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KXNW, channel 34, is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station (with secondary affiliation with Antenna TV) for the Fort Smith/Fayetteville, Arkansas market that is licensed to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. While Eureka Springs also is located in the Springfield, Missouri market, A.C. Nielsen considers this station to be part of the Fort Smith/Fayetteville market. The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Media Company, as part of a duopoly with the CBS-affiliate KFSM-TV (channel 5); it is operated out of KFSM's facility on North 13th Street in downtown Fort Smith. ==History== Channel 34 began operations in 2000 as KWBS-TV, which stood for WB Springfield; however, original station owner Equity Broadcasting decided to make another new station, KWBM (channel 31), as the WB-affiliate for Springfield, and KWBS instead affiliated with Pax (now Ion Television). KWBS dropped the Pax-affiliation in 2003 in favor of the Equity-owned Lick TV, which was a short-lived network that broadcast wrestling events. But one year, later the station dropped that network and finally affiliated with The WB as its Northwest Arkansas affiliate. This was accompanied by a call-letter change to KWFT. After it was announced in January 2006 The WB and UPN would close down to form The CW in September, KWFT changed its call-letters to KBBL-TV on July 6, 2006. However, its Fort Smith repeater retained the KWFT-LP call sign, which to this day it still uses. The KBBL-TV call-letters were almost certainly not inspired by the KBBL-TV of ''The Simpsons'', even though both stations are located in a DMA with the same name as the Simpsons' fictional hometown. Equity likes to use former radio call-letters from its hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas as TV call letters, and the KBBL call sign was once used by a Little Rock radio station. Around the same time as the call-letters change, KBBL-TV was announced as joining the Retro Television Network (then owned by Equity) after The WB ceased operations, but as a result of KPBI-CA (channel 46) losing its Fox-affiliation to KFTA-TV (channel 24) and joining MyNetworkTV, channel 34 changed its call letters to KPBI on September 22, 2006 and began to carry KPBI-CA's programming schedule (KFDF-CA, the station that was originally scheduled to join MNTV, ended up becoming the RTV affiliate). As of October 30, 2011, KPBI has dropped from RTV in favor of the Me-TV programming. After failing to find a buyer at a bankruptcy auction, KPBI was sold to Pinnacle Media in August 2009 (after having initially been included in Silver Point Finance's acquisition on June 2 of several Equity stations) with Pinnacle assuming control under a local marketing agreement on August 5 that same year. Pinnacle Media officially took ownership on November 3, 2009 and was restructured into Riverside Media in August 2010 with a change in the minority (40%) ownership in the company. It was announced on August 12, 2009 that KPBI would switch to RTV, which had been dropped from KFDF in January after the network severed its ties with Equity. The area's MyNetworkTV-affiliation subsequently moved to a new digital subchannel of KFSM-TV, which today airs on KXNW. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KXNW」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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