KLWY

KLWY
Semi-satellite of KFNB, Casper, Wyoming
Cheyenne, Wyoming/Scottsbluff, Nebraska; United States;
City	Cheyenne, Wyoming
Channels	Digital: 27 (UHF); Virtual: 27;
Branding	Fox 27 KLWY Cheyenne; ABC 16 KKTQ Cheyenne (DT2); Me-TV Wyoming (DT3); "Your Wyoming Link" (newscasts);
Programming
Affiliations	27.1: Fox; 27.2: ABC; 27.3: MyNetworkTV/MeTV; 27.4: Ion Television; 27.5: Cozi TV; 27.6: Laff; 27.7: Defy TV;
Ownership
Owner	Coastal Television; (FRTV License LLC);
Sister stations	KKTQ-LD
History
First air date	August 5, 1994; 30 years ago
Former affiliations	UPN (secondary, 1995–2006)
Call sign meaning	Laramie County, Wyoming
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	40250
ERP	169 kW
HAAT	232 m (761 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	41°3′0.5″N 104°53′33.5″W / 41.050139°N 104.892639°W
Links
Public license information	Public file; LMS;
Website	yourwyominglink.com

KLWY (channel 27) is a television station in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States, affiliated with the Fox and MeTV networks. The station is owned by Coastal Television, and maintains a transmitter southwest of Cheyenne along I-25.

KLWY is a semi-satellite of KFNB (channel 20), the Fox affiliate in Casper. The two stations air nearly the same programming with separate station identifications and commercials, and are operated from KFNB's studios on Skyview Drive in Casper.

History

KLWY signed on August 5, 1994,^[6] as the third full-fledged commercial station in eastern Wyoming following KGWN-TV in 1954 and KQCK in 1987. It immediately joined Fox; previously, Denver's KDVR was carried by some cable providers in southeastern Wyoming, but much of the eastern portion of the state did not receive Fox programming at all as this was one of the few areas of the country where cable was not yet readily available. It took 13 years for KLWY to launch; the construction permit had been issued August 4, 1981, to the Chrysostom Corporation, which owned Casper's KCWY-TV (channel 14).^[7]^[8] It then was sold in 1983 to Heart of Wyoming Television,^[9] which was the original owner of Casper's channel 20 (when it was KXWY-TV).^[10] Wyomedia, which became the owner of the Casper station in the early 1990s, then acquired KLWY in 1992.^[11]

KLWY carried a secondary affiliation with UPN until the network closed in September 2006.

Until 2004, KLWY's programming was simulcast on K26ES in Casper and K11RN in Douglas. Wyomedia converted these two stations into full-time UPN affiliates in 2004, then to CW affiliates after UPN's closure. K26ES is now KWYF-LD, an affiliate of MyNetworkTV and MeTV; its programming is simulcast in Cheyenne on the third subchannel of KLWY.

KLWY made the switch to digital on February 17, 2009.

KLWY did not air its own newscasts per se, however it utilized NewsNet for a 9 p.m. local broadcast; the only other newscast on the station was a rebroadcast of Good Morning Wyoming from KTWO-TV in Casper. However, KTWO's programming, including ABC programming and its newscasts, are simulcast on a digital subchannel of KLWY.

Wyomedia Corporation agreed to sell its stations to Legacy Broadcasting on February 8, 2018;^[12] the sale was canceled on October 2, 2018.^[13] On October 8, 2019, Wyomedia announced that it would sell its stations to Front Range Television, a subsidiary of Coastal Television Broadcasting Company (run by Bill Fielder); the sale was concurrent with Vision Alaska's purchase of KKTQ-LD (channel 16).^[14] Coastal Television and Vision Alaska (run by Stephen Brissette) already jointly operated stations in Alaska.^[3] The sale was completed on June 1, 2020.^[15]

By April 2022, NewsNet was dropped in favor of the Coastal-owned and partly-centralized News Hub, recently acquired from Waypoint Media.^[16]^[17]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KLWY^[18]
Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
27.1	720p	16:9	KLWY	Main KLWY programming / Fox
27.2	480i		KKTQ	ABC (KKTQ-LD)
27.3			MeTV	MyNetworkTV/MeTV (KWYF-LD)
27.4			ION	Ion Television
27.5			COZI	Cozi TV
27.6			LAFF	Laff
27.7			DEFY	Defy TV

Simulcast of subchannels of another station

KLWY originally signed on a digital signal at channel 28,^[19] and took part of the mandatory digital conversion^[20] on February 18, 2009, where it flash cut its analog signal. After the transition, KLWY returned to its position on channel 27, where it remains today. The station was quick to add KTWO as KKTQ, after KDEV-LP lost ABC affiliation, and MeTV came shortly afterwards. In 2019, KLWY signed on its fourth subchannel as Ion Television; followed by the fifth subchannel in January 2021 as Cozi TVl^[21] and two additional subchannels (TrueReal and Defy TV) in July 2021,^[22] bringing the total up to seven, the highest in Wyoming.

Translator

City of license	Callsign	Channel	ERP	HAAT	Facility ID	Transmitter coordinates
Scottsbluff, NE	K09YH-D	9	0.5 kW	−8 m (−26 ft)	167559	41°51′43.8″N 103°39′39.7″W / 41.862167°N 103.661028°W / 41.862167; -103.661028 (K09YH-D)