KVEW

KVEW, digital channel 44, is the ABC affiliate television station for the Tri-Cities area of Pasco, Richland, and Kennewick, Washington. It is a semi-satellite of KAPP in Yakima, Washington, airing its own newscasts and commercials. The two stations are owned by Morgan Murphy Media, who also owns KXLY-TV in Spokane, Washington.

On satellite, KVEW is only available on Dish Network, while DirecTV carries KAPP instead. Both carriers do not carry either stations' MyNetworkTV subchannel.

History
The station began serving the Tri-Cities region in October 1970. Before KVEW's existence, KEPR-TV had carried ABC as a secondary affiliation until 1959; KNBS-TV operated briefly in nearby Walla Walla, Washington as an ABC affiliate in 1960; KNDU signed on in 1961 and became the area's primary ABC affiliate until 1965, when it switched its primary affiliation to NBC. Both KEPR-TV and KNDU shared ABC programming from that point until KVEW signed on and all ABC programming moved to KVEW.

It began airing Spokane's MyNetworkTV affiliate KXMN-LP on a digital subchannel in September 2006. KVEW is one of a few stations that still sign-off at night.

Starting December 22, 2008, KVEW discontinued its 6 pm newscast in favor of a 6:30 broadcast. The 11pm newscast is 5 minutes long and weekend newscasts have been discontinued. In addition to this move, 17 employees from KVEW and KAPP, were laid off.[2] [3]

Current on-air staff
Anchors


 * Kristi Paulus - Local News @ 5 and 6:30 Anchor, Local News @ 11 Newsbrief
 * Kevin Uretsky - Local News @ 5:00 and Local News @ 6:30 Anchor
 * Crystal Costa - Good Morning Northwest Anchor
 * Jason Valentine - Good Morning Northwest Weather & Co-Anchor

Reporters


 * Ian Cull
 * David Mance
 * Josh Peterson
 * Anusha Roy
 * Collin Sullivan

Producers


 * Dan Thesman - Local News @ 5 and Local News @ 6:30

Weather


 * Kris Crocker - Local News @ 5:00 and Local News @ 6:30

Former on-air staff


 * Dana Cowley - Local News Hour, Local News @ 5, 5:30, 6:00 and 6:30 Co-Anchor/Anchor

Newscast titles

 * News 42/K-View News
 * KVEW Local News (2005-present)

Station slogans

 * Where the Forecast Comes First (1997-2000)
 * Local Coverage You Can Count On (2005–2008)
 * New. Now Next (2008-2009)
 * See The Difference Every Day (2010-present)

Digital television
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels