Wichita's KWCH taking local news to HD this month

by Darren Murph, posted Oct 4th 2008 at 5:44AM

Another first is coming to Wichita: local news in high-definition. The area's CBS affiliate, KWCH-TV, just began running commercials to get residents psyched up about the impending transition to HD. When it flips the switch sometime later this month, it'll be the first local station in the region to air its newscasts in high-def. Something tells us the others won't be too far behind, though.

[Thanks, Gabe]

Filed under: CBS, Primetime, Daytime

Tags: affiliate, cbs, hd news, hd newscast, HdNews, HdNewscast, kansas, KWCH, news, newscast, Wichita

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Samuel McConnell @ Oct 4th 2008 8:53AM

I'm not sure Roger Cornish and Merril Teller are the first newscasters around town I wanted to see in HD, but whatever. Whoo, HD news!

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Ken Dean @ Oct 19th 2008 7:46PM

Another HD show is great. But is KWCH going to do anything about their HD brodcast signal. Every time it is a windy day it cuts out awful. Will seriously suck when we can't go to analog.

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Squid7085 @ Oct 21st 2008 10:23PM

KWCH has never been my number one pick for news quality, however, after this happens, it will be the only Local news I will watch until others follow. Screw news quality, I want me some Picture Quality! Can't wait to watch Weather in HD, hopefully KWCH will get some of those fancy 3D maps, those would look stellar in HD.

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ROBERT0876 @ Oct 29th 2008 8:11PM

WELL, KWCH WENT HD AND IM NOT TOO AMUSED! THEY COULD HAVE DONE BETTER, THE WEATHER GRAPHICS AND MAPS ARE STILL THE SAME EXCEPT THE BACKGROUND HAS A DIFFERENT GRAPHIC. THE STUDIO IS THE SAME AND IF U ASK ME THE NEW GRAPHICS JUST DONT DO JUSTICE COMPAIRED TO THE NEWS STATIONS IN KC. NOW WHERE IM FROM WE GET ALL THE KANSAS STATIONS. TOPEKA, WICHITA, AND KANSAS CITY. TO ME KC HAS THE BEST NEWS. THE GRAPHICS ARE AWSOME WITH 3D MAPS AND ATTRACTIVE EYE CATCHING NEWS ANS GRAPHICS. SORRY PEOPLE, NOT TO PUT DOWN KWCH 12 BUT I THINK THAT THEY COULD HAVE DONE BETTER!

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