillbillies
1:00PM Another World
2:00PM Days of Our Lives
3:00PM Full House
3:30PM Full House
4:00PM Who's the Boss?
4:30PM Murphy Brown
5:00PM EXTRA: The Entertainment Magazine
5:30PM NBC News
6:00PM Star Trek: The Next Generation
7:00PM The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air x2
8:00PM Movie: "A Perfect Stranger" (1994)
10:00PM News
10:35PM The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
11:35PM Coach "Hurly Burleigh"
12:05AM Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1:05AM Later With Greg Kinnear
1:35AM News
2:00AM Nightside

KYFC-TV, Ch. 50 (IND), Kansas City, MO
6:00 Cross Training
6:30AM Paul Gaudino Exercise
7:00AM Ed Young
7:30AM Southern Gospel Time
8:00AM You Need to Know With David & Karen Mains
8:30AM James Robison
9:00AM Larry Rice
9:30AM Cross Training
10:00AM Kay Arthur
11:00AM Something Beautiful
12:00PM Inside Story
12:30PM Jack Van Impe
1:00PM 700 Club
2:00PM Cope
3:00PM Jack Hayford
3:30PM Quigley's Village
4:00PM Superbook
4:30PM Just Kids
5:00PM Ozzie & Harriet
5:30PM Real McCoys
6:00PM Jewish Voice
6:30PM American Times News
7:00PM Little House on the Prarie
8:00PM Billy Graham Crusade
9:00PM Inside Story
9:30PM Fresh Start
10:00PM 700 Club
11:00PM Capital News
11:30PM Z Music
12:00PM ViaTV

KSMO-TV Ch. 62 Kansas City, MO (IND)
5:00AM Paid Program
5:30AM Auto Shopper
6:00AM Kenneth Copeland
6:30AM VR Troopers
7:00AM Bots Master
7:30AM Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
8:00AM Transformers Generation 2
8:30AM Conan the Adventurer
9:00AM 700 Club
10:00AM Family Matters
10:30AM Wonder Years
11:00AM E! Entertainment News Daily
11:30AM Saved by the Bell
12:00PM Gordon Elliot (Series Premeire)
1:00PM Suzanne Somers (Series Premeire)
2:00PM Tale Spin
2:30PM Flinstones
3:00PM Darkwing Duck
3:30PM Goof Troop
4:00PM Bonkers
4:30PM Aladdin
5:00PM Family Matters
5:30PM Doogie Howser, M.D.
6:00PM The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air "Pilot"
6:30PM Cops
7:00PM MOVIE: "The Delta Force" (1986)
9:00PM Highlander: The Series
10:00PM Designing Women "The Fur Flies"
10:30PM In The Heat of the Night
11:30PM Matlock
12:30AM Top Cops
1:00AM Love Connection
1:30AM Paid Program
2:00AM MOVIE: "The Raven" (1963)
4:00AM Perry Mason
 
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