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When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opened up bids for channel 7 in Waterloo, it was obvious that the license would either go to Sonderling Broadcasting, owner of KXEL (1540 AM), or R.J. McElroy and his Black Hawk Broadcasting Company, owner of KWWL (1330 AM, now KPTY). After a long legal battle, Black Hawk won the license, and ...
The frequency changed to 1330 a short time later, operating with 5,000 watts. McElroy formed KWWL-TV in 1953, and KWWL-FM (now KFMW) in 1968. KWWL was a very popular top 40 station until the format moved to KFMW in 1982. On February 16, 1981, KWWL became KWLO with the sale of the Black Hawk Broadcasting Company to Forward Communications.
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Cedar Rapids Waterloo: Cedar Rapids: 2 29 KGAN: CBS: Fox on 2.2, Quest on 2.3 : 9 32 KCRG-TV: ABC: MyNetworkTV on 9.2, The CW on 9.3
As of December 2008, this station was scheduled to go dark in 2009. According to the station's DTV status report, "On December 8, 2008, the licensee's parent corporation filed a petition for bankruptcy relief under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code...
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[1] [2] [3] Since 1974, he has been at KWWL, where he started as the sports director, and is Iowa's longest sitting anchor. KWWL-TV is the NBC affiliate for the Cedar Rapids–Waterloo–Iowa City–Dubuque television market. While he was still KWWL's sports director, he did play-by-play for NBC Sports and ESPN. He was the original play-by-play ...
KWWL may refer to: KWWL (TV) , a television station (channel 7 digital/virtual) licensed to serve Waterloo, Iowa, United States KPTY (AM) , an AM radio station (1330 AM) licensed to serve Waterloo, Iowa, which held the call sign KWWL from 1947 to 1980
KGAN (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, serving Eastern Iowa as an affiliate of CBS and Fox.It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to Dabl affiliate KFXA (channel 28, also licensed to Cedar Rapids) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Second Generation of Iowa, Ltd.