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KSCW-DT, virtual channel 33 (VHF digital channel 12), is a CW-affiliated television station located in Wichita, Kansas, United States. The station is owned by Schurz Communications, as part of a duopoly with CBS affiliate KWCH-DT (channel 12); Schurz also operates Univision affiliate KDCU-DT (channel 31) under a joint sales agreement with owner Entravision Communications Corporation. KSCW and KWCH share studio facilities and KDCU's master control operations are located on East 37th Street North in northeastern Wichita; KSCW maintains transmitter facilities located in rural northeastern Reno County (due south of Buhler). KSCW also operates a low-power digital fill-in translator on UHF channel 33 (its previous analog signal allotment) from a transmitter in Bel Aire, Kansas, just north of the station's studio facility. On cable, the station is available on Cox Communications and AT&T U-verse channel 5, and in high definition on U-verse channel 1005 and Cox digital channel 2005. ==History== The station first signed on the air on August 5, 1999 as KWCV. Founded by Banks Broadcasting and originally operating as a WB affiliate, it was branded on-air as "Kansas' WB". Prior to the station's launch, The WB's programming could only be viewed in the Wichita market through Chicago-based cable superstation WGN, which carried the network's programming nationwide from The WB's January 1995 launch until October 1999, or Denver's KWGN-TV on cable or satellite. The station's original transmitter was located on a tower near Colwich. 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 onto a newly created "fifth" 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.〕 One month later on February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced that it would launch of another new network called MyNetworkTV.〔(News Corp. Unveils MyNetworkTV ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', February 22, 2006.〕 On March 21, not long after it was announced that the station would become the market's CW affiliate, KWCV received approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to change its call letters to KSCW in order to reflect its upcoming affiliation change.〔(New call letters, new network on tap for KWCV ), ''Wichita Business Journal'', March 21, 2006.〕 On September 5, former UPN affiliate KMTW became Wichita's MyNetworkTV affiliate when that network launched. KSCW became the CW outlet for the market when that network launched on September 18; the station also changed its branding to "Kansas CW" on that date. In March 2007, Banks Broadcasting announced that it would sell the station to Schurz Communications, owner of CBS affiliate KWCH (channel 12).〔(Banks Broadcasting sells CW affiliate ), ''Wichita Business Journal'', March 27, 2007.〕 The sale closed on July 20, 2007, after which the FCC granted Schurz a "failing station" waiver to acquire KSCW. This was necessary because the Wichita 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 (KWCH, KSNW (channel 3), KAKE (channel 10) and KSAS-TV (channel 24)), 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, because Banks Broadcasting tried and failed to find a buyer for KSCW that did not need the "failing station" waiver. Several months after Schurz closed on its purchase of this station, it launched a new website powered by the Local Media Network division of WorldNow, replacing Broadcast Interactive Media as the operator of the site. Schurz began the process of transitioning the websites of its media properties to the Tribune Interactive platform in Summer 2010 with KWCH and KSCW being the first two using the relaunched Tribune-run platform in late-June (as of 2013, the Schurz television station websites are now operated by Internet Broadcasting). In 2009, KSCW traded transmitter facilities, moving to KWCH's former tower near Buhler in Reno County. Schurz announced on September 14, 2015 that it would exit broadcasting and sell its television and radio stations, including KSCW-DT, KWCH-DT, and the JSA with KDCU-DT, to Gray Television for $442.5 million. Gray already owns KAKE in Wichita; however, it will sell that station and keep KSCW and KWCH. 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「KSCW-DT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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