KGWN-TV

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KGWN-TV KGWC-TV, KGWR-TV, KGWL-TV, KSTF (info refers only to KGWN)
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Branding	CBS 5 NewsChannel
Slogan	"your station", The Tri-State's News Leader
Channels	5 analog, 30 digital
Affiliations	CBS (The CW on DT2 to begin 9/06)
Owner	SagamoreHill Broadcasting
Founded	1954
Call letters meaning	KGWN: K Greater Wyoming Network KSTF: K Scottsbluff. Other stations: KGW for KGWN, followed by the city name
Former callsigns	KFBC-TV (1954-75), KYCU-TV (1975-87)
Former affiliations	NBC (secondary, 1954-87), ABC (secondary, 1954-88), DuMont (secondary, 1954-1956)[1]
Website	www.kgwn.tv

KGWN-TV, also known as CBS5 Newschannel, is a CBS affiliate based in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting, and broadcasts on analog channel 5 and digital channel 30.

The station operates four semi-satellites: KGWC-TV, channel 14 in Casper, Wyoming; KGWR-TV, channel 13 in Rock Springs, Wyoming; KGWL-TV, channel 5 in Lander, Wyoming and KSTF-TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. They all repeat KGWN's programming, except for commercials.

The station uses the slogan "The Tri-State's News Leader", as its 5-station network covers all of Wyoming, northern Colorado and western Nebraska.

[edit] 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[2]. 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 SagamoreHill 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.

Also, beginning September 2006 KGWN will carry The CW network on its digital subchannel. The CW official website lists the stations call number for more information. On KGWN's main page it list an advertisement of the CW coming to Cheyenne.

[edit] Team

News Team

• Jon Martin
• Robert Geha
• Tara Vreeland
• Kerri Hayden
• Carey Proctor
• Sarah Yosten
• Jaclyn Rostie
• Justin Joseph
• Chris Jose
• Steven Sgourdos
• Krista Watzel

Weather Team

• Jeff Matthews
• Tim Jones
• Doug Hall

Sports Team

• Hans Seitz
• Ben Rosehart
• Macradee Aegerter

[edit] External links

• Station website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KGWN-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KGWC-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KGWR-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KGWL-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KSTF

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