Programming
WDAF-TV runs the entire Fox network schedule (though airs the network's Saturday late night programming, currently featuring repeats of former Fox primetime series The Finder and 30 Seconds to Fame, on a half-hour delay because of its 10 p.m. newscast on Saturday evenings), with the exception of the network's Saturday morning infomerical block Weekend Marketplace, which instead airs on independent station KMCI.
As with most of its former New World-owned sister stations, the station opted not to run Fox Kids programming after affiliating with Fox (the Fox Kids blocks were not considered to be part of the Fox network itself, but a program package syndicated by Fox; therefore, the network's affiliates were given right of first refusal and a local station did not have to carry the block if another market station agreed to carry Fox Kids' programming, though starting in 2001, affiliates were no longer required to run the Fox Kids lineup even if the network did not secure another station to carry it). In the Kansas City market, Fox Kids aired on KSMO-TV (channel 62, now a MyNetworkTV affiliate) from 1994 to 1998; then-UPN affiliate KCWE (channel 29, now a CW affiliate) from 1998 to 1999; and finally on independent station KMCI (channel 38) from 1999 to 2008 (under the Fox Kids, Fox Box and 4Kids TV brandings). Affiliates choosing not to air Fox Kids programming was fairly commonplace among some Fox stations that joined the network during the mid-1990s (WDAF aired syndicated children's programming in place of the network's children's block). Fox discontinued children's programming on December 28, 2008, replacing it with Weekend Marketplace thereafter. WDAF-TV presently carries the minimum requirement of educational and informational children's programming, consisting of weekend morning syndicated children's shows (such as Elizabeth Stanton's Great Big World, Eco Company, Animal Atlas and Awesome Adventures).
The station was the over-the-air flagship station of the Kansas City Royals for many years, long after many Big Three affiliates dropped regular coverage of local sports. It lost the broadcast rights for the games in 1992, after a 13-year business relationship that started in 1979. The station also broadcast Kansas City Chiefs pre-season games from 1997 to 1999, upgrading the local production presentation to network quality standards.
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