page_title: KGWN-TV
section_title: Recent changes
hierarchical_section_title: KGWN-TV / History / Recent changes
caption_attribution_description: English: Television car for The CW and CBS in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
context_page_description: KGWN-TV, virtual channel 5, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States. The station is owned by Gray Television. KGWN-TV's studios are located on East Lincolnway/East 14th Street/I-80 BUS/US 30 in Cheyenne, and its transmitter is located in unincorporated Laramie County between I-80/US 30 and WYO 225. The station also operates a digital fill-in translator, K19FX-D, in Laramie from a transmitter in unincorporated Albany County near the Medicine Bow – Routt National Forest's northwestern boundary.
  KGWN operates an NBC affiliate on its second digital subchannel. Most programming, including news, on this subchannel initially came from sister station KCWY-DT of Casper, the NBC affiliate for most of Wyoming; it operates a low-powered analog satellite in Cheyenne, KCHY-LP. However, it branded as "NBC Cheyenne", and aired separate legal identifications and local commercial inserts. As of October 2017, channel 5.2 is a simulcast of KNEP in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, itself a semi-satellite of KNOP-TV from North Platte.
  KGWN-TV also operates the area's CW affiliate on a third digital subchannel, which carries the branding "Cheyenne CW".
context_section_description: On September 18, 2006, KGWN began carrying programming from The CW on a new second digital subchannel. This was dropped in September 2008 in favor of a standard definition simulcast of the main signal targeted towards Northern Colorado. The CW programming continued to be seen on area cable systems. On April 29, 2009, the carriage contract of KGWN and "Cheyenne CW" expired. This led to SagamoreHill Broadcasting demanding that Bresnan Cable remove the two channels, resulting in approximately 30,000 customers (reported as 80% of their viewership) losing access to local CBS and CW programming. The dispute hinged on the amount SagamoreHill wanted to charge Bresnan for the rights to carry the stations.
  KGWN waged a propaganda campaign in the days leading up to the end of the contract attempting to change Bresnan Cable customers to Dish Network. KGWN refused to post any comments on its site regarding customers who did not wish to see the contract renewed despite news coverage of the dispute having elicited numerous such comments. On May 8, 2009, the stations were restored to the Bresnan system. In December 2011, CW programming was added to subchannel 5.3 and NOCO 5 programming on subchannel 5.2 was improved to 720p.
  In May 2013, SagamoreHill Broadcasting reached a deal to sell KGWN and KSTF, along with KGNS-TV in Laredo, Texas, to Yellowstone Holdings, a subsidiary of Frontier Radio Management. On November 4, 2013, Gray Television announced a deal to acquire Yellowstone Holdings for $23 million. That reunited KGWN with many of its former sister stations under Benedek ownership after being separated for 11 years. KGWN-TV was operated under a local marketing agreement by Gray until the closure of the deal, on December 31. On December 19, 2013, KGWN announced that it would close "Northern Colorado 5," citing the inability to make the service "a viable long-term operation."
  On January 24, 2019, Gray announced that the news operations of KGWN-TV and KCWY-DT would be merged under the Wyoming News Now banner by April 9, a banner similar to those used by some sister stations that were acquired from Raycom Media earlier in 2019. Under this arrangement, KGWN's 5:30 p.m. newscast will be the only Cheyenne-specific newscast (with KCWY airing a Casper-only newscast at 5 p.m.); all other newscasts, while being produced at KGWN, will be simulcast on KCWY in Casper and cover both markets. The consolidation came after the Department of Justice (DOJ) blocked Gray's acquisition of the CBS affiliation of Casper's KGWC-TV, which would have given Gray a second revenue stream in that market to cover KCWY's financial losses.
caption: Vehicle sporting the logos of Cheyenne The CW and CBS 5 NewsChannel in 2013.
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