KIMA-TV

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KIMA-TV
Image:KIMA06.jpg
Yakima, Washington
Branding KIMA Action News
Slogan The One to Watch
Channels Analog: 29 (UHF)

Digital: 33 (UHF)
Affiliations CBS
Owner Fisher Communications, Inc.
(Fisher Broadcasting - Washington TV, LLC)
First air date July 19, 1953
Call letters’ meaning YaKIMA
Former affiliations All secondary:
DuMont (1953-1955)
NBC (1953-1965)
ABC (1953-59 & 1965-1970)
Transmitter Power 490 kW (analog)
20 kW (digital)
Height 296 m (analog)
278 m (digital)
Facility ID 56033
Transmitter Coordinates 46°31′57.8″N, 120°30′36.8″W
Website www.kimatv.com

KIMA-TV, channel 29, is the CBS affiliate serving the Yakima, Washington region. The station is owned by Fisher Communications.

KIMA used to provide most of the programming for satellite stations KEPR-TV in the Tri-Cities and KLEW-TV in Lewiston, Idaho, but all programming is now ran out of Fisher Plaza in Seattle along with sister Univision stations KKFQ-CA and KWWV-CA. KIMA is also a sister station of ABC affiliate KOMO-TV in Seattle, but they do not share the same broadcast or network.

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

[edit] History

KIMA was the 200th television station in the United States and the first in central Washington, having signed on the air on July 19, 1953. The station was originally owned by Cascade Broadcasting Co., Inc. It carried programming from all three networks until KNDO signed on in 1959 as an ABC affiliate, but KNDO switched affiliations to NBC in 1965. KIMA then shared ABC programming with KNDO until 1970, when KAPP signed on and took over ABC.

At one point, KIMA also had a satellite station in Ephrata, Washington. KBAS-TV signed on the air February 15, 1957 on channel 43; it moved to channel 16 in 1958. KBAS was owned by Basin TV Co. (which was a subsidiary of Cascade Broadcasting), and this was reflected in its call letters. KBAS shut down on November 30, 1961.




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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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