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KCRG-TV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, serving Eastern Iowa as an affiliate of ABC, MyNetworkTV, and The CW. Owned by Gray Television , the station has studios on Second Avenue Southeast in downtown Cedar Rapids, and its transmitter is located near Walker, Iowa .
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Cedar Rapids Waterloo: Cedar Rapids: 2 29 KGAN: CBS: Fox on 2.2, Quest on 2.3 : 9 32 KCRG-TV: ABC: MyNetworkTV on 9.2, The CW on 9.3
KCRG may refer to: The Gazette (Cedar Rapids) , a newspaper in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, and the namesake and founding owner of the KCRG broadcasting stations in Cedar Rapids KCRG-TV , a television station (Channel 9 digital/virtual) licensed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States
For a number of years, KDUB and KCRG-TV (channel 9), the ABC affiliate in Cedar Rapids, were in conflict with each other. In 1981, KDUB won a decision in which the Dubuque cable company was required to black out KCRG when the same shows were shown at the same time on both stations. [12]
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American broadcast television television network owned by the Disney Media Networks subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, which originated in 1927 as the NBC Blue radio network, and five years after its 1942 divorce from NBC and purchase by Edward J. Noble (adopting its current name the following year), expanded into television in April 1948.
KGYM signed on as KCRG on December 20, 1947, under the ownership of the Cedar Rapids Gazette Company [4] (later known as Gazette Communications). The Gazette Company had launched Cedar Rapids' first FM station, KCRK-FM 96.1, a month earlier, and had applied for a construction permit for a television station on channel 9 that year.
KCRG-TV/Cedar Rapids, Iowa, announces the termination of its morning anchor Jay Greene for an undisclosed incident the station determined violated its code of conduct. The firing leaves the Gray Television -owned ABC affiliate with two anchor openings, as evening anchor Chris Earl departed for a position in Florida earlier in the month.
However, as of October 2011, KCRG-TV digital channel 9.2 is carrying the MyNetworkTV programming service on a delayed basis from 12 to 2 a.m. KWKB was the last CW-affiliated station that carried MyNetworkTV on the same feed as The CW until 2014, when Columbia, South Carolina's existing MyNetworkTV affiliate WKTC, and later in 2016, when Chicago ...