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KMBC-TV virtual channel 9 ( UHF digital channel 29), is an ABC- affiliated television station serving Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas, United States. The station is owned by the Hearst Television subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation, as part of a duopoly with The CW affiliate KCWE (channel 29). The two stations share studio facilities located on Winchester Avenue (near Swope Park) in Kansas City, Missouri; KMBC-TV maintains transmitter facilities located in eastern Kansas City, near the Blue River. On cable, KMBC is available on Time Warner Cable, Comcast and SureWest channel 12, and AT&T U-verse channel 9.
KMBC-TV also serves as an alternate ABC affiliate for the adjacent Saint Joseph market; KMBC's transmitter produces a city-grade signal that reaches Saint Joseph proper, and the station is carried locally on satellite and select cable providers (such as Suddenlink Communications) in that market. Its pay television carriage in the St. Joseph market (located to the immediate north of the Kansas City Designated Market Area) is despite the presence of KQTV (channel 2), which has been the market's official ABC station since it affiliated with the network full-time in June 1967; KQTV is carried alongside KMBC-TV on Suddenlink and certain other cable providers in that market.