KCWY-DT (channel 13) is a

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, United States, affiliated with NBC and

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. Owned by

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, the station has studios on Progress Circle in

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, and its transmitter is located atop

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. KCWY-DT serves as the NBC affiliate for most of Wyoming. The station is relayed on low-powered

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K28HL-D (channel 28) in Riverton, which is owned by the Riverton-Fremont TV Club, Inc. KCWY's programming was also

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on the second

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of KSGW-TV (channel 12) in

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until January 1, 2019, and on KSWY-LP (channel 29) in Sheridan, KCHY-LP (channel 13) in

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and KWYM-LP (channel 14) in Laramie until July 13, 2021.

History

KCWY signed on the air in February 2001 as an affiliate of the Pax TV network. On September 1, 2003, KCWY became the new NBC affiliate in the Casper market after NBC severed its affiliation with longtime affiliate

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(channel 2). KCWY launched its first newscast (''News 13 First at Five'') on October 1, 2003. In 2008, 2011 and 2012, the Wyoming Association of Broadcasters named KCWY its ''Television Station of the Year''. In June 2013, Intermountain West Communications Company filed to sell KCWY to Frontier Radio Management, through subsidiary Yellowstone Holdings; the deal made it a sister station with KGWN-TV, which

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was also selling to Yellowstone through a separate deal. On November 4, 2013,

announced a deal to acquire Yellowstone Holdings for $23 million. As a result of the acquisition, KCHY-LP was consolidated with KGWN-TV. The sale was completed on December 31. Gray launched

on a subchannel of KCWY on January 26, 2015. KCWY was also seen in

on KSWY-LP, analog channel 29, and then as a subchannel of KOTA-TV satellite KSGW-TV when Gray bought KOTA and its network in 2016. Sheridan is located in the

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, television market. As a result of

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, that market's NBC affiliate, asserting its exclusive rights to NBC programming in Sheridan, and the network's support of KNBN in this endeavor, Gray removed the KCWY subchannel from KSGW-TV on January 1, 2019. On January 24, 2019, Gray announced that KCWY-DT would merge its news operation with KGWN-TV by April 9, under the ''Wyoming News Now'' banner, a banner similar to those used by some sister stations that were recently acquired from Raycom Media. Under this arrangement, KCWY's 5 p.m. newscast will be the only Casper-specific newscast, with ''

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'' replacing the 6 p.m. newscast, and all other newscasts being simulcast from KGWN in Cheyenne and covering both markets. Four of KCWY's 15 news staffers will be retained in Casper following the merger, with the remainder being offered positions at other Gray stations. The consolidation came after the Department of Justice (DOJ) blocked Gray's acquisition of the CBS affiliation of

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(channel 14), which would have given Gray a second revenue stream to cover KCWY's financial losses.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed: File:Casper News Now.png, Logo for Casper News Now File:Wyoming News Now.png, Logo for Wyoming News Now

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