Make sure you check out the KCWI Web Exclusive clip for the Season Finale of Hitched Or Ditched. This is your chance for a sneak peek at tomorrow's episode!

Want to know when the new series are going to start? Here is a listing to let you know so you do not miss this new exciting Fall Lineup!

Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Season Premiere of 90210 - 7p
Series Premiere of Melrose Place - 8p

Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Two Hour Season Premiere of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 13 - 7p

Thursday, September 10, 2009
Series Premiere of The Vampire Diaries - 7p
Season Premiere of Supernatural - 8p

Monday, September 14, 2009
Season Premiere of One Tree Hill - 7p
Season Premiere of Gossip Girl - 8p

Wednesday, September 16, 2009
New Episodes of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 13 - 7p
Series Premiere of The Beautiful Life: TBL - 8p

Friday, September 25, 2009
Season Premiere of Smallville - 7p
Encore Episodes of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 13 - 8p

Check out the four minute clips talking all about our new shows The Vampire Diaries and Melrose Place located on the Home Page under the Video Gallery.

We have also added information about all of our new fall shows; check out the What's On section to get your first peek at:
The Beautiful Life
Melrose Place
Life UneXpected
The Vampire Diaries

Make sure you check out the Fall Sizzle video. This video gives you a preview of what is coming to KCWI this fall!

Go to the Home page and look in the Video Gallery for this video and many more.

KCWI-TV and KDMI-TV will complete the DTV Conversion Process on June 12th

Television stations KCWI-TV and KDMI-TV will complete the digital conversion process on June 12 at 11:59:59 PM. The long awaited conversion will mean that KCWI will cease broadcasting on analog signal (channel 23) and begin broadcasting only on digital signal (channel 23.1). KDMI, the first digital-only broadcast station in the market, will switch from 56.1 to 19.1.

Analog TV sets will not be obsolete now that the transition to DTV is completed, but there are some steps that people must be taken in order to continue to watch an analog television set. Those steps are:

- Purchase a digital-to-analog converter box. This converter box will allow the analog TV to receive a picture, however, it will not be able to show it in high-definition or allow access to other digital services.

- Connect the analog television set to a subscription service such as cable or satellite TV.

Analog sets should continue to work with gaming consoles, VCRs, DVD players, and similar products.

It is important to note that all television households receiving their signal off-air will need to rescan their digital television sets or converter boxes the morning of June 13. Simply hit the menu button and follow the instructions.
KCWI/KDMI General Manager, Ted Stephens, said, "The conversion of broadcast television from analog to digital has been has been a long process. We are happy that the total conversion is finally completed. Without question, the quality of the broadcast signal has been dramatically improved, both in the digital format and, even more so, in high-definition."

Having worked in the broadcast industry through several digital conversion date changes, it is difficult to believe that by the end of the week all television will be broadcast in digital-only. I will be the first to admit that this conversion is worrisome for local stations. Our first priority is to serve the viewers in our community and I do not believe that all of our viewers are prepared for this transition. All we can ask is that those of you who are prepared help others around you; especially elderly family and neighbors.

Another concern of mine is that those viewers who have been prepared for years wont know to rescan their converter boxes the morning of the 13th. When the local stations make the switch at midnight on the 12th, there is more involved than just powering down the analog antenna; for most stations, it will actually involve switching the signal they are currently transmitting on. As a result of the complexity that will occur that night, the converter boxes will actually need to pick most stations up on a different frequency than they had before. Please help us in spreading the news to everyone around you that they need to rescan their converter boxes on Saturday morning!

For an insiders look at the conversion, check out this article from Broadcasting Cable.

Check out the new photos and videos added under your favorite shows! Also Hitch Or Ditched has a special web only clip for you to watch of tonight's episode!

The CW network recently released their 2009-2010 lineup with a little something for everyone. If you are a fan of shows like Friends or 90210, or of movies like Twilight, there is something here for you. From the return of Melrose Place to The Vampire Diaries, read below to see what our Fall lineup has for you!

Click here to see the new lineup!

KCWI is very excited to add The Offic to our 2009 Fall lineup. This show is new this season to syndication and is expected to be a huge hit! While watching our favorite comedies we rarely think of the impact the show has on our society. Perhaps the beauty of comedies is that they provide an escape from the stresses around us. Nonetheless, their impact on our culture is felt for decades. Usually, comedy's contributions are best found in pop culture (the Rachel haircut from 'Friends') or in our language ("Yada Yada" from 'Seinfeld') but rarely do you see it noticed by the business world like 'The Office' in the Forbes article below. (Link to original source.)

Why The Office Works

Heather Struck, 05.12.09, 05:00 PM EDT

At its 100th episode, it's the perfect show for uneasy economic times.

Steve Carell as Michael Scott on NBC's The Office

As the main character Michael Scott in NBC's The Office, Steve Carell brings new quirks to the table that Americanize the show from its BBC heritage, while also managing to regroup the qualities of the original that inspire our recognition of life's comedies and tragedies. The characters in The Office willingly take risks, worry about job stability and watch as Scott exemplifies the unguarded emotional instincts of the un-self-examined working man. They exhibit American ambition, gluttony and pomposity in equal amounts.

The fifth season's final installment, which airs this Thursday on NBC, is also the series' 100th episode. In it, the characters convene, as many of us do in exhaustion and witless surrender, for the company picnic. The Office's popularity in NBC's prime-time lineup reveals a focus on working and striving in a time when the stakes are high. Now is an especially keen moment for a show depicting the hard-working American, undefeated and hungry, struggling to manage employment and life.

Set in a city that is culturally remote and economically moribund, Joe Biden's own Scranton, Pa., The Office is never about the height of professional ambition. In fact, in the current season, Scott seems to stumble into managerial success, outselling the other branches of the mid-size paper company with a modicum of charm and a naive sincerity that makes him almost impossible to distrust.

Private moments of encouragement occur in the series when Scott appears as a plain, good-hearted presence in scenes where a character hits a recognizable wall. "Never, ever, ever give up," he says in season three to Jim, a restless, nearly-30 sales rep who has been struggling with unrequited love pangs for the sweet-natured receptionist. It is seemingly ineffective motivational jargon that nevertheless transforms Jim's dejection into optimism. The usually out-of-touch nature of middle management scores a point where it is traditionally mocked in TV comedy.

Scott is a talented salesman with an inane outlook on managing a business. Still we always, in the end, empathize with his graceless lurch through life. His office is the most important space in his world, which doesn't seem so unusual compared to the lives of today's leaders, Vikram Pandit and Richard Fuld and John Thain. Scott sees his office and the people in it as his saving grace. Without them in his world, it collapses, and it is this tragedy that the NBC series plays with throughout the five ongoing seasons.

The BBC's The Office, which aired between 2003 and 2005, today seems almost avant-garde in its colorless style and sullen documentary format. It holds strong to the idea that an empathetic and less than winning hero is the best sort of character for a comedy. NBC's The Office is more about success and happiness, not because success necessarily equals happiness, but because in the lives of these office characters, happiness often begets success.

NBC's adaptation is successful because it takes the central message from the BBC creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's work, the well-used notion that life is really about the unexpected significance we find in everyday human interactions, and absorbs it into the modern American sitcom. Scott looks good in a suit, whereas the office boss in the BBC original, David Brent, had a characteristic slump highlighted by a wrinkled white shirt and a cheap tie. The difference in the American version is that somehow Scott manages to be a success despite his apparent bewilderment in the face of the sterile corporation. It is no longer about finding purpose in mediocrity, as the BBC version reflected. The American version makes business success the next best thing to fraternalism and solidarity.

The rise in DVD sales in our sagging consumer economy shows, in part, the ache we have for comedy in a recession. But The Office resonated before the market went south and unemployment became the most common story in many American coffee shops. In seeing success and failure as insignificant to everything that comes in between, we might find that the periods that come between good times and hard ones are more manageable than anybody thinks.

Heather Struck is an editorial assistant at Forbes.

Homemakers Furniture announced today that they will move its Outlet Store operations at 5035 Hubbell Ave. to its main store in Urbandale. All personnel from the Hubbell location will be transferred to the newly expanded and remodeled facility in Urbandale following an extensive Moving Sale that will occur at the Outlet Store through the month of June. No jobs will be lost in the move! Homemakers has been adding various positions since its massive construction project began in the summer of 2007 and more job openings are currently available at the company in Urbandale. The giant Moving Sale will begin on Friday, May 29th.

Dave Merschman, president of Homemakers Furniture noted, “this was a decision that was made years ago by our family while planning the large expansion for our Urbandale store. Our business has simply outgrown the facility on Hubbell Avenue. We will have a large 20,000 sq. ft clearance room located in our main store in Urbandale. This will be much more convenient for our customers to have everything under one roof. With 215,000 sq ft of showroom space, it is truly a one stop destination for the home furnishings consumer.” When completed in July, the Homemakers store in Urbandale will have a total of over 400,000 sq. ft. of warehouse, offices and floor display space under one roof.

Homemakers Furniture was started in 1974 by Carl & Ina Merschman and their family at the Hubbell Ave. location. The Homemakers store in Urbandale opened in 1985. Over the years that store has increased in size and with the recent expansion and remodel project it will be one of the largest furniture showrooms in the country.

Welcome to the new KCWI23.com! This new website has been months in the making and we would like to take a moment to give you a tour of all the new things we have done for you.

It's about you, and it's new!