KLCW-TV (channel 22) is a

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licensed to

Wolfforth, Texas Wolfforth ( ) is a small town located in Lubbock County. The town was named for 2 brothers, George Wolffarth who was a rancher in the area, and Eastin Wolffarth who was Lubbock County Sherriff around 1900. The population was 3,670 at the 2010 cens ...

, United States, serving the Lubbock area as an affiliate of

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. It is owned by

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alongside NBC affiliate

KCBD KCBD (channel 11) is a television station city of license, licensed to Lubbock, Texas, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned Gray Television alongside Wolfforth, Texas, Wolfforth-licensed The CW Plus, CW+ affiliate KLCW-TV (channel 22) a ...

(channel 11) and four low-power stations— MyNetworkTV affiliate

KMYL-LD KMYL-LD (channel 14) is a low-power television station in Lubbock, Texas, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Television alongside NBC affiliate KCBD (channel 11) and Wolfforth-licensed CW+ affiliate KLCW-TV (channel ...

(channel 14), Snyder-licensed Heroes & Icons affiliate

KABI-LD KABI-LD, virtual channel 42 (UHF digital channel 32), is a low powered Heroes & Icons- affiliated television station licensed to Snyder, Texas, United States. The station is owned by Gray Television, making it a sister to Gray's duopoly of Lubbo ...

(channel 42), Class A

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affiliate KXTQ-CD (channel 46) and MeTV affiliate KLBB-LD (channel 48). Gray also provides certain services to

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affiliate

KJTV-TV KJTV-TV (channel 34) is a television station in Lubbock, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting alongside Wolfforth-licensed low-power, Class A news-formatted independent station KJTV- ...

(channel 34) and low-power Class A

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KJTV-CD KJTV-CD, virtual channel 32 (UHF digital channel 33), is a low-power, Class A news-formatted independent television station serving Lubbock, Texas, United States, that is licensed to Wolfforth. Owned by Augusta, Georgia–based SagamoreHill Bro ...

(channel 32) under a

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agreement (SSA) with

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. The stations share studios at 98th Street and University Avenue in south Lubbock, where KLCW-TV's transmitter is also located.

History

Prior to 2006, what was then called KWBZ operated solely as a local cable TV station and was owned and operated by

KCBD-TV KCBD (channel 11) is a television station city of license, licensed to Lubbock, Texas, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned Gray Television alongside Wolfforth, Texas, Wolfforth-licensed The CW Plus, CW+ affiliate KLCW-TV (channel 22) a ...

, the local NBC affiliate. At that time, channel 22 was occupied by KUPT, an affiliate of

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. On

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, 2006, after the station was acquired by Ramar Communications, KUPT moved to channel 14 in Lubbock (now MyNetworkTV affiliate

), and the WB affiliation moved to channel 22. KWBZ became a full power broadcast affiliate of

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(via

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as on cable) on January 1, 2006. Twenty-four days later, Warner Bros. Television, which owned The WB, and

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, owner of UPN (channel 22's former network as KUPT), announced a merger of those two networks to take effect on September 18, 2006; the new network operating under the name of "The CW". KWBZ signed on to become a CW affiliate, resulting in new call letters (KLCW was adopted on June 30, 2006) and a rebranding (Lubbock CW). The station's feed is still affiliated with

with local inserts and advertising placed by KJTV-TV and Ramar. On October 19, 2020, Ramar announced that it would sell KLCW (and its accompanied low-power stations) to

(owner of KCBD) for $10 million. Concurrently,

would acquire sister station KJTV for $5 million. Gray would provide services to KJTV through a

agreement. The sale was completed on December 31.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion

Because it was granted an original

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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 or before February 17, 2009, which was supposed to be the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KLCW-TV would be required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its

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(called a "

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"). As of September 2008, the station's digital signal began broadcasting on its pre-transition UHF channel 43. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's

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as its former UHF analog channel 22.

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