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| Affiliations | Defunct |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Western Family Television, Inc. |
| History | |
First air date | April 2002; 22 years ago (2002-04) |
Last air date | May 9, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-05-09) (license deleted on December 23, 2010) |
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| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 81191 |
| ERP | 125 watts |
| HAAT | −52 meters (−171 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°46′42.0″N 106°56′16.0″W / 44.778333°N 106.937778°W / 44.778333; -106.937778 (KJCW) |
KJCW, VHF analog channel 7, was a television station licensedtoSheridan, Wyoming, United States. The station was owned by Western Family Television. Its license was canceled and call sign deleted on December 23, 2010.[1]
The station signed on in April 2002 as KBNM under the ownership of Sunbelt Communications Company. The station displaced K07HC, a translator for CBS affiliate KTVQ (channel 2) in Billings, Montana, to channel 9 as K09XK; in its earliest months, KBNM served as a temporary satellite of KTVQ, but with plans to become an NBC affiliate.[2] After joining NBC, the station, which was renamed KSWY on November 1, 2002,[3] served as a pass-through for NBC programming, with virtually no local content (including commercials);[4] this ended on September 1, 2003,[5] at which point it became a satellite of sister station KCWY (channel 13) in Casper, Wyoming (which joined NBC that same day).
In 2008, Sunbelt exchanged KSWY to Western Family Television in exchange for KJCW-LP (channel 29),[6] which had previously been listed as a JCTV affiliate.[7] When the sale closed on May 9, 2009, KSWY went silent due to the loss of its tower site;[8] its programming then moved to channel 29, renamed KSWY-LP. The KSWY callsign remained on channel 7 as well until May 4, 2010, when it took the KJCW callsign abandoned by KSWY-LP a year prior.[3] The station proposed to return to the air (with the JCTV programming previously seen on KJCW-LP/KSWY-LP) from a temporary site as it continued to seek a permanent transmitter location.[9] On December 23, 2010, the FCC canceled its license and deleted the KJCW call sign;[1] its records indicated that the station did not return to the air within a year of May 9, 2009, triggering the automatic expiration of the KJCW license.[10]
As an affiliate of KTVQ, the station's transmitter was co-located with KPRQ 88.1 FM just off Red Grade Road southwest of Sheridan. KTVQ now operates a translator on channel 9 (K09XK-D) from the same site.[11]
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