KIMA-TV

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KIMA-TV
KIMA logo
Yakima, Washington
Branding KIMA (general)
KIMA Action News (newscasts)
CW 9 Yakima/Tri-Cities
Slogan Taking Action for You
Channels Digital: 33 (UHF)
Virtual: 29 (PSIP)
Subchannels 29.1 CBS
29.2 The CW
Affiliations CBS Television Network
Owner Fisher Communications, Inc.
(Fisher Broadcasting - Washington TV, LLC)
First air date July 19, 1953
Call letters' meaning YaKIMA
Sister station(s) KEPR-TV, KLEW-TV
Former channel number(s) Analog:
29 (UHF, 1953-2009)
Former affiliations All secondary:
DuMont (1953-1955)
NBC (1953-1965)
ABC (1953-1959; 1965-1970)
Transmitter power 100 kW
Height 292 m
Facility ID 56033
Transmitter coordinates 46°31′57.8″N 120°30′36.8″W / 46.532722°N 120.510222°W / 46.532722; -120.510222
Website www.kimatv.com

KIMA-TV is the CBS affiliated television station serving the Yakima, Washington region. The station is owned by Fisher Communications.

The station operates two semi-satellites--KEPR-TV in the Tri-Cities and KLEW-TV in Lewiston, Idaho. However, programming for all three stations is now run from Fisher Plaza in Seattle along with sister Univision station KUNW-CA.

KIMA offers the only local Yakima-based newscast with a fully operational newsroom and studio in Yakima weekdays on KIMA Action News at 5 & 6. KIMA's 11 o'clock, morning and weekend newscasts are shared with KEPR. Branded as KIMA KEPR Action News, they cover both the Yakima Valley and the Columbia Basin.

On satellite, KIMA-TV is carried on both Dish Network and DirecTV, the latter of which also carries KEPR-TV.

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[edit] History

KIMA signed on July 19, 1953 as the 200th television station in the United States and the first in central Washington. The station was originally owned by Cascade Broadcasting Company along with KIMA radio (AM 1460, now KUTI). It carried programming from all three networks until KNDO signed on in 1959 as an ABC affiliate, but KNDO switched affiliations to NBC in 1965. KIMA then shared ABC programming with KNDO until 1970, when KAPP signed on and took over ABC.

In 1954, Cascade signed on KEPR-TV as the first satellite station in the United States. It was originally intended to be a full repeater of KIMA-TV, but due to popular demand it became a more local station.

At one point, KIMA also had a satellite station in Ephrata, Washington. KBAS-TV signed on the air February 15, 1957 on channel 43; it moved to channel 16 in 1958. KBAS was owned by Basin TV Company, a subsidiary of Cascade Broadcasting, and this was reflected in its call letters. KBAS shut down on November 30, 1961. KIMA-TV has been digital-only since June 12, 2009.

On March 29, 2009, KIMA launched a digital subchannel with an affiliation with The CW to fill the void left by KCWK (Channel 9) going dark at the end of May 2008 due to the Pappas Telecasting bankruptcy.[1] The new channel took KCWK's former Channel 9 position on local cable systems and carries the CW Plus schedule.

[edit] Translator

KIMA-TV is rebroadcast on one digital translator in Ellensburg, Washington of which is not owned and operated by KIMA-TV and Fisher Communications.[2]

[edit] News operation

On November 29, 2010, KIMA became the first station in Yakima to begin broadcasting local newscasts in 16:9 widescreen standard definition.

[edit] News/station presentation

[edit] Newscast titles

  • KIMA NewsWatch (2004–2007)
  • KIMA Action News (2007–present)

[edit] Station slogans

  • "The One to Watch" (2004–2007)
  • "Taking Action for You" (2007–present)
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[edit] KIMA People

News

  • Jim Niedelman - KIMA Action News @ 5 & 6 PM
  • Terry Chick - KIMA/KEPR Action News @ 11 PM
  • Whitney Ward - KIMA/KEPR Action News @ 11 PM

Weather

  • Mike McCabe - Chief Weather Anchor
  • Jennifer Ann Wilson - Weekends @ 6:30 & 11 PM
  • Jay Frank - Morning Weather Anchor

Sports

  • Alan Sillence - Sports Director, KIMA Action News @ 6 & 11 PM
  • John Collett - Weekends @ 6:30 & 11 PM

Reporters

  • Haley Guenthner
  • Sarah Navoy
  • Heather Walker
  • Michael Spears
  • Matt Finn
  • Ryan Simms (Tri-Cities)
  • Jennifer Wilson - Morning Reporter

[edit] Former On-Air Staff

  • Jerry Burling - KIMA-TV on-air announcer, Winner, National Prime Time Emmy Award (1977). [1]
  • Tim Lewis - weekend sports anchor/reporter (currently sports director at KREM 2 in Spokane; Son of longtime KOMO-TV news anchor Dan Lewis).[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/digital-downloads/broadband/e3i9ab6ed8bb35772134ff7659f760d4db1
  2. ^ http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?mktid=286
  3. ^ http://www.krem.com/on-tv/bios/64880852.html

[edit] External links
Yakima
KUNW-CA (2.1 UNI) • KNDO (23.1 NBC, 23.2 NBC Universal Sports, 23.3 SWX) • KIMA-TV (29.1 CBS, 29.2 The CW) • KAPP (35.1 ABC, 35.2 KXMN-LP) • KCYU-LD (41.1 Fox, 41.2 This TV) • KYVE (47.1 PBS, 47.2 V-me, 47.3 Create, 47.5 PBS-HD) • K51JG-D (73.1 3ABN, 73.2 3ABN Latino, 73.3 3ABN Radio, 73.4 Radio74)
Ellensburg
Tri-Cities
KFFX-TV (11.1 Fox, 11.2 This TV) • KVVK-CA 15/KORX-CA 16 (UNI) • KEPR-TV (19.1 CBS, 19.2 The CW) • KNDU (25.1 NBC, 25.2 NBC Universal Sports, 25.3 SWX) • KTNW (31.1 PBS-HD, 31.2 V-me) • KVEW (42.1 ABC, 42.2 KXMN-LP) • KRLB-LP 49.1 (TBN COR)
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Defunct stations
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