KWBQ

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KWBQ

Albuquerque, New Mexico
Branding	New Mexico's CW
Slogan	New Mexico's CW
Channels	19 (UHF) analog, 29 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	The CW
Owner	ACME Communications
Founded	1998
Call letters meaning	Warner Brothers Albuquerque (previous affiliation)
Former affiliations	The WB (1998-2006)
Transmitter Power	1422 kW/1275 m (analog) 245 kW/1289 m (digital)
Website	www.newmexicoscw.tv

KWBQ is a television station on NTSC channel 19 and ATSC channel 29 licensed to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in addition to serving most of the state, such as Albuquerque and Roswell (the latter through an ACME-owned translator, KRWB-TV on channel sixteen). It is the market's affiliate of The CW. It is part of the first major television duopoly in Albuquerque; Its owner, ACME Communications, also owns KASY, a MyNetworkTV affiliate. KWBQ offers a general entertainment format with off network sitcoms, talk shows, court shows, reality shows, first run shows from the CW and cartoons from Kids WB on weekends.

1 History
2 Newscasts
- 2.1 Logos/graphics
3 External links

[edit] History

KWBQ signed on in 1998 with programming from The WB (which had aired on KASY from the fall of 1995 to KWBQ's launch). In June of 1999, Acme Communications bought KASY (and most of its programming inventory, except a portion owned by Emmis for KRQE) from Ramar Communications, also resulting in the termination of a local marketing agreement with KRQE, the market's CBS affiliate.

As a result, ACME created the market's first television duopoly. Most of the station remained the same until 24 January 2006, in which CBS Corporation, owner of UPN, and Warner Bros., the owner of the WB, announced that said networks would merge, operating separately until 18 September 2006, when The CW, the merged network, would be launched.

Following that, on 9 March and 15 March respectively, ACME affiliated KWBQ and KASY with The CW and an alternative to independent programming offered by Fox Television Stations Group, MyNetworkTV, both of which provided as many hours of programming as their original networks, save KASY's Saturday nights, where MyNetworkTV offered programming and UPN didn't.

Such a move made ACME the third company, after Capitol Broadcasting (WJZY and WMYT-TV) and Weigel Broadcasting (WCWW-LP and WMYS-LP) to affiliate a duopoly with The CW and MyNetworkTV, respectively. As a result, branding changed on both stations to reflect their respective new networks. Before the realignment in 2006, KWBQ and KASY created their own pages on MySpace, a popular social networking website.

[edit] Newscasts

New Mexico's CW News

The Daily Buzz Weekdays 6:00a-7:00a, 7:00a-8:00a, 8:00a-9:00a

[edit] Logos/graphics

KWBQ's first station logo

Last WB logo before the CW, reflecting The WB's push to (City/State/Region)'s WB for branding.
Similar logos were applied on other ACME stations.

Ad on KWBQ's website for adding KWBQ as a friend on MySpace

[edit] External links

Broadcast television in the Albuquerque / Santa Fe market (Nielsen DMA #45)
KASA 2 (Fox) (The Tube on DT2) - KOB 4 (NBC) - KNME 5 (PBS) - KOAT 7 (ABC) - KCHF 11 (Ind.) - KRQE 13 (CBS) - KTFQ 14 (TeleFutura) - KWBQ 19 (The CW) - KNAT 23 (TBN) - KQDF-LP 25 (AZA) - KYNM-LP 30 (Almavision) - KAZQ 32 (LeSea/3ABN) - KTVS-LP 36 (Ind.) - K38IM 38 (3ABN) - KLUZ 41 (Univision) - KTFA-LP 48 (HSN) - KASY 50 (MNTV) - KTEL-LP 53 (TEL) - K56FB 56 (JTV)
Local digital television channels
KNMD 9 (PBS) - KRMU 20 (PBS/RMPBS)
Out-of-market stations covering parts of the market and other over the air stations in New Mexico KENW 3 (PBS) - KVIH 12 (ABC) - KRWG 22 (PBS) - KRPV 27 (GLC) - KUPT 29 (MNTV) - K47DR 47 (TBN) - KTDO 48 (Telemundo)