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| City | Lewiston, Idaho |
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| Branding | KLEW-TV;KLEW News (call letters are pronounced individually) |
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| History | |
First air date | December 7, 1955 (1955-12-07) |
Former channel numbers | Analog: 3 (VHF, 1955–2009) |
Call sign meaning | Lewiston |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 56032 |
| ERP | 133kW |
| HAAT | 349 m (1,145 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 46°27′27″N117°6′0″W / 46.45750°N 117.10000°W /46.45750; -117.10000 |
| Translator(s) | see§ Translators |
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| Website | klewtv |
KLEW-TV (channel 3) is atelevision station licensed toLewiston, Idaho, United States, affiliated withCBS. The station serves theLewis–Clark Valley andPalouse regions of north-centralIdaho and southeasternWashington, as well asWallowa County, Oregon. Owned bySinclair Broadcast Group, KLEW-TV maintains studios on 17th Street in Lewiston, and its transmitter is located nearClarkston, Washington.
Though identifying as a station in its own right, KLEW-TV is considered asemi-satellite ofKIMA-TV (channel 29) inYakima, which operates another semi-satellite,KEPR-TV (channel 19) inTri-Cities, Washington. KLEW and KEPRsimulcast all network andsyndicated programming as provided through KIMA, but air separate commercial inserts,legal identifications and weeknight newscasts, and have their own websites.Master control and some internal operations are based atKOMO Plaza (formerly Fisher Plaza) inSeattle.
The area that KLEW-TV serves, including Lewiston, is part of theSpokane, Washington television market, and the station is one of two CBS affiliates in the market, along withTegna Inc.–ownedKREM (channel 2), which is licensed to Spokane and typically considered as the primary CBS affiliate for the market. Both stations are carried onDish Network andDirecTV throughout the market.
KLEW-TV signed on the air December 7, 1955, under the ownership ofCascade Broadcasting. It has always been a CBS affiliate; however, as a satellite of KIMA-TV, it also carried some programming fromABC andNBC in its early years.[2] The station's original studio facilities were located on Idaho Street in Lewiston.
Filmways agreed to purchase Cascade Broadcasting for $3 million in 1968;[3] the sale was approved the following year.[4] Filmways sold KLEW-TV, KIMA-TV, and KEPR-TV to NWG Broadcasting for $1 million in 1972.[5] In 1977, KLEW moved from its original studios on Idaho Street to its current location on 17th Street.
Retlaw Enterprises acquired the NWG stations, including KLEW-TV, for $17 million in 1986;[6] the stations were operated as part of the Retlaw Broadcasting division.[7] Fisher Companies (later known asFisher Communications) agreed to purchase the Retlaw stations for $215 million on November 19, 1998,[8] a deal that was completed in July 1999.[9] On April 11, 2013, Fisher announced that it would sell its properties to theSinclair Broadcast Group;[10] the deal was completed on August 8, 2013.[11]
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KLEW-TV airs local newscasts weeknights at 5, 6 and 11 p.m., local news cut-ins during the weekday edition ofCBS Mornings from 7 to 9 a.m., that includes a short 5-minute interview segment calledNorthwest Morning, and simulcasts sister stationKIMA-TV's 5 and 6:30 a.m. newscasts, as KLEW does not have morning, midday or weekend newscasts.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 3.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | CBS3 | CBS |
| 3.2 | 480i | Charge! | Charge! | |
| 3.3 | Comet | Comet | ||
| 3.4 | TBD | Roar |
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