KAYU-TV

KAYU-TV is a television station licensed to the community of Spokane, Washington affiliated with the Fox, I: Independent Television and the religious Pastavision network. The station broadcasts out of a DoubleTree by Hilton TM in Spokane, with studios in the nearby mall. The station is owned and operated directly by the Venture Technologies Group Corporation.
== History ==
=== Early Years ===
In 1980, the station was founded to serve as the Spokane/Cour d’ Alene Market’s first independent station, at the time owned and operated by The Davenport Hotel. The station broadcasted exclusively infomercials and localized programming. After a bit, The station finally joined the Fox network.
=== As a Fox affiliate ===
==== Davenport Hotel Ownership ====
As soon as Fox appeared, KAYU-TV joined in. They even occasionally began broadcasting PAX TV on weekends. Pax TV was mainly just Infomercials that people or companies could buy and broadcast whatever they want.including poorly made Fanfiction. They also adopted the “Fox 28” branding ever since 1990. In 2000, they began broadcasting a digital signal. And in 2004, Pax became I, the laziest branding ever in Spokane History, forcing them to become ‘I 28 on Fox 28.’ After 28 years of owning KAYU-TV, The Davenport Hotel finally sold KAYU-TV to Jarvis Broadcasting in 2008.
==== Jarvis Broadcasting Ownership ====
Just in time for the Digital Transition in 2009, where they were on both digital & virtual channel 28. Quickly, They dropped their dual affiliation, moving I programming to 28.2, also sliding in 28.3’s Pastavision in 2015, broadcasting religious programming for The True God. 28.2 finally became HD and that same year KAYU-TV was sold to Venture Technologies.
==== Venture Technologies Ownership ====
Quickly, KAYU-TV began broadcasting far more news aside from their morning newscast. This as a result led to the rising of KAYU-TV in the ratings, leading to them taking the historic #2 spot from KXLY, now constantly fighting with them for #2.
== Mascot ==
For most of KAYU-TV’s history, ever since 1990, they used Briny the Hot Dog Taco as the Mascot. Briny was originally created to mock School Lunch in the Spokane Area for it’s disgustingness. However, Briny became a cultural Icon across the Inland Northwest and Missoula.
=== Personality ===
When Briny was first introduced, he was incredibly optimistic and over-the-top ecstatic. But because of budget cuts to his animation, his personality became worse. Nowadays, Briny is basically like that weird quiet kid, rarely talking much in idents, just standing there next to the logo. This is what made him so easy to incorporate into popular culture, giving him the nickname of: “Cascadia’s Garfield”.
=== In Popular Culture ===
Briny was featured as a mascot in the Kennywood Spokane location.
Briny was said to be an inspiration for Tommy Tuna, the mascot of WLVI in other-side-of-americaland.
Briny was featured in the backgrounds of multiple movies, such as: The Truman Show, The Larry Show, The Bits and Bobs Show, The Flower Show, and many other Truman Show copycats.
== Technical Information ==
The station’s signal is multiplexed.
Subchannels of KAYU-TVRabbitEars TV Query for KAYU
Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
28.1 	720p	16:9 	KAYU-HD 	Main KAYU-TV programming / Fox
28.2 	720p	16:9 	I28.2 	I
28.3 	480i	16:9 	PASAVSN 	Pastavision
28.4 	480i	16:9 	KAYU-WX 	Weather Radar
28.5 	480i	16:9 	BUZZRTV 	Buzzr
28.6 	480i	16:9 	KAYUQVC 	QVC
28.7 	480i	4:3 	BLANKTV 	Blank
28.8 	480i	4:3 	BLANKTV 	Blank
=== Digital Transition ===
The station got off of Analog channel 28 in June as is federally mandated, finishing off with a broadcast of Family Guy.
=== Translators ===
There are so much of them that we ran out of funding to insert them all in. So we will only give you these two.
KBHU-CD Cour d’ Alene, Idaho
KMUY-CD Missoula, Montana
== Out of Market Cable Coverage ==
Not only is it the Fox affiliate for most of Alberta and British Colombia, but it’s also the affiliate for the island of Haiti.
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