Talk:K26ES

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[edit] WTF?

So I'm going in thinking about reflecting the recent CW announcement. And I notice we have a page for a broadcast translator of a station, but not the station itself. So I turn the first reference to the original station into a red link.

Then I notice that we also have the translator in List of CW affiliates, but not the station itself - and KWYF is listed as a Casper station in the original Broadcasting and Cable article, but a Cheyenne station here. So I begin to add it, and begin to check the page for KFNB-TV for KWYF's channel number.

Only to find: "KFNB also operates a low-power UPN station in Casper, K26ES-LP (KWYF)..." What? The translator IS the station?

But later in the same article, it says: "KFNB signed on the air on October 31, 1984, as an ABC affiliate, with KWYF debuting in 1985 and KFNR in 1986. All three also added Fox to its lineup in 1987 as a secondary. By 1993, KFNB and KFNR went with ABC full time while KWYF became a full time Fox outlet. In 2004, KFNB and KFNR joined KWYF by going full time with Fox after KTWO picked up ABC."

But in this article it says: "The Wyomedia Corporation outlet signed on the air in 1993 as a satellite to KWYF/Cheyenne to carry Fox programming in Casper. In 1995, the station became a secondary UPN affiliate, and in 2004 it became a full time affiliate after Fox programming moved over to KFNB."

So KWYF signed on in 1985, but K26ES signed on in 1993? So K26ES was originally a translator to deliver Fox to the market, when KWYF became Fox full-time while its sisters went with ABC? But wait - K26ES then picked up a UPN affiliation, and became a "full-time UPN affiliate" when Fox programming moved to KFNB? But KFNB was supposedly "joining" KWYF in moving to Fox, implying KWYF was still Fox? So does that mean K26ES isn't a translator anymore? But what of KWYF?

What is K26ES's relationship with KWYF, and where the heck are these stations? And just what was it I was just talking about? And should I have tagged KFNB-TV as well? Oy vey. Morgan Wick 02:40, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Returning to this subject: KWYF doesn't seem to be in the FCC database, too. Morgan Wick 03:55, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I assume that KWYF refers to "Wyoming's Fox TV", which is actually KLWY in Cheyenne, Wyoming and its associated satellite stations. KLWY has a secondary affiliation with UPN, and spun off its satellite stations; some are Fox affiliates, and some (like K26ES) are UPN affiliates. --AlexDW 13:24, 26 June 2006 (UTC)