WKEF is a television station in Dayton, Ohio, United States, affiliated with ABC, Fox, and MyNetworkTV.
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10 Facts About WKEF
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Conventional wisdom suggested that WKEF would take the ABC affiliation since it was Dayton's third commercial station.
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Under these circumstances, ABC initially balked at giving even a secondary affiliation to WKEF, forcing the station to make a go of it as an independent until late 1965.
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Since WKEF already had to compete in its own market with WDTN and CBS affiliate WHIO-TV—two of their networks' strongest performers—it found the going rather difficult.
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WKEF established a news department in mid-1972 in response to licensing requirements with two weeknight broadcasts in mid-1972.
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From 1974 to 1979, WKEF decided against airing its own newscasts possibly owing to low ratings.
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In terms of ratings, WKEF's newscasts have always been a distant third place behind WHIO and WDTN.
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WKEF did not participate in the wider implementation of Sinclair's now-defunct, controversial News Central format for its newscasts but did air The Point, a one-minute conservative political commentary hosted by Mark E Hyman, that was controversial and a requirement of all Sinclair-owned stations with newscasts until the series was discontinued in December 2006.
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