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| City | Wolfforth, Texas |
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| KCBD,KJTV-TV,KJTV-CD,KLBB-LD,KMYL-LD,KXTQ-CD | |
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| Founded | February 23, 1998 |
First air date | February 9, 2001 (24 years ago) (2001-02-09) |
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Call sign meaning | Lubbock CW |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 77719 |
| ERP | 200kW |
| HAAT | 282.1 m (926 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°30′8.3″N101°52′21.3″W / 33.502306°N 101.872583°W /33.502306; -101.872583 |
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| Website | www |
KLCW-TV (channel 22) is atelevision station licensed toWolfforth, Texas, United States, serving theLubbock area as an affiliate ofThe CW Plus. It is owned byGray Media alongsideNBC affiliateKCBD (channel 11) and fourlow-power stations—MyNetworkTV affiliateKMYL-LD (channel 14),Snyder-licensedHeroes & Icons affiliateKABI-LD (channel 42),Class ATelemundo affiliateKXTQ-CD (channel 46) andMeTV affiliateKLBB-LD (channel 48). Gray also provides certain services toFox affiliateKJTV-TV (channel 34) and low-power Class A news formattedindependent stationKJTV-CD (channel 32) under ashared services agreement (SSA) withSagamoreHill Broadcasting. The stations share studios at 98th Street and University Avenue in south Lubbock, where KLCW-TV's transmitter is also located.
Prior to 2006, what was then called KWBZ operated solely as a local cable TV station and was owned and operated byKCBD-TV, the localNBC affiliate. At that time, channel 22 was occupied by KUPT, an affiliate ofUPN. OnJanuary 1, 2006, after the station was acquired by Ramar Communications, KUPT moved to channel 14 in Lubbock (nowMyNetworkTV affiliateKMYL-LD), and theWB affiliation moved to channel 22.
KWBZ-TV became a full power broadcast affiliate of The WB (viaThe WB 100+ Station Group as on cable) on January 1, 2006. Twenty-four days later,Warner Bros. Television, which owned The WB, andCBS Corporation, 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-TV was adopted on June 30, 2006) and a rebranding (Lubbock CW). The station's feed is still affiliated withThe CW Plus 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) toGray Television (owner of KCBD) for $10 million.[2] Concurrently,SagamoreHill Broadcasting would acquire sister station KJTV for $5 million.[3] Gray would provide services to KJTV through ashared services agreement.[4] The sale was completed on December 31.[5]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 22.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KLCW TV | The CW Plus |
| 22.2 | 480i | My LBB | MyNetworkTV (KMYL-LD) | |
| 22.3 | Crime | True Crime Network | ||
| 22.4 | QUEST | Quest | ||
| 22.5 | QVC | QVC | ||
| 22.6 | HSN | HSN | ||
| 34.34 | 720p | KCBD | Fox (KJTV-TV) |
Because it was granted an originalconstruction permit after theFCC finalized theDTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997,[7] the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, on or before February 17, 2009, the original date of the digital TV conversion for full-power stations, KLCW-TV would be required to turn off its analog signal and turn on itsdigital signal (called a "flash-cut"). As of September 2008, the station's digital signal began broadcasting on its pre-transition UHF channel 43, usingvirtual channel 22.
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