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==History==

==History==

[[Image:Kcwe upn29 logo.jpg|thumb|200px|left|KCWE logo from September 2002 to 2006 while it was a UPN affiliate.]]

[[:Image:Kcwe upn29 logo.jpg|thumb|200px|left|KCWE logo from September 2002 to 2006 while it was a UPN affiliate.]]<!--Non free file removed by DASHBot-->

Analog UHF channel 29 was originally home to low-powered [[ShopNBC|ValueVision]] affiliate '''K29CF'''. To make way for a new full-powered station, that station moved in the mid-1990s to channel 48 as '''K48FS'''. That is known today as [[Univision]] affiliate [[KUKC-LP]]. <ref>[http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=67838&Callsign=KUKC-LP Call Sign History<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> What is now KCWE began broadcasting on September 14, 1996 as a [[The WB Television Network|WB]] affiliate under the call sign '''KCWB'''. It was locally-owned but managed by Hearst through a [[local marketing agreement]] (LMA). Initially, the station ran a mix of cartoons, recent off network sitcoms, talk shows, court shows, and movies. In January 1998, [[UPN]] affiliate [[KSMO-TV]] dropped the network in favor of The WB. Temporarily, that channel did not add [[Kids' WB]] but kept [[Fox Kids]]. This channel aired Kids' WB (now [[Toonzai]]) until June 1998 in spite of losing The WB's prime time programming. KCWB would change calls to the current '''KCWE''' in February 1998. Until late-February, the station ran as an [[Independent station (North America)|Independent]] and then became a UPN affiliate. Its logo during this time was similar to that of its [[Tampa Bay, Florida|Tampa Bay]] sister station [[WMOR-TV]]. For several years, it branded itself as "More TV 29" to match WMOR. KCWE dropped the "More TV" moniker by 2005 but kept the logo style. The station dropped [[Fox Kids]] in Fall 1999 (which went to [[KMCI-TV]]) for more talk and reality programming and dropped children programming altogether when UPN ended its kids' block in the mornings nationally. On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced that they would end broadcasting and merge to form The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents: [[CBS]] (the parent company of UPN) and the [[Warner Bros.]] unit of [[Time Warner]]. On March 7, The CW and Hearst announced that KCWE would be Kansas City's CW affiliate. <ref>http://www.thefutoncritic.com/cgi/pr.cgi?id=20060307cw01</ref> As the station already had "CW" in its call letters, station management said it would take advantage of that and leave them unchanged. <ref>http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/14042769.htm</ref> The old logo was dispensed altogether in August 2006 when KCWE's new logo reflecting the CW affiliation was released. In a sense, The WB sort of returned to KCWE. The CW began broadcasting on September 18. Since The CW does not air programming on Saturday and Sunday nights, KCWE usually airs movies from 8 to 10 p.m. In 2010, it will carry all games of the [[Kansas City Wizards]] of [[Major League Soccer]] except those under a national broadcast agreement. <ref>http://www.downthebyline.com/2010/02/wizards-on-kcwe-this-season.html</ref> In late-March, Hearst applied to transfer the KCWE license from its indirect subsidiary [[doing business as]] "KCWE-TV Company" directly to the larger Hearst Television subsidiary with the transfer completed on May 1. The station might take on the responsibility of running ABC programming in the event of news emergencies, sporting events, or the [[Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon]] when KMBC may be unable to do so. KCWE ceased broadcasting its analog signal on December 15, 2008 two months before the originally scheduled [[DTV transition in the United States|2009 analog shutdown]] for full-service stations. <ref name="kmbc-kcweanalogend">{{cite news|url=http://www.kmbc.com/entertainment/17982532/detail.html|title=KCWE To Switch To DTV Dec. 15|date=November 14, 2008|work=[[KMBC-TV|KMBC.com]]|accessdate=November 15, 2008}}</ref> The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 31 using its former analog assignment of channel 29 as its virtual digital channel <ref>[http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2008/12/03/daily.3 KCWE to Make Early Switch to DTV, TVNEWSDAY, Dec 3 2008]</ref> via [[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]]. The signal space for channel 29 was subsequently taken over by the digital signal of sister station KMBC. On March 3, 2009, it began to air This TV on a second digital subchannel and the digital tier of Time Warner Cable. <ref>http://blogs.kansascity.com/tvbarn/2009/02/kcwe-went-multi.html</ref>.

Analog UHF channel 29 was originally home to low-powered [[ShopNBC|ValueVision]] affiliate '''K29CF'''. To make way for a new full-powered station, that station moved in the mid-1990s to channel 48 as '''K48FS'''. That is known today as [[Univision]] affiliate [[KUKC-LP]]. <ref>[http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=67838&Callsign=KUKC-LP Call Sign History<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> What is now KCWE began broadcasting on September 14, 1996 as a [[The WB Television Network|WB]] affiliate under the call sign '''KCWB'''. It was locally-owned but managed by Hearst through a [[local marketing agreement]] (LMA). Initially, the station ran a mix of cartoons, recent off network sitcoms, talk shows, court shows, and movies. In January 1998, [[UPN]] affiliate [[KSMO-TV]] dropped the network in favor of The WB. Temporarily, that channel did not add [[Kids' WB]] but kept [[Fox Kids]]. This channel aired Kids' WB (now [[Toonzai]]) until June 1998 in spite of losing The WB's prime time programming. KCWB would change calls to the current '''KCWE''' in February 1998. Until late-February, the station ran as an [[Independent station (North America)|Independent]] and then became a UPN affiliate. Its logo during this time was similar to that of its [[Tampa Bay, Florida|Tampa Bay]] sister station [[WMOR-TV]]. For several years, it branded itself as "More TV 29" to match WMOR. KCWE dropped the "More TV" moniker by 2005 but kept the logo style. The station dropped [[Fox Kids]] in Fall 1999 (which went to [[KMCI-TV]]) for more talk and reality programming and dropped children programming altogether when UPN ended its kids' block in the mornings nationally. On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced that they would end broadcasting and merge to form The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents: [[CBS]] (the parent company of UPN) and the [[Warner Bros.]] unit of [[Time Warner]]. On March 7, The CW and Hearst announced that KCWE would be Kansas City's CW affiliate. <ref>http://www.thefutoncritic.com/cgi/pr.cgi?id=20060307cw01</ref> As the station already had "CW" in its call letters, station management said it would take advantage of that and leave them unchanged. <ref>http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/14042769.htm</ref> The old logo was dispensed altogether in August 2006 when KCWE's new logo reflecting the CW affiliation was released. In a sense, The WB sort of returned to KCWE. The CW began broadcasting on September 18. Since The CW does not air programming on Saturday and Sunday nights, KCWE usually airs movies from 8 to 10 p.m. In 2010, it will carry all games of the [[Kansas City Wizards]] of [[Major League Soccer]] except those under a national broadcast agreement. <ref>http://www.downthebyline.com/2010/02/wizards-on-kcwe-this-season.html</ref> In late-March, Hearst applied to transfer the KCWE license from its indirect subsidiary [[doing business as]] "KCWE-TV Company" directly to the larger Hearst Television subsidiary with the transfer completed on May 1. The station might take on the responsibility of running ABC programming in the event of news emergencies, sporting events, or the [[Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon]] when KMBC may be unable to do so. KCWE ceased broadcasting its analog signal on December 15, 2008 two months before the originally scheduled [[DTV transition in the United States|2009 analog shutdown]] for full-service stations. <ref name="kmbc-kcweanalogend">{{cite news|url=http://www.kmbc.com/entertainment/17982532/detail.html|title=KCWE To Switch To DTV Dec. 15|date=November 14, 2008|work=[[KMBC-TV|KMBC.com]]|accessdate=November 15, 2008}}</ref> The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 31 using its former analog assignment of channel 29 as its virtual digital channel <ref>[http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2008/12/03/daily.3 KCWE to Make Early Switch to DTV, TVNEWSDAY, Dec 3 2008]</ref> via [[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]]. The signal space for channel 29 was subsequently taken over by the digital signal of sister station KMBC. On March 3, 2009, it began to air This TV on a second digital subchannel and the digital tier of Time Warner Cable. <ref>http://blogs.kansascity.com/tvbarn/2009/02/kcwe-went-multi.html</ref>.