KCWV

KCWV, virtual and UHF digital channel 27, is an AMGTV-affiliated television station licensed to Duluth, Minnesota, United States. The station is owned by Flinn Broadcasting Corporation. KCWV's transmitter is located on the former KDLH tower on Duluth's Observation Hill.

KCWV
Duluth, Minnesota
United States
ChannelsDigital: 27 (UHF)
Virtual: 27 (PSIP)
Programming
Affiliations27.1: AMGTV (2013–present)
Ownership
OwnerFlinn Broadcasting Corporation
(sale to Tri-State Christian Television pending[1])
(JSD Properties, LLC)
History
FoundedDecember 6, 2006
First air dateNovember 30, 2009 (2009-11-30)
Former affiliationsMy Family TV (2009–2010)
The Walk TV (2010–2013)
Call sign meaningStation launched with unrealized attempt at a CW affiliation
Technical information
Licensing authorityFCC
Facility ID166511
ERP40 kW
HAAT207 m (679 ft)
Transmitter coordinates46°47′7″N 92°7′16″W
Links
Public license informationProfile
LMS

History

The FCC granted George S. Flinn, III a construction permit for the digital-only station on channel 27 on December 6, 2006. The station signed on November 30, 2009.

Flinn is a Memphis businessman who, until 2007, owned Ion Television affiliates WPXX-TV in Memphis and WPXL-TV in New Orleans.

At its start, KCWV was affiliated with My Family TV. Within a year after the station debuted, it re-affiliated with Legacy TV, a small Christian broadcasting network. Towards the end of 2012, the religious network changed its name from Legacy TV to The Walk TV. During late October 2013, the KCWV re-affiliated again with AMGTV, a family-oriented television network.

On September 17, 2014, it was announced that KCWV would be off the air for a couple of months, as its tower was undergoing replacement. It returned to the air on September 21, 2015 from a new, shorter tower. Since that point it has continued to broadcast intermittently, having been off the air from a period of the spring of 2018 until coming back in May 2019, continuing to carry AMGTV.

On May 28, 2020, Flinn Broadcasting Corporation announced that it would sell KCWV, along with sister stations WWJX in Jackson, Mississippi, WBIH in Selma, Alabama, and WFBD in Destin, Florida, to Marion, Illinois-based Tri-State Christian Television for an undisclosed price pending Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval; once the sale closes (which is expected to happen in late summer or early fall of 2020), the station would become an owned-and-operated station of the TCT network and the first full-power religious station in the Duluth area.[1]

Digital channel
Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[2]
27.1480i4:3KCWVAMGTV
gollark: It has a surprisingly good algorithm for guessing whether people *intended* to blaspheme potatOS.
gollark: https://pastebin.com/W1NrsnQe
gollark: --choice 16 lyricly gollark
gollark: Or I could just steal the potatOS blasphemy detector logic.
gollark: I may need some sophisticated NLP to make it actually work properly, hm.

References
  1. "Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. May 28, 2020. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  2. RabbitEars TV Query for KCWV


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