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KAYU-TV (channel 28) is a
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in
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, 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 Hill southeast of the city.


History

After beating out
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for the construction permit in 1981, Spokane native Robert Hamacher, a former employee of
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and later an executive at
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in Tacoma, put KAYU on the air on October 31, 1982. The first program to air was an episode of '' Rawhide''. It was Spokane's first
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and the first new commercial station to sign on in the area since KREM-TV began broadcasting 28 years earlier. It is also the oldest non- Big Three station in the eastern part of the state. It joined Fox as a charter affiliate on October 9, 1986. On October 1, 1989, KAYU-TV launched two low-power semi-satellites: K53CY in Yakima (known on-air as "KCY") and K66BW in the
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(branded as "KBW"). Both stations aired most of KAYU's programming (with the exception of select programs that KAYU did not have the rights to show in those markets), though with local commercials. K53CY was replaced in 1993 by K68EB, though it continued to go by "KCY" outside of
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s. Hamacher's company, Salmon River Communications sold KAYU-TV, along with K68EB (which was soon renamed KCYU-LP), KBWU-LP (the former K66BW), and KMVU in
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, to Northwest Broadcasting, a company controlled by Brian Brady, in 1995. KCYU and KBWU remained semi-satellites of KAYU until 1999, when full-power sister station KFFX-TV signed on from
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, and became their program source. KAYU also carried UPN as a secondary affiliation from the network's launch on January 16, 1995, to 1997 when KSKN (channel 22) became the network's new affiliate. On December 17, 2019,
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acquired the entirety of Brian Brady's television portfolio, as part of a larger transaction that saw it also acquire
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. While the company was initially to be known as Terrier Media, it had been announced in June 2019 that Apollo would also acquire Cox's radio and advertising businesses, and maintain the existing Cox Media Group name for the combined company. Brady holds an unspecified minority interest in the company, which gave KAYU an in-state sister station in Seattle's CBS affiliate
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. On March 29, 2022, Cox Media Group announced it would sell KAYU-TV and 17 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.


KAYU-DT2 (My 28 Spokane)

KAYU-TV's 28.2 subchannel broadcasts
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in early prime time; the remainder of the subchannel's schedule consists of
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programming. Comcast Xfinity carries the subchannel on digital channel 117. It originally carried
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until March 2015, when it switched to MyNetworkTV, which was previously carried on KXLY-DT2 until October 2012 when it became an exclusive
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affiliate. In November 2017, the 28.2 subchannel was upgraded to
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HD; it had previously been offered in
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4:3
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.


Programming

Syndicated programming on KAYU-TV includes ''
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'', ''
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'', '' 25 Words or Less'', '' Sherri'', '' The Goldbergs'', ''
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'', '' Last Man Standing'', ''
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'' and ''
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'', among others. KAYU also carries
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's ''Go Time'' E/I block.


Newscasts

KAYU presently broadcasts 13½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 2½ hours each weekday and a half-hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). KAYU currently broadcasts a 10 p.m. newscast produced by NBC affiliate KHQ-TV (channel 6), which airs for 35 minutes on weeknights and a half-hour on Saturdays and Sunday evenings. The station also airs a half-hour show called ''Washington's Most Wanted'', a statewide version of the former Fox series ''
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'', featuring profiles of wanted criminals in Washington state, hosted by
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weeknight anchor David Rose and produced by KCPQ. On April 8, 1991, KAYU began broadcasting a 10 p.m. newscast, produced by CBS affiliate KREM (channel 2) under a news share agreement. Lower-than-expected ratings caused KREM to drop out of the news share agreement in 1993, upon which KHQ-TV signed a news share agreement with KAYU. The KHQ-produced newscast ceased production April 14, 1995. In 1999, KAYU began producing an in-house 10 p.m. newscast, that ran until 2004; in its final two years, ABC affiliate KXLY assisted in content and talent. In 2004, KAYU laid off its news staff and partnered with KHQ for the second time to produce the newscast, which was renamed ''Fox First at Ten''. The reduced overhead allowed the newscast to make money in its second month on air. On January 5, 2015, KAYU became the second news station in Spokane to air their news from 7:00–9:00 a.m. called ''Good Day Spokane'', after KREM had debuted a morning news extension on KSKN the year before.


Technical information


Subchannels

The station's digital signal is
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Analog-to-digital conversion

KAYU-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over
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channel 28, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 30 to channel 28.CDBS Print
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Translators

KAYU-TV is rebroadcast on the following
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Out-of-market coverage

KAYU-TV is carried on cable systems in
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and
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, Canada, both of which are double the size of the station's American coverage area. One result of this is that stations in Calgary and Edmonton air American shows on Pacific Time, even though Calgary and Edmonton are both on Mountain Time. KAYU-TV is one of five local Spokane area television stations seen in Canada on the
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satellite service. It can also be seen on local cable systems in eastern
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. KAYU-TV is one of two Spokane-based stations that can be viewed in
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via cable, alongside KXLY-TV.


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kayu-Tv Fox network affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1982 1982 establishments in Washington (state) MyNetworkTV affiliates Antenna TV affiliates AYU-TV Imagicomm Communications