KSCW-DT

KSCW-DT (channel 33) is a television station in Wichita, Kansas, United States, affiliated with The CW. It is owned by Gray Media alongside Hutchinson-licensed CBS affiliate KWCH-DT (channel 12). The two stations share studios on 37th Street in northeast Wichita; KSCW-DT's transmitter is located in rural northeastern Reno County (east of Hutchinson).

KSCW-DT also operates a digital replacement translator on UHF channel 33 (its previous analog signal allotment) from a transmitter in North Wichita, just north of the station's studio facility.

History

The station was first licensed on June 8, 1988, under permits from LIN TV filing an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), under the call letters KWCV. It was temporarily licensed as DKWCV on November 5, 1998, but on February 11, 1999, it was changed back to KWCV.

The station first signed on the air on August 5, 1999, along with LIN TV (which also briefly owned KAKE and its satellites in 2000 before selling KAKE to

Programming

In 2024, KSCW parent company Gray Television reached an agreement to broadcast eight Oklahoma City Thunder games on the station.[10]

Newscasts

KWCH presently produces 20 1/2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week for sister station KSCW (with 3 1/2 hours on weekdays and 1 1/2 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in addition, the station airs the agricultural news program AG AM in Kansas, which airs weekdays at 6 a.m.

In 2008, KWCH began producing a two-hour extension of its weekday morning newscast for KSCW, titled Eyewitness News This Morning on KSCW; the program competes against the national morning news programs seen on the "Big Three" networks. In October 2008, KWCH became the first television station in the Wichita market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition; the KSCW broadcast was included in the upgrade. Although not initially included in the change, KWCH upgraded its weather forecast segments to HD in March 2009. In 2010, that station added a half-hour Sunday evening newscast at 7 p.m. to KSCW, titled Eyewitness News Weekend.

On September 12, 2011, KWCH began producing half-hour newscasts at 4 p.m. weekdays and seven nights a week at 9 p.m. for KSCW; the latter production directly competed temporarily with another half-hour nightly newscast on Fox affiliate KSAS-TV that KWCH also produced since January 2004 through a separate news share agreement, which expired on December 31.[11] In theory, KWCH could have simultaneously broadcast two 9 p.m. newscasts until the expiration of the agreement, because KSAS' newscast originated from a secondary set (designed by FX Group) at KWCH's studio facility; however on October 5, 2011, KSAS filed a lawsuit against KWCH in Sedgwick County District Court claiming that in violation of the news share agreement, KWCH began taping the KSAS newscasts in advance, while KWCH produced its newscast for KSCW live; District Judge Jeff Goering signed an order requiring KWCH to restore the live newscast on KSAS while the suit was pending.[12]

After KWCH's agreement with KSAS ended, NBC affiliate KSNW took over the production of the KSAS newscasts (the station had previously produced a 9 p.m. newscast for KSAS from 1997 to 1999).[13] The addition of the 4 p.m. newscast made KSCW one of the few CW affiliates not owned by Tribune Broadcasting to carry a late afternoon newscast, and was the only newscast in that timeslot in the Wichita market from September 2011 to September 2013, after ABC affiliate KAKE discontinued its own 4 p.m. newscast that same month. In September 2013, KSCW began airing a two-hour Sunday morning newscast, which airs on the station in lieu of KWCH (which carries a Saturday morning newscast).

callsign	KSCW-DT
atsc3	yes
city	Wichita, Kansas
branding	KSCW
digital	12 (VHF)
virtual	33
translators	33 (UHF) Wichita (city)
affiliations	33.1: The CW for others, see
owner	Gray Media
licensee	Gray Television Licensee, LLC
location	Wichita–Hutchinson, Kansas
country	United States
founded	June 8, 1988
airdate	August 5, 1999
callsign meaning	Kansas CW
sister stations	KWCH-DT, KBSH-DT, KBSD-DT, KBSL-DT, WIBW-TV
former callsigns	KWCV (1988–2006) KSCW (2006–2009)
former channel numbers	Analog: 33 (UHF, 1999–2009) Digital: 31 (UHF, 2002–2009) 19 (UHF, 2009)
former affiliations	The WB (1999–2006)
erp	66.4 kW (main signal) 15 kW (fill-in translator)
haat	449.3 m
facility id	72348
coordinates	38.06044°N, -97.76381°W
licensing authority	FCC
website	https://www.kwch.com/about-us/cw/

History

Programming

Newscasts

Technical information

Subchannels

Analog-to-digital conversion

External links

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