KFFX-TV (channel 11) is a

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licensed to

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, United States, serving the

Tri-Cities, Washington The Tri-Cities are three closely linked cities ( Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland) at the confluence of the Yakima, Snake, and Columbia Rivers in the Columbia Basin of Eastern Washington. The cities border one another, making the Tri-Cities se ...

area as an affiliate of

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and

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. It is the only major

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station in the Tri-Cities area that is licensed to the

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side of the

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. Owned by

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, KFFX-TV has studios on Clearwater Avenue in

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, and its transmitter is located in the

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east of Pendleton.

KCYU-LD KCYU-LD (channel 41) is a low-power television station in Yakima, Washington, United States, affiliated with Fox and Telemundo. The station is owned by Imagicomm Communications, and maintains studios on West Lincoln Avenue in Yakima; its trans ...

(channel 41) in

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, operates as a low-power

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of KFFX-TV. It

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s all Fox network and syndicated programming as provided by KFFX-TV, and the two stations share a website. However, KCYU-LD airs separate legal identifications and commercial inserts. KFFX-TV serves the eastern half of the Tri-Cities/Yakima market while KCYU-LD serves the western portion. On

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, KFFX-TV is only available on

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, while

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carries KCYU-LD instead.

History

Channel 11 signed on the air January 11, 1999 as KAUP; on April 25, the call letters were changed to KFFX-TV. It was the first full-powered VHF station in what had previously been a " UHF island." It was also the first station on the Tri-Cities side of the market not to be a satellite of a station in Yakima. The station replaced KBWU-LP (channel 66), a low-power semi-satellite of

KAYU-TV KAYU-TV (channel 28) is a television station in Spokane, Washington, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. Owned by Imagicomm Communications, the station has studios on South Regal Street in Spokane, and its transmitter is on Krell H ...

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(which was carried by cable providers throughout southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon); KCYU-LP was also a semi-satellite of KAYU before the launch of KFFX. KBWU (which originally had the call sign K66BW, though it was referred to as "KBW" outside of

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s) had been on the air since October 1, 1989; that station, now KBWU-LD (channel 36), is now a translator of KFFX. Initially, the KFFX-TV license was owned by Communication Properties; Northwest Broadcasting, through its Mountain Broadcasting subsidiary, operated the station under a

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. Northwest filed to acquire KFFX outright in November 1999; however, the sale, approved on September 27, 2000, was not completed until January 14, 2003 because Northwest was required to divest another full-power television station in the Tri-Cities market, KBKI (channel 9, later known as

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) in

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, in order to complete its purchase of KFFX. KBKI was ultimately acquired by

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. In February 2019,

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reported that

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had agreed to acquire the entirety of Brian Brady's television portfolio, which it intends to merge with

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(which Apollo is acquiring at the same time) and stations spun off from

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's purchase of

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, once the purchases are approved by the FCC. In March 2019 filings with the FCC, Apollo confirmed that its newly-formed broadcasting group, Terrier Media, would acquire Northwest Broadcasting, with Brian Brady holding an unspecified minority interest in Terrier. In June 2019, it was announced that Terrier Media would instead operate as Cox Media Group, as Apollo had reached a deal to also acquire Cox's radio and advertising businesses. The transaction was completed on December 17. On March 29, 2022, Cox Media Group announced it would sell KFFX-TV, KCYU-LD and 16 other stations to Imagicomm Communications, an affiliate of the parent company of the INSP cable channel, for $488 million; the sale was completed on August 1.

Newscasts

KFFX airs a 10 p.m. newscast, ''Fox First at Ten'', produced by area

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affiliate

KNDO KNDO (channel 23) is a television station in Yakima, Washington, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by the Spokane-based Cowles Company as part of the KHQ Television Group. KNDO's studios are located on West Yakima Avenue in downtow ...

KNDU KNDU (channel 25) is a television station licensed to Richland, Washington, United States, serving the Tri-Cities area as an affiliate of NBC. It is owned by the Spokane-based Cowles Company as part of the KHQ Television Group. KNDU's studios ...

and a 7–9 a.m. newscast, ''Good Day'' produced by Spokane's NBC affiliate

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Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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: KFFX has been digital-only since February 17, 2009. As the station's transmitter site typically becomes inaccessible to standard vehicles due to eastern Oregon's typically harsh winters, Northwest Broadcasting provided station engineers with

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s on February 16, 2009 to complete the final post-transition installations. On April 21, 2009, the station added a digital subchannel which includes

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, but was changed to

in 2016.

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External links

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