Спокан қалалық KXLY телеарнасының тарихы

ABC affiliate in Spokane, Washington

KXLY TV was a primary CBS affiliate owing to its sister radio station's long affiliation with CBS Radio sharing ABC with KHQ TV. Channel 4 also carried some programming from DuMont until as late as April 1955. ABC programming, along with partial DuMont shows that KXLY TV did not carry, moved to KREM when it signed on in 1954. At first, channel 4 enjoyed a good partnership with CBS. The network worked well with early KXLY executives Dick Jones, Bob Struble, and James Agostino to help the station become a dominant player in the Spokane television market in the 1950s and 1960s. Morgan Murphy bought the station in 1961. However, the station's relationship with CBS faltered in later years when it started airing several network shows out of pattern. On February 19, 1976, CBS sent KXLY TV a "notice of termination", with CBS spokesman Barry Richardson stating that the network was ending its 23 year association with KXLY TV "because we made a business judgment that we could get wider exposure for our programs with another station". This would become a rare first in which a major television network would strip a station of its affiliation without first announcing a new affiliate. On August 8, the affiliation switch went into full effect, with CBS programming moving to KREM (KREM wanted to wait until ABC finished airing the network's coverage of the 1976 Summer Olympics to make the switch). KXLY then picked up KREM's old ABC affiliation, although it began the transition in February 1976 when it began airing the then new Good Morning America while airing CBS shows throughout the day. The affiliation change coincided with ABC's rise to number one in the ratings, where it would remain for the next several years. This meant KXLY ended up broadcasting the highest rated networks (first CBS, then ABC) throughout the 1970s. Its radio sister remained with CBS for another 22 years until September 1998, at which time it became an ABC Radio Network affiliate, like its TV cousin. KXLY TV is the only station in the Spokane market to broadcast from Mount Spokane, to the northeast of the city. The site (located in a state park) was originally developed with the expectation that Spokane's other TV stations would want to follow suit. When this did not occur, KXLY built a translator (K09FZ on channel 9, later becoming K11VT Channel 11, then KUUP LP) to serve non antenna rotator equipped households from the mountain ridge south of Spokane used by the other stations. On May 24, 2006, it became KXMN LP and from September 5, 2006, until the national DTV transition in February 2009, it broadcast MyNetworkTV programming. From the digital transition date forward, the South Hill transmitter rebroadcasts KXLY ABC 4—both in analog on VHF Channel 11 and as 4.1 (ABC HD) and 4.2 (MyNetworkTV/MeTV) over a VHF channel 9 HD digital translator. In June 2017, KXLY TV added Channel 22, a 15,000 watt fill in transmitter atop Krell Ridge on Spokane's South Hill. This new digital signal adds stronger service for Spokane's Downtown, Northside, South Hill and Spokane River Valley antenna household locations. Programming from MeTV was added on September 3, 2012. KXLY DT2 stopped carrying MyNetworkTV on October 1 and has since carried MeTV exclusively.

On March 11, 1999, KXLY DT signed on the air as Eastern Washington's first digital television signal on VHF Channel 13. Much like the first black and white television broadcasters, this initial effort was launched utilizing a low power digital transmitter and antenna co located at the Boone Avenue studio location in downtown Spokane. The station's first authentic telecasts began with its 5 p. m. and 6 p. m. newscasts March 26, 1999. Later behind the scenes that year, engineers assembled the new ABC High Definition satellite equipment to ready the station for ABC's foray into HD with Monday Night Football. By September 27, 1999, KXLY DT had permanently moved its digital transmissions to the top of Mount Spokane and increased its power to the FCC maximum of 23,300 watts. That evening marked the region's first broadcast of HD pictures with the airing of Monday Night Football. On April 20, 2006, the race to HD live local newscasts in the Spokane television market began when KXLY TV became the first station in Eastern Washington to broadcast a local news segment in HD, an experiment the station continued to explore by showing one pre taped news segment in HD each Tuesday night during its 6 p. m. broadcast until it switched to showing full HD newscasts on August 3, 2008. On May 16, 2008, KHQ announced that it would leap ahead of KXLY in becoming the first station to produce HD newscasts beginning August 8, 2008. After months of KHQ marketing this milestone, on August 1, 2008, KXLY shocked KHQ when it made a surprise announcement that starting on August 3, 2008, a mere two days later, it would begin producing all news broadcasts in HD. The date was chosen to beat KHQ to the milestone of being the first station in Eastern Washington to broadcast HD local news.

KXLY broadcasts 23 hours of news a week, with a two hour morning program, Good Morning Northwest, from 5 to 7 a. m., and its evening newscasts at 5, 6, 6:30 and 11 p. m. Unlike most ABC affiliates in the Pacific time zone, KXLY does not produce midday news or broadcast Saturday nights at 11 p. m., leaving the 5 and 6 p. m. newscasts as KXLY 4's only news offerings on Saturdays. On December 22, 2008, KXLY began producing high resolution weather segments for sister stations KAPP in Yakima and KVEW in Kennewick. Both stations discontinued their 6 p. m. newscasts, the 11 p. m. newscasts were reduced to five minutes and weekend newscasts are now produced at KXLY. This includes all weather and sports reports for weekdays and weekends. In addition to these moves, 17 employees from KVEW and KAPP were laid off. On July 1, 2019, KXLY switched its logo and title from "KXLY 4" to "4 News Now". In the move, KXLY received a new studio, replacing the one that had been used for two decades.

Richard Brown – weeknight evening news anchor (1998–2007). Currently Chief Communications Officer for the mayor of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Donna Kelley – anchor, reporter, and producer (1982–1985). Currently weeknight news anchor for KBZK 7 in her hometown of Bozeman. Nadine Woodward – weeknight evening news anchor (2010–2019). Mayor of Spokane.

KXLY TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 4, on February 17, 2009, the original target date when full power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre transition VHF channel 13, using virtual channel 4.