KAYU-TV (channel 28) is a television station in Spokane, Washington, United States, affiliated with Fox and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Rincon Broadcasting Group, the station has studios on South Regal Street in Spokane, and its transmitter is on Krell Hill southeast of the city.
History
After beating out Springfield Television for the construction permit in 1981,[4] Spokane native Robert Hamacher, a former employee of KREM-TV and later an executive at KSTW in Tacoma,[5] put KAYU on the air on October 31, 1982. The first program to air was an episode of Rawhide.[6] It was Spokane's first independent station[7]