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KMTW, virtual channel 36 (UHF digital channel 35), is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station serving Wichita, Kansas, United States that is licensed to Hutchinson. The station is owned by the Mercury Broadcasting Company; the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns Fox affiliate KSAS-TV (channel 24), operates KMTW under a local marketing agreement. The two stations share studio facilities located on North West Street in northwestern Wichita; KMTW maintains transmitter facilities located in rural southwestern Harvey County (northwest of Sedgwick). On cable, the station is available on Cox Communications channel 6 and AT&T U-verse channel 36, and in high definition on U-verse channel 1036 and Cox digital channel 2006. ==History== The station first signed on the air on January 6, 2001 as KSCC. In a rarity for a market of Wichita's size, it originally operated as a UPN owned-and-operated station through Viacom's Paramount Stations Group subsidiary. However, that company only held control of KSCC's license during its first five months on the air, having financed its launch and overseen construction. Just prior to the station's sign-on, its license assets were sold to Mercury Broadcasting, which immediately entered into a local marketing agreement with Clear Channel Communications, owner of Fox affiliate KSAS-TV (channel 24) at the time and controller of several radio stations that were once owned by Viacom. As a result, Clear Channel officially operated the station from the very beginning. In June 2001, Mercury Broadcasting would take over ownership of KSCC. Prior to the station's sign-on, UPN programming was not available in the market as it did not have a UPN affiliate of its own. In 2003, Clear Channel attempted to buy the station outright, but was denied a "failing station" waiver by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). This special approval for the sale was necessary because the Wichita-Hutchinson designated market area has only seven "unique" full-power television stations. The full-power stations operating outside the immediate metropolitan area all operate as satellites of each of Wichita's four major network affiliates (KSNW (channel 3), KAKE (channel 10), KWCH (channel 12) and KSAS-TV), and the FCC considers the parent and all of its satellites together as one station. That number of unique full-power stations is normally not enough to legally support a duopoly and Clear Channel did not attempt to find a buyer for KSCC that did not need a "failing station" waiver. On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that the two companies would shut down The WB and UPN and combine the networks' respective programming to create a new network called The CW.〔('Gilmore Girls' meet 'Smackdown'; CW Network to combine WB, UPN in CBS-Warner venture beginning in September ), CNNMoney.com, January 24, 2006.〕〔(UPN and WB to Combine, Forming New TV Network ), ''The New York Times'', January 24, 2006.〕 On February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced the launch of another new network called MyNetworkTV, which would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created to compete against The CW as well as to give UPN and WB stations that would not become CW affiliates another option besides converting to independent stations.〔(News Corp. Unveils MyNetworkTV ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', February 22, 2006.〕 KSCC was announced as Wichita's MyNetworkTV charter affiliate on June 15, and subsequently changed its callsign to KMTW on August 1. The station affiliated with MyNetworkTV when it launched on September 5; the area's WB affiliate KWCV (channel 33, now KSCW-DT) joined The CW when it launched on September 18. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its television stations (including KSAS and its LMA with KMTW) to Newport Television, a holding company controlled by private equity firm Providence Equity Partners; the sale was finalized on March 14, 2008. On July 19, 2012, Newport Television announced the sale of KSAS-TV, along with the acquisition of the station's LMA with KMTW, to the Sinclair Broadcast Group as part of a group deal worth an estimated $1 billion involving the sale of 22 stations to Sinclair, the Nexstar Broadcasting Group and Cox Media Group.〔(Newport Sells 22 Stations For $1 Billion ), ''TVNewsCheck'', July 19, 2012.〕 Included in the acquisition of the LMA was an option for Sinclair to acquire KMTW outright from Mercury Broadcasting should the FCC relax its media ownership rules to allow a duopoly between one of the four highest-rated stations and a station rated below the top four in markets with fewer than nine full-power commercial stations with or without a waiver. The KSAS purchase and the transaction of the LMA was completed on December 3.〔http://www.sbgi.net/site_mgr/temp/Newport%20closing_qcm5mk7w.shtml〕 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「KMTW」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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