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KGCW is the CW-affiliated television station for the Quad Cities of Eastern Iowa and West-Central Illinois. Licensed to Burlington, Iowa, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 41 (virtual channel 26.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in the Seaton village of Abington Township, Illinois. The station can also be seen on Mediacom channel 113 and in high definition on digital channel 713. Owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group, KGCW is sister to CBS affiliate, WHBF-TV. Nexstar also operates Fox affiliate KLJB, owned by Marshall Broadcasting. KGCW & KLJB share studios on East 53rd Street (I-74) in Davenport, Iowa. The station also carries preseason NFL Green Bay Packers football from the team's Wisconsin state network. KGCW can also be seen on WHBF's second digital subchannel (VHF channel 4.2 or virtual channel 4.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Bettendorf; a city located within Pleasant Valley Township in Scott County, Iowa. ==History== The station signed-on August 2, 1984 as KJMH. It aired an analog signal on UHF channel 26 with an effective radiated power of 200 kilowatts (at a height of 96 meters) from a tower on Winegard Drive in Burlington. Originally an Independent, KJMH became a charter Fox affiliate on October 6, 1986 and primarily served the southern portion of the Quad Cities market. However, the station suffered interference and duplication from the area's other Fox affiliate, KLJB in Davenport serving the northern portions of the area. Finally in 1996, this station became a full-time satellite of KLJB. In 2001, KJMH broke off and became a The WB affiliate for the Quad Cities and adopted the KGWB-TV call sign. In September 2006 as a result of The WB and UPN merging to form The CW, the station was picked as the new network affiliate for the Quad Cities. To reflect the change, KGWB adopted the KGCW-TV call letters on June 30, 2006. Meanwhile, the area's low-powered UPN affiliate WBQD-LP joined the other new service, News Corporation's MyNetworkTV. While broadcasting in analog, KGCW's signal failed to cover the Quad Cities adequately because WBQD also transmitted on channel 26. In addition, its coverage area was less than most full-powered UHF outlets in the United States due to its lower effective radiated power and antenna height. However, from 2001 to 2015, this shortfall had been made up by it being available on cable systems in the area through a fiber optic link and a simulcast on KLJB-DT2. During the Spring of 2015, however, the KGCW subchannel simulcast would migrate to WHBF-DT2. On November 6, 2013, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced that it would purchase the Grant Broadcasting stations, including KGCW and KLJB, for $87.5 million. Due to Federal Communications Commission ownership regulations (Nexstar is also in the process of acquiring WHBF-TV), KLJB will then be spun off to Mission Broadcasting, but will be operated by Nexstar through a shared services agreement. However, on June 6, 2014, Nexstar announced that it would instead sell KLJB to a minority-controlled company Marshall Broadcasting—a new company headed by Pluria Marshall Jr., for $58.5 million. While this company will acquire much of the station's assets, Nexstar will enter into a shared services agreement to provide non-programming resources (such as master control) and advertising sales for Marshall's three stations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/76865/nexstar-selling-3-fox-affils-for-585-million )〕 The sale was completed on December 1, 2014.〔(Consummation Notice ),''CDBS Public Access'' Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 3 December, 2014.〕 On March 25, 2015, it was announced that KGCW would broadcast 24 Chicago Cubs baseball games to Quad City area baseball fans during the 2015 Major League Baseball Season. This was due to the baseball games no longer being available on a national basis to cable and satellite viewers via WGN America. The origination of the baseball broadcasts was split between Chicago's WGN-TV and ABC O&O station WLS-TV, with KGCW carrying the games broadcast by WLS, and the Quad Cities' MyNetworkTV affiliate WQAD-DT3 airing the games broadcast by WGN. In the past, KGCW had aired St. Louis Cardinals baseball games when that team's flagship station was fellow WB/CW affiliate KPLR-TV. In November 2014, while Nexstar was still waiting for the completion of its sale of KLJB to Marshall Broadcasting, there was speculation by other local media that KGCW might move to a WHBF subchannel. On May 14, 2015, Nexstar relaunched WHBF's digital subchannel 4.2 with a standard definition simulcast of KGCW. Due to the fact that KLJB is now owned by a separate company than KGCW, the simulcast of KGCW, which was previously aired on KLJB's 18.2 subchannel, moved to WHBF's 4.2 subchannel as Nexstar owns WHBF and KGCW, where Marshall Broadcasting owns KLJB.〔(KGCW facebook page )〕 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「KGCW」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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