KCWC-TV

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KCWC-TV / KWYP-TV

Riverton/Laramie, Wyoming
Branding	Wyoming Public Television
Slogan	"Belongs to you and me"
Channels	4 / 8 (VHF) analog, 8 (VHF) digital
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	Central Wyoming College
Founded	May 10, 1983
Transmitter Power	100 / 37 kW (analog) 60 kW (digital)
Website	www.wyoptv.org

KCWC-TV is a PBS member station in Riverton, Wyoming, serving the Riverton area on channel 4. Additionally, it has a satellite station, KWYP-TV in Laramie, and an extensive network of low-power repeater stations across the state. Locally, the station and its repeaters are known as Wyoming Public Television, as the repeater network covers most of the state. The stations are owned by Central Wyoming College, a community college in Riverton, and their primary facilities are located on the Central Wyoming College campus.

1 History
2 Repeaters
- 2.1 Wyoming Repeaters of Other PBS Stations
3 External links

[edit] History

Wyoming had been among the first states to begin the groundwork for a noncommercial educational/public television station, doing so in 1951, three years before any television station was on the air in the state. However, due to numerous delays, it would be several years before the idea even got beyond the planning stages. In the meantime, KRMA-TV in Denver brought PBS programming to much of the state on cable, and parts of Wyoming were served by KTNE-TV in Alliance, Nebraska; part of the Nebraska ETV Network.

Central Wyoming College applied for the channel 4 license in the late 1970s and had to fight a commercial station in nearby Casper to keep the channel designated as non-commercial. The station finally went on the air on May 10, 1983. Wyoming was the next-to-last state to get a public television station on the air; CWC filed just days before Montana State University filed for KUSM in Bozeman, Montana; which went on the air over a year after KCWC.

Initially, KCWC's coverage was limited to the area around Riverton. Over the years, however, it built a network of low-powered translators that covered 85% of Wyoming. It began broadcasting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in 2002.

KWYP-TV signed on in 2004 to replace a translator that had served Laramie and Cheyenne since the late 1980s.

[edit] Repeaters

In addition to KWYP-TV, KCWC-TV has several low-power translator stations across the state of Wyoming that rebroadcast the stations signal.

Big Piney — K24DA
Buffalo — K11UT
Casper — K06KH (soon to be KPTW)
Clark — K07QA
Clarks Fort — K02LH
Cody — K49AI
Dubois — K25AU
Evanston — K23DS, K54EH
Freedom — K31DC
Gillette — K28CH
Greybull — K50JC
Jackson — K50BL
North Fork — K07RS
Pinedale — K14IL
Rawlins — K26HV
Rock Springs — K22BK
Saratoga — K09OC
Sheridan — K26BE
Shoshoni — K42ER
South Fork — K11GG
Sunlight Basin — K11QL
Teton Village — K19FG, K25ID

[edit] Wyoming Repeaters of Other PBS Stations

In addition to Wyoming Public Television, parts of Wyoming are served by repeater stations of KUED in Utah and KRMA-TV in Colorado. KUED is seen in Evanston, Wyoming on local repeater K15FR. KRMA is seen in six towns: Jeffrey City (K11MN), Laramie (K57AF), Manderson (K03GF), Meeteetse (K63BO), South Fork (K02LG) and Wood River (K07RT).