The short answer
The Kansas City Star, 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026
4 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 3.6). Over the last twelve months The Kansas City Star sent 341 notifications, pushing on 95 of 365 days. Its busiest hour is 11:00 local time, and its biggest single day was 2026-03-21, with 8 pushes.
The daily clock
All of The Kansas City Star's pushes from the last twelve months, on United States's clock. The red bar is the busiest hour, 11:00.
The Kansas City Starpeak 11:002.3% of The Kansas City Star's notifications land between 22:00 and 07:00. For when the whole country's apps push, and the quiet windows between them, see the United States timing guide.
The week
An average weekday carries 3.6 The Kansas City Star pushes and a weekend day 3.5: the newsroom audibly thins out on Saturdays.
How The Kansas City Star writes a push
| Habit | The Kansas City Star | United States median |
|---|---|---|
| Title length (median characters) | 17 | 13 |
| Body text length (median characters) | 83 | 86 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an emoji | 23.8% | 0.0% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 0.0% | 0.2% |
| Phrased as a question | 13.2% | 4.5% |
Aggregates over every The Kansas City Star notification in the window. The norms across all newsrooms, and which countries love emoji, are in how newsrooms write push notifications.
Versus other United States apps
Every United States news app in the dataset, ranked by twelve-month push volume. The Kansas City Star is highlighted.
| # | App | Pushes / 12 mo | Per active day | Peak hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Breaking News | 17,763 | 45.0 | 14:00 |
| 2 |  NYPost | 5,135 | 14.0 | 11:00 |
| 3 |  SCMP | 4,351 | 28 | 07:00 |
| 4 |  Mercury News | 2,846 | 8.0 | 11:00 |
| 5 |  The Athletic | 2,824 | 14.0 | 05:00 |
| 6 |  AP News | 2,619 | 9 | 12:00 |
| 7 |  AOL | 2,126 | 6.0 | 08:00 |
| 8 |  ABC13 | 1,766 | 4.0 | 08:00 |
| 9 |  Bloomberg | 1,752 | 5 | 11:00 |
| 10 |  NBC NEWS | 1,547 | 7.0 | 07:00 |
| 11 |  HuffPost | 1,462 | 11.0 | 11:00 |
| 12 |  Epoch Times | 1,392 | 7 | 08:00 |
| 13 |  Washington Post | 1,315 | 6.0 | 18:00 |
| 14 |  NYTimes | 1,219 | 5 | 01:00 |
| 15 |  TribLive | 1,209 | 9.0 | 09:00 |
| 16 |  CBS News | 1,199 | 8.0 | 15:00 |
| 17 |  Al Jazeera | 1,112 | 5 | 02:00 |
| 18 |  BBC | 1,094 | 3.0 | 07:00 |
| 19 |  POLITICO | 1,057 | 5 | 12:00 |
| 20 |  NPR | 1,049 | 6 | 14:00 |
| 21 |  CNBC | 909 | 3.0 | 16:00 |
| 22 |  Seattle Times Mobile | 897 | 5 | 13:00 |
| 23 |  St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 843 | 9 | 09:00 |
| 24 |  ABC News | 812 | 4.0 | 15:00 |
| 25 |  Philly Inquirer | 697 | 5 | 18:00 |
| 26 |  WSJ | 650 | 4 | 21:00 |
| 27 |  OREGONLIVE | 601 | 5.0 | 11:00 |
| 28 |  Reuters | 402 | 3 | 08:00 |
| 29 |  ABC7LA | 371 | 4 | 01:00 |
| 30 |  The Atlantic | 367 | 3 | 12:00 |
| 31 |  Sacramento Bee | 348 | 3.0 | 11:00 |
| 32 | The Kansas City Star | 341 | 4 | 11:00 |
| 33 |  The Charlotte Observer | 322 | 4 | 09:00 |
| 34 |  Syracuse.com | 311 | 3 | 07:00 |
| 35 |  Newsmax | 246 | 2.0 | 10:00 |
| 36 |  Honolulu Star-Advertiser | 230 | 2 | 13:00 |
| 37 |  Arkansas Online-The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | 211 | 2.0 | 10:00 |
| 38 |  inkl news | 197 | 1 | 01:00 |
| 39 |  Lexington Herald-Leader | 118 | 2.0 | 15:00 |
| 40 |  HBR | 116 | 2 | 15:00 |
| 41 |  The State | 103 | 2 | 09:00 |
Method
AO.news collects the push notifications of hundreds of news apps as they are delivered, and records each one the moment it lands. This page counts the 341 notifications The Kansas City Star sent from 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026, stamped in America/New_York local time. Front-page headline robots are excluded, and the window always ends at the last complete month, so these figures update monthly rather than live. Two honest caveats: an app added mid-window shows artificially quiet early months, and a push sent only to a personalised or regional segment may not reach us. This page shows aggregates only, never the notifications themselves; the live stream is in the deck.