KLWY


KLWY, virtual and UHF digital channel 27, is a dual Fox and MeTV/MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station licensed to Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States and also serving Scottsbluff, Nebraska. The station is owned by Coastal Television. KLWY's transmitter is located southwest of Cheyenne along I-25.
KLWY is a semi-satellite of KFNB, the Fox affiliate in Casper; the two stations air nearly the same programming with separate station identifications and commercials, and KLWY is operated from KFNB's studios on Skyview Drive in Casper.

History

KLWY signed on in 1988 as the second full-fledged commercial station in eastern Wyoming, and the first since KGWN-TV brought television to the region in 1954. It immediately joined Fox; for the first two seasons of the network's existence, Denver's KDVR was carried by some cable providers in southeastern Wyoming, but much of the eastern portion of the state did not receive Fox programming at all as this was one of the few areas of the country were cable was not yet readily available.
KLWY carried a secondary affiliation with UPN until the network closed in September 2006.
Until 2004, KLWY's programming was simulcast on K26ES in Casper and K11RN in Douglas. Wyomedia converted these two stations into full-time UPN affiliates in 2004, then to CW affiliates after UPN's closure. K26ES is now KWYF-LD, an affiliate of MyNetworkTV and MeTV; its programming is simulcast in Cheyenne on the third subchannel of KLWY.
KLWY made the switch to digital on February 17, 2009.
The station does not have a website. KLWY does not air its own newscasts; the only newscast on the station is a rebroadcast of Good Morning Wyoming from KTWO-TV in Casper. However, KTWO's programming, including ABC programming and its newscasts, are simulcast on a digital subchannel of KLWY.
Wyomedia Corporation agreed to sell its stations to Legacy Broadcasting on February 8, 2018; the sale was canceled on October 2, 2018. On October 8, 2019, Wyomedia announced that it would sell its stations to Front Range Television, a subsidiary of Coastal Television Broadcasting Company ; the sale was concurrent with Vision Alaska's purchase of KKTQ-LD. Coastal Television and Vision Alaska already jointly operated stations in Alaska. The sale was completed on June 1, 2020.

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
ChannelVideoAspectPSIP short nameProgramming
27.1720pKLWYMain KLWY programming / Fox
27.2480iKTWO-SDSimulcast of KKTQ-LD
27.3480i16:9KWYFSimulcast of KWYF-LD
27.4480i16:9ION NetIon Television