now with ESPN) Steve Doocy – host of PM Magazine (now co-host of Fox and Friends on Fox News Channel) Tony Laubach – KAKEland Storm Ranger, Meteorologist, from 2018 to 2021 Susan Peters – anchor, from 1996 to 2016; retired Technical information Subchannels The station's signal is multiplexed: On September 7, 2012, KAKE began carrying the classic television network MeTV on its second digital subchannel. In addition to the MeTV schedule, KAKE-DT2 airs programming from Weekend Adventure on Sunday mornings, including Outback Adventures with Tim Faulkner and Hearts of Heroes. On January 28, 2022, KAKE began broadcasting three networks owned by the E. W. Scripps Company: Bounce TV on 10.3, Defy TV on 10.4, and Newsy (now Scripps News) on 10.5. Analog-to-digital conversion KAKE shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 10, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 21 to VHF channel 10. Satellite stations and translators To reach viewers throughout the 69 counties comprising the Wichita–Hutchinson Plus market, KAKE extends its over-the-air coverage area through a network of eight full-power, low-power and translator stations encompassing much of the western two-thirds of Kansas, branded as the KAKEland Television Network (originally known as the Kansas Television Network until 2001). Nielsen Media Research treats KAKE and its satellites as one station in local ratings books, using the identifier name KAKE+. Garden City satellite KUPK maintains a separate studio facility, which houses its Western Kansas newsroom, and produces a local news insert that airs nightly during simulcasts of KAKE's Wichita-based newscasts on KUPK and KLBY. The KAKEland WeatherPlex, which is based in the main news set at KAKE's West Street studio in Wichita, can provide live continuous severe weather coverage to any combination of its five broadcast zones. KAKE and its DTV Replacement translator – south-central Kansas, including Wichita and Hutchinson KUPK – southwest Kansas, including Dodge City and Garden City KLBY – northwest Kansas, including Goodland and Colby KHDS – north-central Kansas, including Salina KGBD-LD and its K25CV-D/K33NP-D translators – North Central Kansas, including Great Bend, Hays, and Russell As an example, if a tornado is in progress near Colby, live continuous storm coverage will be carried exclusively on KLBY,