KQCW
Encyclopedia
KQCW-DT, virtual channel
19 (digital channel 20), is The CW
-affiliated television station in the Tulsa, Oklahoma
DMA, licensed to Muskogee
. The station is owned by Oklahoma City-based Griffin Communications
, in a duopoly with CBS affiliate KOTV-DT (channel 6). KQCW's transmitter is located near Bald Hill, Oklahoma.
The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 20, mapping to its former analog channel assignment of 19 via PSIP
, and can also be seen on KOTV digital subchannel 6.2. On cable, KQCW can be seen on channel 12 in standard definition and on channel 707 in high definition on Cox
Tulsa; it is also carried on channel 14 on Time Warner Cable
in Pryor, and on channel 19 on DirecTV
and Dish Network
.
"). KQCW elected to choose channel 20 as its final DTV channel selection mapped as 19.1 using PSIP. Prior to then, KQCW's signal was broadcast on a second digital subchannel of KOTV. However, despite KQCW now having its own physical digital channel, the station is still carried on KOTV-DT channel 6.2.
affiliate and originally owned by Cascade Broadcasting Group
. KQCW is the tenth full-power television station in Tulsa, and the seventh UHF station after KOKI-TV
(channel 23), KDOR-TV
(channel 17), KMYT-TV
(channel 41), KWHB
(channel 47), KRSC
(channel 35), KGEB
(channel 53) and KTPX
(channel 44).
Before channel 19 went on the air, LeSea Broadcasting affiliate KWHB
carried an informal secondary affiliation with The WB, carrying only Kids' WB
weekday afternoon and Saturday morning programming, as well as family-oriented WB primetime shows (such as 7th Heaven
, The Parent 'Hood
and Sister, Sister
). However, Tulsa area viewers were able to watch WB network programming that was preempted by KWHB, via Chicago-based cable superstation WGN, which carried WB programming nationally from the network's launch until 1999.
On October 8, 2005, Oklahoma City-based Griffin Communications (longtime owners of CBS affiliate KWTV
in Oklahoma City, and who also purchased KOTV four years earlier), purchased KWBT, creating a duopoly
between the two stations.
networks announced that they would merge into a new service, the CW Television Network
, named for its corporate parents CBS Corporation
(the parent company of UPN) and Warner Bros.
(parent of The WB Television Network). It was confirmed on April 10 of that year, that KQCW would become the new affiliate for the CW. On May 23 of that year, the station requested to the FCC to have its call letters changed from KWBT to KQCW. On June 30, the call letters officially changed to KQCW. The new network originally featured the most popular programming from both the UPN and WB networks, but in recent years has begun to feature more original programming.
The station aired live lottery drawings from the Oklahoma Lottery
nightly from August 2006 until the fall of 2007, after which they were carried on Cox Communications cable channel 3. Fox affiliate KOKH (channel 25) and WB affiliate KOCB
(channel 34, now a CW affiliate) in Oklahoma City
also aired the live drawings until September 2009, when the Oklahoma Lottery decided to forego the live drawings in favor of computerized drawings.
The CW airs network programming five nights a week, originally adopting The WB's Sunday-Friday schedule compared to UPN's five nights a week (Monday-Friday); but it reduced its programming to five nights a week in September 2009 (with the only weekend programming being The CW 4Kids Saturday morning children's program lineup).
KQCW is broadcast on virtual digital UHF channel 19 (which was the station's analog
channel assignment until June 12, 2009). In the fall of 2007, due to confusion among station viewers on where to find KQCW over-the-air and on cable
, the station had begun rebranding itself as "CW12/19" ("12" referring to its channel number on Cox Communications, and "19" referring to its analog, now virtual digital, channel number). The usage of its cable channel within the branding dates back to the final years of its WB affiliation with the station was branded as "Tulsa's WB19, Cable 12". In the summer of 2009, the station changed its branding to "Tulsa's CW".
Current syndicated programming includes Judge Jeanine Pirro
, Judge Mathis
, Cops
, George Lopez, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
, Friends
, The Office, Everybody Loves Raymond
, Extra
, The Insider
, Star Trek: The Next Generation
, Scrubs, America's Funniest Home Videos
, along with rebroadcasts of Entertainment Tonight
and The Oprah Winfrey Show
from KOTV; as well as weekend telecasts of Cheers
, Just Shoot Me, Bones, Grey's Anatomy
, American Chopper
, CSI: NY
, Without a Trace
and weekend editions of the station's weekday syndicated programming offerings.
For a short time starting in September 2006, KQCW began airing the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
at 12:30PM. Sister station, CBS affiliate KOTV has not aired the show in daytime for several years due to the expansion of their local noon newscast to an hour. CBS eventually allowed KOTV to air it late at night at 1:05am; KQCW replaced it with a double run of Cops at noon.
On September 18, 2006, KRMG-AM and KQCW launched a weekday morning simulcast of the KRMG Morning Show, airing from 6-7 a.m. Also on that date, to compete with KOKI in the 9 o'clock timeslot, KOTV (whose owners, Griffin Communications, had purchased KQCW a year earlier) began to produce a half-hour nightly primetime newscast for KQCW to compete against Fox affiliate KOKI's 9 p.m. newscast, called The News on 6 at 9.
This partnership would later extend into the mornings, as on January 7, 2008, the 8-9 a.m. hour of KOTV's Six in the Morning moved to KQCW, in order for KOTV to be able to comply with the new CBS mandate that all of its affiliates must now broadcast the entire two hour broadcast of The Early Show
.
On October 24, 2010, sister station KOTV-DT upgraded its news graphics and began broadcasting its newscasts in 16:9
enhanced widescreen
standard definition
. The KQCW shows were included in the upgrade.
Six in the Morning
(Weekdays 8 to 9 a.m.)
The News on 6 at 9
(Weeknights 9 to 9:30 p.m.)
(Weekends 9 to 9:30 p.m.)
KQCW features additional news personnel from KOTV-DT. See that article for a complete listing.
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
19 (digital channel 20), is The CW
The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
-affiliated television station in the Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 46th-largest city in the United States. With a population of 391,906 as of the 2010 census, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 937,478 residents in the MSA and 988,454 in the CSA. Tulsa's...
DMA, licensed to Muskogee
Muskogee, Oklahoma
Muskogee is a city in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. It is the county seat of Muskogee County, and home to Bacone College. The population was 38,310 at the 2000 census, making it the eleventh-largest city in Oklahoma....
. The station is owned by Oklahoma City-based Griffin Communications
Griffin Communications
Griffin Communications is a media company based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, founded in 1953 by John T. Griffin; the company operates television and radio broadcast stations and internet properties....
, in a duopoly with CBS affiliate KOTV-DT (channel 6). KQCW's transmitter is located near Bald Hill, Oklahoma.
The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 20, mapping to its former analog channel assignment of 19 via PSIP
Program and System Information Protocol
The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch...
, and can also be seen on KOTV digital subchannel 6.2. On cable, KQCW can be seen on channel 12 in standard definition and on channel 707 in high definition on Cox
Cox Communications
Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States...
Tulsa; it is also carried on channel 14 on Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
in Pryor, and on channel 19 on DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
and Dish Network
Dish Network
Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...
.
KQCW-DT
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| 19.1 | 1080i 1080i 1080i is the shorthand name for a high-definition television mode. The i means interlaced video; 1080i differs from 1080p, in which the p stands for progressive scan. The term 1080i assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a frame size of 1920×1080 pixels... |
16:9 16:9 16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ... |
Main KQCW programming / The CW |
| 19.2 | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
4:3 | This TV This TV This TV is a United States general entertainment television network, with a large emphasis in its programming on movies.... Tulsa |
Analog-to-digital conversion
Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead on February 17, 2009, during the first round of broadcast stations ceasing analog operations on the originally scheduled date of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KQCW was required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash-cutFlash-cut
A flash-cut, also called flash-cutover, is an immediate change in a complex system, with no phase-in period.Some telephone area codes were split immediately, rather than being phased in with a permissive dialing period. An example is telephone area code 213, which was split into 213 and 714 all at...
"). KQCW elected to choose channel 20 as its final DTV channel selection mapped as 19.1 using PSIP. Prior to then, KQCW's signal was broadcast on a second digital subchannel of KOTV. However, despite KQCW now having its own physical digital channel, the station is still carried on KOTV-DT channel 6.2.
As a WB affiliate
KQCW first hit the airwaves on September 12, 1999 as KWBT, serving as the Tulsa area's WBThe WB Television Network
The WB Television Network is a former television network in the United States that was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros...
affiliate and originally owned by Cascade Broadcasting Group
Cascade Broadcasting Group
There were two companies under the name Cascade Broadcasting Company:-Cascade Broadcasting Company :The first Cascade Broadcasting Company was based in Yakima, Washington...
. KQCW is the tenth full-power television station in Tulsa, and the seventh UHF station after KOKI-TV
KOKI-TV
KOKI-TV, virtual channel 23 , is the Fox-affiliated television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is owned by Newport Television, a subsidiary of private equity firm Providence Equity Partners...
(channel 23), KDOR-TV
KDOR-TV
KDOR-TV is a religious television station in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, serving the Tulsa market on channel 17 with national and local TBN programs. The station is owned by Trinity Broadcasting Network....
(channel 17), KMYT-TV
KMYT-TV
KMYT-TV, virtual channel 41, is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station in the Tulsa, Oklahoma Designated Market Area. The station is owned by Newport Television, a subsidiary of private equity firm Providence Equity Partners, in a duopoly with Fox affiliate KOKI...
(channel 41), KWHB
KWHB
KWHB, virtual channel 47, is a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is an owned-and-operated station of the LeSEA network. The station runs a schedule of Christian programming along with a few hours of secular general entertainment daily....
(channel 47), KRSC
KRSC-TV
KRSC-TV is an educational television station in Claremore, Oklahoma, owned and operated by Rogers State University. It broadcasts locally on UHF channel 36 as an independent station. It broadcasts cultural and educational programming 24 hours a day. Over night programming consists of Classic Arts...
(channel 35), KGEB
KGEB
KGEB, virtual channel 53.1, is a religious television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, owned by the Oral Roberts University. It is the flagship affiliate of the Golden Eagle Broadcasting satellite channel, which presents similar programming....
(channel 53) and KTPX
KTPX
KTPX-TV, virtual channel 44, is the Ion Television-affiliated television station for Tulsa, Oklahoma, licensed to nearby Okmulgee, owned by ION Media Networks The station operates its digital signal on UHF channel 28, using its former UHF analog channel assignment of 44 as its virtual channel via...
(channel 44).
Before channel 19 went on the air, LeSea Broadcasting affiliate KWHB
KWHB
KWHB, virtual channel 47, is a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is an owned-and-operated station of the LeSEA network. The station runs a schedule of Christian programming along with a few hours of secular general entertainment daily....
carried an informal secondary affiliation with The WB, carrying only Kids' WB
Kids' WB
Kids' WB! was Warner Bros. American childrens programing division brand for The WB Television Network. In September 2006, the block moved to The CW Television Network. The CW is the result of The WB's merger with UPN in 2006...
weekday afternoon and Saturday morning programming, as well as family-oriented WB primetime shows (such as 7th Heaven
7th Heaven
7th Heaven is an American family drama television series, created and produced by Brenda Hampton. The series premiered on August 26, 1996, on the WB, the first time that the network aired Monday night programming, and was originally broadcast from August 26, 1996 to May 13, 2007...
, The Parent 'Hood
The Parent 'Hood
The Parent 'Hood is an American sitcom that aired on The WB airing from January 18, 1995 to July 25, 1999. The series starred Robert Townsend and Suzzanne Douglas....
and Sister, Sister
Sister, Sister (TV series)
Sister, Sister is an American television sitcom about identical twin girls Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell , who were separated and adopted at birth, when one day they come face-to-face after 14 years apart....
). However, Tulsa area viewers were able to watch WB network programming that was preempted by KWHB, via Chicago-based cable superstation WGN, which carried WB programming nationally from the network's launch until 1999.
On October 8, 2005, Oklahoma City-based Griffin Communications (longtime owners of CBS affiliate KWTV
KWTV
KWTV-DT, virtual channel 9 , is the CBS-affiliated television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; it is owned by Griffin Communications of Oklahoma City...
in Oklahoma City, and who also purchased KOTV four years earlier), purchased KWBT, creating a duopoly
Duopoly (broadcasting)
In United States broadcast television and radio, duopoly is a term used to describe a single company which owns two or more stations in the same city or community....
between the two stations.
As a CW affiliate
On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPNUPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
networks announced that they would merge into a new service, the CW Television Network
The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
, named for its corporate parents CBS Corporation
CBS Corporation
CBS Corporation is an American media conglomerate focused on commercial broadcasting, publishing, billboards and television production, with most of its operations in the United States. The President and CEO of the company is Leslie Moonves. Sumner Redstone, owner of National Amusements, is CBS's...
(the parent company of UPN) and Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
(parent of The WB Television Network). It was confirmed on April 10 of that year, that KQCW would become the new affiliate for the CW. On May 23 of that year, the station requested to the FCC to have its call letters changed from KWBT to KQCW. On June 30, the call letters officially changed to KQCW. The new network originally featured the most popular programming from both the UPN and WB networks, but in recent years has begun to feature more original programming.
The station aired live lottery drawings from the Oklahoma Lottery
Oklahoma Lottery
The Oklahoma Lottery, which began on October 12, 2005, is operated by the government of Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Lottery is a member of the Multi-State Lottery Association .As with most US lotteries, the minimum age to purchase a ticket is 18.-History:...
nightly from August 2006 until the fall of 2007, after which they were carried on Cox Communications cable channel 3. Fox affiliate KOKH (channel 25) and WB affiliate KOCB
KOCB
KOCB, virtual channel 34 , is the CW-affiliated television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group of Maryland, LLC, in a duopoly with Fox affiliate KOKH-TV...
(channel 34, now a CW affiliate) in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma city
Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.Oklahoma City may also refer to:*Oklahoma City metropolitan area*Downtown Oklahoma City*Uptown Oklahoma City*Oklahoma City bombing*Oklahoma City National Memorial...
also aired the live drawings until September 2009, when the Oklahoma Lottery decided to forego the live drawings in favor of computerized drawings.
The CW airs network programming five nights a week, originally adopting The WB's Sunday-Friday schedule compared to UPN's five nights a week (Monday-Friday); but it reduced its programming to five nights a week in September 2009 (with the only weekend programming being The CW 4Kids Saturday morning children's program lineup).
KQCW is broadcast on virtual digital UHF channel 19 (which was the station's analog
Analog television
Analog television is the analog transmission that involves the broadcasting of encoded analog audio and analog video signal: one in which the message conveyed by the broadcast signal is a function of deliberate variations in the amplitude and/or frequency of the signal...
channel assignment until June 12, 2009). In the fall of 2007, due to confusion among station viewers on where to find KQCW over-the-air and on cable
Cable television
Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...
, the station had begun rebranding itself as "CW12/19" ("12" referring to its channel number on Cox Communications, and "19" referring to its analog, now virtual digital, channel number). The usage of its cable channel within the branding dates back to the final years of its WB affiliation with the station was branded as "Tulsa's WB19, Cable 12". In the summer of 2009, the station changed its branding to "Tulsa's CW".
Programming
KQCW's programming schedule consists of morning children's programs, some first run syndicated shows including comedies in the early evening, off-network sitcoms, drama shows, plus movies on weekends; in addition to CW programming.Current syndicated programming includes Judge Jeanine Pirro
Judge Jeanine Pirro
Judge Jeanine Pirro is an American reality series that debuted on The CW on September 22, 2008...
, Judge Mathis
Judge Mathis
Judge Mathis is a syndicated television legal reality show produced originally by Black Pearl Productions. In 2008, it entered its tenth season produced by AND Syndicated Productions and Telepictures. It is taped at NBC Tower in Chicago, but includes cases and litigants from other U.S....
, Cops
COPS (TV series)
Cops is an American documentary/reality television series that follows police officers, constables, and sheriff's deputies during patrols and other police activities...
, George Lopez, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced...
, Friends
Friends
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
, The Office, Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. Many of the situations from the show are based on the real-life experiences of lead actor Ray Romano, creator/producer Phil Rosenthal and the show's writing staff...
, Extra
Extra (TV series)
Extra is an American entertainment television news program covering events and celebrities which debuted on September 5, 1994 in syndication. It is produced at Victory Studios in Glendale, California by Telepictures Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television Distribution...
, The Insider
The Insider (TV series)
The Insider is an American tabloid television news program covering events and celebrities. It debuted on September 13, 2004 as a spinoff of Entertainment Tonight and started as a popular segment that took viewers "behind closed doors" and gave them "inside" information...
, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. Roddenberry, Rick Berman, and Michael Piller served as executive producers at different times throughout the production...
, Scrubs, America's Funniest Home Videos
America's Funniest Home Videos
America's Funniest Home Videos is an American reality television program on ABC in which viewers are able to send in humorous homemade videotapes. The most common videos usually feature slapstick physical comedy arising from incidents, accidents and mishaps...
, along with rebroadcasts of Entertainment Tonight
Entertainment Tonight
Entertainment Tonight is a daily tabloid television entertainment television news show that is syndicated by CBS Television Distribution throughout the United States, Canada and in many countries around the world. Linda Bell Blue is currently the program's executive producer...
and The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
from KOTV; as well as weekend telecasts of Cheers
Cheers
Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles...
, Just Shoot Me, Bones, Grey's Anatomy
Grey's Anatomy
Grey's Anatomy is an American medical drama television series created by Shonda Rhimes. The series premiered on March 27, 2005 on ABC; since then, seven seasons have aired. The series follows the lives of interns, residents and their mentors in the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital in...
, American Chopper
American Chopper
American Chopper is a reality television series that airs on Discovery Channel, produced by Pilgrim Films & Television. The series centers on Paul Teutul, Sr. and his son Paul Teutul, Jr. , who manufacture custom motorcycles. Orange County Choppers is in Newburgh, New York...
, CSI: NY
CSI: NY
CSI: NY is an American police procedural television series that premiered on September 22, 2004, on CBS. The show follows the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths as well as other crimes...
, Without a Trace
Without a Trace
Without a Trace is an American television drama which originally ran on CBS from September 26, 2002 to May 19, 2009. The series was set in New York City and concerned a fictitious FBI Missing Persons Unit.-Premise:...
and weekend editions of the station's weekday syndicated programming offerings.
For a short time starting in September 2006, KQCW began airing the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
The Bold and the Beautiful
The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....
at 12:30PM. Sister station, CBS affiliate KOTV has not aired the show in daytime for several years due to the expansion of their local noon newscast to an hour. CBS eventually allowed KOTV to air it late at night at 1:05am; KQCW replaced it with a double run of Cops at noon.
Newscasts
KOTV produces 8½ hours of local news each week for KQCW (1½ hours on weekdays, and a half-hour on Saturdays and Sundays).On September 18, 2006, KRMG-AM and KQCW launched a weekday morning simulcast of the KRMG Morning Show, airing from 6-7 a.m. Also on that date, to compete with KOKI in the 9 o'clock timeslot, KOTV (whose owners, Griffin Communications, had purchased KQCW a year earlier) began to produce a half-hour nightly primetime newscast for KQCW to compete against Fox affiliate KOKI's 9 p.m. newscast, called The News on 6 at 9.
This partnership would later extend into the mornings, as on January 7, 2008, the 8-9 a.m. hour of KOTV's Six in the Morning moved to KQCW, in order for KOTV to be able to comply with the new CBS mandate that all of its affiliates must now broadcast the entire two hour broadcast of The Early Show
The Early Show
The Early Show is an American television morning news talk show broadcast by CBS from New York City. The program airs live from 7 to 9 a.m. Eastern Time Monday through Friday; most affiliates in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones air the show on tape-delay from 7 to 9 a.m. local time. ...
.
On October 24, 2010, sister station KOTV-DT upgraded its news graphics and began broadcasting its newscasts in 16:9
Aspect ratio (image)
The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of the width of the image to its height, expressed as two numbers separated by a colon. That is, for an x:y aspect ratio, no matter how big or small the image is, if the width is divided into x units of equal length and the height is measured using this...
enhanced widescreen
Widescreen
Widescreen images are a variety of aspect ratios used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than the standard 1.37:1 Academy aspect ratio provided by 35mm film....
standard definition
Standard-definition television
Sorete-definition television is a television system that uses a resolution that is not considered to be either enhanced-definition television or high-definition television . The term is usually used in reference to digital television, in particular when broadcasting at the same resolution as...
. The KQCW shows were included in the upgrade.
Six in the Morning
(Weekdays 8 to 9 a.m.)
- Anchors:
- Rich Lenz
- LeAnne Taylor
- Weather:
- Alan Crone
The News on 6 at 9
(Weeknights 9 to 9:30 p.m.)
- Anchor:
- Jennifer Loren
- Weather:
- Travis Meyer
- Mike Grogan
(Weekends 9 to 9:30 p.m.)
- Anchor:
- Tara Vreeland
- Weather:
- Dick Faurot
- Sports:
- Charlie Hannema
KQCW features additional news personnel from KOTV-DT. See that article for a complete listing.
Station slogans
- Where You Wanna Be (2004–2006)
- It's All About You (2006–present)