KSMO-TV is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for the Kansas City metropolitan area. Licensed to Kansas City, Missouri, the station broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 62 and a digital signal on UHF channel 47. KSMO's transmitter is located in Independence, Missouri. The station is owned by the Meredith Corporation as part of a duopoly with the area's CBS affiliate KCTV. The two stations share studios located on Shawnee Mission Parkway in Fairway, Kansas. KSMO is known on-air as "My KSMO TV".
KSMO runs first-run shows from MyNetworkTV, sitcoms, first-run talk / reality shows, and movies. The station may also take on the responsibility of airing CBS programming whenever KCTV is not able to do so such as in a news-related emergency.

History
Channel 62 signed on September 12, 1983 as KEKR-TV, its call letters coming from the congressman who helped the station obtain an FCC license. It was locally owned and ran a general entertainment format consisting of cartoons, drama shows, old movies, religious shows, westerns, and sitcoms.
The new station's slogan was "Super 62" but the launch was anything but that. It only had three local commercials on its first day of operation: a "Candelite Music" LP collection of Elvis songs, a "Candelite" collection of country songs, and an ad for a modeling school. These commercials ran in nearly every break if the station was not showing a slide of their logo. The picture was substandard with a mysterious black bar was at the top of most programs and commercials.
In 1985, the station was sold to Media Central and renamed KZKC. It added more sitcoms and movies and moved away from religious shows. The station experimented with a "complete and uncut" gimmick for airing movies. That policy led to big trouble when the station ran a sex comedy called "Private Lessons" and was fined by the FCC after a viewer complaint about frontal nudity. The violation made TV Guide's annual J. Fred Muggs awards (a list of those in television who "made monkeys of themselves").
The station remained unprofitable and was later sold to Abry in 1988 and later renamed KSMO in 1991. The new ownership put ballots in the local TV guide asking for programming advice, hence the checkmark in the "O" of KSMO's new logo.
Under Abry, the station began to turn a profit. It failed to land the FOX affiliation which went to KSHB-TV, but held its own with a syndication lineup of cartoons, sitcoms, a few talk, reality shows, and movies.
KSMO picked up some of KSHB's programming (including FOX Kids) in 1994 after KSHB became an NBC affiliate and the new FOX affiliate, WDAF-TV, opted for Saturday morning news. That year, Abry merged with the Sinclair Broadcast Group. KSMO took the UPN affiliation starting in January of 1995. However, it still essentially programmed as an independent station, since UPN only provided programming for a few nights out of the week at that time.
KSMO became a WB affiliate in January of 1998 after Sinclair cut an affiliation deal with The WB switching most of its independent stations and UPN affiliates to that network. The former WB affiliate KCWB, now KCWE, would not pick up the UPN affiliation for another month.
Meredith Corporation bought the station in 2005 and made KSMO a sister station to the area's CBS affiliate KCTV. That fall, KCTV began producing a daily 9 PM newscast for KSMO to compete with WDAF's nightly 9 PM newscast.
On January 24, 2006, the WB and UPN networks announced that they would cease broadcasting and merge to create a new network. The new combined network would be called The CW, the letters representing the first initial of its corporate parents CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner.
On February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced that they would start up another new broadcast television network called MyNetworkTV. The new network, which would be sister to FOX, would be operated by FOX Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created in order to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming independent. It was also created to compete against The CW.
It was confirmed on March 7, 2006 that KCWE would become Kansas City's CW affiliate after an announcement by the network and channel 29's owner Hearst-Argyle Television. Two days later, on March 9, KSMO was announced as Kansas City's MyNetworkTV affiliate and branded as "My KSMO TV".
KSMO began broadcasting MyNetworkTV on September 5, 2006. KCWE began broadcasting The CW on September 18, 2006.
Since MyNetworkTV does not air programming on Sunday nights, KSMO normally airs movies from 7 to 9 PM.