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On January 24, 2019, Gray announced that KCWY-DT would merge its news operation with KGWN-TV by April 9, under the Wyoming News Now banner. Under this arrangement, KCWY's 5 p.m. newscast would be the only Casper-specific newscast, with Jeopardy! replacing the 6 p.m. newscast, and all other newscasts being simulcast from KGWN in Cheyenne and covering both markets.
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Casper: 2 17 KTWO-TV: ABC: 6 8 KPTW: PBS: PBS Encore/Create on 6.2, PBS Kids on 6.3 13 12 KCWY-DT: NBC: CW on 13.2, Start TV on 13.3, H&I on 13.4
KGWC-TV (channel 14) is a television station in Casper, Wyoming, United States, affiliated with CBS.It is owned by Big Horn Television LLC, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Coastal Television Broadcasting Company LLC, owner of Fox affiliate KFNB (channel 20), for the provision of certain services.
It most recently changed its call sign to KMXW. On November 9, 2006, the station was sold to White Park Broadcasting, and on June 19, 2009, it was sold to the Casper Radio Group. Effective May 13, 2016, KDAD and sister stations KTED and KZQL were sold to Breck Media Group Wyoming, Inc. for $963,000.
A construction permit to construct a low-power television station on UHF channel 26 in Casper was granted on June 15, 1995, [4] and issued the call sign K26ES. [5] Original owner Charles W. Swaner sold K26ES to Wyomedia Corporation on September 15, 1997; [6] the new owners applied for a license to cover on October 29, 1997, and was granted it on January 28, 1998. [7]
[7] [8] It then was sold in 1983 to Heart of Wyoming Television, [9] which was the original owner of Casper's channel 20 (when it was KXWY-TV). [10] Wyomedia, which became the owner of the Casper station in the early 1990s, then acquired KLWY in 1992. [11] KLWY carried a secondary affiliation with UPN until the network closed in September 2006.
Catherine Malatesta, one of the part-owners of KTNW, was also part-owner of Casper Channel 20, Inc., which held a construction permit for a new channel 20 station at Casper. [22] When that station began operations on October 31, 1984, as KXWY-TV, [ 23 ] it merged with Hi Ho, which had changed channel 10's call letters to KFWY-TV that June. [ 24 ] (
The station came on air as KTRS in 1981. It was the first new station in Casper in 15 years. At the time, there were only four stations available in the city. KTWO, KKTL, KVOC, and KAWY. [3] KTRS was a played rock music from 1981 to 1997 before moving to 104.7 FM. In the mid-1990s, its slogan was "95-5 KTRS".