kerrville texas branding cw 35 channels digital 32 uhf virtual 35 psip subchannels 35.1 the cw 35.2 american sports network affiliations the cw owner deerfield media deerfield media san antonio licensee llc operator sinclair broadcast group first air date november 6 1985 call letters meaning mynetworktv san antonio former affiliation sister station s woai tv kabb former callsigns krrt 1985 2006 former channel number s analog 35 uhf 1985 2009 former affiliations independent 1985 1986 fox 1986 1995 upn 1995 1998 the wb 1998 2006 mynetworktv 2006 2010 transmitter power 1 000 kw height 530.8 m facility id 51518 transmitter coordinates 29 36 38 n 98 53 33 w 29.61056 n 98.89250 w 29.61056 ; 98.89250 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website cw35.com kmys virtual channel 35 uhf digital channel 32 is a cw affiliated television station serving san antonio texas united states that is licensed to kerrville . the station is owned by deerfield media ; sinclair broadcast group which owns nbc affiliate woai tv channel 4 and fox affiliate kabb channel 29 operates kmys under a joint sales and shared services agreements . all three stations share studio facilities located off loop 410 in northwest san antonio and its transmitter is located in rural southeastern bandera county east northeast of lakehills . contents 1 history 1.1 early history 1.2 affiliations with fox and then upn 1.3 as a wb affiliate 1.4 switch to mynetworktv 1.5 as a cw affiliate 2 digital television 2.1 digital channel 2.2 analog to digital conversion 3 programming 4 newscasts 5 references 6 external links history edit early history edit the station first signed on the air on november 6 1985 as krrt ; it was the first english language general entertainment independent station in the san antonio market as well as the first english language commercial television station in san antonio since kono tv channel 12 now ksat tv signed on in january 1957 . the station was founded by the tvx broadcast group . prior to the station s launch san antonio was the largest television market in the united states that did not have an independent station . despite the large population of san antonio proper it had around 900 000 residents at the time the station signed on san antonio has always been a medium sized market because the surrounding suburban and rural areas then as now were not much larger than san antonio itself . san antonio had been large enough to support an independent since at least the early 1970s . however the market is a fairly large one geographically and uhf stations do not carry very well across large areas . by the early 1980s cable had gained enough penetration for a locally based independent to be viable . the station originally operated from studio facilities located in loop 410 near ingram park mall on the northwest side of the city . 1 shortly before its sign on the station built a 473.3 metres 1 553 ft guy wired aerial transmitter near lakehills to house its transmitter . affiliations with fox and then upn edit as part of a groupwide affiliation deal with tvx krrt became a charter affiliate of the fox broadcasting company when the network launched on october 5 1986 . paramount pictures acquired a minority ownership interest in tvx in 1989 ; it would acquire the remaining interest in the company in 1991 changing its name to the paramount stations group . at the time krrt was paramount s smallest television station by market size . in 1994 paramount entered into a partnership with chris craft industries which ironically owned nbc affiliate kmol tv channel 4 now woai tv at the time to create the united paramount network upn with krrt serving as the network s san antonio affiliate ; while chris craft industries was the sole owner of the network initially paramount supplied most of its programming paramount parent viacom acquired a 50 % interest in upn in 1996 . subsequently river city broadcasting signed an affiliation agreement for independent station kabb channel 29 to become the market s new fox affiliate . on january 16 1995 krrt became a charter affiliate of upn with kabb assuming the fox affiliation . later that year paramount sold the station to jet broadcasting which then entered into a local marketing agreement with river city . as part of the agreement kabb took over krrt s operations the arrangement was inherited by the sinclair broadcast group following its acquisition of river city in 1996 . jet broadcasting then sold the station to glencairn ltd. now cunningham broadcasting in 1997 . the family of sinclair founder julian sinclair smith owned 97 % of glencairn s stock glencairn was in turn to be paid with sinclair stock for the purchases . for all intents and purposes kabb and krrt were a duopoly in violation of fcc rules of the period . glencairn had owned eleven television stations nationwide that sinclair operated under lmas ; a later plan to sell five of its stations to sinclair outright prompted the rainbow push coalition headed by jesse jackson to file challenges citing concerns over a single company holding two broadcast licenses in one market and arguing that glencairn passed itself off as a minority owned company its president former sinclair executive edwin edwards is african american when it was really an arm of sinclair and used the lma to gain control of the station . 2 3 krrt moved its operations to kabb s studios on babcock road . as a wb affiliate edit on july 21 1997 sinclair signed an affiliation agreement with the wb to switch the affiliations of krrt and its four other upn affiliates to the network . 4 prior to the agreement san antonio residents were only able to receive the wb s programming through cable and satellite from the national superstation feed of the network s chicago affiliate wgn tv . krrt affiliated with the wb on january 25 1998 rebranding as wb 35 . as a result kmol tv began carrying upn programming during the overnight hours as a secondary affiliation ; the network would not have a full time affiliate or have its primetime programming air in pattern until fredericksburg licensed kbej channel 2 which at that time served both austin and san antonio signed on in august 2000 . in the following years krrt s syndicated programming inventory shifted away from sitcoms such as family matters the cosby show married ... with children and the andy griffith show and movies towards running more talk reality and court shows such as judge mills lane and judge judy . it also gradually reduced cartoons from its schedule including hercules the animated series doug the real adventures of jonny quest and pocket dragon adventures during the late 1990s eventually limiting them mainly to the wb provided programming block kids wb . after the fcc levied a 40 000 fine against sinclair in 2001 for illegally controlling glencairn 5 sinclair purchased krrt outright creating the market s first television duopoly with kabb . switch to mynetworktv edit on january 24 2006 the warner bros. unit of time warner and cbs corporation announced that the two companies would shut down the wb and upn and combine the networks respective programming to create a new fifth network called the cw . 6 7 on february 22 2006 news corporation announced the launch of a new sixth network called mynetworktv which would be operated by fox television stations and its syndication division twentieth television . 8 9 my35 logo utilized by the station until august 2010 . krrt was considered to be the likely candidate to become san antonio s cw affiliate since kbej had a rimshot signal that barely covered portions of the san antonio and austin metropolitan areas ; most residents in both markets needed cable or satellite to get an acceptable signal from kbej . however on march 2 2006 sinclair announced that most of its wb and upn affiliates including krrt would instead join mynetworktv ; the cw affiliation ultimately went to channel 2 which changed its call letters to kcwx shortly afterward ; this resulted in the station being dropped from time warner cable s austin system due to syndication exclusivity claims made by knva which became that market s cw affiliate . to reflect the new affiliation channel 35 s call letters were changed to kmys on june 19 2006 . in september 2006 kabb stopped carrying fox s children s program block 4kids tv ; that station had carried the network s children s programming since the january 1995 affiliation swap with channel 35 it was moved to kmys in order to accommodate the launch of a short lived weekend expansion of its morning newscast fox news first . the lineup remained on kmys until 4kids tv was discontinued by fox due to a dispute between the network and the block s lessee 4kids entertainment in december 2008 after which fox permanently discontinued providing network supplied children s programming . the infomercial block that replaced 4kids tv weekend marketplace was also rejected by kabb and likewise airs instead on kmys . as a cw affiliate edit on february 12 2010 sinclair broadcast group signed an agreement with the cw to move its san antonio affiliation from kcwx to kmys ; 10 as a result kmys became the market s cw affiliate on august 30 with the mynetworktv affiliation moving to kcwx ironically the call letters of both stations continue to reference the affiliations they assumed in september 2006 following the respective shutdowns of the wb and upn . 11 this affiliation swap made kmys the only television station in the united states to have been affiliated with all five of the major television networks that have debuted since 1986 . kmys retained weekend marketplace on saturday mornings but opted to air the cw4kids toonzai over two shorter blocks with the first two hours airing from 3 00 to 5 00 a.m. on sunday mornings and the last three hours of the block airing from 2 00 to 5 00 a.m. on monday mornings . toonzai was replaced by vortexx on august 25 2012 ; however kmys continued to air that block in those same timeslots . likewise vortexx s successor litton entertainment s one magnificent morning is carried in the same scheduling pattern kmys will continue to meet their three hours of e i programming with syndicated programming on airing weekday mornings and weekends . as such it is one of a handful of cw affiliates that does not air the network s children s program block in pattern and one of the few stations in the country that air their affiliated network s children s programming at a time when the lineup s target audience would likely require the use of a dvr or other recording equipment to watch wisn tv in milwaukee aired the non e i programming from abc s now defunct abc kids lineup on early monday mornings before world news now in 2005 before receiving network permission to drop it entirely . on july 19 2012 sinclair announced that it would sell the license assets of kmys to deerfield media which acts in a similar structure to glencairn cunningham broadcasting in its relationship with sinclair in order to comply with fcc duopoly regulations following its purchase of woai tv from newport television . as woai and kabb respectively ranked at fourth and fifth place with kmys ranking sixth overall in the san antonio market in terms of sign on to sign off viewership the formal creation of the new duopoly between woai and kabb and the sale of kmys to deerfield received federal communications commission approval that november . the transactions were completed on december 3 2012 ; however sinclair retained control of kmys s operations through joint sales and shared services agreements .