KMDW-TV

(channel 11) is a television station in Ottumwa, Iowa, United States, affiliated with The CW. Owned by Gray Television alongside CBS affiliate KMOI-TV, KMDW has sales and administrative offices in downtown Ottumwa.
==Overview==
KMDW-TV primarily serves much of the Kirksville/Ottumwa market. In the Borderlands, the station's official coverage area consists of several counties of South and Southeastern Iowa and much of North and Northeastern Missouri, formerly a covered by Quincy, IL/Hannibal, MO/Keokuk, IA and in some counties, Kansas City, MO-KS. Additional viewership comes from surrounding counties in Quincy, KC, Des Moines, Columbia/Jefferson City, Peoria and as far as Omaha. KMDW clears all syndicated, and local programming from a wide library of cartoons, entertainment shows and movies since the 1980's.
==History==
It was founded on the end of June 1980, and first hit the airwaves around July of the same year.
In 1987, Young Broadcasting of Nashville, Tennessee, acquired KMDW from local ownership, making Young's first independent station.
In 1995, upon the launch of the WB Television Network, KMDW became a charter affiliate of the new network for the market. The station was verbally branded as "The WB, Channel 11" (simply adding The WB name to the "Channel 11" branding in use since 1986), until it was simplified to "WB11" in 1997. Initially, KMDW's programming remained unchanged, as The WB had broadcast only primetime shows on Wednesday nights at its launch. Like with other WB-affiliated stations during the network's first four years, KMDW ran feature films and select first-run scripted series prior to its 10:00 p.m. newscast on nights when The WB did not offer network programs.
On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that the two companies would shut down The WB and UPN and in their place, would combine the two networks' respective programming to create a new "fifth" network called The CW. Young chose not to exercise an ownership interest in The CW – making KMDW the largest CW affiliate that is not owned by either CBS or Time Warner, and the largest English-language network affiliated station that is not an owned-and-operated station of its respective network in the Honey Lands area of North Iowa and South Missouri.
On June 6, 2013, Young Broadcasting announced that it would merge with Media General The merger was approved by the FCC on November 8, after Media General shareholders approved the merger a day earlier; it was completed on November 12.
On September 8, 2015, Media General, owner of NBC affiliate KWQC (channel 6) in Davenport, IA and CBS affiliate KIMT (channel 3) in Mason City, IA, announced that it would acquire Meredith by June 2016. KMDW might end up having a duopoly with KMOI-TV 23 in Kirksville, Missouri.
==Logos==
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Category:Channel 11
Category:Ottumwa
Category:Iowa
Category:Kirksville
Category:Missouri
Category:CW network affiliates
Category:Former WB network affiliates
Category:Former WB affiliates
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1980
Category:Gray Television