KAYU-TV
Fox/MyNetworkTV affiliate in Spokane, Washington, United States
KAYU-TV (channel 28) is a television station in Spokane, Washington, United States, affiliated with Fox and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Rincon Broadcasting Group. KAYU-TV's studios are located on South Regal Street in Spokane, and its transmitter is on Krell Hill southeast of the city.
History
After beating out Springfield Television for the construction permit in 1981, Spokane native Robert Hamacher, a former employee of KREM-TV and later an executive at KSTW in Tacoma, put KAYU on the air on October 31, 1982. The first program to air was an episode of Rawhide. It was Spokane's first independent station 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.
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. K53CY was replaced in 1993 by K68EB, though it continued to go by "KCY" outside of station identifications.
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