UCW-TV

UCW-TV (channel 57) is a television station licensed to Laverne Town, Seahaus and serves as an affiliate of The CW's flagship network. It is owned and operated by David Vlokozu Broadcasting Partners together with the public access channel Seahaus Public Access and affiliate USH-TV (channel 3). The two stations share a studio in the Ametech Center in the western city of Laverne, while their transmitter is located in the border area of ​​El Kadsreian.
== History ==
=== Prior history of UHF channel 57 ===
The use of channel 57 at Seahaus actually dates back to 1975, when UFX-TV was broadcasting as an independent station at the time. The owner at the time, Barbara Korina Rodríguez of Metropolitan Canada-Seahaus Network, claimed that the station would be different from most of Seahaus commercial television in general, as they would show more news and sports with a 45-55 portion. But within three years of its launch on July 8, 1975, UFX-TV underwent a format shift to all news by producing a further 45 hours of news programming. However, this was still not enough to overcome the problem of the station's ratings which continued to decline every year and in 1982, they were forced to purchase the license and assets of channel 17 from satellite station USS-TV in order to have the station move to that channel.
=== As an independent station ===
In April 1983, the commission gave approval to grant an allocation of channel 57 to the TVX Broadcast Group, a company based in Norfolk, Virginia. TVX then imported some of its broadcast technology tools from the American station it owned while majorly renovating a building called UFX Buildings which had been occupied by UFX-TV from 1975-1980. After a long process of designing the station, UNI-TV was officially launched on 6 July 1984 as an independent station in the Seahaus, with the focus of most independent commercial television, broadcasting syndicated programming first run with an additional 15 hours per week of news and current affairs production.
During the station's several years on the air, UNI-TV was far better known to most of the public as the first independent station in the Seahaus to air syndicated programming from America, although initially the syndicated programming that aired was not as large as other American television stations. For example, in 1988, UNI-TV was the first to bring syndicated programming Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, while WABC-TV's The Morning Show entered national syndication that year. It was also the first station to carry and , which had been planned since the station's launch. On 28 July 1986, UNI-TV again became the first station to carry , a syndicated television newsmagazine program. TVX also increased their number of news and current affairs productions to 60 hours per week. As a result, UNI-TV had become a solid runner-up station by early 1987.
However, from 1988-1989, UNI-TV experienced a decline in quality due to TVX's dispute with station management, especially after TVX bought most of the stations from . Not only was the news department badly perceived, but the station also suffered a downturn as a result of some of their syndicated programming being too much for them to only provide local news coverage at 11 p.m. purchased a majority stake in TVX in 1989. 
In June 1990, UNI-TV was forced to drop all of the syndicated programming they carried, thereby losing its status as the first station to carry first-run syndicated programming. This move was made by Paramount so that the station could generate a large investment in the news department, so that UNI-TV changed its format to become an independent, all-news based station. In 1991, Paramount acquired the remaining stock in TVX that it did not already own, and the company's name was changed to the Paramount Stations Group. In April 1992, Alta Broadcasting System acquired 45% of UNI-TV from Paramount Stations Group. On 17 December 1992, UNI-TV increased their news and current affairs production to 132 hours per week while launching their news program at 7am and 3pm. Restructuring of UNI-TV's existing news department, resulting in UNI-TV becoming the number 1 independent all-news based station at Seahaus in early 1993. Also in 1993, UNI-TV launched a new branding under Paramount 57.
=== Almost became a UPN affiliate; as an affiliate of The WB ===
In late October 1993, Paramount announced plans to create a new network, the United Paramount Network (), which it would co-own with . The original affiliate plan was UNI-TV, which was to be selected as the network's charter affiliate as Paramount still held a 55% stake in UNI-TV (whereas Alta already held a minority 45% share of the station). Additionally, UNI-TV is the only Paramount-owned station that serves as the strongest news-generating station on the market, which will likely result in some of the Paramount/Chris-Craft-owned UPN stations following a similar model. However, Paramount does not believe that Alta Broadcasting chose to exclude UNI-TV from the new UPN affiliate and chose to take over the MBN affiliate from UFX-TV instead.
With Paramount not accepting Alta's decision to exclude UNI-TV from UPN, they sued UNI-TV and Alta Broadcasting for breach of contract and bad faith. It was attempted to overcome this, however, when in November 1993, Time Warner and Alta Broadcasting agreed to sign a 10-year affiliate agreement with the new network (and UPN competitor), The WB, whereby UNI-TV would become the network's charter affiliate. However, Paramount continues to sue UNI-TV and Alta Broadcasting for breach of contract and bad faith, seeking to block the Alta-The WB deal and enforce UPN's alleged affiliate contract. 
The problem was only resolved on June 117, 1994, after Chris-Craft and Wollongong Broadcasting Corporation agreed to pay Paramount-Alta $12.5 million to resolve the conflict, because they had reached a 10-year agreement with UPN, whereby rival station USA-TV would be become a charter affiliate of the network. Chris-Craft and Wollongong also agreed to turn over the Fox Kids programming block which USA-TV had acquired since 1994 to the station in exchange for syndicated programming from MBN's Rated K. Ultimately, Paramount agreed to withdraw the lawsuit, allowing Alta Broadcasting to reach an affiliation agreement with The WB.
UNI-TV officially became a charter affiliate of The WB on January 11, 1995, marking the first time UNI-TV was affiliated with a major network in 10 years. Concurrent with the launch of The WB, UNI-TV changed its callsign to UWB-TV to reflect its affiliation with the network. Like the other WB-affiliated stations for the network's first four years, UWB-TV remained a de facto independent station, filling gaps in its schedule with more news programming and re-airing syndicated programming, as The WB only broadcast a two-hour prime time schedule on the Wednesday nights of the network's launch; the station also continued to carry Fox Kids' block programming during weekdays (replacing the Fox Kids logo with the station's own logo). The WB would eventually carry prime time shows six nights a week (Sunday through Friday) by September 1999.
After Alta Broadcasting merged with New Network Television in 1998, locally based Ametech Broadcasting in Seahaus (which is owned by most of Alta's affected workers) took over UWB-TV on January 11, 1999. Ametech then decided to restructure its news department again and produce some syndicated programming, while airing the network's full programming. On September 11, 2000, UWB-TV moved its headquarters and studios from their historic offices in the UFX Buildings to the new Ametech Center headquarters in East Laverne City, Seahaus. In 2001, Ametech Broadcasting purchased UFX-TV from Jelly Media, resulting in the station becoming a sister channel to UWB-TV. As a result of the purchase of UFX-TV, UWB-TV moved its 9am, 3pm and 11pm newscasts to channel 17, while UFX-TV moved its 6 and 9pm newscasts to channel 57.
=== As CW affiliation ===
In 2006, Time Warner and announced the closure of The WB and UPN to form a new network called The CW. With this announcement, Time Warner and CBS accepted Ametech Broadcasting's offer of a 20-year affiliation agreement for their stations UWB-TV and WXKB-TV in Plotagon City. As such, UWB-TV officially became a charter affiliate of The CW and changed its callsign to the current UCW-TV under the CW 57 branding on September 17, 2006, immediately after the airing of The WB's final broadcast, The Night of Favorites and Farewells.
For The CW, the affiliate agreement from Ametech was an important and unprecedented deal, as Ametech was the only company that dared to sign a 20-year affiliate agreement for a station affiliated with The WB to become a charter affiliate of the network, compared to which signed 10 year agreement for 16 of WB's other 18 affiliated stations. Representatives for The CW also noted UCW-TV as the only station producing a larger newscast (it has newscasts at 4-8am, 12pm, 3-6pm, and 9-11pm), indicating the possibility of UCW- TV was selected as the new network affiliate. 
In late October 2012, Ametech Broadcasting sold UCW-TV to David Vlokozu Broadcasting Partners, making UCW-TV a sister channel to USH-TV (an affiliate of CBS) and public service station Seahaus Public Access. As a result of the purchase, David Vlokozu moved USH-TV and Seahaus Public Access's headquarters, news and technical operations to the station's existing facilities at the Ametech Center. In 2014, the branding changed to SeaTV The CW.
== Programming ==
=== News operation === 
From its initial launch as an independent station, UNI-TV launched its news department via a 5pm evening newscast and a 10pm primetime newscast on July 8, 1984, 2 days after the station was launched. UNI-TV claims they will produce 15 hours per week of information and current affairs, with the 5 p.m. news being the station's flagship newscast. In 1986, UNI-TV increased its number of news and current affairs productions to 60 hours per week, through the launch of a newscast from 4-6am, as well as an additional evening newscast at 6pm. In September 1986, UNI-TV launched a nightcast newscast at 11 p.m.
However, the station's newscast ratings did not improve. By June 1987, excluding the 11 p.m. newscast, their newscast only reached 56% of the audience that the station expected. A little later, on December 7, 1987, UNI-TV was criticized for the news department providing too frenetic, fast-paced and sensationalized information. Along with the restructuring, all of the station's newscasts had to be discontinued in 1988, leaving the 11 p.m. newscast as the only remaining one to continue broadcasting. 
After Paramount bought a majority stake in TVX in 1989, UNI-TV changed its format to become an all-news independent station at Seahaus. They relaunched all newscasts gradually in September 1989, with the launch of the morning newscast from 4-8am, with the addition of the 9am newscast. Then, their 3pm newscast was relaunched on October 8, 1989, along with the relaunch of their 4-7pm newscast. In June 1990, a 10 p.m. primetime newscast launched alongside the launch of an early 9 p.m. primetime newscast. The following month, the primetime 9-10 pm newscasts and the 11 pm midnight newscasts merged into The NightCast News on July 7, 1990. September 1990 also saw the debut of the noon news at 11 a.m. and 12 noon, along with an earlier morning newscast debut at 3 a.m. 
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