KEPR-TV

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KEPR-TV
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Pasco/Richland/Kennewick, Washington
Branding KEPR 19 (general)
KEPR Action News (newscasts)
Channels Analog: 19 (UHF)

Digital: 18 (UHF)
Affiliations CBS
Owner Fisher Communications, Inc.
(Fisher Broadcasting - Washington TV, LLC)
First air date December 28, 1954
Call letters’ meaning KEnnewick, Pasco, Richland
Transmitter Power 490 kW (analog)
32.43 kW (digital)
Height 366 m (analog)
355.5 m (digital)
Facility ID 56029
Transmitter Coordinates 46°5′50.5″N, 119°11′33.4″W
Website www.keprtv.com

KEPR (pronounced "keeper"), channel 19, is the CBS affiliate for the Tri-Cities area of Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick, Washington. It is licensed to Pasco. It is a satellite station of KIMA-TV in Yakima and KLEW-TV in Lewiston, Idaho. All of KEPR's programming is ran out of Fisher Plaza in Seattle. The station has a local marketing agreement with Univision stations KVVK-CA and KORX-CA.

It is also a sister station of ABC-affiliate KOMO-TV in Seattle, but does not share its broadcasts or network affiliation. KEPR's transmitter is located on Johnson Butte near Kennewick.

KEPR's 11 o'clock newscast is shared with KIMA-TV. Branded as "KIMA KEPR Action News at 11:00", it covers both the Columbia Basin and the Yakima Valley.

The station signed on the air December 28, 1954 and was owned by Cascade Broadcasting Company. It was the first station in the United States to be a satellite of another. Original plans called for it to be a straight repeater of KIMA-TV, but it later began airing its own commercials and a separate newscast.

KEPR is also the home of the longest running (10 years) locally produced magazine shows, Community Health Journal with Jim Hall, former KEPR anchorman, now community services director of Kadlec Medical Center in Richland.

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Broadcast television in the Yakima / Walla Walla / Pasco / Richland / Kennewick market  (Nielsen DMA #126)

Northern End (Yakima Valley)
Yakima: KUNW-CA 2 (UNI) - KNDO 23 (NBC, Local News on DT2, WX Plus on DT3) - KIMA 29 (CBS) - KAPP 35 (ABC, KXMN-LP on DT2) - KCYU-LP 41 (FOX) - K43GY 43 (Spanish Ind) - KYVE 47 (PBS, V-me on DT2, Create on DT3)
Ellensburg: K25FP 25 (3ABN) - K31AK 31 (NBC) - K39DM 39 (TBN) - K41CK 41 (FOX) - KWWA-CA 49 (UNI) - K51BD 51 (CBS) - K54DX 54 (FOX) - K63BZ 63 (ABC) - K69BE 69 (PBS)

Southern End (Columbia Basin)
Tri-Cities: KFFX 11 (FOX) - KVVK-CA 15 (UNI) - KEPR 19 (CBS) - KNDU 25 (NBC, Local News on DT2, WX Plus on DT3) - KTNW 31 (PBS) - KVEW 42 (ABC, KXMN-LP on DT2) - KRLB-LP 49 (COR)
Walla Walla: KTVR 13 (PBS/OPB, PBS-HD on DT1, OPB-SD on DT2, Create on DT3, Oreg Ch on DT4) - KORX-CA 16 (UNI) - K22BI 22 / K21EK 21 / K28FT 28 (HOPE/Worship) - K33EJ 33 (3ABN) - KWWO-LP 47 (COR)

Defunct television stations

KCWK 9 / KCWK-LP 27 (Ind, Azteca, The CW) Walla Walla/Richland/Pasco/Kennewick/Yakima
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CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Washington
See also: ABC, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Washington
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