List of former The CW television affiliates

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The CW is an American broadcast television network that originated in September 2006. Throughout its history, the network has had many owned-and-operated and affiliated stations.

This article is a table listing of former The CW stations, arranged alphabetically by state, and based on the station's city of license as well as its Designated Market Area; it is also accompanied by footnotes regarding the present network affiliation of the former The CW-affiliated station (if the station remains operational) and the current The CW affiliates in each of the listed markets, as well as any other notes including the reasons behind each station's disaffiliation from the network. There are links to and articles on each of the stations, describing their histories, local programming, and technical information, such as broadcast frequencies.

The station's advertised channel number follows the call letters. In most cases, this is their virtual channel (PSIP) number, which may match the channel allocation that the station originally broadcast on during its prior affiliation with the network.


State/City of license/Market	Station/Channel	Prior affiliate before the 2006 launch of The CW	Owner	Years of affiliation	Current affiliation	Current The CW affiliate	Notes
Alexandria, Louisiana	KBCA 41	The WB	Wilderness Communications, LLC	2006–2016	Heroes & Icons	KALB-TV 5.3	On December 15, 2015, Gray Television, which owns KALB-TV (channel 5), came to terms on an extension of their existing CW affiliations; the press release announcing the extension also revealed Gray agreed to a new affiliation agreement with The CW for the Alexandria market, placing the network on a new third digital subchannel of KALB-TV in the fall of 2016, meaning KBCA lost their network affiliation at that time.^[1]
Atlanta, Georgia	WUPA 69	UPN	CBS News and Stations (Paramount Global) (Atlanta Television Station WUPA Inc.)	2006–2023	Independent	WPCH-TV 17	On May 5, 2023, CBS News and Stations has the right to pull CW-owned stations under the Nexstar buyout deal on September 1, 2023.^[2]
Bloomington–Indianapolis, Indiana	WTTV 4	UPN (1995–January 1998) The WB (April 1998–2006)	Nexstar Media Group (Tribune Media Company)	2006–2014	CBS	WISH-TV 8	On August 11, 2014, Tribune Broadcasting announced that CW affiliate WTTV would become the market's CBS affiliate on January 1, 2015, as part of an agreement that also renewed the CBS affiliations on Tribune-owned stations in five other markets.^[3]
Branson, Missouri	K17DL-D 17.1	UPN	Branson Visitors TV, LLC (Gray Television (50.1%) Market Branson, LLC (49.9%))	2006–2009	Independent	KYCW-LD 24 and K17DL-D 17.2	N/A
Detroit, Michigan-Windsor, Ontario	WKBD-TV 50	UPN	CBS News and Stations (Paramount Global) (Detroit Television Station WKBD Inc.)	2006–2023	Independent	WADL 38 (until October 2023) WMYD 20 (since October 2023)	On May 5, 2023, CBS News and Stations has the right to pull CW-owned stations under the Nexstar buyout deal on September 1, 2023.^[2]
Fredericksburg–San Antonio, Texas	KCWX 2	UPN	Corridor Television, L.L.P.	2006–2010	MyNetworkTV	WOAI-TV 4.2	N/A
Jeannette–Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	WPCW 19 (now WPKD-TV)	UPN	CBS News and Stations (Paramount Global) (Pittsburgh Television Station WPCW Inc.)	2006–2023	Independent	WPNT 22	On May 5, 2023, CBS News and Stations has the right to pull CW-owned stations under the Nexstar buyout deal on September 1, 2023.^[2]
Longview–Tyler, Texas	KCEB 54	UPN (2003–January 2006) The WB (January–September 2006)	Innovate Corp. (HC2 Station Group, Inc.)	2006–2012	Novelisima	KYTX 19.2	N/A
Helena, Montana	KMTF 10 (now KUHM)	UPN (secondary, 1998–2001) The WB (2005–2006)	Gray Television (nowMontana State University)	2006–2015	PBS	N/A	On July 1, 2015, Gray announced that it would sell KTVH to Cordillera Communications, which owns CBS affiliate KXLH-LD (channel 9). KMTF was concurrently donated to Montana State University for integration into the Montana PBS system.^[4]
Missoula, Montana	KPAX-TV 8.2	N/A	E. W. Scripps Company (Scripps Broadcasting Holdings LLC)	2006–2023	Independent	N/A	N/A
New Iberia–Lafayette, Louisiana	KLWB 50	The WB	Delta Media Corporation (Wilderness Communications, LLC)	2006–2010	MeTV	KATC 3.2	KLWB lost its CW affiliation to a subchannel of KATC (channel 3) on June 14, 2010. At that time, the station switched to This TV (which had previously been carried on one of KLWB's subchannels, as well as on sister station KXKW-LD).
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma	KOCB 34	UPN (1995–1998) The WB (1998–2006)	Sinclair Broadcast Group (KOCB Licensee, LLC)	2006–2023	Independent	KAUT-TV 43	On August 31, 2023, Nexstar announced that KAUT would affiliate with The CW beginning September 1, replacing KOCB as part of an agreement with Sinclair to affiliate with two of its stations in Pittsburgh and Seattle; this resulted in KOCB becoming an independent station for the first time since January 1995.^[5]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	WPSG 57	UPN	CBS News and Stations (Paramount Global) (Philadelphia Television Station WPSG, Inc.)	2006–2023	Independent	WPHL-TV 17	On May 5, 2023, CBS News and Stations has the right to pull CW-owned stations under the Nexstar buyout deal on September 1, 2023.^[2]
Phoenix, Arizona	KASW 6	The WB	E. W. Scripps Company (Scripps Broadcasting Holdings LLC)	2006–2023	Independent	KAZT-TV 7	On November 20, 2023, CW programming moved to the second subchannel of KNXV-TV (which otherwise carried Antenna TV programming), and KASW became an independent station known as Arizona 61; the station airs a mix of local news, sports (including Arizona Coyotes hockey), and entertainment programming, as well as content from Scripps News.
Reno, Nevada	KREN-TV 27	The WB (1995–2000, 2002–2006)	Entravision Communications(Entravision Holdings, LLC)	2006–April 2009	Univision	KOLO-TV 8.3	N/A
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, California	KBCW 44 (now KPYX)	UPN	CBS News and Stations (Paramount Global) (San Francisco Television Station KBCW Inc.)	2006–2023	Independent	KRON-TV 4	On May 5, 2023, CBS News and Stations has the right to pull CW-owned stations under the Nexstar buyout deal on September 1, 2023.^[2]
St. Petersburg–Tampa, Florida	WTOG 44	UPN	CBS News and Stations (Paramount Global) (CBS Operations Investments Inc.)	2006–2023	Independent	WTTA 38	On May 5, 2023, CBS News and Stations has the right to pull CW-owned stations under the Nexstar buyout deal on September 1, 2023.^[2]
Tacoma–Seattle, Washington	KSTW 11	UPN	CBS News and Stations (Paramount Global) (The CW Television Stations Inc.)	2006–2023	Independent	KOMO-TV 4.2 (until December 31, 2023)	On May 5, 2023, CBS News and Stations has the right to pull CW-owned stations under the Nexstar buyout deal on September 1, 2023.^[2]
Victoria, Texas	K39HB 10	The WB	N/A	2006–2018	Closed	KVCT 19.3	N/A
Walla Walla, Washington	KCWK 9	N/A	Pappas Telecasting Companies	2006–2008	Closed	KIMA-TV 29.2 and KEPR-TV 19.2	On January 16, 2009, it was announced that several Pappas stations, including the license for KCWK, would be sold to New World TV Group after the sale received United States bankruptcy court approval.^[6] In the interim, Fisher Communications announced that their CBS affiliates KIMA-TV/KEPR-TV would each launch CW subchannels on March 31, 2009, to fill KCWK's void.^[7]

References

^ Kuperberg, Jonathan (December 15, 2015). "Gray TV, The CW Ink Affiliate Agreement Extension, Add 4 New Stations". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Nelson, Mike (August 30, 2023). "CBS to transition eight company-owned stations from affiliates of The CW to independents on Friday, Sept. 1" (Press release). CBS News and Stations. Retrieved September 2, 2023.
^ "CBS moving Indianapolis affiliation to WTTV". TVNewsCheck. August 11, 2014. Retrieved August 11, 2014.
^ "Gray in 4 New Deals, Closes 3 Earlier Ones". TVNewsCheck. July 1, 2015. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
^ Alex (August 31, 2023). "Nexstar's KAUT-TV in Oklahoma City To Become CW Network Affiliate on September 1". Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Retrieved August 31, 2023.
^ "New World Gets Pappas TVs for $260M". TVnewsday. January 16, 2008. Retrieved January 18, 2008.
^ "Fisher Stations Sign Digital CW Pacts". Archived from the original on February 10, 2009. Retrieved February 11, 2009.