KVEW
(semi-satellite of KAPP
Yakima, Washington)

Kennewick/Richland/Pasco, Washington
Branding	KVEW ABC 42 (general) KVEW Local News (newscasts) Me-TV Tri-Cities Yakima (KXMN repeater on .2)
Slogan	See The Difference Every Day
Channels	Digital: 44 (UHF) Virtual: 42.1 (PSIP)
Translators	K14HT Walla Walla
Affiliations	ABC<br.Me-TV (DT2)
Owner	Morgan Murphy Media (Apple Valley Broadcasting, Inc.)
First air date	October 1970[1]
Call letters' meaning	sounds like k-view
Sister station(s)	KAPP
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 42 (UHF, 1970-2009)
Transmitter power	160 kW
Height	404 m
Facility ID	2495
Transmitter coordinates
Website	www.kvewtv.com

KVEW, digital channel 44, is the ABC affiliate television station for the Tri-Cities area of Washington. Licensed to Kennewick, it is a semi-satellite of KAPP in Yakima, airing its own newscasts and commercials. The two stations are owned by Morgan Murphy Media, who also owns KXLY-TV in Spokane, Washington.

On satellite, KVEW is only available on Dish Network, while DirecTV carries KAPP instead. Both carriers do not carry either stations' MyNetworkTV subchannel.

Contents 1 History 2 Translators 3 News team 3.1 Current on-air staff 4 News/station presentation 4.1 Newscast titles 4.2 Station slogans 5 Digital television 6 External links 7 References

History

The station began serving the Tri-Cities region in October 1970, a month after sister station KAPP signed on. Before KVEW's existence, KEPR-TV had carried ABC as a secondary affiliation until 1959; KNBS-TV operated briefly in nearby Walla Walla, Washington as an ABC affiliate in 1960; KNDU signed on in 1961 and became the area's primary ABC affiliate until 1965, when it switched its primary affiliation to NBC. Both KEPR-TV and KNDU shared ABC programming from that point until KVEW signed on and all ABC programming moved to KVEW.

It began airing Spokane's Me-TV affiliate KXMN-LD on a digital subchannel in September 2006. KVEW and sister station KAPP-TV were one of the remaining stations to sign-off every night, but that practice was discontinued in 2012 when KAPP and KVEW added ABC World News Now to the programming lineup.

Starting December 22, 2008, KVEW discontinued its 6 pm newscast in favor of a 6:30 broadcast. The 11pm newscast is 5 minutes long and weekend newscasts have been discontinued. In addition to this move, 17 employees from KVEW and KAPP, were laid off.^[2][3]

Translators

KVEW is rebroadcast on one station-owned translator in Walla Walla, Washington, K14HT channel 14. KVEW has a construction permit on K34JV-D of which will be a digital translator for KVEW once the construction permit for K34JV-D is completed.^[4]

• K14HT Channel 14 Walla Walla
• K34JV-D Channel 34 Walla Walla construction permit

News team

Current on-air staff

Anchors

• Kristi Paulus - Local News @ 5 and 6:30 Anchor, Local News @ 11 Newsbrief
• Kevin Uretsky - Local News @ 5:00 and Local News @ 6:30 Anchor
• Emily Jaceks - Good Morning Northwest Anchor
• Jason Valentine - Good Morning Northwest Weather & Co-Anchor

Reporters

• Eugene Buenaventura
• Josh Peterson
• Skyler Srivastava

Producers

• Emily Jaceks- Good Morning Northwest
• Dan Thesman - Local News @ 5 and Local News @ 6:30

Weather

• Kris Crocker - Local News @ 5:00 and Local News @ 6:30

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

• News 42/K-View News
• KVEW Local News (2005-present)

Station slogans

• Where the Forecast Comes First (1997-2000)
• Local Coverage You Can Count On (2005–2008)
• New. Now Next (2008-2009)
• See The Difference Every Day (2010-present)

Digital television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels

Channel	Programming
42.1 / 44.1	Main KVEW Programing
42.2 / 44.2	Me-TV from KXMN-LD [5]

External links

• KVEW ABC 42
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KVEW
• Query TV Fool's coverage map for KVEW
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KVEW-TV

References