fredericksburg texas branding kcwx slogan fresh.local.fun channels digital 5 vhf virtual 2 psip subchannels 2.1 mynetworktv 2.2 this tv translators 8 vhf austin 8 vhf san antonio construction permits affiliations mynetworktv owner corridor television llp first air date august 3 2000 call letters meaning the cw texas former affiliation former callsigns kbej 2000 2006 former channel number s analog 2 vhf 2000 2009 former affiliations upn 2000 2006 the cw 2006 2010 transmitter power 23.7 kw height 412 m facility id 24316 transmitter coordinates 30 8 13 n 98 36 35 w 30.13694 n 98.60972 w 30.13694 ; 98.60972 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website www.kcwx.com kcwx virtual channel 2 vhf digital channel 5 is a mynetworktv affiliated television station located in fredericksburg texas united states . the station is owned by austin based corridor television . although fredericksburg is within the austin dma the station s signal covers the san antonio and bexar county area . kcwx maintains studio facilities in northwest san antonio and its transmitter is located on the gillespie kendall county line . contents 1 history 1.1 as a upn affiliate 1.2 as a cw affiliate 1.3 switch to mynetworktv 2 digital television 2.1 digital channels 2.2 analog to digital conversion 3 programming 4 references 5 external links history edit as a upn affiliate edit the station first signed on the air on august 3 2000 as kbej . it originally operated as a upn affiliate ; unusual for a network affiliated station channel 2 served as the upn station for two markets san antonio and austin ; in a rarity by modern standards when most the owners of most stations ask for a specific set of calls the call sign was sequentially assigned within the may 1998 fcc callsign change report . 1 prior to the station s sign on upn programming had been available in the san antonio market on krrt channel 35 now kmys from the network s launch in january 1995 until january 1998 when that station switched to the wb as a result of sinclair broadcast group which had operated the station at the time and acquired channel 35 outright three years later s affiliation agreement with that network ; 2 upn then was carried during the overnight hours on nbc affiliate kmol tv channel 4 now woai tv . in austin the network had been available first on a regional network of low power stations across central texas known as the hill country paramount network hpn and later on k13vc channel 13 . prior to the station s sign on corridor television entered into a local marketing agreement with belo then owners of cbs affiliate kens channel 5 . kbej originally maintained a separate feed for austin cable providers . under the lma with belo kbej s signal always originated from the company s headquarters in dallas but some of its programming was provided by kens and content decisions were controlled from that station s studios in the city s mockingbird hill district . austin abc affiliate kvue channel 24 provided the microwave link for channel 2 s stonewall transmitter and to time warner cable s austin system . the station s syndicated programming at the time during the dual market focus usually consisted of lower tier and older programs in order to avoid syndication exclusivity blackouts in either market ; after the station began to exclusively target san antonio its syndicated inventory has continued incorporate lower profile programming somewhat while the entire overnight schedule has been leased to paid programming distributors to run infomercials . the kens and kvue master controls located in their respective cities were completely independent from the dallas campus and kbej . when kbej first signed on time warner cable was not willing to place kbej on its austin system which caused protests from fans of star trek voyager who were unable to watch the series final season . this led to many fans downloading illegal copies of the episodes from the internet or trading taped copies with friends in other cities with a upn station . although upn frowned officially upon this practice unofficially the network and its parent company paramount pictures turned a blind eye in this instance due to the circumstances of the situation . in 2001 time warner cable signed a carriage agreement to transmit kbej allowing cable subscribers in the market to once again be able to view upn programming . as a cw affiliate edit kcwx logo as cw affiliate used from september 18 2006 to september 1 2010 . 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 . 3 4 on march 28 corridor television signed an agreement to make kbej san antonio s cw affiliate . 5 6 while the station was also expected to serve as the new network s austin affiliate on april 18 it was announced that the market s wb affiliate knva channel 54 would also be joining the cw . 7 on april 7 2006 the station changed its call letters to kcwx in order to reflect its new affiliation . 8 9 soon after the cw launched on september 18 2006 time warner cable began blacking out cw programming on kcwx in the austin market as knva owner lin tv corporation claimed syndication exclusivity for knva on october 2 . time warner continued to carry kcwx s non network programming until april 3 2007 when time warner cable officially dropped kcwx from its austin channel lineup . during its four year run as a cw affiliate kcwx aired the network s children s programming blocks kids wb and later the cw4kids in pattern . however when the affiliation moved to kmys in september 2010 the block then called toonzai which has since been replaced by vortexx was carried by that station over two days running in a lower profile slot during the early morning hours on sundays and mondays when the block s target audience of children between the ages of 8 and 12 years is usually asleep . switch to mynetworktv edit in sinclair broadcast group s annual report for 2009 that was released in march 2010 the company disclosed that it had signed an affiliation agreement to move the cw affiliation to its san antonio mynetworktv affiliate kmys on september 1 2010 . 10 the affiliation switch was eventually moved up two days to august 30 ; on that date the mynetworktv affiliation moved to kcwx . 11 with the then pending loss of its cw affiliation belo terminated its lma with corridor television on april 24 2010 forcing corridor to operate kcwx on its own . kcwx s run as a cw affiliate ended on august 28 2010 with the conclusion of the network s friday primetime programming which the station had delayed to saturday night to accommodate a major league baseball game . by that time the cw had discontinued its sunday primetime programming . as a result kcwx s last official day of its cw affiliation august 29 2010 featured mostly time shifted programming from this tv . with the affiliation switch wwe smackdown briefly returned to kcwx for the first time since 2008 when the cw dropped the program ; it moved to the syfy cable channel one month later . as had been the case during its cw affiliation kcwx does not serve the austin market as kbvo channel 14 serves as that market s mynetworktv affiliate . kcwx is one of fifteen mynetworktv affiliates that have not adopted the network s blue tv logo and or my channel number region branding scheme among the others include kpdx in portland oregon ksmo tv in kansas city wphl tv in philadelphia ; kzjo in seattle ; wuab in cleveland ; subchannel only affiliates wytv tv in youngstown ohio and wisc tv in madison wisconsin ; and former affiliate kaut tv in oklahoma city ; ksmo tv wphl tv and wstr tv in cincinnati each currently use the blue mynetworktv logo but not the my branding . in early 2011 kcwx launched a new website www.kcwx.com . digital television edit digital channels edit the station s digital channel is multiplexed channel video aspect psip short name programming 12 2.1 1080i 16 9 kcwx hd main kcwx programming mynetworktv 2.2 480i 4 3 kcwx sd this tv 13 shortly after kcwx signed on its digital signal the station launched a second digital subchannel that would serve as the san antonio affiliate of this tv . analog to digital conversion edit because it was granted an original construction permit after the federal communications commission finalized the dtv allotment plan on april 21 1997 1 the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station . instead on june 12 2009 which was the end of the digital television conversion period for full service stations kcwx was required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal . the station flash cut its digital signal into operation on vhf channel 5 ; as it chose that allocation as its final digital channel selection 14 it had to wait for cbs affiliate kens to shut down its analog signal before kcwx could bring its digital signal online using psip to display its virtual channel as its former analog channel 2 . in late may 2009 in a filing with the fcc 15 belo corridor stated that it would not have kcwx s digital signal ready to sign on on june 12 instead expecting it to be ready on july 10 due to weather delays . cable subscribers continued to view the station via a direct fiber connection of kcwx from kens to the time warner cable headend . corridor belo was able to negotiate with the tower installer to finish the construction of the tower earlier than expected ; kcwx s digital signal finally signed on the air on july 1 2009 . the signal reaches south of san antonio and southeast to nixon north to lampasas and west to junction . since kcwx operates its digital signal on a low band vhf channel kcwx filed with fcc to increase the station s effective radiated power from 23.7 kw to 82.9 kw . 16 it also filed an fcc application to launch two fill in digital translators that would broadcast on vhf channel 8 and transmit at 300 watts one in the immediate part of austin and the other in the immediate part of san antonio . 17 18 programming edit outside of the mynetworktv schedule syndicated programs broadcast by kcwx include paternity court the real that 70s show and castle among others . in january 2011 kcwx began airing roller derby matches from the austin based txrd lonestar rollergirls airing for two hours on saturday nights . the station also carries regular season major league baseball games from the texas rangers produced by dallas independent station ktxa . references edit mass media bureau call sign actions wb woos and wins sinclair broadcasting & cable july 21 1997 . retrieved june 8 2013 from highbeam research . gilmore girls meet smackdown ; cw network to combine wb upn in cbs warner venture beginning in september cnnmoney.com january 24 2006 . upn and wb to combine forming new tv network the new york times january 24 2006 . the cw signs 30 more affils broadcasting & cable march 28 2006 . the cw signs 30 new affiliates tvweek march 28 2006 . cw signs with lin for four more affils broadcasting & cable april 18 2006 . http www.mysanantonio.com news metro stories mysa040106 .04 b.cw affiliate.b797a29.html the cw plans a busy summer broadcasting & cable may 5 2006 . http biz.yahoo.com e 100305 sbgi10 k.html jakle jeanne august 18