KAKE (TV): Difference between revisions

▲| branding = KAKE ''(pronounced "cake")''<br />MeTV Kansas ''(on DT2)''

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▲| location = [[Wichita, Kansas|Wichita]]/[[Hutchinson, Kansas]]

▲| country = United States

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▲On June 16, 1999, the deYoung family announced that it decided to liquidate Chronicle Publishing's assets. KAKE, its satellites, and WOWT were sold to [[LIN Media|LIN TV]] (KRON was later sold to [[Young Broadcasting]], which became involved in a contract dispute with [[NBC]], which had bid for the station, that led to KRON losing its NBC affiliation in January 2002). Almost as soon as the sale was finalized, LIN turned around and traded KAKE and WOWT to [[Benedek Broadcasting]] in a cash deal, in exchange for NBC affiliate [[WWLP]] in [[Springfield, Massachusetts]]. The acquisition of KAKE and WOWT could be seen as the ultimate undoing for the financially challenged Benedek, which in 2002 declared for [[Chapter 7, Title 11, United States Code|Chapter 7 bankruptcy]]; the company then sold most of its stations, including KAKE and WOWT, to [[Atlanta]]-based [[Gray Television]]. Another translator shuffle occurred on August 15, 2003, as three of the station's low-power repeaters changed channel allocations: K20BU (channel 20) in [[Russell, Kansas|Russell]] moved to channel 38 as K38GH, K22CP (channel 22, now KHDS-LD) in [[Salina, Kansas|Salina]] moved to channel 51 as K51GC, and K69DQ (channel 69, now KGBD-LD) in [[Great Bend, Kansas|Great Bend]] moved to channel 30 as K30GD.

▲In January 2011, KAKE expanded its weekday morning newscasts to 2½ hours, with the addition of a half-hour at 4:30&nbsp;a.m., becoming the first station in the Wichita–Hutchinson market to expand its morning newscast to a pre-5:00&nbsp;a.m. timeslot.<ref name="drop 4 p.m. news">[http://blogs.kansas.com/haveyouheard/2011/03/30/kake-channel-10-to-drop-its-4-p-m-news/#storylink=misearch KAKE, Channel 10, to drop its 4 p.m. news; KWCH, Channel 12, to add 4 p.m. newscast on sister station] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820160321/http://blogs.kansas.com/haveyouheard/2011/03/30/kake-channel-10-to-drop-its-4-p-m-news/#storylink=misearch |date=August 20, 2011 }}, ''[[The Wichita Eagle]]'', March 30, 2011. Retrieved July 19, 2011.</ref> On July 17, 2011, beginning with its 5:30&nbsp;p.m. newscast, KAKE became the second television station in the Wichita–Hutchinson market (after KWCH) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in [[high-definition television|high definition]] ([[KSNW]] remained the only station in the market whose newscasts were not produced in HD, broadcasting them in [[widescreen]] [[enhanced-definition television|enhanced definition]] until January 27, 2014, with weather segments only broadcasting in high definition prior to that). With the change, the station introduced a new graphics package, a custom [[Television news music package|news music package]] (composed by Aircast Custom Music), and a new station logo that emphasizes the long used "KAKEland" sub-branding for its network of satellite and repeater stations.<ref>[http://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/blog/2011/07/kake-switches-local-newscasts-to-hd.html KAKE switches local newscasts to HD this weekend] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717070406/http://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/blog/2011/07/kake-switches-local-newscasts-to-hd.html |date=July 17, 2011 }}, ''[[Wichita Business Journal]]'', July 15, 2011.</ref> When KAKE made the switch to HD, it also began using automated production for its newscasts. Like other Gray stations at the time, it used Ross OverDrive automation (still in use today). KAKE discontinued its half-hour 4:00&nbsp;p.m. newscast in September 2011, due to a lack of a solid syndicated programming lead-out for the program.<ref name="drop 4 p.m. news"/> A 4:00&nbsp;p.m. newscast returned to the schedule on September 9, 2013; later that week on September 15, KAKE debuted an hour-long Sunday morning newscast from 8:00 to 9:00&nbsp;a.m.<ref>[http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/kake-adds-weekend-afternoon-newscasts_b103249 KAKE Adds Weekend, Afternoon Newscasts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714214703/http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/kake-adds-weekend-afternoon-newscasts_b103249 |date=July 14, 2014 }}, ''[[MediaBistro.com|TVSpy]]'', September 9, 2013.</ref>

▲*10. The Hays translator formerly used the callsign K70FE, and originally broadcast on UHF channel 70, from the 1970s to 1988.<ref name="w9wi">{{Cite web |url=http://www.w9wi.com/articles/gt69.html |title=(obsolete) Stations above channel 69 |access-date=June 12, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517113411/http://www.w9wi.com/articles/gt69.html |archive-date=May 17, 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref>

▲*11. K33NP-D formerly used the callsign K75CB<ref name="w9wi"/> from the 1970s to 1988, when its calls were changed to K20BU and moved to channel 20; the calls were changed on August 15, 2003 to K38GH until it converted to digital on October 21, 2013 as K38GH-D. Upon moving to channel 33 effective August 30, 2018, the call sign changed to K33NP-D.

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