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KAKE-TV

KAKE
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Wichita, Kansas
United States
Branding KAKEland (general)
KAKE News (newscasts)
(pronounced "cake")
Slogan Come Home to KAKE (general)
On Your Side (news)
Channels Digital: 10 (VHF)
Virtual: 10 ()
Subchannels 10.1 ABC
10.2 MeTV
Translators (see article)
Affiliations ABC (secondary until 1956)
Owner Lockwood Broadcast Group
(Knoxville TV LLC)
First air date October 19, 1954; 62 years ago (1954-10-19)
Call letters' meaning The word "cake" (sic)
Former callsigns KAKE-TV (1954–2010)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
10 (VHF, 1954–2009)
Digital:
21 (UHF, 1999–2009)
Former affiliations NBC (1954–1956)
Transmitter power 56.5 kW (main signal)
15 kW (fill-in translator)
Height 309.8 m
Facility ID 65522
Transmitter coordinates 37°46′52.9″N 97°31′9.1″W / 37.781361°N 97.519194°W / 37.781361; -97.519194
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.kake.com

KAKE, virtual and VHF digital channel 10, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Wichita, Kansas, United States. The station is owned by Lockwood Broadcast Group. KAKE maintains studio facilities located on West Street in northwestern Wichita, and its transmitter is located in rural northwestern Sedgwick County (on the town limits of Colwich). On cable, the station is available on Cox Communications and AT&T U-verse channel 10 in standard definition, and in high definition on channel 1010.

KAKE also serves as the flagship of the KAKEland Television Network, a regional network of six stations (two full-power, two low-power and two translators) that relay ABC network programming and other programs provided by KAKE across central and western Kansas, as well as bordering counties in Colorado and Oklahoma. The station's distinctive call sign is pronounced as "cake," although it has been branded as "KAKEland" – after the aforementioned statewide relay network – since July 2011.

The station first signed on the air on October 19, 1954 as KAKE-TV (the "-TV" suffix was dropped in 2010). It originally operated as a primary NBC and secondary ABC affiliate, taking both networks from KTVH (channel 12, now KWCH-DT). Channel 10 lost the NBC affiliation after KEDD (channel 16) signed-off on April 30, 1956 and KARD-TV (channel 3, now KSNW) assumed the full-time affiliation, leaving it exclusively affiliated with ABC. KEDD's shut down and the consequent move of NBC to KARD-TV, coupled with the loss of the NBC affiliation from KAKE resulted in Wichita becoming one of the smallest U.S. cities to have three television stations that each maintain exclusive affiliations with one of the major networks. On October 28, 1964, KAKE signed on KUPK-TV (channel 13) in Garden City to serve as a satellite station for southwestern Kansas.


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