[2] Founded by Miller Broadcasting, it originally served as an affiliate of the Home Shopping Network (HSN).

[3] In March 1996, KSHB owner Scripps Howard Broadcasting reached a deal to manage KMCI under a local marketing agreement.

The new KMCI lineup included an inventory of programs that KSHB owned but had not had time to air after it switched to NBC in 1994.

[6] Exercising an option from the 1996 pact with Miller,[4] Scripps bought KMCI outright for $14.6 million in 2000, forming a legal duopoly with KSHB.

In July 2003, coinciding with the move of its transmitter site from Lawrence toward Kansas City, the station officially became known as "38 the Spot".

[9] Meredith Hoenes (who became a traffic reporter for KSHB-TV around this time) replaced Hottman after she left in 2004 to join KUSA in Denver.

[10] Currently, KMCI simulcasts an hour of the Border Patrol morning show on sports radio station WHB (810 AM).

[13] For much of that time period, the station also had rights to a package of Kansas City Royals baseball games.

[12] Prior to the 2022 season, KMCI announced an agreement with the Kansas City Current of the National Women's Soccer League to be the team's local broadcast partner.

[20] In 2024, KMCI and sister station KSHB announced an agreement with the University of Missouri–Kansas City to air select men's and women's basketball games.