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KFDI-FM (101.3 MHz) is a 100 kW radio station operating in Wichita, Kansas. Identifying as "Today's KFDI-FM 101.3, Wichita's Country Favorites," the station runs a contemporary country music format. KFDI has a strong emphasis on news, weather, and traffic with the largest news radio team in Kansas and the only one staffed 24/7/366.
KFDI became the flagship station of Great Empire Broadcasting Inc. [31] KFDI, airing country-western music, was the dominant radio station in the Wichita metro-area market, until the rise of rock'n'roll eroded its market share. By 1976, KFDI was being edged out by Wichita rock stations KLEO-AM and (to a lesser extent) KEYN-FM in the under-35 ...
The combined firm retained their broadcast properties and spun off their print assets as Journal Media Group. [5] KICT-FM, their sister radio stations in the Wichita area and 2 TV stations were not included in the merge; in September, Journal filed to transfer these stations to Journal/Scripps Divestiture Trust (with Kiel Media Group as trustee).
Wichita is the principal city of the Wichita-Hutchinson, Kansas television market which consists of the western two-thirds of the state. [39] According to Nielsen , it is the 67th largest market in the country. [ 40 ]
KWCH-DT (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Hutchinson, Kansas, United States, serving the Wichita area as an affiliate of CBS.It is owned by Gray Media alongside CW affiliate KSCW-DT (channel 33) and maintains studios on 37th Street North in northeast Wichita and a transmitter facility located east of Hutchinson in rural northeastern Reno County.
The station first signed on the air on September 1, 1955, as KARD-TV. The station, owned by the Wichita Television Corporation [3] was the fourth television station to sign on in the Wichita–Hutchinson market, after KAKE (channel 10)—which signed on in October 1954, KEDD (channel 16)—which signed on in August 1953, and KTVH (channel 12, now KWCH-DT)—which signed on in July 1953.
KAKE presently broadcasts 34 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each weekday, 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours on Saturdays and three hours on Sundays). For 30 years, KAKE was the highest-rated station in the Wichita–Hutchinson market, even though it did not build an extensive translator/satellite network in central and western Kansas until the 1980s.
Mark Stewart Gietzen (February 9, 1954 – May 14, 2023) was an American conservative political activist, notable for his start as an anti-abortion campaigner. He lived in Wichita, Kansas, United States.