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Susan Peters (born September 27, 1956) is a former news anchor.She worked for KAKE, the ABC affiliate in Wichita, Kansas from 1995 to 2016. She has won regional Emmy awards for her reporting in both California and Kansas.
KAKE presently broadcasts 34 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each weekday, 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours on Saturdays and three hours on Sundays). For 30 years, KAKE was the highest-rated station in the Wichita–Hutchinson market, even though it did not build an extensive translator/satellite network in central and western Kansas until the 1980s.
Lily Wu (born 1984) is an American politician and former television news anchor, serving as the 103rd mayor of Wichita, Kansas since 2024. A member of the Libertarian Party, she is the first Asian-American mayor of Wichita and the only Libertarian mayor of one of the 100 largest cities in the United States.
KAKE General Manager Mike Rajewski said the station has a policy on conflicts of interest but declined to say whether he believed Wu violated it when she was a reporter.
The station first signed on the air on September 1, 1955, as KARD-TV. The station, owned by the Wichita Television Corporation [3] was the fourth television station to sign on in the Wichita–Hutchinson market, after KAKE (channel 10)—which signed on in October 1954, KEDD (channel 16)—which signed on in August 1953, and KTVH (channel 12, now KWCH-DT)—which signed on in July 1953.
Laubach was the weekend morning meteorologist and storm chaser for KAKE-TV in Wichita, Kansas. He joined the team on March 19, 2018 and debuted on-air a week later on March 25. [ 6 ] Three years later on March 25, 2021, Laubach announced on his Facebook page that he was leaving KAKE with his last day being May 2.
Bill Kurtis (born William Horton Kuretich; September 21, 1940) is an American television journalist, television producer, narrator, and news anchor.. Kurtis was studying to become a lawyer in the 1960s, when he was asked to fill in on a temporary news assignment at WIBW-TV in Topeka, Kansas.
He was a reporter for KAKE-TV in Wichita, Kansas, for a few years. More recently, Evans was a reporter for WFAA-TV in Dallas , Texas , where he was a senior political reporter for a decade. Evans covered several high-profile political stories and elections.