KAPP (channel 35) is a
television station
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in
Yakima, Washington
Yakima ( or ) is a city in and the county seat of Yakima County, Washington, and the state's 11th-largest city by population. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 96,968 and a metropolitan population of 256,728. The uninco ...
, United States, affiliated with
ABC
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and owned by
Morgan Murphy Media
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. The station's studios are located in the Liberty Building on North 3rd Street in downtown Yakima, and its transmitter is located on
Ahtanum Ridge
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.
KVEW
KVEW (channel 42) is a television station licensed to Kennewick, Washington, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Tri-Cities area. Owned by Morgan Murphy Media, the station has studios on North Edison Street in Kennewick, and its t ...
(channel 42) in
Kennewick
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operates as a
semi-satellite
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of KAPP, serving the
Tri-Cities area; this station maintains its own studios on North Edison Street in Kennewick. As a KAPP semi-satellite, it
simulcast
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s all network and
syndicated programming as provided through its parent, and the two stations share a website. However, KVEW airs separate commercial inserts and
legal identifications. Local newscasts are simulcast on both stations. KAPP serves the western half of the Yakima/Tri-Cities
market
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while KVEW serves the eastern portion. The two stations are counted as a single unit for
ratings purposes.
Master control
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and some internal operations are based at the studios of
sister station
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and fellow ABC affiliate
KXLY-TV
KXLY-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Spokane, Washington, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Morgan Murphy Media. Its studios are located on West Boone Avenue in Spokane, and its transmitter is located on Mount Spokane. Th ...
on West Boone Avenue in
Spokane
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.
For reasons unexplained, only one of the two stations is carried on each
satellite
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system, with KAPP on
DirecTV
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, while
Dish Network
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features KVEW. Like most markets, its subchannel signals are uncarried.
History
Before KAPP signed on,
CBS
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affiliate
KIMA-TV
KIMA-TV (channel 29) is a television station in Yakima, Washington, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW Plus. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside low-power, Class A Univision affiliate KUNW-CD (channel 2). Both stations ...
(channel 29) had carried ABC as a secondary affiliation until
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 ...
(channel 23) signed on in 1959. KNDO became the area's primary ABC affiliate until 1965, when it switched its primary affiliation to
NBC
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. Both KNDO and KIMA-TV shared ABC's programming from that point until KAPP signed on the air on September 21, 1970 and all ABC programming moved to KAPP. The most notable ABC program shown on the station's first day was the first-ever ''
Monday Night Football
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'' game between the
Cleveland Browns
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and
New York Jets
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.
The station began airing Spokane's
MeTV
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affiliate
KXMN-LD
KXMN-LD, VHF digital channel 9, is a low-power television station licensed to Spokane, Washington, United States. It is a translator of ABC affiliate KXLY-TV (channel 4) which is owned by Spokane Television Group, a subsidiary of Morgan Murphy M ...
on a digital subchannel in September 2006. KAPP was one of the remaining stations to sign-off every night, but that practice ended in 2012 when ''
World News Now
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'' was added to the programming lineup.
On December 22, 2008, KAPP discontinued its 6 p.m. and weekend newscasts. The 11 p.m. newscast was reduced to a five-minute broadcast before ''
Nightline
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'', and post-January 2013, ''
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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'' In addition to this move, 17 employees from KVEW and KAPP were
laid off
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now 404--> and KAPP's studio building was listed for sale.
While weather came from KXLY for several years, local weather reports have returned as of 2016, with meteorologist Jason Valentine at 5 and 6:30, and Kristen Walls during their ''Good Morning Northwest'' newscast. With the cancellation of ''
The Insider (TV program), The Insider'' and ''
Extra
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'' moving from 6 p.m. to 7:30 on September 11, 2017, KAPP began airing local news at 6:00, for the first time in almost a decade.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed
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:
KAPP has been digital-only since February 17, 2009.
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References
External links
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ABC network affiliates
Morgan Murphy Media stations
MeTV affiliates
Heroes & Icons affiliates
Start TV affiliates
Dabl affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1970
1970 establishments in Washington (state)
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