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KCWX (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Fredericksburg, Texas, United States. It is programmed primarily as an independent station, but maintains a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV. Although Fredericksburg is within the Austin media market, the station is officially assigned by Nielsen to the larger San Antonio market, and its signal covers the San Antonio and Bexar County area. KCWX is owned by Austin-based Corridor Television and has main studios in Austin on West Avenue. Its main transmitter is located on the Gillespie–Kendall county line, with additional transmitters in Austin, San Antonio, Hondo, Mountain Home, and Llano.
Channel 2 was inserted into Fredericksburg in 1986, leading to a twelve-way battle for the allotment, which had the potential to serve Austin and San Antonio from one transmitter. In 1993, the Federal Communications Commission review board favored a consortium of former San Antonio Spurs owner Red McCombs and broadcast executive Bob Roth. Roth died in 1995 on a scouting trip near the proposed transmitter site. Appeals from the comparative hearing process continued until 1998, when the commission awarded the permit to Corridor Television, a merger of the McCombs–Roth group and a company owned by the Tawil family of Austin. The group contracted with the Belo Corporation, owner of TV stations in both cities, to run channel 2, which began broadcasting as a UPN affiliate on August 3, 2000. The station also served as a home for San Antonio Spurs basketball games in its first season on the air. The station struggled on several fronts. The station was carried on cable almost from the beginning in San Antonio but was not added for a full year in Austin. By then, the Spurs had moved their games off of KBEJ, citing issues with its signal in the San Antonio market and a decline in ratings.
UPN and The WB merged to form The CW in 2006. KBEJ changed its original sequential call sign to KCWX and became the CW affiliate in the San Antonio market. The new network also affiliated with Austin's ex-WB outlet, KNVA, leading to KCWX's removal from Austin cable systems. In 2010, Corridor lost the CW affiliation to KMYS of San Antonio, and Belo ceased programming the station. Since then, it has been a MyNetworkTV outlet.
If we can get cable out of Fredericksburg into San Antonio and Austin, we'd have a big market.
In 1986, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added a channel 2 assignment to Fredericksburg, located 67 miles (108 km) from Austin and 63 miles (101 km) from San Antonio; the allotment was possible without interfering with channel 2 stations in Nuevo Laredo to the south, Midland to the west, Denton to the north, and Houston to the east. With Fredericksburg located almost halfway between two media markets, the availability of a VHF station that could potentially serve both attracted attention from prospective owners. In June 1987, the FCC designated twelve applicants for comparative hearing. Some of the applicants, notably the Telemundo network, dropped out in the months following the hearing designation order. Administrative law judge Edward Luton made his initial decision on who should be granted the channel out of six contenders in June 1989; he selected Stonewall Television, owned by Marquis Whittington and Robert Simmons. The FCC's review board overturned this decision in 1993 and gave the nod to Fredericksburg Channel 2, a consortium headed by former San Antonio Spurs owner Red McCombs and Bob Roth, a former manager and son of the owner of KONO-TV (channel 12) in San Antonio in the 1950s and 1960s.
As appeals continued on the 1993 decision, tragedy struck. On October 20, 1995, Roth and two executives from the Hearst Corporation took a trip to scout the area and view the proposed transmitter site. The car they were traveling in was involved in a head-on collision south of Stonewall; Roth died at the age of 73. No one was wearing seat belts at the time of the accident.
In 1996, Fredericksburg Channel 2 merged with one of its five competing applicants: Global Information Technologies of Austin, a company owned by Carmen and Saleem Tawil. The Tawils had previously built and sold a low-power independent TV station in Austin, K13VC.
In August 1997, the FCC approved the combined application of Fredericksburg Channel 2 and Global and dismissed the other applicants, one of which, Frontier Broadcasting, challenged the dismissal in federal appeals court; Frontier had its application dismissed over transmitter site issues in 1989. With a construction permit in hand, the partnership, taking the name of Corridor Television, began building channel 2 in 1998. The call letters KBEJ, a sequential assignment, were given to the construction permit in May 1998.
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KCWX (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Fredericksburg, Texas, United States. It is programmed primarily as an independent station, but maintains a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV. Although Fredericksburg is within the Austin media market, the station is officially assigned by Nielsen to the larger San Antonio market, and its signal covers the San Antonio and Bexar County area. KCWX is owned by Austin-based Corridor Television and has main studios in Austin on West Avenue. Its main transmitter is located on the Gillespie–Kendall county line, with additional transmitters in Austin, San Antonio, Hondo, Mountain Home, and Llano.
Channel 2 was inserted into Fredericksburg in 1986, leading to a twelve-way battle for the allotment, which had the potential to serve Austin and San Antonio from one transmitter. In 1993, the Federal Communications Commission review board favored a consortium of former San Antonio Spurs owner Red McCombs and broadcast executive Bob Roth. Roth died in 1995 on a scouting trip near the proposed transmitter site. Appeals from the comparative hearing process continued until 1998, when the commission awarded the permit to Corridor Television, a merger of the McCombs–Roth group and a company owned by the Tawil family of Austin. The group contracted with the Belo Corporation, owner of TV stations in both cities, to run channel 2, which began broadcasting as a UPN affiliate on August 3, 2000. The station also served as a home for San Antonio Spurs basketball games in its first season on the air. The station struggled on several fronts. The station was carried on cable almost from the beginning in San Antonio but was not added for a full year in Austin. By then, the Spurs had moved their games off of KBEJ, citing issues with its signal in the San Antonio market and a decline in ratings.
UPN and The WB merged to form The CW in 2006. KBEJ changed its original sequential call sign to KCWX and became the CW affiliate in the San Antonio market. The new network also affiliated with Austin's ex-WB outlet, KNVA, leading to KCWX's removal from Austin cable systems. In 2010, Corridor lost the CW affiliation to KMYS of San Antonio, and Belo ceased programming the station. Since then, it has been a MyNetworkTV outlet.
If we can get cable out of Fredericksburg into San Antonio and Austin, we'd have a big market.
In 1986, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added a channel 2 assignment to Fredericksburg, located 67 miles (108 km) from Austin and 63 miles (101 km) from San Antonio; the allotment was possible without interfering with channel 2 stations in Nuevo Laredo to the south, Midland to the west, Denton to the north, and Houston to the east. With Fredericksburg located almost halfway between two media markets, the availability of a VHF station that could potentially serve both attracted attention from prospective owners. In June 1987, the FCC designated twelve applicants for comparative hearing. Some of the applicants, notably the Telemundo network, dropped out in the months following the hearing designation order. Administrative law judge Edward Luton made his initial decision on who should be granted the channel out of six contenders in June 1989; he selected Stonewall Television, owned by Marquis Whittington and Robert Simmons. The FCC's review board overturned this decision in 1993 and gave the nod to Fredericksburg Channel 2, a consortium headed by former San Antonio Spurs owner Red McCombs and Bob Roth, a former manager and son of the owner of KONO-TV (channel 12) in San Antonio in the 1950s and 1960s.
As appeals continued on the 1993 decision, tragedy struck. On October 20, 1995, Roth and two executives from the Hearst Corporation took a trip to scout the area and view the proposed transmitter site. The car they were traveling in was involved in a head-on collision south of Stonewall; Roth died at the age of 73. No one was wearing seat belts at the time of the accident.
In 1996, Fredericksburg Channel 2 merged with one of its five competing applicants: Global Information Technologies of Austin, a company owned by Carmen and Saleem Tawil. The Tawils had previously built and sold a low-power independent TV station in Austin, K13VC.
In August 1997, the FCC approved the combined application of Fredericksburg Channel 2 and Global and dismissed the other applicants, one of which, Frontier Broadcasting, challenged the dismissal in federal appeals court; Frontier had its application dismissed over transmitter site issues in 1989. With a construction permit in hand, the partnership, taking the name of Corridor Television, began building channel 2 in 1998. The call letters KBEJ, a sequential assignment, were given to the construction permit in May 1998.