KCMW-TV

KCMW-TV is a commercial-free television station that serves the areas of Fort Smith and Fayetteville, Arkansas and broadcasts on channel 56, it is owned by CER Two Television Networks and transmits from the Northwest Arkansas Mall in Fayetteville. Originally KCMW-TV, which signed-on May 25th, 1963 under family ownership until 1966 when KTYS Television Corporation (now known as Champion Digital Broadcasting since its merger with KB Broadcasting) acquired the station, was a independent station until 1997 when it becomes a Dish Network affiliate branded as "Dish 56" until May 2019 when CER Two's owners acquires the station and converted to a satellite of KCER-DT42.3 in Benton.
== Switchover from Dish Network to CER Two ==
On May 25th, 2019 at 3:00pm, KCMW-TV viewers are told that the station will now become a full-time satellite of KCER-DT42.3 in Benton, ending its Dish Network affiliation on the station after 22 years, and broadcasts a uninterrupted retrospective of the station's history narrated by the station's former staff announcer and football running backer Robert Edwards which was the ID/promo voice of KCMW-TV from 1986 to 2009 when Karen Brown takes over.
At the end of the retrospective at exactly 3:00pm, KCMW-TV's staff announcer and author Karen Brown gives us the final remarks ending its 22-year run as a Dish Network affiliate under its name Dish 56.
Just before the switch to a satellite of CER Two, Karen Brown also gives its final words and CER Two's own ID/promo announcer Susan Brown (played by Kaylor Blakley) gives the first KCMW-TV ID as follows:
"It's been a great 56 years here at the station, and 22 years as affiliated with the Dish Network, and as we get ready to flip the switch and becoming the new satellite station of CER Two, this is Karen Brown saying, for one last time, this is Dish 56, KCMW-TV, Fort Smith, Fayetteville. At the tone, the time will be, exactly 3:00. (time tone, black & silence, and switching over to satellite of KCER-DT42.3) --day on CER Two, Today, we Play. (cut to black and cut to network ID with Central Park by Network Music playing in the background) This is commercial-free, full service television, CER Two, Today, we Play. KCMW-TV, channel 56, Fort Smith/Fayetteville. (cut into Tumble Leaf)"
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