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Pendleton, Oregon/Tri-Cities, Washington United States |
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| Branding | Fox 11 |
| Slogan | Everybody's Watching Fox |
| Channels | Digital: 11 (VHF) |
| Subchannels | 11.1 Fox 11.2 Telemundo |
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Northwest Broadcasting (Mountain Licenses, LP) |
| First air date | January 11, 1999 |
| Call letters' meaning | FoX |
| Sister station(s) | KCYU-LD |
| Former callsigns | KAUP (January–April 1999) |
| Former channel number(s) | 11 (VHF analog, 1999–2009) 8 (VHF digital, –2009) |
| Transmitter power | 60 kW |
| Height | 472 metres (1,549 feet) |
| Facility ID | 12729 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 45°44′49″N 118°2′15.6″W / 45.74694°N 118.037667°W |
| Website | www.myfoxtricities.com |
KFFX-TV, Fox 11, is a Fox affiliate serving the Tri-Cities, Washington (Richland/Pasco/Kennewick) area. Licensed to Pendleton, Oregon, and owned by Northwest Broadcasting, it also operates a satellite station in Yakima, KCYU-LD channel 41. On satellite, KFFX-TV is normally available on DirecTV. Dish Network carries KCYU-LD instead. It operates from studios on Clearwater Avenue in Kennewick, while its transmitter is located in the Umatilla National Forest east of Pendleton.
KFFX also has a digital secondary channel NFFX that operates as channel 11.2 and NCYU which operates as channel 41.2. Both of these "dot 2's" carry the Telemundo Network in High Definition with Local news at 6PM and 11PM Monday through Friday.
Channel 11 signed on the air January 11, 1999 as KAUP; on April 25, the call letters were changed to KFFX-TV. It was the first full-powered VHF station in what had previously been a "UHF island." It was also the first station on the Tri-Cities side of the market not to be a satellite of a station in Yakima.
The station replaced KBWU-LP (channel 66), a low-power semi-satellite of KAYU-TV in Spokane; KCYU-LP was also a semi-satellite of KAYU before the launch of KFFX. KAYU was also piped in by area cable companies. KBWU (which originally had the call sign K66BW, though it was referred to as "KBW" outside of station identifications) had been on the air since October 1, 1989; that station, now KBWU-LD (channel 36), is now a translator of KFFX.
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