WKOW-TV

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WKOW

Madison, Wisconsin
Branding	WKOW 27 27 News
Slogan	Making a Difference
Channels	27 (UHF) analog, 26 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	ABC (secondary until 1956)
Owner	Quincy Newspapers
Founded	June 30, 1953
Call letters meaning	WK-COW (for Wisconsin's dairy industry)
Former affiliations	CBS
Website	www.wkowtv.com

WKOW-TV, channel 27/digital 26, is an ABC affiliate in Madison, Wisconsin. The station is owned by Quincy Newspapers. Its transmitter is located in Madison.

1 History
2 Previous Logos
3 Slogans
4 Reference
5 External links

[edit] History

Established June 30, 1953; Madison's first television station, WKOW-TV 27, signed on the air as a CBS affiliate; it also carried a secondary affiliation with ABC; shared with WMTV. When WISC-TV came on the air in 1956, it became the sole CBS outlet, and has remained with them ever since. In June 2001, Quincy Newspapers Inc. purchased from Shockley Communications Corporation the five Wisconsin ABC stations: WKOW - Madison; WAOW - Wausau; WQOW - Eau Claire; WYOW - Eagle River; and WXOW - La Crosse. 27 Weather Central's Chief Meteorologist Bob Lindmeier has been forecasting Wisconsin's weather for 26 years. Nationally, WKOW 27 was the smallest television station to broadcast in HDTV. The first broadcast on WKOW-DT Channel 26 aired October 29, 1998. WKOW's sister station is WAOW-TV in Wausau, Wisconsin.

[edit] Previous Logos

Logo used until 1995

[edit] Slogans

"Straight to the point" – used until 2003
"Making a difference" – current slogan

[edit] Reference

WKOW History

[edit] External links

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Broadcast television in the Madison market (Nielsen DMA #85)

WISC 3 (CBS) (MNTV on DT2) - WMTV 15 (NBC) - WHA 21 (PBS/WPT) - W23BW 23 (3ABN) - WKOW 27 (ABC) - W38CT 38 / W65EE 65 (TBN) - WMSN 47 (Fox) - WBUW 57 (The CW)
Local cable television channels
My Madison TV (MNTV, also WISC-DT 3.2)

ABC Network Affiliates in the state of Wisconsin

WBAY 2 (Green Bay) - WAOW 9/WYOW 34 (Wausau/Eagle River) - WISN 12 (Milwaukee) - WQOW 18/WXOW 19 (Eau Claire/La Crosse) - WKOW 27 (Madison) - W63AR^* (Ladysmith)
^*W63AR is a repeater of KSTP-TV, St. Paul, Minnesota.
See also: CBS, CW, Fox, MNTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Wisconsin