KGKC-LD (channel 39) is a low-power television station licensed to

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, United States, serving the

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as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network

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. Owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting, the station has studios on Broadway Boulevard in the Westside neighborhood of

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, and its transmitter is located in the city's Brown Estates neighborhood. KGKM-LD (channel 36) in

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, operates as a full-time, low-power

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of KGKC-LD; this station's transmitter is located on Edwards Road northwest of

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. KGKM-LD covers Columbia,

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, and other areas of central Missouri. Except for hourly

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s required by the

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(FCC), there is no on-air mention that KGKM-LD exists, and aside from the transmitter, KGKM-LD does not maintain any physical presence locally in Columbia. Unlike its parent station, KGKM-LD does not carry any of KGKC-LD's subchannels and has a different subchannel lineup.

History

KGKC-LD became a Telemundo affiliate in September 2018. Prior to that, it aired

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religious programming.

News operation

In addition to broadcasting ''

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'', the national news program from Telemundo, KGKC-LD produces brief news inserts called (Total Access) that focus on stories from the Kansas City and Central Missouri areas. On September 15, 2023, KGKC-LD announced that it had teamed up with

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's ABC affiliate in Kansas City, KMBC-TV, to provide daily Spanish-language

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for the station. On February 6, 2025, Adan Manzano, an anchor on , died in

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while covering the

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' run in

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Subchannels

The stations' signals are

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KGKC-LD subchannels

KGKM-LD subchannels

References

External links

* 2008 establishments in Kansas GKC SagamoreHill Broadcasting Start TV affiliates Telemundo affiliates Television channels and stations established in 2008 Television stations in the Kansas City metropolitan area TeleXitos affiliates {{Kansas-tv-station-stub