KGAN

==WMT-TV==
===1953–1958===
Originally signed on the air on September 30, 1953 as WMT-TV, Eastern Iowa's first television station and a primary CBS affiliate on VHF channel 2. It was first owned by a group consisting of American Broadcasting Stations, William B. Quarton and several others. WMT-TV was sister to WMT (600 AM) which had been broadcasting in the area since 1922. The callsign stood for the now-defunct Waterloo Morning Tribune which owned WMT radio from 1928 until 1934.
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===1958–1965===
===1965–1970===
In 1968, the WMT stations (including WMT-FM (96.5, now KKSY-FM), which signed on in 1963) were sold to the Morton family of Louisville, Kentucky, whose holdings would later evolve into Orion Broadcasting.
===1970–1976===
===1976–1981===
WMT, along with then-sister stations WFIE, WFRV-TV/WJMN-TV, and flagship WAVE, shared a common logotype style set in Windsor Heavy.
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WMT 2 Newswatch.png|"WMT Newswatch" open (1976-late 1970s)
==KGAN (-TV)==
===1981–1986===
This Kabel "2" was also used by WMAR-TV from 1975 to 1981.
The WMT stations remained under Orion's ownership until 1981 when the company merged with Cosmos Broadcasting, a subsidiary of insurance and broadcasting conglomerate Liberty Corporation. However, the two companies owned more television stations than the FCC allowed at the time. As a condition of the sale, Cosmos had to sell WMT-TV and found a buyer in Guy Gannett Publishing of Portland, Maine. On October 29, 1981, the station changed its callsign to KGAN-TV (FCC rules at the time prohibited TV and radio stations in the same city, but with different owners from sharing the same call letters, hence the change; the "-TV" suffix would later be dropped on September 13, 1984).
KGAN 1981.png|"Reach For The Stars" ID (1981-1982)
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===1986–1993===
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===1993–2003===
The station's logo used during that time frame was a variation of the logo that was used by German television channel RTL2 from March 1993 to April 1996.
====1993–1996====
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====1996–2001====
KGAN Weather, 1996.jpg|KGAN weather logo (1996–2001)
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The Hunt Valley, Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group purchased six of Guy Gannett's television stations, while WOKR was sold to The Ackerley Group in 1998.
====2001–2003====
===2003–2015===
KGAN 2004 ID.png|Station ID (2004)
===2015–present===
This logo is also used by sister station KBOI-TV in Boise, Idaho.
KGAN logo 2015 print.svg|Print logo
KGAN-DT2 Fox 28.svg|KGAN-DT2 (2021–present)
Iowa News Now open 2020.png|Iowa's News Now generic open (2020-present)
KGAN-TV news opens
==External links==
*CBS 2 Iowa
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