KWKB

KWKB
Iowa City, Iowa United States

Branding	Eastern Iowa's CW
Slogan	TV Now!
Channels	Digital: 25 (UHF) Virtual: 20 (PSIP)
Subchannels	20.1 KWKB (The CW) 20.2 The Works
Affiliations	The CW
Owner	KM Communications, Inc. (KM Television of Iowa, LLC)
First air date	August 30, 1999
Call letters' meaning	K Warner K Brothers (after former affiliation)
Former channel number(s)	20 (UHF analog, 1999–2009)
Former affiliations	The WB (1999–2006) MyNetworkTV (secondary, 2006–2011) Antenna TV (20.2, 2011–2015)
Transmitter power	1000 kW
Height	1455.7 ft
Facility ID	35096
Transmitter coordinates	41°43′29.2″N 91°21′10.2″W / 41.724778°N 91.352833°W / 41.724778; -91.352833
Licensing authority	FCC
Public license information:	Profile CDBS
Website	www.kwkb.tv

KWKB is a television station that broadcasts on digital channel 25 and is the CW affiliate for Eastern Iowa. KWKB is licensed to Iowa City, but its studios and transmitter are located on Baker Avenue in West Branch. KWKB serves the greater Eastern Iowa area including Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, and Dubuque (its signal also reaches the Quad Cities, but cable television systems in that area carry KGCW instead). Syndicated programming on KWKB includes Law & Order SVU, The Wendy Williams Show, The Jerry Springer Show, King of the Hill, and How I Met Your Mother, among others.

History

KWKB signed on the air August 30, 1999. It carried the full WB and Kids' WB lineups.

From September 5, 2006 to September 16, 2011, KWKB was affiliated with both The CW as a primary network and MyNetworkTV as a secondary network. When KNVA in Austin, Texas became a sole CW affiliate in October 2009 after carrying MyNetworkTV as a secondary affiliation, KWKB became the only station in the country to have carried the full CW and MyNetworkTV lineups including The CW's Saturday morning children's block Toonzai (although CW affiliates KCWI in Des Moines, WLMT in Memphis, Tennessee and KXVO in Omaha carried WWE SmackDown from MyNetworkTV until that show moved to cable channel Syfy in October 2010).

"My KWKB" logo, used during MyNetworkTV programming from September 5, 2006 to September 16, 2011.

Until September 16, 2011, KWKB aired MyNetworkTV programming from 9-11 p.m., immediately following CW programming. The satellite feeds for MyNetworkTV and The CW are actually aired at the same time, so MyNetworkTV programming was recorded and broadcast two hours after it is played by other MyNetworkTV affiliates. However, as of September 19, 2011, KWKB dropped MyNetwork TV in favor of syndicated fare. This briefly left the Cedar Rapids market one of two markets in Iowa without an affiliate for the network until October 3, when Des Moines's This TV affiliate KDMI re-affiliated with the network (as a secondary affiliation) after it had initially dropped it in 2009. However, as of October 2011, KCRG-TV digital channel 9.2 is carrying the MyNetworkTV programming service, however, that station is airing the service's programming from 12:05-2:05 a.m. KWKB was the last CW-affiliated station that carried MyNetworkTV on the same feed as The CW until 2014, when Columbia, South Carolina's existing MyNetworkTV affiliate WKTC added a primary CW affiliation while retaining MyNetworkTV as a secondary affiliation on its main channel.

KWKB is currently expected to lose the CW when their charter 10-year affiliation agreement expires in September 2016, when KWWL will assume the affiliation on their second subchannel.^[1]

Digital channels

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP short name	Programming
20.1	1080i	16:9	KWKBHD	Main KWKB programming / The CW
20.2	480i	4:3	KWBK20-	The Works

In February 2011, KWKB began carrying the Antenna TV network on digital subchannel 20.2 until January 2015 when Antenna TV moved to KCRG-TV's digital subchannel 9.3. As of December 2015, KWBK is the only "Major 6" network affiliate with The Works.

References

↑ Staff report (12 April 2016). "CW Network Coming To KWWL; Cedar Rapids The Quincy Media NBC affiliate in Iowa is adding The CW on its ch. 7.2 beginning in September.". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved 13 April 2016.

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Television in eastern Iowa (including Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, Iowa City, and Dubuque)

Stations	KGAN (2.1 CBS, 2.2 GetTV) KWWL (7.1 NBC, 7.2 This TV, 7.3 MeTV) KCRG-TV (9.1 ABC, 9.2 MNTV, 9.3 Antenna TV) KIIN / KRIN (12.1/32.1 PBS/IPTV, 12.2/32.2 Create, 12.3/32.3 World) KWKB (20.1 CW, 20.2 The Works) KFXA (28.1 Fox, 28.2 ZUUS Country) KFXB-TV (40.1 CTN) K44FK 44 (silent) KPXR-TV (48.1 Ion, 48.2 qubo, 48.3 Ion Life, 48.4 Ion Shop, 48.5 QVC Over Air, 48.6 HSN)

Defunct	K17ET 17 (silent) KWWF (22.1 LeSEA/UPN/RTN/Ind/USTV)

Market coverage in Iowa counties	Allamakee Benton Black Hawk Bremer Buchanan Butler Cedar Chickasaw Clayton Delaware Dubuque Fayette Grundy Howard Howard Johnson Jones Keokuk Linn Tama Washington Winneshiek

See also Des Moines TV Rochester/Mason City TV Quad Cities TV Ottumwa/Kirksville TV Quincy TV Eau Claire/La Crosse TV Madison TV

CW Network affiliates in the state of Iowa

KTIV 4.2 (Sioux City) KWKB 20 (Iowa City/Cedar Rapids) KCWI 23 (Ames/Des Moines) KGCW 26 (Burlington/Quad Cities)

See also ABC CBS CW Fox Ion MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in Iowa

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