KJCW
| Sheridan, Wyoming | |
|---|---|
| Channels | Digital: 7 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | Defunct |
| Owner | Western Family Television, Inc. |
| First air date | April 2002 |
| Last air date | May 9, 2009 |
| Former callsigns | KBNM (2002) KSWY (2002–2010) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 7 (2002–2009) |
| Former affiliations | CBS (via KTVQ, 2002) NBC (2002–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 125 watts |
| Height | -52 m |
| Facility ID | 81191 |
| Transmitter coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
KJCW, channel 7, was a television station in Sheridan, Wyoming, most recently owned by Western Family Television. Its license was canceled and call sign deleted on December 23, 2010.[1]
History
The station signed on in April 2002 as KBNM under the ownership of Sunbelt Communications Company. The station displaced K07HC, a translator for CBS affiliate KTVQ in Billings, Montana, to channel 9 as K09XK; in its earliest months, KBNM served as a temporary satellite of KTVQ, but with plans to become an NBC affiliate.[2] After joining NBC, the station, which was renamed KSWY on November 1, 2002,[3] served as a pass-through for NBC programming, with virtually no local content (including commercials);[4] this ended on September 1, 2003,[5] at which point it became a satellite of sister station KCWY in Casper, Wyoming (which joined NBC that same day).
In 2008, Sunbelt exchanged KSWY to Western Family Television in exchange for KJCW-LP (channel 29),[6] which had previously been listed as a JCTV affiliate.[7] When the sale closed on May 9, 2009, KSWY went silent due to the loss of its tower site;[8] its programming then moved to channel 29, renamed KSWY-LP. The KSWY callsign remained on channel 7 as well until May 4, 2010, when it took the KJCW callsign abandoned by KSWY-LP a year prior.[3] The station proposed to return to the air (with the JCTV programming previously seen on KJCW-LP/KSWY-LP) from a temporary site as it continued to seek a permanent transmitter location.[9] On December 23, 2010, the FCC canceled its license and deleted the KJCW call sign; it is unknown whether the licensee or the FCC initiated the action.[1] As an affiliate of KTVQ, the station's transmitter was co-located with KPRQ 88.1 FM just off Red Grade Road southwest of Sheridan. KTVQ now operates a translator on channel 9 (K09XK-D]) from the same site.[10]
References
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