Since 1985, KWCH has held the #1 position for 6pm and 10pm News in the
Wichita-Hutchinson Plus television market. KWCH has remained dominant
since that time and Eyewitness News is the #1 news at Noon, 5pm, 6pm and
10pm.
Eyewitness News also produces newscasts on KSCW-DT 33 Sunday – Friday
7:00-9:00am, Monday-Friday 4:00-4:30pm, and Monday – Sunday 9:00-
9:30pm.
Eyewitness News produces a local Spanish language newscast Monday –
Friday at 10:00pm which airs on KDCU-DT 31.
A big part of that dominance is weather coverage. Storm Team 12 and Chief
Meteorologist Merril Teller lead the way in forecasting experience, advanced
Doppler technology and media partners that strengthen the brand. KWCH is
a partner with KFDI radio (Journal Broadcasting).
Just as KWCH is the market leader in news and weather, it’s also the leader
in community involvement. Locally, KWCH works with Goodwill Industries,
the Kansas Food Bank, the United Way and many other non-profit agencies
to assist their efforts in the community.
Broadcast Area:
KWCH-DT and its satellites KBSD-DT, KBSH-DT, and KBSL-DT are CBS
affiliates and serve the western two thirds of Kansas. KWCH-DT also
operates a “virtual” station on Cox Cable in Salina, Kansas with the ability
to locally insert news, weather and commercials. In addition to Kansas,
KWCH-DT and its satellites can be seen in portions of Nebraska, Colorado,
Oklahoma and Texas.
KWCH-DT and its satellites broadcast two signals in digital; the primary HD
signal is on the corresponding dot 1 (12.1, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1) and dot 2 (12.2,
6.2, 7.2, and 10.2), which is a 24-hour weather channel called “Always On
Storm Team 12.”
And they’re in a city 200 miles away reporting something that none of the news organizations in KC are saying so far.
They claim that they’re getting the story from KCTV5, but as of yet I’m not seeing any story they could be referencing.
That’s not how news usually works. As an example, a TV news channel in Podunk Arkansas usually doesn’t report on what’s happening in Saint Louis hours or days before any of the news agencies in Saint Louis catch on.
You’ve seen what a lazy-ass response there was in Dallas, do you REALLY think that we’ve got censorship and wide quarantines the moment someone with suspicious symptoms shows up in KC?