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KUPK

Semi-satellite of KAKE, Wichita, Kansas
Garden City–Dodge City, Kansas United States
City	Garden City, Kansas
Channels	Digital: 13 (VHF) Virtual: 13
Branding	see KAKE (TV) infobox
Programming
Network	KAKEland Television Network
Affiliations	13.1: ABC for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Lockwood Broadcast Group (Knoxville TV LLC)
History
First air date	October 28, 1964 (59 years ago) (1964-10-28)
Former call signs	KUPK (1964–1965) KUPK-TV (1965–2010)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 13 (VHF, 1964–2009) Digital: 18 (UHF, until 2009)
Call sign meaning	Cupcake
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	65535
ERP	63 kW
HAAT	262 m (860 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	37°39′1″N 100°40′8″W / 37.65028°N 100.66889°W / 37.65028; -100.66889
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	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,^[2] 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.

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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.^[3]

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]}

The station's signal is multiplexed:

On September 7, 2012, KAKE and its satellites began carrying the classic television network MeTV on their second digital subchannels.^[5]

On January 28, 2022, KAKE and its satellites began broadcasting three networks owned by the E. W. Scripps Company: Bounce TV on its third subchannel, Defy TV on its fourth subchannel, and Newsy (now Scripps News) on its fifth subchannel.

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