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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.
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It initially aired some local news, only for KAKE to cut that back altogether not long after relaunch—making it the first in a series of local news cuts at western Kansas TV stations in the late 1980s. Some local news returned with 90-second inserts in 1990 hosted by station manager Wayne Roberts, in part to help KLBY sell advertising.
In 1954, KAKE added a TV station, KAKE-TV. It eventually affiliated with ABC. The AM station got an increase to 1,000 watts by day, remaining at 250 watts at night. [7] In the 1970s, KAKE switched to a middle of the road (MOR) format of popular music, news and talk. KAKE was affiliated with the ABC Entertainment Network. [8]
Those storms are expected to form after 6 p.m. and persist in the Wichita area until 9 p.m., though some lingering storms could continue overnight, according to the National Weather Service.
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.
Wichita saw its first winter weather of the season on Oct. 29, when a trace of sleet and possibly flurries fell, she said. Other facts about snowfall in Wichita based on the running 30-year average: