KVEW (channel 42) is a

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licensed to

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, United States, serving as the

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affiliate for the Tri-Cities area. Owned by

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, the station has studios on North Edison Street in Kennewick, and its transmitter is located on Jump Off Joe Butte. Although identifying as a station in its own right, KVEW is considered a

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of KAPP (channel 35) in

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. As such, it

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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. KVEW serves the eastern half of the Yakima/Tri-Cities

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while KAPP serves the western portion. The two stations are counted as a single unit for ratings purposes.

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and some internal operations are based at the studios of

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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

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. On satellite, KVEW is only available on

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, while

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carries KAPP instead. Both providers do not carry either station's

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subchannel.

History

The station began serving the Tri-Cities region in October 1970, a month after sister station KAPP signed on. Before KVEW's existence,

KEPR-TV KEPR-TV (channel 19) is a television station licensed to Pasco, Washington, United States, serving the Tri-Cities area as an affiliate of CBS and The CW Plus. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station maintains studios on West Lewis Street ( ...

(channel 19) had carried ABC as a secondary affiliation until 1959; KNBS-TV (channel 22) operated briefly in nearby

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as an ABC affiliate in 1960;

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 ...

(channel 25) signed on in 1961 and became the area's primary ABC affiliate until 1965, when it switched its primary affiliation to

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. Both KEPR-TV and KNDU shared ABC programming from that point until KVEW signed on and all ABC programming moved to KVEW. The station began airing Spokane's

affiliate

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on a digital subchannel in September 2006. KVEW was one of the remaining stations to sign-off every night, but that practice ended in 2012 when ''

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'' was added to the programming lineup. On December 22, 2008, KVEW discontinued its 6 p.m. and weekend newscasts. The 11 p.m. newscast was reduced to a five-minute broadcast before ''

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'', and post-January 2013, ''

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'' In addition to this move, 17 employees from KVEW and KAPP were

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.
now 404--> With the cancellation of '' The Insider (TV program), The Insider'' and ''

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'' moving from 6 p.m. to 7:30 on September 11, 2017, KVEW began airing local news at 6:00, for the first time in almost a decade.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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Translators

References

External links

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