KCWY-DT (channel 13) is a
television station in
Casper, Wyoming
Casper is a city in, and the county seat of, Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. Casper is the second-largest city in the state, with the population at 59,038 as of the 2020 census. Only Cheyenne, the state capital, is larger. Casper is nic ...
, United States, affiliated with
NBC and
The CW Plus. Owned by
Gray Television
Gray Television, Inc. is an American publicly traded television broadcasting company based in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1946 by James Harrison Gray as Gray Communications Systems, the company owns or operates 180 stations across the United St ...
, the station has studios on Progress Circle in
Mills, Wyoming
Mills is a town in Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. It is part of the Casper, Wyoming Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,461 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Mills is located at (42.846815, -106.378658).
According to the ...
, and its transmitter is located atop
Casper Mountain
Casper Mountain, an anticline, is located at the north end of the Laramie Mountains overlooking Casper, Wyoming along the North Platte River. At a top elevation of , the geological feature rises approximately above Casper.
Recreation
Ca ...
.
KCWY-DT serves as the NBC affiliate for most of Wyoming. The station is relayed on
low-powered translator K28HL-D (channel 28) in
Riverton, which is owned by the Riverton-Fremont TV Club, Inc. KCWY's programming was also
simulcast on the second
digital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a method of transmitting more than one independent program stream simultaneously from the same digital radio or television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compress ...
of
KSGW-TV (channel 12) in
Sheridan
Sheridan may refer to:
People
Surname
*Sheridan (surname)
*Philip Sheridan (1831–1888), U.S. Army general after whom the Sheridan tank is named
*Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), Irish playwright (''The Rivals''), poet and politician
...
until January 1, 2019, and on KSWY-LP (channel 29) in Sheridan, KCHY-LP (channel 13) in
Cheyenne 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
KTWO-TV
KTWO-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Casper, Wyoming, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Vision Alaska LLC, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Coastal Television Broadcasting Company LLC, owner of ...
(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
SagamoreHill Broadcasting
SagamoreHill Broadcasting LLC is a privately held American holding company that owns 13 television stations based in the Great Lakes and southern United States regions. The company is a joint venture of the investment firm Duff Ackerman & Goodric ...
was also selling to Yellowstone through a separate deal.
On November 4, 2013,
Gray Television
Gray Television, Inc. is an American publicly traded television broadcasting company based in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1946 by James Harrison Gray as Gray Communications Systems, the company owns or operates 180 stations across the United St ...
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
The CW Plus on a subchannel of KCWY on January 26, 2015.
KCWY was also seen in
Sheridan
Sheridan may refer to:
People
Surname
*Sheridan (surname)
*Philip Sheridan (1831–1888), U.S. Army general after whom the Sheridan tank is named
*Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), Irish playwright (''The Rivals''), poet and politician
...
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
Rapid City, South Dakota, television market. As a result of
KNBN, 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 ''
Jeopardy!'' 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
KGWC-TV
KGWC-TV (channel 14) is a television station in Casper, Wyoming, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Big Horn Television LLC, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Coastal Television Broadcasting Company LLC, own ...
(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
Translators
See also
* ''
Hawaii News Now'' (a similar joint news operation based in
Honolulu, Hawaii)
References
External links
*
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NBC network affiliates
The CW affiliates
Start TV affiliates
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Television channels and stations established in 2001
2001 establishments in Wyoming
CWY-DT
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Natrona County, Wyoming