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KAPP (channel 35) inYakima, Washington, andKVEW (channel 42) inKennewick, Washington, aretelevision stations affiliated withABC and owned byMorgan Murphy Media. KAPP's studios are located in the Liberty Building on North 3rd Street in downtown Yakima, and its transmitter is atopAhtanum Ridge; KVEW maintains its own studios on North Edison Street in Kennewick, with transmitter onJump Off Joe Butte.
KVEW operates as asemi-satellite of KAPP, serving theTri-Cities area. Itsimulcasts all network andsyndicated programming as provided through its parent, and the two stations share a website. However, KVEW airs separate commercial inserts andlegal identifications. Local newscasts are simulcast on both stations. KAPP serves the western half of the Yakima–Tri-Citiesmarket while KVEW serves the eastern portion. The two stations are counted as a single unit forratings purposes.Master control and some internal operations are based at the studios ofsister station and fellow ABC affiliateKXLY-TV on West Boone Avenue inSpokane.
Onsatellite, KAPP is only available onDirecTV, whileDish Network carries KVEW instead.
Before KAPP signed on,CBS affiliateKIMA-TV (channel 29) had carried ABC as a secondary affiliation untilKNDO (channel 23) signed on in 1959. KNDO became the area's primary ABC affiliate until 1965, when it switched its primary affiliation toNBC. Both KNDO and KIMA-TV shared ABC's programming from that point until KAPP signed on the air on September 21, 1970, and all ABC programming moved to KAPP.[3] The most notable ABC program shown on the station's first day was the first-everMonday Night Football game between theCleveland Browns andNew York Jets.
KVEW began serving the Tri-Cities region in October 29, 1970, a month after KAPP signed on.[4] Before KVEW's existence,KEPR-TV (channel 19) had carried ABC as a secondary affiliation until 1959;KNBS-TV (channel 22) operated briefly in nearbyWalla Walla, Washington, as an ABC affiliate in 1960; KNDU (channel 25) signed on in 1961 and became the area's primary ABC affiliate until 1965. Both KEPR-TV and KNDU shared ABC programming from that point until KVEW signed on.
KAPP and KVEW began airing Spokane'sMeTV affiliateKXMN-LD on a digital subchannel in September 2006.[5] They were two of the remaining stations to sign-off every night, but that practice ended in 2012 whenWorld News Now was added to the programming lineup.
On December 22, 2008, KAPP and KVEW discontinued their 6 p.m. and weekend newscasts. The 11 p.m. newscast was reduced to a five-minute broadcast beforeNightline, and post-January 2013,Jimmy Kimmel Live! In addition to this move, 17 employees from KAPP and KVEW werelaid off[6] and KAPP's studio, formerly located on South 24th Avenue, was sold off and its operations were relocated downtown.[7]
While weather came from KXLY for several years, local weather reports have returned as of 2016, with meteorologist Jason Valentine at 5 and 6:30 p.m., and Kristen Walls during theirGood Morning Northwest newscast.[8] With the cancellation ofThe Insider andExtra moving from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on September 11, 2017, KAPP/KVEW began airing local news at 6 p.m., for the first time in almost a decade.
The stations' signals aremultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming | ||
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| KAPP | KVEW | KAPP | KVEW | |||
| 35.1 | 42.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KAPP-HD | KVEW-HD | ABC |
| 35.2 | 42.2 | 480i | KAPP-SD | KVEW-DT | MeTV (viaKXLY-DT2) | |
| 35.3 | 42.3 | H&I | Heroes & Icons[11] | |||
| 35.4 | 42.4 | START | Start TV[11] | |||
| 35.5 | 42.5 | DABL | Dabl[11] | |||
| 35.6 | 42.6 | QVC | QVC | |||
| 35.7 | 42.7 | HSN | HSN | |||
KAPP and KVEW have been digital-only since February 17, 2009.[12]
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