KSWB-TV
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| KSWB-TV | |
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| San Diego, California | |
| Branding | San Diego's CW |
| Channels | 69 (UHF), 5 on cable analog, 15 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | The CW |
| Owner | Tribune Company |
| Founded | August 11, 1984 |
| Call letters meaning | San Diego's WB |
| Former callsigns | KTTY (1984-1996) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1984-1995) The WB (1995-2006) |
| Transmitter Power | 4470 kW/594 m (analog) 322.8 kW/598 m (digital) |
| Website | sandiegocw.trb.com/ |
KSWB-TV (Channel 69) is the San Diego, California-based affiliate of The CW Television Network, and is owned by the Tribune Company. It is carried on Channel 5 on all San Diego-area cable systems, and this reflects on its on-air branding as KSWB 5/69, San Diego's CW. The station offers local news, sitcoms, talk, court and reality shows.
On September 18, 2006, KSWB became San Diego's CW affiliate, created through a merger of the UPN and The WB networks. The newly combined network will be co-owned by CBS and the Warner Bros. Television unit of Time Warner.
KSWB is also San Diego's television home of the National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Clippers. All Clippers' home games are shown in high definition. The games are produced by sister station KTLA.
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[edit] History
The station went on the air as KTTY on August 11, 1984 as a new independent station serving San Diego. It ran a general entertainment format featuring dramas, old movies, cartoons and religious programming that was passed on by other stations. It also aired a great deal of paid programming. It continued to be a low rated independent station until 1995, when it became an affiliate of the WB network.
Tribune's broadcasting division purchased the station from local interests in September 1996, and shortly thereafter changed its call letters to the present KSWB and added many off-network sitcoms to the schedule. Throughout the rest of the '90s, talk and court shows were mixed into the schedule.
The weekday Monday–Friday Kids' WB block was discontinued on January 6, 2006.
On January 24, 2006, the WB and UPN networks announced they would merge. The newly combined network would be called The CW, the letters representing the first initial of its corporate parents CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner. The merger would take effect on-the-air in September 2006, and KSWB was announced as the San Diego affiliate. Former UPN station XHUPN-TV, licensed to Tecate, Mexico and owned by Entravision is now MyNetworkTV affiliate XHDTV-TV (identified on-air as XDTV).
Dish Network and DirecTV carry KSWB as the west coast CW station for those markets that do not have a local CW affiliate. The station switched to The CW in September 2006.
KSWB's call letters referenced the former network; unlike many other former WB affiliates, it has retained them. A logical new station identification would be KSCW, but those went to the local CW station in Wichita, Kansas.
[edit] Logos and Promos
 KTTY Promo for The Merv Griffin Show - 1984 |
 KTTY TV Guide ad(1993) |
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[edit] News
The station launched a 10 p.m. local newscast in 1999 entitled The WB News at Ten to counter-program against rival KUSI-TV (Channel 51) and the start-up operation over at XETV-TV (Channel 6). Their motto is "All the news just 30 minutes" (as it is San Diego's only half-hour prime time news). In March 2005, KSWB joined the morning news race, launching The WB Morning Show, which is made up of the morning news program carried on its Los Angeles sister station and WB affiliate, KTLA-TV with periodic updates from San Diego every half hour by a solo anchor. At the end of 2005, all in-house news operations ceased, and was handed over in October to KNSD (NBC 7/39), the San Diego NBC station. What is now The CW5 News at Ten continues to air nightly, but now under the auspices of NBC 7/39 and originating from the latter's studios. However, The WB Morning Show updates are done from the KSWB studio in Kearny Mesa. After KSWB ceased producing its 10 p.m. newscast, everyone from the news department was let go except for male anchor Jeff Powers, who continued to anchor The WB News at Ten until he left the station. Replacing co-anchor Lynda Martin (who had been let go by KSWB and is now a disc jockey for Mexico's XLNC1) was Anne State, an anchorwoman from NBC 7/39, who previously anchored the KNSDs 4:30 p.m. newscast Vic Salazar, from NBC 7/39, now co-hosts The CW5 News at Ten with State.
[edit] Newscasts
Monday-Friday
The CW Morning Show 7-9 a.m. (produced by and originating from KTLA)--with Perette Godwin (local cut-ins), Carlos Amezcua and Michaela Pereira
CW News @ Ten 10-10:30 p.m. (produced by and originating from KNSD)--with Anne State and Vic Salazar
Saturday & Sunday
CW News @ Ten 10-10:30 p.m. (produced by and originating from KNSD)--with Artie Ojeda
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| See also Broadcast television in the Los Angeles, Yuma / El Centro and Ensenada markets | ||
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KGET-DT 17.2/"KWFB" (Bakersfield) - KCWQ-LP 2 (Palm Springs) - KTLA 5 (Los Angeles) - KSBY-DT 6.2/"KWCA" (San Luis Obispo) - KUVU-LP 17/9 (Eureka) - KNVN-DT 24.2/"KIWB" (Chico-Redding) - KION-DT 46.2 (Salinas)- KMAX 31 (Sacramento) - KBCW 44 (San Francisco) - KFRE 59 (Fresno) - KSWB 69 (San Diego) |
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