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| KAKE-TV: Wichita, Kansas KUPK-TV: Garden City, Kansas KLBY: Colby, Kansas |
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| Branding | KAKE 10 / KAKE News |
| Slogan | On Your Side |
| Channels | Analog: KAKE: 10 (VHF) KUPK: 13 KLBY: 4 Digital: KAKE: 21 (UHF) KUPK: 18 KLBY: 17 |
| Affiliations | ABC (secondary until 1955) |
| Owner | Gray Television |
| Founded | October 19, 1954 |
| Call letters meaning | KAKE: Sounds like cake KUPK: KUP Kake KLBY: KoLBY |
| Former affiliations | NBC (1954-55) |
| Website | www.kake.com |
KAKE-TV, channel 10, is an American Broadcasting Company (ABC) affiliate television station based in Wichita, Kansas. It is owned by Gray Television. Its transmitter is located near Colwich, Kansas. KAKE is the flagship station for the KAKEland Television Network, a satellite network of ABC affiliates covering Kansas. The station's callsign is pronounced "cake" on the air. The KAKEland stations are:
- KUPK channel 13 licensed to Garden City, with transmitter located near Copeland (November 8, 1964).
- KLBY channel 4 Colby (September 4, 1984 under different owner as an Independent Station; became a KAKE satellite in 1987)
- K25CV channel 25 Hays (May 25, 1998)
- K30GD channel 30 Great Bend (May 31, 1998)
- K38GH channel 38 Russell
- K51GC channel 51 Salina (August 16, 1998, originally on channel 22; moved to current signal in 2003)
KAKE, along with Topeka CBS affiliate WIBW and Cox Communications, also is part of a Kansas cable network, Kansas Now 22. KAKE and WIBW show repeats of their newscasts on this channel along with occasional live and taped news and weather updates.
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History
The station signed on the air on October 19, 1954. During its first year on the air, it was Wichita's NBC affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation. It became a sole ABC affiliate in 1955 after KARD-TV (now KSNW) signed on. In 1979, the station was sold to the Chronicle Publishing Company of San Francisco, California, run by the de Young family, who also owned KRON-TV in San Francisco and WOWT-TV in Omaha, Nebraska. Chronicle then bought KLBY in 1987. KLBY had been a separate, independent station with its own programming inventory, but with Chronicle's purchase it was made a satellite of KAKE. Chronicle owned the stations until 1999, when KAKE, its satellites and WOWT were sold to LIN TV in the midst of the de Young family's liquidation of its media holdings. Almost as soon as the sale was finalized, LIN turned around and traded KAKE and WOWT to Benedek Broadcasting for that company's WWLP in Springfield, Massachusetts and cash. The acquisition of KAKE and WOWT could be seen as the ultimate undoing for the financially challenged Benedek, which in 2002 declared bankruptcy and sold most of its stations, including KAKE and WOWT, to Gray Television (their current owner). Throughout the 1950s up until the mid 1980s, KAKE was the highest-rated station in Wichita, but has since fallen to second behind KWCH-TV.
KAKE & the BTK Serial Murder Case
- For a more thorough history on the BTK case, see Dennis Rader.
In the 1970s, KAKE received letters, poems and packages from the BTK serial killer. One claimed responsibility for several of the BTK murders; another contained clues about an intended victim (who was not murdered). During an interview with Wichita's police chief in the late 1970s, subliminal messages were broadcast on KAKE to convince BTK to turn himself in. The effort was unsuccessful. In 2004 and 2005, BTK again sent letters to KAKE. One included a word puzzle -- another expressed concern about the colds anchors Susan Peters and Jeff Herndon had at the time. Park City, Kansas, resident Dennis Rader was eventually arrested and convicted of the murders.
News/Station Presentation
Newscast Titles
- TV-10 News (1960's-late 1980's)
- KAKE News (1998-present)
Station Slogans
- The News People (1970's)
- Come Home To KAKE (early 1980s) (not related to the similarly-named NBC campaign)
- On Your Side (1998-present)
External links
- KAKE Website
- mcsittel.com:Screengrabs of various TV stations (including KLBY) from the late-1980s, taken from Kingsport, TN
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KAKE
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KUPK
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KLBY
- Query the FCC's TV station database for K25GV
- Query the FCC's TV station database for K30GD
- Query the FCC's TV station database for K51GC
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Wichita-Hutchinson: KSNW 3 (NBC) - KCTU-LP 5 (ION) - KPTS 8 (PBS) - KAKE 10 (ABC) - KWCH 12 (CBS) - KSAS 24 (Fox) - K28JB 28 (TBN) - KSCW 33 (The CW) - KMTW 36 (MNTV) - KFVT-LP 40 (Ind.) - KGPT-CA 49 (A1/WHT/Faith) - KSMI-LP 51 (AZA) |
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| See also: CBS, , Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Kansas |
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ABC Network Affiliate: KAKE · KOLO · WBKO · WHSV · WTOK · WVAW · TV3 Winchester (WHSV-DT3) (cable only) |
| Annual Revenue: $332.1 USD (2006) · Employees: N/A · Stock Symbol: NYSE: GTN · Website: www.graycommunications.com |
