KAYU-TV

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KAYU-TV
MyFox Spokane 28.png
KAYU-DT2 (My28 Spokane) Logo.png
Spokane, Washington–
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
United States
CitySpokane, Washington
ChannelsDigital: 28 (UHF)
Virtual: 28
Branding
  • Fox 28 (general)
  • Fox 28 News (newscasts)
  • My 28 Spokane (on DT2)
Programming
Affiliations
  • 28.1: Fox (1986–present)
  • 28.2: MNTV / Antenna TV
Ownership
OwnerCox Media Group
(Mountain Licenses, L.P.)
KFFX-TV, KCYU-LD
History
First air date
October 31, 1982 (39 years ago) (1982-10-31)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
    • 28 (UHF, 1982–2009)
  • Digital:
    • 30 (UHF, until 2009)
Former affiliations
  • Primary:
    • Independent (1982–1986)
  • Secondary:
    • UPN (1995–1997)[1]
  • DT2:
    • This TV (until 2015)
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID58684
ERP445 kW[2]
HAAT601 m (1,972 ft)
Transmitter coordinates47°34′44″N 117°17′50″W / 47.57889°N 117.29722°W / 47.57889; -117.29722Coordinates: 47°34′44″N 117°17′50″W / 47.57889°N 117.29722°W / 47.57889; -117.29722
Translator(s)See below
Links
Public license information
Profile
LMS
WebsiteOfficial website

KAYU-TV, virtual and UHF digital channel 28, is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Spokane, Washington, United States, and also serving Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. The station is owned by Atlanta-based Cox Media Group. KAYU-TV's studios are located on South Regal Street in Spokane, and its transmitter is on Krell Hill southeast of Spokane.

The station is also carried on cable systems in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, both of which are double the size of KAYU'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. It is one of five local Spokane area television stations seen in Canada on the Shaw Direct satellite service. It can also be seen on local cable systems in eastern British Columbia.

History[]

After beating out Springfield Television for the construction permit in 1981,[3] Spokane native Robert Hamacher, a former employee of KREM-TV and later an executive at KSTW in Tacoma,[4] put KAYU on the air on October 31, 1982.[5] It was Spokane's first independent station[6] 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.[7]

On October 1, 1989, KAYU-TV launched two low-power semi-satellites: K53CY in Yakima (known on-air as "KCY") and K66BW in the Tri-Cities (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.[8] K53CY was replaced in 1993 by K68EB, though it continued to go by "KCY" outside of station identifications.[9]

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 Medford, Oregon, to Northwest Broadcasting, a company controlled by Brian Brady, in 1995.[10] KCYU and KBWU remained semi-satellites of KAYU until 1999, when full-power sister station KFFX-TV signed on from Pendleton, Oregon, 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.[1]

On December 17, 2019, Apollo Global Management acquired the entirety of Brian Brady's television portfolio, as part of a larger transaction that saw it also acquire Cox Media Group. 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 KIRO-TV.[11][12][13]

KAYU-DT2 (My 28 Spokane)[]

KAYU-TV's 28.2 subchannel broadcasts MyNetworkTV in early prime time; the remainder of the subchannel's schedule consists of Antenna TV programming.[14][15] Comcast Xfinity carries the subchannel on digital channel 117.

It originally carried This TV until March 2015, when it switched to MyNetworkTV, which was previously carried on KXLY-DT2 until October 2012 when it became an exclusive MeTV affiliate.

In November 2017, the 28.2 subchannel was upgraded to 720p HD; it had previously been offered in 480i 4:3 standard definition.[16]

Programming[]

Syndicated programming on KAYU-TV includes Tamron Hall, Family Feud, 25 Words or Less, The Doctors, Two and a Half Men, Mike & Molly, The Goldbergs, Modern Family, Last Man Standing and The Big Bang Theory, among others. KAYU also carries Litton Entertainment'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 America's Most Wanted, featuring profiles of wanted criminals in Washington state, hosted by KCPQ 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.[17] The KHQ-produced newscast ceased production April 14, 1995.[18] In 1999, KAYU began producing an in-house 10 p.m. newscast,[19] that ran until 2004; in its final two years, ABC affiliate KXLY assisted in content and talent.[20]

In 2004, KAYU laid off its news staff and partnered with KHQ for the second time to produce the newscast,[21] which was renamed Fox First at Ten. The reduced overhead allowed the newscast to make money in its second month on air.[22] 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.[23]

Technical information[]

Subchannels[]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[24]
28.1 720p 16:9 KAYU-HD Main KAYU-TV programming / Fox
28.2 MyNetTV MyNetworkTV & Antenna TV

Analog-to-digital conversion[]

KAYU-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF 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.[25][26]

Translators[]

KAYU-TV is rebroadcast on the following translator stations:

City of license Callsign Channel ERP HAAT Facility ID Transmitter coordinates Owner
Bridgeport K24LM-D 24 0.071 kW 261 m (856 ft) 10819 48°2′53.5″N 119°42′43.2″W / 48.048194°N 119.712000°W / 48.048194; -119.712000 (K25NY-D) Chief Joseph Community Services, Inc.
K25NY-D 25 261 m (856 ft) 10815 48°2′53.5″N 119°42′43.2″W / 48.048194°N 119.712000°W / 48.048194; -119.712000 (K25NY-D)
Cashmere K13ER-D 13 0.002 kW −231 m (−758 ft) 69503 47°31′52.4″N 120°29′14.2″W / 47.531222°N 120.487278°W / 47.531222; -120.487278 (K13ER-D) Upper Wenatchee TV Association, Inc.
Coulee City K11WY-D 11 0.03 kW 138 m (453 ft) 198096 47°38′52.2″N 119°23′11.6″W / 47.647833°N 119.386556°W / 47.647833; -119.386556 (K11WY-D) Coulee City
Leavenworth K09ZA-D 9 0.01 kW −126 m (−413 ft) 187541 47°36′59.4″N 120°40′42.3″W / 47.616500°N 120.678417°W / 47.616500; -120.678417 (K09ZA-D) Leavenworth Non-Profit TV Association
Malaga KWVC-LD 8 0.199 kW 413 m (1,355 ft) 2500 47°27′49.4″N 120°12′54.2″W / 47.463722°N 120.215056°W / 47.463722; -120.215056 (KWVC-LD) Apple Valley TV Association, Inc.
Malott
 K10DK-D 10 0.002 kW 188 m (617 ft) 64468 48°19′35.5″N 119°42′17.2″W / 48.326528°N 119.704778°W / 48.326528; -119.704778 (K10DK-D) T.V. Reception Improvement District
Omak, etc. K31AH-D 31 0.65 kW 763 m (2,503 ft) 58689 48°26′58.5″N 119°18′32.1″W / 48.449583°N 119.308917°W / 48.449583; -119.308917 (K31AH-D) Mountain Licenses, L.P.
Omak
Okanogan, etc.		 K19AU-D 19 0.93 kW 724 m (2,375 ft) 58687 48°27′39.5″N 119°17′34.1″W / 48.460972°N 119.292806°W / 48.460972; -119.292806 (K19AU-D)
Pateros
Mansfield		 K08AP-D 8 0.003 kW 4,371 m (14,341 ft) 68511 48°0′59.9″N 119°58′55.2″W / 48.016639°N 119.982000°W / 48.016639; -119.982000 (K08AP) Methow Valley Communications District
Riverside K08CY-D 8 0.002 kW −222 m (−728 ft) 64492 48°29′49.5″N 119°30′49.1″W / 48.497083°N 119.513639°W / 48.497083; -119.513639 (K08CY-D) T.V. Reception Improvement District
Tonasket K10DL-D 10 0.015 kW 20 m (66 ft) 64463 48°46′52.5″N 119°23′14.2″W / 48.781250°N 119.387278°W / 48.781250; -119.387278 (K10DL-D)
Bonners Ferry, ID K17NZ-D 17 0.383 kW 863 m (2,831 ft) 6535 48°36′37.7″N 116°15′31.6″W / 48.610472°N 116.258778°W / 48.610472; -116.258778 (K17NZ-D) Boundary County TV Translator District
Coeur d'Alene, ID K27NC-D 27 4 kW 464 m (1,522 ft) 168364 47°43′53.6″N 116°43′50.6″W / 47.731556°N 116.730722°W / 47.731556; -116.730722 (K27NC-D) Mountain Licenses, L.P.
Coolin, ID K11UN-D 11 0.016 kW 71 m (233 ft) 53515 48°35′35.7″N 116°54′32.8″W / 48.593250°N 116.909111°W / 48.593250; -116.909111 (K11UN-D) Priest Lake Translator District
K33QB-D 33 0.1 kW −112 m (−367 ft) 53512 48°31′51.2″N 116°49′1.4″W / 48.530889°N 116.817056°W / 48.530889; -116.817056 (K33QB-D)
Juliaetta, ID K23OT-D 23 0.178 kW 11 m (36 ft) 32922 46°34′43.6″N 116°41′29.5″W / 46.578778°N 116.691528°W / 46.578778; -116.691528 (K23OT-D) Juliaetta Television Association
Lewiston, ID K18LH-D 18 1.16 kW 280 m (919 ft) 198068 46°27′2.5″N 117°2′50.5″W / 46.450694°N 117.047361°W / 46.450694; -117.047361 (K18LH-D) Mountain Licenses, L.P.
Sandpoint, ID K33LW-D 33 0.75 kW 862 m (2,828 ft) 189692 48°19′52.7″N 116°41′37.7″W / 48.331306°N 116.693806°W / 48.331306; -116.693806 (K33LW-D)
Kalispell, MT
Lakeside, MT		 K02RJ-D 2 0.1 kW 796 m (2,612 ft) 5816 48°0′39.8″N 114°21′51.4″W / 48.011056°N 114.364278°W / 48.011056; -114.364278 (K02RJ-D) Blacktail TV Tax District
Polson, MT K05NE-D 5 12 m (39 ft) 5826 47°40′38.8″N 114°8′33.2″W / 47.677444°N 114.142556°W / 47.677444; -114.142556 (K05NE-D)

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