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KXLY-TV, virtual channel 4, is an ABC-affiliated television station in Spokane, Washington, USA. KXLY-TV is owned by Spokane Television Group, a subsidiary of Morgan Murphy Media, it is one of five local Spokane TV stations seen in Canada on the Shaw Direct satellite provider.
History
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Although KHQ and KXLY were both granted authorization by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build television stations on July 11, 1952,[1] KXLY was second to sign on, going on the air with broadcast tests on January 16, 1953,[2] with regular programming beginning on February 22. KXLY had initially hoped to have its television station on the air by Christmas of 1952, but adverse weather conditions on Mount Spokane delayed the launch.[3]
KXLY was a primary CBS affiliate, sharing ABC with KHQ-TV. Channel 4 also carried some programming from DuMont up until as late as April 1955.[4] ABC programming, along with partial DuMont shows that KXLY-TV did not carry, moved to KREM when it signed on in 1954.
At first, KXLY, whose AM sister was also affiliated with the CBS Radio Network at the time, enjoyed a good partnership with CBS. The national affiliate worked well with early KXLY executives Dick Jones, Bob Struble, and Jimmy Augustino, to help the station become a dominant player in the Spokane television market in the 1950s and 1960s.
However, the station's relationship with CBS faltered in later years when it started airing several CBS shows out of pattern by delaying or pre-empting them. In February 1976, CBS announced it would be terminating KXLY's affiliation with the network in August, with a spokesman from the network stating they felt they could "get wider exposure for our programs with another station." This would become a rare first in which a major US television network would strip a station of its affiliation.[5] On August 8, the affiliation switch went into effect, with CBS programming moving to KREM (KREM wanted to wait until ABC finished airing the network's broadcast of the 1976 Summer Olympics to make the switch). KXLY then picked up KREM's old ABC affiliation, although it began the transition in February 1976 when it started airing Good Morning America while airing CBS shows throughout the day. Ironically at this time, ABC jumped to number one in the ratings for the next several years. This meant KXLY ended up broadcasting the highest-rated network (first CBS, then ABC) throughout the 1970s.
KXLY's sister station is KXMN, which was launched on September 5, 2006 to become Spokane's MyNetworkTV affiliate.
HD race
On March 11, 1999, KXLY-DT signed on the air as Eastern Washington's first digital television signal on Channel 13. Much like the first black and white television broadcasters, this initial effort was launched utilizing a low power digital transmitter and antenna co-located at the Boone Avenue studio location in downtown Spokane. The station's first authentic telecasts began with its 5 pm and 6 pm newscasts March 26, 1999.
Later behind the scenes that year, engineers assembled the new ABC High Definition satellite equipment to ready the station for ABC's foray into HD with Monday Night Football. By Monday, September 27, 1999, KXLY-DT had permanently moved its digital transmissions to the top of Mt. Spokane and increased its power to the FCC maximum of 23,300 watts. That evening marked the region's first broadcast of high-definition pictures with the airing of ABC Monday Night Football.
On April 20, 2006, the race to high-definition live local newscasts in the Spokane television market began when KXLY became the first station in Spokane to broadcast a local news segment in high definition, an experiment the station continued to explore by showing one pre-taped news segment in HD each Tuesday night during its 6 pm broadcast until it switched to showing full HD newscasts on August 3, 2008.
On May 16, 2008, KHQ announced that it would leap ahead of KXLY in becoming the first station to produce HD newscasts beginning August 8, 2008. After months of KHQ marketing this milestone, on August 1, 2008, KXLY shocked KHQ when it made a surprise announcement that starting on August 3, 2008, just a mere two days after the announcement, it would begin producing all news broadcasts in high definition.[6] The date was chosen in order to beat KHQ to the milestone of being the first station to broadcast high definition local news in the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene market. Due to technical limitations KHQ was delayed in broadcasting an HD newscast. A 16:9 (widescreen) standard definition broadcast continued until new equipment supporting a high definition signal was purchased.
Facilities
KXLY is the only station in the Spokane market to broadcast from Mount Spokane, to the northeast of the city. The site (located in a state park) was originally developed with the expectation that Spokane's other TV stations would want to follow suit. When this did not occur, KXLY built a translator (K09FZ on channel 9, later becoming K11VT channel 11, then KUUP-LP) to serve non-antenna-rotator-equipped households from the mountain ridge south of Spokane used by the other stations. On May 24, 2006, it became KXMN-LP and from September 5, 2006 until the national DTV transition in February of 2009, it broadcast My Network TV programming. From the digital transition date forward the South Hill transmitter rebroadcast KXLY ABC - both in analog on Channel 11 and as 4.1 ABC HD and 4.2 My Network TV over a Channel 9 translator.
On December 22, 2008, KXLY began producing high-resolution weather segments for sister stations KAPP/Yakima and KVEW/Kennewick. Both stations discontinued their 6 pm newscast, the 11 pm newscast was reduced to 5 minutes and weekend newscasts are now produced at KXLY. This includes all weather and sports reports for weekdays and weekends. In addition to this move, 17 employees from KVEW and KAPP, were laid off.[7] [8]
Programming
KXLY currently features ABC programming, as well as local news, paid programming, and syndicated entertainment programming including Live with Regis and Kelly, The Rachael Ray Show, The Nate Berkus Show, Entertainment Tonight, and The Insider.
Digital television
This station's digital channel is VHF 13, multiplexed:
Channel | Name | Programming | Cable Channel |
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4.1 | KXLY-TV | Main KXLY programming / ABC HD | Comcast 104 (Spokane area) Dish Network 4 DirecTV 4 Time Warner Cable 704 (Coeur d'Alene area) |
4.2 | KXMN | My Network TV | Comcast 29 Not available on Dish Network or DirecTV |
Post analog shutdown
KXLY-TV shut down its analog signal on February 17, 2009 [9], remaining on its pre-transition channel 13.[10] Through the use of PSIP, KXLY-TV's main ABC signal is displayed as virtual channel 4.
Translators
KXLY is rebroadcast on the following translator stations.
Translators in Montana are in the Mountain Time Zone.
Programming
KXLY's newscasts, titled "kxly4 HD News", are featured at these following times:
Monday-Friday
- Good Morning Northwest HD (5-7 AM)
- kxly4 HD News @ 5 (5-5:30 PM)
- kxly4 HD News @ 6 (6-6:30 PM)
- kxly4 HD News @ 6:30 (6:30-7 PM)
- kxly4 HD News @ 11 (11-11:35 PM)
Saturday
- kxly4 HD News @ 6 (6-6:30 PM)
- kxly4 HD News Saturday 411 (11-11:10PM)
Sunday
- kxly4 HD News @ 5 (5-5:30 PM)
- kxly4 HD News @ 6 (6-6:30 PM)
- kxly4 HD News @ 11 (11-11:35 PM)
On-air staff
Current on-air staff
HD News Anchors:
- Robyn Nance - Good Morning Northwest HD 5am-7am (Mon-Fri)
- Derek Deis - Good Morning Northwest HD 5am-7am (Mon-Fri)
- Kalae Chock - kxly4 HD News at 11pm (Mon-Fri)
- Nadine Woodward - kxly4 HD News 5pm, 6pm and 6:30pm (Mon-Fri)
- Mike Gonzalez - kxly4 HD News 5pm, 6pm and 6:30pm (Mon-Fri)
- Colleen O'Brien - kxly4 HD News at 6 & 11pm (Sat-Sun)
HD 4Cast Weather Anchors:
- Kris Crocker - Chief Meteorologist & KAPP-TV/KVEW-TV Chief Meteorologist
- Mark Peterson - Good Morning Northwest
- Aaron Luna - Weekend Weather & KAPP-TV/KVEW-TV Weekend Forecaster
- Kate Derning-Hudson - Fill-in Meteorologist; also producer for 6 & 6:30pm newscasts; (wife of Gonzaga basketball and baseball radio announcer Tom Hudson)[11]
- Kylee Cruz - Fill-in Weather
ESPN Northwest Sports Anchors:
- Ben Kaplan - Sports Director
- Keith Osso - Weekend Sports Anchor, beginning September 17th)
- Dennis Patchin - "Are You Kidding Me?" Segment - Weeknights at 6:30
Reporters:
- Melissa Luck (Executive Producer)
- Jeff Humphrey (son of NBC correspondent Don Harris)
- Kalae Chock (Weeknights at 5, 6 and 6:30pm)
- Erik Loney (Good Morning Northwest)
- Colleen O'Brien
- Kylee Cruz
- Annie Bishop
- Aaron Luna
- Keith Osso (Sports)
- Anusha Roy (North Idaho Bureau)
- Nadine Woodward (Special Projects & Health Reporter/Anchor)
Weekly guests:
- Michael Foley
- Jaime Johnson
- George Lee
Notable former on-air staff
- Richard Brown: Anchor/Managing Editor 1998-2007. Currently anchors 3pm-6pm weeknights on CKOM Radio in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada.
News/station presentation
Newscast titles
- KXLY Television Newsreel (1953–1960)
- The World Today/The World Tonight (1960–1964)
- The News/Nite Edition (1964–1971)
- NewsScene (1971–1973)
- News 4 (1973–1976, 1981–1986, 1996–2001)
- Total News 4 (1976–1981, 1991–1996)
- KXLY News 4 (1986–1991, 2001–2007; displayed in on-air graphics as 'News 4 KXLY' from 2001–2005)
- KXLY 4 News (2007–2008)
- KXLY 4 HD News (2008–present)
Station slogans
- News for your life...turn to Four. (1984-1985)
- Making the Northwest Difference (1991–1998)
- The Inland Northwest's #1 Source for Breaking News (1998–2001)
- First 4 Local News (1996–2001; same slogan as KOMO-TV/Seattle, also a ABC affiliate broadcasting on channel 4)
- See the Difference (2001–2004)
- Uncovering More (2004–2007)
- Never Miss a Story (2007–2011)
- See the Difference Every Day (2009–2011, secondary)
- Your Trusted Choice (for Local News) (2011-present)
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External links
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References
- ^ Spokane Daily Chronicle - "KHQ and KXLY Authorized to Build Television Stations" - July 12, 1952
- ^ Spokane Daily Chronicle - "KXLY-TV Tries Pattern, Film" - January 17, 1953
- ^ Spokane Daily Chronicle - "KXLY Schedules Sunday Telecast" - February 16, 1953
- ^ "KXLY-TV (Channel 4 - CBS Du Mont) Today's Program". Daily Interlake. Kalispell, MT. 1955-05-30. p. 7.
- ^ Spokane Daily Chronicle - "Network Exchange Scheduled for Aug. 8" - June 4, 1976
- ^ http://www.kxly.com/global/story.asp?s=8776270 KXLY 4 News flips the switch on full HD
- ^ http://www.tri-cityherald.com/915/story/376215.html
- ^ http://yakima-herald.com/stories/2008/11/07/kapp-tv-to-cut-6-p-m-broadcast-lay-off-news-positions
- ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
- ^ CDBS Print
- ^ http://www.kxly.com/newsteam/21393941/detail.html
- Media in Spokane, Washington
- ABC network affiliates
- Channel 4 virtual TV stations in the United States
- Channel 13 digital TV stations in the United States
- Television channels and stations established in 1953
- Television stations in Washington (state)
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