KCRG-TV (channel 9) is a

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licensed to

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, United States, serving Eastern Iowa as an affiliate of

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, and

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. Owned by

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, the station has studios on Second Avenue Southeast in downtown Cedar Rapids, and its transmitter is located near

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History

During the late 1940s, the ''

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'', then-owners of KCRG (1600 AM), filed an application with the

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(FCC) for a TV station license. At the time, the FCC had a backlog of over 200 applications and had decided not to proceed with action on further applications until the backlogged requests could be filled. After the backlog was cleared, many applications were filed for licenses. The Gazette Company didn't want to compete for a license and decided to withdraw the initial application. Instead, it joined with a number of other investors as Cedar Rapids Television Company (CRTV), which was granted a license for channel 9. The station began broadcasting October 15, 1953. Initially, the station was known as KCRI because the other investors didn't want the new television station so closely identified with the ''Gazette'' newspaper. The radio station also took the KCRI call sign because one of the television station's managers suggested that every mention of "KCRG" on-air was a promotion for the newspaper—one for which the ''Gazette'' would have to pay each time. After about a year of operation, the ''Gazette'' bought out its partners in CRTV and the station was renamed KCRG-TV in 1954. From 1954 to 2015, the station remained under the ownership of Gazette Communications, which was renamed the SourceMedia Group in mid-2010. After the 1996 sale of

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, KCRG-TV was the only locally owned and operated television station left in Iowa. KCRG started broadcasting in

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in January 2003. The station also had the first news

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in Iowa, "NewsCopter 9". KCRG's broadcasts became digital-only, effective June 12, 2009. The station had attempted to convert on February 17, 2009 with the majority of other Cedar Rapids stations, but the FCC requested they maintain one analog commercial network signal for the market for the remaining four months. Upon KCRG-TV's digital transition completion in June 2009, the "KCRG-TV" callsign was legally transferred from the now-defunct

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channel 9 to the new digital channel 9, with the "KCRG-DT" callsign being permanently discontinued. In September 2015,

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-based

and Gazette Communications announced they had an agreement where Gray Television would buy KCRG-TV for $100 million, with the transfer taking place on October 1. The sale was completed on November 1. KCRG became a sister to

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in nearby

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after Gray purchased the

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affiliate as a condition of its owner,

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, merging with Nexstar Broadcasting Group (now

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), parent of rival

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. In 2019, Ottumwa station

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came under common ownership with KCRG when Gray completed its merger with

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, acquiring the

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/NBC-affiliated station outright from

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. On February 1, 2021, Gray announced it would purchase

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for $925 million. As Quincy owned the market's KWWL, Gray intended to

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that station and retain KCRG in order to satisfy FCC requirements. The sale was completed on August 2, making KCRG a sister to

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and

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, the latter of which serves the north-central portion of Iowa. The acquisition gives Gray stations in every market covering Iowa outside of Des Moines.

Subchannel history

As of June 15, 2008, KCRG launched a second digital subchannel called "KCRG 9.2", which originally aired a wheel schedule of local news, weather and features. The remainder of the screen had a news ticker, current weather conditions, rotating weather images and program listings. Over time, syndicated and locally produced programs were added, culminating in the addition of

to the subchannels in October 2011, one month after

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dropped the service and became a sole CW affiliate. However, MyNetworkTV's programming runs as a late-night offering on 9.2, airing from 12:05 to 2:05 a.m., five hours later than its usual prime time slot. Subchannel 9.2 is also used to air ABC network programming preempted on the main signal for breaking news coverage; a prime example was during the Great Iowa Flood of June 2008, when 9.2 carried ABC's coverage of the

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while 9.1 provided full coverage of the disaster. The schedule of 9.2 prominently features live and taped local sports coverage, including regular season and state championship coverage of

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, baseball,

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, and

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(the latter two sports are broadcast on Friday evenings). Also featured are coverage of the

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(

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hockey),

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(

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baseball), and

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athletics. Ancillary sports programming includes the discussion show ''On Iowa Live'' and the

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Foundation pro-am golf tournament. In late August 2011, KCRG added a third subchannel, 9.3, branded "WXNow" and featuring local forecasts and looping conditions originated locally from station weather computers. On October 1, 2013, the WXNow loop was moved to a
online-only streaming channel
on the station's website and replaced on 9.3 by the lifestyle-oriented

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. With Live Well slated to discontinue programming in January 2015, subchannel 9.3 joined

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that month, taking over the network's Eastern Iowa affiliation from KWKB (subchannel 20.2). At the start of March 2019, KCRG added two more subchannels on 9.4 and 9.5, carrying

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and

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respectively, as part of a multi-station deal with Gray and

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, which owns H&I and Start TV. The new subchannels were made possible with a

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upgrade which also resulted in KCRG-DT2 being upgraded to an HD presentation. On New Year's Day 2020, KCRG launched a new subchannel on channel 9.6 that is affiliated with

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, a country music-related TV network that was launched the same day. On August 2, 2021, Antenna TV temporarily left the Cedar Rapids market and was replaced by The CW on 9.3, taking the network's affiliation from KWWL-DT2. Also, Heroes & Icons was moved to KWWL-DT2 with Start TV and Circle leaving the Cedar Rapids market temporarily due to KCRG using up all available bandwidth within its multiplexer to allow broadcasting The CW in HD.

Programming

KCRG airs ''

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'' at 4 a.m. due to the 4:30 a.m. start of their newscasts. Syndicated programs on KCRG include ''

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'', ''

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'', ''The Good Dish'', and ''

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''. TV9 also carries

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games selected for broadcast by

. The station produces ''PowerHouse TV'', a program about energy efficiency and safety, for local utility

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, which airs on KCRG and stations throughout Alliant's service area in Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and small portions of Illinois and Missouri.

News operation

Currently, KCRG-TV broadcasts a total of 36 hours of local newscasts each week (with six hours each weekday and three hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). In addition to its main newsroom at its Cedar Rapids studios, the station also operates a satellite newsroom in

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. It previously operated news bureaus in

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and Waterloo. KCRG-TV is one of three remaining broadcast television stations in the United States employing the "24 Hour News Source" format, which it began using in 1990. The other stations are, as of November 2014: NBC affiliate

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and CW affiliate

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. Upon retirement, Meteorologist Denny Frary was the station's longest-running on-air personality, working for KCRG from 1974 until he retired November 17, 2006. Sports director John Campbell, who had been with the station since 1979, retired in 2012. News reporter Dave Franzman was with the station from September 11, 1978 until his retirement at the end of 2018, while Bruce Aune started anchoring at KCRG in 1986 until his retirement in March 2020. KCRG's first use of a satellite to broadcast 'live' (local) news was

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, 1982 when Sports Director John Campbell reported the

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had defeated the

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28-22 to win the

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in Atlanta. Use of satellite 'air time' was reported to be $3,000.00 a minute. On January 3, 2011, KCRG-TV expanded its weekday morning newscast by one half-hour, moving it to 4:30 a.m., creating a 2½ hour block of news each weekday morning. On January 21, 2012, KCRG-TV became the second station in the Cedar Rapids/Waterloo/Dubuque/Iowa City market to broadcast its newscasts in high definition. The switch to HD came with brand-new logo, graphics, news set and a new interactive touch screen that will be used for weather and other interactive storytelling. It is the largest interactive touch screen of its kind in the United States and the third largest in the world.

Notable current and former on-air staff

* Dick Fletcher – (1960s?–1970s?); died in 2008 *

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- anchor, later State Representative for Iowa's 67th district, now US Congresswoman for Iowa's 1st district *

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– anchor (1998–2007); then Horizons, Four Oaks in Cedar Rapids, now State Senator for Iowa's District 18 *

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– sports reporter (1984–1988); now co-host of ''

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'' *

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– news reporter (1950s);

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correspondent (1960s–1995); died in 1995

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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References

History Article
from the KCRG web site. Date Accessed: July 29, 2005. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Cedar Rapids Television Company. * Stein, Jeff, ''Making Waves: The People and Places of Iowa Broadcasting'' (). Cedar Rapids, Iowa: WDG Communications, 2004.

External links

Official website
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