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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.
A professional photographer died in a horrible accident by backing up into an airplane propeller while snapping photos at a Kansas airfield. Amanda Gallagher, 37, was taking photos of people ...
KAKE presently produces 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week for KSAS-TV (with a half-hour each on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays). KSAS-TV's studios on West Street have always been too small to house a full-scale news department, so its newscasts have been outsourced to other stations in the market.
Larry E. Steckline was born on August 24, 1941, in Hays, Kansas, and raised in Ellis, Kansas, until nine years old. [1] His parents were Carl Steckline, who was raised at Hyacinth, Kansas, and Irene Schoendaller Steckline, of Liebenthal, Kansas.
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.
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.
In 1954, KAKE added a TV station, KAKE-TV. It eventually affiliated with ABC. The AM station got an increase to 1,000 watts by day, remaining at 250 watts at night. [7] In the 1970s, KAKE switched to a middle of the road (MOR) format of popular music, news and talk. KAKE was affiliated with the ABC Entertainment Network. [8]
The studio was originally located at Copeland, where the main transmitter remains today. In 1992, with local news inserts having expanded to 15 minutes inside KAKE's 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts, KAKE announced that a new regional news program for western Kansas, known as KTN West, would be launched to air on KUPK and KLBY in Colby. [3]