KUPK

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{{Infobox television station

| callsign = KUPK

| city = Garden City, Kansas

| above = Semi-satellite of KAKE, Wichita, Kansas

| logo = KAKE logo.svg

| logo_size = 225px

| image = KAKE MeTV Kansas logo.png

| image_size = 150px

| branding = KAKE

| digital = 13 (VHF)

| virtual = 13

| network = KAKEland Television Network

| affiliations = {{ubl|13.1: ABC|for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}}}

| owner = Lockwood Broadcast Group

| licensee = Knoxville TV LLC

| location = Garden City–Dodge City, Kansas

| country = United States

| airdate = {{start date and age|1964|10|28|p=y}}

| callsign_meaning = Cupcake

| former_callsigns = {{ubl|KUPK (1964–1965)|KUPK-TV (1965–2010)}}

| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|Analog: 13 (VHF, 1964–2009)|Digital: 18 (UHF, until 2009)}}

| erp = 63 kW

| haat = {{convert|262|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}

| facility_id = 65535

| coordinates = {{Coord|37|39|1|N|100|40|8|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}

| licensing_authority = FCC

| website = {{URL|https://www.kake.com}}

}}

KUPK (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Garden City, Kansas, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Lockwood Broadcast Group. The station's news bureau and advertising sales office are located on East Schulman Avenue in Garden City,{{cite web|url=https://www.kake.com/story/32113324/contact-us|title=Contact Us|work=KAKE.com|publisher=Lockwood Broadcast Group|accessdate=June 11, 2021}} and its transmitter is located near Copeland, Kansas.

KUPK is part of the KAKEland Television Network (KTN), a regional network of eight stations (three full-power, two low-power, two translators and one digital replacement translator) that relay programming from Wichita ABC affiliate KAKE (channel 10) across central and western Kansas; KUPK incorporates local advertising and news inserts aimed at areas of southwestern Kansas within the Wichita–Hutchinson Plus television market, as well as portions of the Oklahoma Panhandle within the Amarillo market.

History

{{for|information on programming and history post-1987|KAKE (TV)}}

On October 28, 1964, KAKE signed on KUPK-TV to serve as a satellite station for southwestern Kansas. KUPK was named as its letters could be used to form the word "Kup-Kake". The studio was originally located at Copeland, where the main transmitter remains today.

In 1992, with local news inserts having expanded to 15 minutes inside KAKE's 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts, KAKE announced that a new regional news program for western Kansas, known as KTN West, would be launched to air on KUPK and KLBY in Colby.{{cite news|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-feb-04-1992-1793767/|accessdate=June 4, 2020|date=February 4, 1992|agency=Harris News Service|work=Garden City Telegram|title=Show to cover GC, Colby|page=19}}

Currently, the satellite stations air all KAKE newscasts in their entirety with no local inserts, but reporters can send in stories from western Kansas via KUPK's studio on the east side of Garden City.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

class="wikitable" \|+Subchannels of KUPK{{Cite web\|title=RabbitEars TV Query for KUPK\|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KUPK#station\|access-date=June 4, 2020}} ! scope = "col" \| Channel ! scope = "col" \| Res. ! scope = "col" \| Aspect ! scope = "col" \| Short name ! scope = "col" \| Programming
scope = "row" \| 13.1 \| 720p \|\| rowspan=5\| 16:9 \|\| KUPK \|\| ABC
scope = "row" \| 13.2 \| rowspan=4\| 480i \|\| MeTV \|\| MeTV
scope = "row" \| 13.3 \| Bounce \|\| Bounce TV
scope = "row" \| 13.4 \| ionPLUS \|\| Ion Plus
scope = "row" \| 13.5 \| WXNow \|\| Weather

class="wikitable"

|+Subchannels of KUPK{{Cite web|title=RabbitEars TV Query for KUPK|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KUPK#station|access-date=June 4, 2020}}

! scope = "col" | Channel

! scope = "col" | Res.

! scope = "col" | Aspect

! scope = "col" | Short name

! scope = "col" | Programming

scope = "row" | 13.1

| 720p || rowspan=5| 16:9 || KUPK || ABC

scope = "row" | 13.2

| rowspan=4| 480i || MeTV || MeTV

scope = "row" | 13.3

| Bounce || Bounce TV

scope = "row" | 13.4