WIBW-TV
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WIBW-TV is the CBS affiliate in Topeka, Kansas. It broadcasts on channel 13 and is owned by Gray Television. Its transmitter is located near Maple Hill, Kansas.
History
WIBW, the second television station in Kansas, debuted on November 15, 1953. It was owned by Capper Publications, publisher of the Topeka Daily Capital, along with WIBW-AM 580. It carried programming from all three networks, but was a primary CBS affiliate. It was the only station in Topeka for 14 years. When KTSB (now KSNT-TV) signed on in 1967, the two stations shared ABC until 1983, when KLDH (now KTKA-TV) signed on. However, Topeka viewers didn't have to worry about missing their favorite shows, since the Kansas City stations all decently cover Topeka, as such, while KSNT and WIBW carried select ABC shows, Topeka viewers could watch the entire ABC schedule on KMBC-TV.In 1957, Stauffer Publications, owner of Topeka's other newspaper, the Topeka State Journal, bought Capper Publications. The two newspapers, which later merged as the Topeka Capital-Journal, and WIBW-AM-FM-TV remained the flagships of Stauffer Publications (later renamed Stauffer Communications) until 1995, when it merged with Morris Communications Corporation of Augusta, Georgia. As a condition of the sale, Morris had to sell Stauffer's television holdings. Most of the former Stauffer television holdings, including WIBW-TV, were sold to Benedek Broadcasting in 1996. In 2002, Benedek merged with WIBW's current owner, Gray Communications, now Gray Television (The radio stations are still owned by Morris today along with the Capital-Journal.).
Beginning in the Fall of 2006, the station's DT2 subcarrier will add programming from My Network TV, a new network launched by Fox parent News Corporation.
Trivia
WIBW is one of the few stations west of the Mississippi River whose call sign begins with the letter W. This is because WIBW-AM began as a station in Logansport, Indiana and moved to Topeka in 1927. The move was sponsored by Daily Capital owner and Kansas Senator Arthur Capper, who added a W to the initials of the Indiana station's owner, Indiana Broadcast Works.Newscasts
Weekdays & Weeknights- 13 News This Morning (5:30-7:00AM)
- 13 News Midday in Kansas (12:00-12:30PM)
- 13 News at 5
- 13 News at 6
- 13 News at 10
- 13 News Saturday Edition (8:00-9:00AM)
- 13 News Sunday Edition (10:00-11:00AM)
- 13 News at 5:30
- 13 News at 6
- 13 News at 10
Logos
External links
| Broadcast television in the Topeka market [(Nielsen DMA #136)] | ||
|---|---|---|
| KTWU 11 (PBS) - WIBW 13 (CBS/MNTV on DT.2) - KSNT 27 (NBC/The CW on DT.2) - K33IC 33 (TBN) - KTMJ-CA 43 (FOX/UPN) - KTKA 49 (ABC) |
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