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Ever since, the lights have actually not flashed for the function of being a notifier of inclement weather as they did prior to September 11, 2001. In 2015, a non-profit called The Tower KC, Inc. was founded with the goal of re-lighting the tower as a public art piece. The project consists of Kansas City Art Institute professor James Woodfill as lead artist and Jos Faus as lead community engagement artist, with Tower KC creator Jasper Mullarney and Kansas City architecture company El Dorado Inc.

The idea (titled Seeing the Night Bluely by Woodfill) is to capture the colors of the sky every dayfrom sunrise to sunset, bright blue or overcastand recreate them on the tower during the night in a minutes-long duplicating loop, making use of LEDs. The Tower KC claims that once live, this setup will be the highest public art piece on the planet.

2 and 5. 3 on a part-time basis, which the station utilized to serve as overflow game feeds during the early rounds of the NCAA Department I Men's Basketball Competition. In 2008, when CBS limited its stations to transmit just one multicast feed for overflow telecasts, the station aired the additional video game broadcast over KCTV-DT2.

In January 2017, KCTV added its first full-time subchannel, with programs from Sinclair Broadcast Group and MGM's science fiction-themed Comet network (the use of subchannels previously varied among Meredith's stations, often either being used only for a local weather condition service or not being used at all; nevertheless since 2015, Meredith-owned stations in a number of markets now bring subchannels associated with standard and subchannel-exclusive networks).

KCTV closed down its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, at 9 a. m. on June 12, 2009, the main date in which full-power tv stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 24.

In June 2010, the analog antenna was dismantled from the tower structure to enable the setup of a new top-mounted digital antenna, which would transfer at 1,000 kilowatts to enhance the protection of KCTV's digital signal in the outer edges of the market. Keep Checking Back Here [modify] Syndicated programs transmitted by KCTV (since September 2017) consist of,, and (which also airs first-run episodes on the station through CBS).