WIBW-TV
  
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Topeka, Kansas United States |
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| Slogan | Kansas News Leader |
| Channels |
Digital: 13 (VHF) Virtual: 13 () |
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| Translators | WIBW-LD (44, UHF), Topeka |
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Gray Television (Gray Television Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | November 15, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Indiana Broadcast Works (original owner of WIBW-AM's predecessor in Logansport, Indiana) |
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| Transmitter power | 27 kW |
| Height | 413 m |
| Facility ID | 63160 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°0′21.8″N 96°2′58.3″W / 39.006056°N 96.049528°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WIBW-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 13, is a CBS-affiliated television station located in Topeka, Kansas, United States. The station is owned by Gray Television. WIBW-TV maintains studio facilities located on Commerce Place (next to the interchange of I-70, I-470, US 40, US 75 and K-4) in southwestern Topeka, and its transmitter is located on Windy Hill Road in Maple Hill. To serve portions of the market that cannot adequately receive the main signal, WIBW-TV operates a digital fill-in translator in Topeka (WIBW-LD, which broadcasts on UHF channel 44).
The station first signed on the air on November 15, 1953. WIBW-TV was the first television station to sign on in the Topeka market, and the third to sign on in the state of Kansas (after KCTY in Kansas City, which operated a transmitter in Overland Park, which signed on in June 1953; WIBW signed on the same day as KTVH (now KWCH-DT) in Wichita; it is the second-oldest surviving television station in Kansas (behind KWCH, as KCTY ceased operations in February 1954). The television station originally operated from studio facilities located on 6th Street and Wanamaker Road in west Topeka, near the Menninger Clinic, where it shared the facility with WIBW radio. The facility, which was later abandoned, was severely damaged by fire on January 5, 2012.
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