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Full-power digital · channel 13 · TOPEKA, KS
| Facility ID | 63160 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| Community of licence | TOPEKA, KS
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 39.00611, -96.04944 |
| Effective radiated power | 65.5 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 749.2 m above average terrain · non-directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
No website is on file for this station, so there is nothing to check. Websites come from Wikidata; a station missing there is absent from this section rather than scored zero.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| KTWU | 11 | DTV | WASHBURN UNIVERSITY OF TOPEKA |
| KSQA | 12 | DTV | KSQA, LLC |
| KTKA-TV | 16 | DTV | KTKA TELEVISION, LLC |
| KTMJ-CD | 20 | DCA | NEXSTAR MEDIA INC. |
| WROB-LD | 26 | LPD | HEARTLAND BROADCASTING LLC |
| KSNT | 27 | DTV | NEXSTAR MEDIA INC. |
| K28RB-D | 28 | LPD | EDGE SPECTRUM, INC. |
| KQKC-LD | 32 | LPD | HOSANNA APOSTOLIC MINISTRIES BROADCASTIN |
| K35KX-D | 35 | LPD | DTV AMERICA CORPORATION |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WIBW-TV | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WIBW-TV | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.