Branding Fox 41 | ||
Slogan Everybody's Watching Fox Channels Digital: 41 (UHF)
Virtual: 41 (PSIP) Subchannels 41.1 Fox
41.2 Telemundo Owner Northwest Broadcasting
(Mountain Licenses, L.P.) First air date October 1, 1989 (1989-10-01) (as K53CY)
May 1993 (1993-05) (current license) | ||
KCYU-LD is a low-power digital television station in Yakima, Washington, broadcasting on UHF channel 41 as an affiliate of the Fox network. The station is owned by Northwest Broadcasting, and is a semi-satellite station of KFFX-TV, which serves the Tri-Cities area. It repeats KFFX most of the day, though it airs separate identifications and commercials and has its own Website. On satellite, KCYU-LD is only available on Dish Network, while DirecTV carries KFFX-TV instead. The station has its own studios on Lincoln Avenue in Yakima, though some support operations are handled at KFFX's facility in Kennewick.
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History
Fox programming first came to Yakima on October 1, 1989, when K53CY channel 53 (generally referred to as simply "KCY") signed on as a semi-satellite of Spokane's KAYU-TV; it aired most of KAYU's programming (with the exception of programming that KAYU did not hold the rights to show in Yakima), with inserts for local commercials. Subsequently, a construction permit for a new low-power station on channel 68 in Yakima was issued on April 1, 1993 and given the call sign K68EB; this facility signed on a month later. Despite the different call sign, K68EB was still called "KCY" outside of Federal Communications Commission-required station identifications.
Original owner Salmon River Communications sold K68EB, along with KAYU-TV, KBWU-LP in the Tri-Cities, and KMVU in Medford, Oregon, to Northwest Broadcasting in 1995. The call letters were changed to KCYU-LP on November 20, 1995. KCYU-LP remained a semi-satellite of KAYU until January 1999, when it became a semi-satellite of the new KFFX-TV. The station remained on channel 68 until 2002, when KCYU-LP moved to channel 41. On December 15, 2008, KCYU-LP dropped analog broadcasting and converted to a high definition digital signal; in reflection of this conversion, the call letters were modified to the current KCYU-LD on July 8, 2009.
On April 21, 2009, KCYU-LD began airing This TV on its digital subcarrier. This TV is also carried on Charter Cable channel 292.
Translators
KCYU-LD is rebroadcast on a translator.