KAPP

Yakima, Washington United States
Channels	Digital: 14 (UHF) Virtual: 35
Branding	Apple Valley News Now MeTV Tri-Cities/Yakima (on DT2)
Programming
Affiliations	35.1: ABC for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Morgan Murphy Media (Apple Valley Broadcasting, Inc.)
Sister stations	KVEW
History
First air date	September 21, 1970 (53 years ago) (1970-09-21)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 35 (UHF, 1970–2009)
Call sign meaning	Apple Valley (market is in the heart of Washington's apple industry)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	2506
ERP	160 kW
HAAT	287 m (942 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	46°31′56.4″N 120°30′46.5″W / 46.532333°N 120.512917°W / 46.532333; -120.512917
Translator(s)	see § Translator
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.applevalleynewsnow.com

KAPP (channel 35) is a television station in Yakima, Washington, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Morgan Murphy Media. The station's studios are located in the Liberty Building on North 3rd Street in downtown Yakima, and its transmitter is located on Ahtanum Ridge.

KVEW (channel 42) in Kennewick operates as a semi-satellite of KAPP, serving the Tri-Cities area; this station maintains its own studios on North Edison Street in Kennewick. As a KAPP semi-satellite, it simulcasts all network and syndicated programming as provided through its parent, and the two stations share a website. However, KVEW airs separate commercial inserts and legal identifications. Local newscasts are simulcast on both stations. KAPP serves the western half of the Yakima/Tri-Cities market while KVEW serves the eastern portion. The two stations are counted as a single unit for ratings purposes. Master control and some internal operations are based at the studios of sister station and fellow ABC affiliate KXLY-TV on West Boone Avenue in Spokane.

The two major direct broadcast satellite services only originate one of the two station's main channel feed on their systems, with KAPP on DirecTV, while Dish Network features KVEW.

History

Before KAPP signed on, CBS affiliate KIMA-TV (channel 29) had carried ABC as a secondary affiliation until KNDO (channel 23) signed on in 1959. KNDO became the area's primary ABC affiliate until 1965, when it switched its primary affiliation to NBC. Both KNDO and KIMA-TV shared ABC's programming from that point until KAPP signed on the air on September 21, 1970, and all ABC programming moved to KAPP. The most notable ABC program shown on the station's first day was the first-ever Monday Night Football game between the Cleveland Browns and New York Jets.

The station began airing Spokane's MeTV affiliate KXMN-LD on a digital subchannel in September 2006.^[2] KAPP was one of the remaining stations to sign-off every night, but that practice ended in 2012 when World News Now was added to the programming lineup.

On December 22, 2008, KAPP discontinued its 6 p.m. and weekend newscasts. The 11 p.m. newscast was reduced to a five-minute broadcast before Nightline, and post-January 2013, Jimmy Kimmel Live! In addition to this move, 17 employees from KVEW and KAPP were laid off^[3] and KAPP's studio, formerly located on South 24th Avenue, was sold off and its operations were relocated downtown.^[4]

While weather came from KXLY for several years, local weather reports have returned as of 2016, with meteorologist Jason Valentine at 5 and 6:30, and Kristen Walls during their Good Morning Northwest newscast.^[5] With the cancellation of The Insider and Extra moving from 6 p.m. to 7:30 on September 11, 2017, KAPP began airing local news at 6:00, for the first time in almost a decade.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

KAPP has been digital-only since February 17, 2009.^[8]

Translator

• K20JL-D Ellensburg