KEPR-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KEPR-TV
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = KEPR CBS 19 (general)
KEPR Action News (newscasts)
analog = 19 (UHF)
digital = 18 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = CBS
network =
founded =
airdate = December 28, 1954
location = Pasco/Richland/Kennewick, Washington
callsign_meaning = KEnnewick, Pasco, Richland
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = nowrap|Fisher Communications, Inc.
licensee = Fisher Broadcasting - Washington TV, LLC
sister_stations =
former_affiliations =
effective_radiated_power = 490 kW (analog)
32.43 kW (digital)
HAAT = 366 m (analog)
355.5 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 56029
coordinates = coord|46|5|50.5|N|119|11|33.4|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.keprtv.com/ 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 run 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, morning and weekend newscasts are shared with KIMA-TV. Branded as "KIMA KEPR Action News", they cover 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.

External links

* [http://www.keprtv.com/ Official website]
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