KCWV (channel 27) is a

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, United States,

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(TCT). The station's transmitter is located on the former

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tower on Duluth's Observation Hill.

History

The

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(FCC) granted George S. Flinn, III a

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for the digital-only station on channel 27 on December 6, 2006. The station signed on November 30, 2009. Flinn is a

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in Memphis and

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. At its start, KCWV was affiliated with

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. Within a year after the station debuted, it re-affiliated with Legacy TV, a small Christian broadcasting network. Towards the end of 2012, the religious network changed its name from Legacy TV to

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. During late October 2013, KCWV re-affiliated again with

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, a family-oriented television network. On September 17, 2014, it was announced that KCWV would be off the air for a couple of months, as its tower was undergoing replacement. It returned to the air on September 21, 2015 from a new, shorter tower. Since that point it has continued to broadcast intermittently, having been off the air from a period of the spring of 2018 until coming back in May 2019, continuing to carry AMGTV. The station has never sold local commercial advertising. On May 28, 2020, Flinn Broadcasting Corporation announced that it would sell KCWV, along with

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, and

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, to

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-based

for an undisclosed price. The sale was completed on September 15; the stations became

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s of the TCT network two days later.

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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References

External links

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Technical exhibit submitted as part of Flinn's application for a new station
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