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KWCH-DT, virtual channel 12 (UHF digital channel 19), is a CBS-affiliated television station serving Wichita, Kansas, United States that is licensed to Hutchinson. The station is owned by Schurz Communications, as part of a duopoly with CW affiliate KSCW-DT (channel 33); Schurz also operates Univision affiliate KDCU-DT (channel 31) under a joint sales agreement with owner Entravision Communications Corporation. KWCH and KSCW share studio facilities and KDCU's master control operations are located on 37th Street in northeast Wichita; KWCH maintains transmitter facilities located in rural northeastern Reno County (south-southeast of Buhler). KWCH-DT also serves as the flagship of the Kansas Broadcasting System, a statewide network of four full-power stations that relay CBS network programming and other programs provided by KWCH across central and western Kansas, as well as bordering counties in Colorado, Nebraska and Oklahoma. On cable, the station is available on Cox Communications and AT&T U-verse channel 12 in standard definition and in high definition on digital channel 2012 and QAM channel 114-5, and U-verse channel 1012. ==History== The station first signed on the air on July 1, 1953 as KTVH. It is the oldest surviving television station in Kansas (the first station to sign on in the state was KCTY (channel 25) in Kansas City, which operated a transmitter in Overland Park, which signed on one month before channel 12 debuted, in June 1953 and shut down in 1954). Channel 12 originally operated from studio facilities located in Hutchinson. It has been a primary CBS affiliate since its sign-on, although the station originally also carried programming from the three other major networks of the time (NBC, ABC and the DuMont Television Network). Also in 1954, KTVH opened a satellite studio on 37th Street North in Wichita.〔(Information from Schurz )〕 In 1955, the station was bought by Des Moines-based Cowles Communications. In 1956, the station boosted its signal to cover all of the Wichita metropolitan area. It also moved its main studio facilities to the former studio of KEDD, where the station remains to this day. Along with the power increase, KTVH began broadcasting CBS programming in color, becoming the first station in Wichita for the first time. KEDD did not have the capability to broadcast in color. In 1962, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled that central and western Kansas were part of the Wichita market. As a result, Cowles bought KTVC (channel 6, now KBSD-DT) in Dodge City, KAYS-TV (channel 7, now KBSH-DT) in Hays and KLOE-TV (channel 10, now KBSL-DT) in Goodland and converted them into semi-satellites of KTVH. The three stations, which – along with flagship station KTVH – formed the Kansas Broadcasting System, relayed CBS programming throughout central and western Kansas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About )〕 In 1963, the station activated a new transmitter located north of Burrton (just east of Hutchinson), operating from the tallest broadcast tower in the state at . Combined with its three satellites, it boosted channel 12's signal to cover almost two-thirds of Kansas. In 1983, the Cowles family began selling off its vast media holdings. KTVH and its sister stations were sold to the Kansas Broadcasting System Corporation, owned by a pair of businessmen from Hays, Ross Beach and Bob Schmidt. The station's call letters were then changed to KWCH-TV on July 4 of that year (the KTVH call letters are now used by an NBC-affiliated station in Helena, Montana, which adopted the calls two years after channel 12's callsign switch).〔 In 1989, the Kansas Broadcasting System Corporation was purchased by Smith Broadcasting which included, as an owner, longtime Wichita television executive Sandy DiPasquale (who later became the CEO of Newport Television). Smith sold the station to Spartanburg, South Carolina-based Spartan Communications in 1994; Spartan merged with Media General in 2000. In 2005, KWCH received the "Large Market Television Station of the Year" award from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. On April 6, 2006, Media General announced that it would sell KWCH, its satellites, and four other stations as a result of its purchase of four former NBC owned-and-operated-stations (WVTM-TV in Birmingham, WCMH in Columbus, WNCN in Goldsboro, North Carolina and WJAR-TV in Providence). South Bend, Indiana-based Schurz eventually emerged as the winner and took over on September 25, at which time Schurz formed a new company known as "Sunflower Broadcasting, Inc.," which became the licensee for its Kansas broadcasting properties.〔(Schurz Snaps Up Kansas Affil ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', July 28, 2006. Retrieved July 7, 2014.〕〔(FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ), Media General, April 6, 2006. Retrieved July 7, 2014.〕〔(News Releases ), Media General, September 25, 2006. Retrieved July 7, 2014.〕 However, KWCH still uses the same logo from the Media General era. In July 2007, KSCW became a sister station to KWCH after Schurz bought the station through a failing station waiver. In the spring of 2010, Schurz entered into a long-term website management agreement with the Tribune Company's Tribune Interactive division. Schurz's Kansas properties were the first to launch new Tribune-run websites in late June 2010. This lasted until 2013, when Schurz began a new multi-year hosting deal with Internet Broadcasting.〔 On September 14, 2015, it was announced that Gray Television would acquire the Schurz stations for approximately $442.5 million. Gray already owns KAKE-TV, and will divest that station and its satellites to Lockwood Broadcast Group in order to retain 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「KWCH-DT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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