KGWN-TV

KGWN, also known as CBS5 Newschannel, is a CBS affiliate based in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

The station operates one satellite:KSTF channel 10 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Both stations are owned by Sagamore Hill Broadcasting.

The station uses the slogan "The Tri-State's News Leader", as its 2-station network covers central and southern Wyoming, northern Colorado and western Nebraska.

KSTF largely repeats KGWN's programming, except for commercials.

History

KGWN signed on the air in 1954 as KFBC-TV, owned by the McCracken family along with the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle newspaper and KFBC radio. It is Wyoming's oldest television station. For many years, it was the only commercial station in eastern Wyoming, and as such carried programming from all four major networks[link]. However, it has always been a primary CBS affiliate.

In 1975, the Federal Communications Commission ruled that if a city had only one newspaper, one television station, one AM radio station and one FM radio station, they could not be owned by the same person. The McCrackens' media holdings were one of only a few covered by this ruling. They opted to keep the Tribune-Eagle and KFBC-TV and sold the radio stations. Since the radio side was the original licensee, the TV station became KYCU-TV. The McCrackens in turn sold KYCU to Stauffer Communications in 1987, who switched its call letters to KGWN. By 1981 the station began to drop NBC from its lineup, but NBC programs appeared sporadically until 1987, when KKTU (now KDEV) signed on as a satellite of KTWO-TV in Casper. ABC disappeared from the schedule by 1988. Today the station continues as a CBS affiliate.

When Stauffer and Morris Communications merged in 1996, KGWN and most of the rest of Stauffer's television holdings went to Benedek Broadcasting. Benedek went bankrupt in 2001 (it eventually merged with Gray Television a year later), and KGWN went to Chelsey Broadcasting. In 2003, it was sold to Sagamore Hill Broadcasting.

KSTF signed on in the mid-1960s. It aired its own newscasts and many local programs for many years. However, its local operations were progressively cut back from the 1990s onward until late 2004, when Sagamore Hill shut down KSTF's local newscasts. The station is now a semi-satellite of KGWN, except for commercials.

KGWN also had another satellite, KTVS channel 3 in Sterling, Colorado, which served the northeastern part of Colorado. In September 1999, Benedek sold off KTVS to Newsweb, who made it a satellite of Denver's KTVD. Since then, KTVS was re-called "KUPN".

KGWC signed on in 1979 as KCWY-TV, the second television station in western Wyoming. It changed its calls to KGWC in 1987. The KCWY calls are now located on channel 13 in Casper. KGWR began in 1981 as KTUX-TV, became KWWY-TV in 1982 and KGWR in 1987. KGWL began as KOWY in 1982 and became KGWL in 1987. The three stations were grouped together as the "Wyoming News Network" until 2002, when they became semi-satellites of KGWN.

External links

Broadcast television in the Casper / Riverton market [(Nielsen DMA #198)]
KTWO 2 (ABC) - KCWC 4 (PBS) - KCWY 13 (NBC) - KGWC 14/KGWL 5 (CBS) - KFNB 20 (Fox) - K26ES 26 (UPN/The CW)

Broadcast television in the Cheyenne / Scottsbluff market [(Nielsen DMA #195)]'''
KWGN 2 (WB) - KUPN 3 (UPN/MNTV) - KDUH 4 (ABC) - KGWN 5/KSTF 10/KGWR 13 (CBS) - KRMA 6 (PBS) - KMGH 7 (ABC) - KWYP 8 (PBS) - KUSA 9 (NBC) - KCHY-LP 13 (NBC) - KTNE 13 (PBS/NET) - KLWY 27/KFNR 11 (FOX) - KDEV 33 (ABC/RTN) - KMAH-CA 39 (IND)

CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Nebraska

KMTV 3 () - KOLN 10 / KGIN 11 () - KSTF 10 ()
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CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Wyoming

KGWN 5 / KGWL 5 / KGWR 13 / KGWC 14 ( / / / )
'''See also: , , , , , and stations in Wyoming

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