KMYQ

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KMYQ-TV
Seattle, Washington
Branding	MyQ²
Channels	22 (UHF) analog, 25 (UHF) digital
Translators	K29ED ch.29 (UHF) Everett, Washington K25CH ch.25 (UHF) Centralia, Washington
Affiliations	MyNetworkTV The Tube (On DT2) FOX Alternate (only during a KCPQ preempt)
Owner	Tribune Broadcasting
Founded	June 22, 1985
Call letters meaning	K MYNetworkTV Q (reference to sister station KCPQ)
Former callsigns	KTZZ (1985-1999) KTWB-TV (1999-2006)
Former affiliations	Independent (1985–1995) CBS (secondary 1988–1994), The WB (1995–2006)
Transmitter Power	5000 kw ch.22 (analog) 155.0 kW ch.25 (digital)-STA other_chs = ch.29 10.9 kw ch.25 6.01 kw
Height	271.0 m (analog) 290.0 (digital) Translatos = ch.29 115.0 m ch.25 480 m
Website	myq2.trb.com

KMYQ is a television station in Seattle, Washington. As an affiliate of MyNetworkTV, it has been rebranded as MyQ², pronounced My Q two. Owned by the Tribune Company, KMYQ broadcasts on analog channel 22 and digital channel 25. Its transmitter is located in Seattle. The station also operates two UHF translators: K25CH (channel 25) in Centralia and K29ED (channel 29) in Everett. Most Western Washington cable TV systems carry it on channel 10. KMYQ's offices and broadcasting center along with its transmitter are co-located with sister station KCPQ (channel 13) on the west shore of Lake Union in the Westlake neighborhood. MyNetworkTV is operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division, Twentieth Television. [1]

Contents 1 History 2 Digital Television 3 Logos 4 External links

[edit] History

The station began broadcasting as KTZZ on June 22, 1985. The call letters stood for Television 22, the Zs closely resembling numeral 2s. At that time there was a hole in the market for cartoons and sitcoms. While KSTW was running such programming, KCPQ counterprogrammed with children's shows. As such, KTZZ signed on with a lineup of classic off-network sitcoms, westerns, cartoons, movies, and dramas. Initially the station was profitable under the ownership of Alden Communications. Originally, to keep people from changing channels, the station broadcast only its station ID -- no commercials -- between the closing credits of one show and the opening credits of the next show. One Christmas season as snow fell in the Puget Sound area viewers were treated to a fun little gag in which someone pretending to be a janitor takes control of the station for a few moments to deliver "the news" which was mostly a fake weather forecast which began "The weather outside is frightful. But inside it's quite delightful. As long as I've got no place to go, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow."

A couple years later, the station was sold to Dudley Broadcasting. By 1988, KCPQ and KSTW had strong lineups, including almost all of the children's programming available. KTZZ was also the home, for several years, of eclectic Seattle talkshow host Spud Goodman. Producing the weekly interview/music/feature show was an ambitious undertaking for a small station, and the program relied heavily on a large staff of volunteers. The programming costs became too high for KTZZ. As a result, KTZZ began mixing in religious shows, rejected CBS shows, infomercials, and brokered shows to the lineup. It still ran some syndicated products, but they were essentially programs that no other stations wanted. For a time in 1993, it had a 10pm newscast produced by KIRO-TV.

Originally, KTZZ agreed to affiliate with the new UPN network in 1994. However, the UPN affiliation went to KIRO when that station lost its CBS affiliation to KSTW (which was eventually sold to Paramount Pictures), and KTZZ agreed to affiliate with WB instead. KTZZ picked up cartoons from KSTW in 1995, added more off-network sitcoms and moved away from the brokered format. As it began airing programming from the WB, KTZZ was helped in part by the fact that KCPQ was moving towards news and more first-run syndicated talk, courtroom, and drama shows.

KTZZ was purchased by Tribune Broadcasting with sister station WXMI Grand Rapids, Michigan from Emmis Communications in 1998, and changed its call letters to KTWB-TV (The Warner Brothers Network) the next year. After Tribune acquired KCPQ in early 1999, the licence was transferred back to Emmis in the short-term until the FCC's approval of television duopolies later that year (Tribune kept control of the station during this period via a local marketing agreement). In 2004, KTWB revised its on-air brand from "WB 22" to "Seattle's WB" as part of a groupwide branding effort.

On January 24, 2006, the WB and UPN networks announced they would merge. The newly combined network would be called The CW, the letters representing the first initial of its corporate parents CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner. The merger will take effect in September 2006, and at that time current UPN station KSTW, owned by CBS, will become the CW's Seattle/Tacoma affiliate.

On July 14, 2006, channel 22's call letters were officially changed to KMYQ to reflect its new affiliation. The Q is a reference to its sister station, KCPQ (Q13 FOX). The station's brand name was changed to "MyQ²" on August 7, 2006.

With the loss of the WB, KMYQ may now carry Fox network programming should KCPQ preempt for a special, the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day telethon, a breaking news story, or any other emergency.

In addition, KMYQ will no longer carry Kids WB programming on Saturday morning. Starting September 9, 2006, KMYQ will broadcast DiC Entertainment produced shows including Strawberry Shortcake, The Littles, and Liberty's Kids. They also broadcast Awesome Adventures. Programming will be designed to meet federal "E/I" requirements.

[edit] Digital Television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels

Channel	Programming
22.1 / 25.1	Main KMYQ programming
22.2 / 25.2	The Tube

[edit] Logos

Logo used during the late 1980's	Another logo used during the late 1980's	Logo used during the late 1990's	Logo used during the late 1990's
WB 22 logo.	Seattle's WB logo.	MyQ² logo.

[edit] External links

• KMYQ (MyQ²) Homepage
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KMYQ
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K25CH
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K29ED
• Spud Goodman's Homepage