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{{short description|KAKE satellite TV station in Garden City, Kansas}}
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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:''' [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| owner = [[Lockwood Broadcast Group]]
| licensee = Knoxville TV [[LLC]]
| location = [[Garden City, Kansas|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 [[Watt|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 [[American Broadcasting Company|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,<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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 broadcasting#Television|low-power]], two [[Broadcast relay station#Broadcast translators|translators]] and one digital replacement translator) that relay programming from [[Wichita, Kansas|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, Kansas|Hutchinson]] Plus [[television market]], as well as portions of the [[Oklahoma Panhandle]] within the [[Amarillo, Texas|Amarillo]] market.
==History==
{{for|information on programming and history post-1987|KAKE (TV)}}
{{expand section|more on KUPK's history|date=June 2021}}
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, Kansas|Colby]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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 [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KUPK<ref>{{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}}</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 13.1
| [[720p]] || rowspan=5| [[16:9]] || KUPK || [[American Broadcasting Company|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
|}
==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.kake.com KAKE official website]
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