airport serving starkville mississippi assigned the icao code kstf see george m. bryan airport . not to be confused with the cw affiliated television station in denver colorado kwgn tv or the nbc affiliated television station in portland oregon kgw . kgwn tv kstf kgwn cheyenne wyoming kstf scottsbluff gering nebraska united states branding cbs newschannel 5 kgwn general cbs 10 news kstf general nbc cheyenne on dt2 cheyenne cw on dt3 slogan your station general your nbc station on dt2 tv now on dt3 channels digital kgwn 30 uhf kstf 29 uhf virtual kgwn 5 psip kstf 10 psip subchannels 5.1 10.1 cbs 5.2 10.2 nbc kcwy dt 5.3 10.3 the cw translators 19 k19fx d laramie wy affiliations cbs owner gray television gray television licensee llc founded kgwn march 22 1954 kstf august 7 1955 call letters meaning kgwn greater wyoming network sister station s kcwy dt former callsigns kgwn kfbc tv 1954 1972 kycu tv 1972 1986 former channel number s kgwn 5 vhf analog 1954 2009 kstf 10 vhf analog 1955 2009 former affiliations abc primary 1954 1965 and 1976 1981 joint primary with cbs 1965 1969 and 1981 1984 secondary 1969 1976 nbc secondary 1969 1976 and 1984 1987 dumont secondary 1954 1955 transmitter power kgwn 459 kw kstf 2.7 kw height kgwn 162 m kstf 235 m class dt facility id kgwn 63166 kstf 63182 transmitter coordinates kgwn 41 6 3.0 n 105 0 18.0 w 41.100833 n 105.005000 w 41.100833 ; 105.005000 coordinates 41 6 3.0 n 105 0 18.0 w 41.100833 n 105.005000 w 41.100833 ; 105.005000 kstf 41 59 58.00 n 103 39 55.00 w 41.9994444 n 103.6652778 w 41.9994444 ; 103.6652778 kstf website www.kgwn.tv kgwn tv is the cbs affiliated television station for cheyenne wyoming . it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on uhf channel 30 or virtual channel 5.1 via psip from a transmitter in unincorporated laramie county west of cheyenne between i 80 u.s. 30 and wyo 225 . owned by gray television kgwn has studios on east lincolnway east 14th street i 80 business u.s. 30 in cheyenne . syndicated programming on the station includes who wants to be a millionaire wheel of fortune judge judy and dr. phil among others . it operates a digital fill in translator k19fx d channel 19 in laramie from a transmitter in unincorporated albany county near the medicine bow national forest s northwestern boundary . kstf in scottsbluff nebraska operates as a semi satellite of kgwn . this station broadcasts a high definition digital signal on uhf channel 29 or virtual channel 10.1 via psip from a transmitter along n 71 at the scotts bluff and sioux county line . it can also be seen locally in nebraska on charter channel 6 . the station is a full time simulcast of kgwn except for preempting dr. phil and wheel of fortune on weeknights in favor of recipe.tv justice for all with judge cristina perez and entertainment tonight . dr. phil and wheel of fortune are available to scottsbluff viewers on knep a satellite of rapid city south dakota based kota tv . kstf also airs separate legal identifications and local commercial inserts during all programming . although kstf s master control and most internal operations are based out of kgwn s cheyenne facility it maintains an advertising sales office on north 10th street n 71 business in gering nebraska . there is no separate web address for kstf but nebraska specific headlines are provided through kgwn s website . contents 1 digital channels 2 history 2.1 kgwn 2.2 semi satellites 2.3 recent changes 3 news operation 4 references 5 external links digital channels edit as of september 2008 kgwn broadcast a separate cbs feed on its second digital subchannel that specifically focused on northern colorado . although northern colorado is part of the denver market kgwn has long claimed northern colorado as part of its primary coverage area since its transmitter is close to the colorado border . it provides city grade coverage of fort collins loveland and greeley . it also provides grade b coverage as far south as longmont and boulder . it has long been carried on cable systems in fort collins loveland and greeley alongside denver s cbs affiliate originally kmgh tv and now network owned and operated kcnc tv . additionally many cable systems in wyoming carry both kgwn and kcnc . although identified as a separate outlet in its own right northern colorado 5 kgwn dt2 was actually operated as another semi satellite of kgwn . it cleared all network programming as provided through its parent as well as syndicated shows although some programs were seen at a different time . kgwn dt2 also aired separate identifications and commercials . at part of its programming focus on colorado the station aired a separate newscast weeknight at 10 see below . on december 19 2013 kgwn announced that it would close northern colorado 5 citing the inability to make the service a viable long term operation . 1 the 5.2 slot has since been replaced with an nbc affiliate . most programming including news on this subchannel comes from sister station kcwy dt of casper the nbc affiliate for most of wyoming . however it brands as nbc cheyenne and airs separate identifications and commercials . kgwn operates the area s cw affiliate on a third digital subchannel which carries the branding cheyenne cw . the channel is carried on bresnan communications channel 2 and in nebraska on charter channel 18 . kgwn s semi satellite kstf did not offer any subchannels until upgrades to the microwave link connecting the stations were made in the mid 2010s ; additionally as the link used analog equipment kstf could only broadcast in standard definition . 2 however kgwn s high definition feed was carried in scottsbluff on charter digital channel 785 . as of 2015 update kstf broadcasts in high definition and carries the kgwn subchannels . channel video aspect psip short name programming 3 4 5.1 10.1 720p 16 9 kgwn hd main kgwn tv programming cbs 5.2 10.2 kgwn nc kcwy dt nbc 5.3 10.3 480i 4 3 kchw cw cheyenne cw history edit kgwn edit the station signed on the air on march 22 1954 as kfbc tv airing an analog signal on vhf channel 5 . it was owned by the mccraken family along with the wyoming state leader tribune and wyoming eagle later merged as wyoming tribune eagle and kfbc radio 1240 am . it is wyoming s oldest television station . for over 30 years it was the only commercial station in eastern wyoming . as such it carried programming from all four major networks of the time cbs nbc abc and dumont . however it was initially a primary abc affiliate . that may have seemed unusual as cheyenne has always been a rather small market . in most other small markets abc was usually relegated to secondary status due to being the smallest and weakest network . however kfbc radio had been an abc radio affiliate for many years . additionally there had been some speculation cheyenne would eventually be collapsed into the denver market since the area is only a few miles from the colorado border . in 1972 the mccrackens were forced to break up their media empire due to an fcc rule that barred one person from owning the sole newspaper radio station and television station in a city . they sold their television stations to wyneco communications a subsidiary of toledo based edward lamb which changed the call letters of the flagship station to kycu tv . then on july 11 1976 it switched its primary affiliation to abc and dropped all nbc programming . kevn opened on channel 7 in rapid city that day as a full time abc affiliate and kycu kstf felt obliged to fill the abc void in scottsbluff kota kduh now being nbc primary cbs secondary . however cheyenne viewers were still able to view the full schedules of all the three major networks because for many years cable systems supplemented the area with denver stations . wyneco sold the station to burke broadcasting in 1983 . when kota kduh switched to abc in june 1984 kycu kstf switched to cbs primary nbc secondary . burke broadcasting sold kycu to stauffer communications in 1986 who changed its call sign to the current kgwn tv on new year s day 1987 . the station began phasing out nbc programming in the early 1980s dropping the network entirely in 1987 when kktu now kqck signed on as a satellite of ktwo tv in casper . abc programming disappeared from the schedule by 1988 . when stauffer merged with morris communications in 1996 kgwn and most of the rest of stauffer s television holdings went to benedek broadcasting . that company went bankrupt in 2001 it merged with gray television a year later and kgwn was sold to chelsey broadcasting . in 2003 the station was acquired by sagamorehill broadcasting . semi satellites edit kstf signed on august 7 1955 as a semi satellite of what was then kfbc tv . in 1958 kota tv in rapid city south dakota put its own satellite station on the air in scottsbluff kduh . during the next twelve years there was a great amount of confusion among scottsbluff viewers especially when the two stations aired the same program simultaneously . both had unusual joint primary affiliations with abc and cbs from 1965 onwards . although kfbc kstf slightly favored abc and kota kduh slightly favored cbs it did not help the duplication problem . however in 1970 kduh along with kota dropped cbs for nbc . on december 28 1963 ktvs in sterling colorado signed on as another semi satellite serving northeastern colorado . in september 1999 benedek sold that station to the newsweb corporation which made it a satellite of denver s ktvd . in 2000 benedek ended most local operations at kgwc tv in casper and its two satellites kgwr tv in rock springs and kgwl tv in lander . the three stations became semi satellites of kgwn . in 2003 chelsey broadcasting agreed to sell all three to mark iii media a group that included former ktwo tv general manager mark nalbone . after the fcc dismissed several objections to the sale mark iii consummated the agreement to buy the stations on may 31 2006 . recent changes edit vehicle sporting the logos of cheyenne the cw and cbs 5 newschannel in 2013 . on september 18 2006 kgwn began carrying programming from the cw on a new second digital subchannel . this was dropped in september 2008 in favor of a standard definition simulcast of the main signal targeted towards northern colorado . the cw programming continued to be seen on area cable systems . on april 29 2009 the carriage contract of kgwn and cheyenne cw expired . this led to sagamorehill broadcasting making the demand bresnan cable remove the two channels resulting in approximately 30 000 customers reported as 80 % of their viewership losing access to local cbs and cw programming . the dispute hinged on the amount sagamorehill wanted to charge bresnan for the rights to carry the stations . kgwn waged a propaganda campaign in the days leading up to the end of the contract attempting to change bresnan cable customers to dish network . kgwn refused to post any comments on its site regarding customers who did not wish to see the contract renewed despite news coverage of the dispute having elicited numerous such comments . citation needed on may 8 2009 the stations were restored to the bresnan system . in december 2011 the cw programming was added to subchannel 5.3 and noco 5 programming on subchannel 5.2 was improved to 720p . in may 2013 sagamorehill broadcasting reached a deal to sell