KCWT (post-1993 vision)

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KCWT is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Wenatchee, Washington, United States and serving the Upper Columbia Basin region. Owned by Tegna, Inc, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 17 (or virtual channel 27 via PSIP) from a transmitter northwest of the city in Douglas County. Although identifying as a separate station in its own right, KCWT is actually considered a semi-satellite of KING-TV (channel 5) in Seattle. As such, it clears all network programming as provided through its parent station but airs a separate offering of syndicated programming, albeit with separate local commercials and legal station identifications. KCWT maintains studios on the corner of Springwater Avenue and Woodward Drive in Wenatchee. Master control and some internal operations are based at KING's studios in the Home Plate Center in SoDo, Seattle.
==History==
KCWT first signed on the air in 1984. The station was independent, but became a charter affiliate of the Fox network as a satellite of KAYU from 1986-1989. In 1989, KCWT dropped it's Fox affiliation (which later moved to K53CY), and became an independent once again, filling out their programming schedule from the Channel America service. A year later, after new ownership took over, the station became an affiliate of Trinity Broadcasting Network. In 1993, KCWT was forced off the air after its transmitter (located at Mission Ridge) malfunctioned. It was never repaired. Not willing to give up on the station, Central Washington Television decided join forces with Liberty Media Corporation and Belo called "Wenatchee TV Partners, LLC" and rebuilt the facilities for exactly one year, starting with the move of the station's transmitter to a site seven miles northwest of East Wenatchee. During the time of the rebuilding, Chelan and Douglas counties rely on KING-TV in Seattle of KHQ-TV (Channel 6) in Spokane on cable systems for six months before KCWT returned back on the air on September 12, 1994. After the rebuilding, both Belo and Liberty announced that KCWT will be the official, exclusive NBC affiliate in the Central Washington Area. Around the same time, Central Washington Television sold the station's operations to Belo. Later, CWT sold the station outright to the Belo/Liberty joint venture. Wenatchee TV Partners continued to own the station until 1997, when Liberty sold its stake in WTVP (including the station) to Belo for a whisk of $80 thousand dollars. Belo was already planning on merging with The Providence Journal Company (owner of KING-TV) at the time being. As part of the agreement, KCWT became a semi-satellite station of KING.
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