KNDU

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KNDU
Kennewick, Washington
Branding	KNDU Local News
Slogan	"More Local News. More Often"
Channels	25 (UHF) analog, 26 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	NBC
Owner	The KHQ Television Group
Founded	July 1, 1961
Former affiliations	ABC
Website	www.kndu.com

KNDU channel 25, is the NBC affiliate serving the Tri-Cities region (Kennewick, Pasco, Richland) and southeast central Washington.

Providing over 20 hours of local news coverage on their primary channel a week, the station also produces a Digital Local News Channel and NBC Weather Plus affiliate. The channels are available locally over the air on digital channels 25.2 and 25.3, and the Weather Plus affiliate is also available through digital cable on Charter channel 287, streaming online from KNDU.com, and every daily newscast.

Alike to many other stations, they also maintain a website, KNDU.com. The website provides live streaming breaking news, video clips from daily newscasts, news stories from daily newscasts, and additional content provided by many different sources.

Additionally, the station has also been noted for providing live coverage of the hydroplane racing that occurs on the Columbia River every July. The races are now planned to also be streamed online from the station's website [1].

Owned by The KHQ Television Group, the station originally aired on July 1, 1961 as a dual NBC (primary) / ABC (secondard) affiliate until KVEW debuted in 1970 to take the ABC affiliation. KNDU is the satellite sister of KNDO, a NBC affiliate located in Yakima, Washington and KHQ, the NBC affiliate located in Spokane, Washington. The station's transmitter is located in Kennewick, Washington.

Contents 1 Charitible involvment 2 Digital Television 3 Newscasts 3.1 Weekdays 3.2 Weekends 4 News Team 4.1 Weekday Anchors 4.2 Weekend Anchors 4.3 Reporters 4.4 Weather Anchors 4.5 Sports Anchors 4.6 Full-Time Production Staff 4.7 Famous Anchors 5 Extras 6 Birthdays & Pictures 6.1 Northwest Today Birthdays 6.2 Harry's/Tim's Weather Pictures 7 KNDU TV Shows 8 Annual Events 9 Studios 10 External links

[edit] Charitible involvment

KNDU is very active in charity drives in the Tri-Cities area, especially during the winter months. Starting every fall, the station involves itself with the Salvation Army in its annual "Coats for Kids" drive, in which gently used coats are donated to be cleaned and handed out to needy children in the area. And in early December, the station puts on its "Family Food Drive", which aims to gather non-perishable food for donation to the local America's Second Harvest chapter, which then donates the food to area food banks.

[edit] Digital Television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels

Channel	Programming
25.1 / 26.1	Main KNDU programming
25.2 / 26.2	Digital Local News Channel
25.3 / 26.3	NBC Weather Plus

[edit] Newscasts

[edit] Weekdays

• KNDU Local News Northwest Today - 5 to 7 a.m.
• KNDU Local News at 10:00 on Charter - 10 p.m.
• KNDU Local News at 5:00 - 5 to 5:30 p.m.
• KNDU Local News at 6:00 - 6 to 6:30 p.m.
• KNDU Local News at 7:00 on Charter Channel 3 -7 to 7:30 p.m.
• KNDU Local News at 10:00 on Charter Channel 3 - 10 to 10:30 p.m.
• KNDU Local News 11 @ 11 - 11 to 11:35 p.m.

[edit] Weekends

• KNDU Local News Saturday - 8 to 8:30 a.m.
• KNDU Local News at 6:00 - 6 to 6:30 p.m.
• KNDU Local News 11 @ 11 - 11 to 11:30 p.m.

[edit] News Team

[edit] Weekday Anchors

• Jay Frank - Northwest Today
• Ruth Johnson - Northwest Today
• Christine Brown - KNDU Local News at 5:00 and 6:00
• Scott Stovall - KNDU Local News at 5:00, 6:00, and 11@11
• Jenny Anchondo - KNDU Local News 11@11

[edit] Weekend Anchors

• Felicia Mattson - KNDU Local News at 6:00 and 11@11
• Patrick Noland (Temporary) - KNDU Local News at 6:00

[edit] Reporters

• Brian Carlson
• Margaret Kavanagh
• Ken Wiegand
• Patrick Noland

[edit] Weather Anchors

• Meteorologist Harry Bounds - Northwest Today
• Forecaster Tim Adams - KNDU Local News at 5:00, 6:00, 11@11, KNDU Local News Saturday
• Jeff Womack (KHQ) - Weekends

[edit] Sports Anchors

• Scott Reister - Weekdays
• Jenn Bates - Weekends & Northwest Today

[edit] Full-Time Production Staff

• Tony Aaberg - Director/Technical Director
• Benjamin Burchfield - Photography/Weekend Web Management/Graphics
• William Grubb - Head Production Graphics Operator
• Allen Lintvedt - Weekend Technical Director
• Amanda Lynner - Weekend Director/Technical Director
• Dustin Meehan - Head Photographer (News Staff)
• Erik Michael - General Production/Photography
• Anthony Sanzeri - Evening Graphics Operator
• Kris Turra - Morning Director
• Jay Vangen - Supervising Production Director

[edit] Famous Anchors

• Jamie Kern - Past
• Jay Frank - Current
• Matt Daigle - Past

[edit] Extras

• The KNDU television studios was formerly a funeral home.
• Some former staff believe the studios to be somewhat haunted.

[edit] Birthdays & Pictures

[edit] Northwest Today Birthdays

• Send birthday information (age, name, city, etc.) to:

Northwest Today Birthdays

3312 W. Kennewick Avenue

Kennewick, WA 99336

Please send information at least two (2) weeks in advance.

[edit] Harry's/Tim's Weather Pictures

• You can send a photo of some kind of weather related thing to the address above or email them to:

news@kndu.com

[edit] KNDU TV Shows

• Go for the Green - Sundays @6:30 p.m.

Scott Reister, Anish Shroff, ~Jay Frank

• Sports Finale - Fridays @11:15

Scott Reister, Jenn Bates, and Anish Shroff

[edit] Annual Events

• Coats for Kids - Fall/Winter - Across the Tri-Cities area
• KNDU Family Food Drive - December 2 - KNDU parking lot

[edit] Studios

KNDU TV 25

3312 W. Kennewick Ave.

Kennewick, WA 99336

United States

[edit] External links

• KNDU Official Website
• Jobs at KNDU
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KNDU