KMCI-TV
- KMCI is also the ICAO airport code for the Kansas City International Airport
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KMCI Channel 38 (38 The Spot) is an independent station serving the Kansas City television market. It is licensed to Lawrence, Kansas, and is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside KSHB-TV NBC Action News as the company's only existing duopoly. It runs a general entertainment format with sitcoms, cartoons, reality shows, court shows, movies, talk shows, and sports.
History
KMCI signed on in 1988 with programming from the Home Shopping Network. The station was owned by Miller Television. Beginning in sometime in 1995, KMCI began broadcasting a minimal amount of syndicated sitcoms, cartoons, and other programming alongside its HSN schedule. In the summer of 1996, Scripps (owner of KSHB Channel 41) began to manage KMCI under a local marketing agreement, and started to program what would be known as "38 Family Greats" from 6am to midnight, while retaining HSN programming overnight. HSN was subsequently dropped from the station in 1999. In 2001, KMCI dropped the name "Family Greats" and simply went under the title of its station number. Then in the fall of 2003, the station officially became known as "38 the Spot".
KMCI picked up programming from Fox Kids in fall 1999 until it was discontinued nationally by Fox in 2002. It continued to run children's programming from Fox under the "Fox Box" banner later in 2002, and "4Kids TV" beginning in 2004.
The station was acquired outright by Scripps in 2001.