KMTW

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KMTW

Wichita, Kansas
City of license	Hutchinson, Kansas
Branding	MyTV Wichita
Channels	Analog: 36 (UHF) Digital: 35 (UHF)
Affiliations	MyNetworkTV
Owner	Mercury Broadcasting Company, Inc. (LMA with Newport Television, LLC)
First air date	January 2001
Call letters’ meaning	Kansas MyNetworkTV Wichita
Sister station(s)	KSAS-TV
Former callsigns	KSCC (2001-2006)
Former affiliations	UPN (2001-2006)
Transmitter Power	3500 kW (analog) 1000 kW (digital)
Height	733 m (analog) 310 m (digital)
Facility ID	77063
Transmitter Coordinates	37°56′21.8″N, 97°30′42.7″W
Website	www.mytvwichita.com

KMTW, channel 36, also known as MyTV Wichita, is the MyNetworkTV affiliate for the Wichita area. It is owned by Mercury Broadcasting Company, Inc. and operated by Newport Television under a local marketing agreement. That company owns Fox affiliate KSAS (of which KMTW shares some programs with). It is licensed to Hutchinson, Kansas. The station made its debut on January 6, 2001. Its transmitter is located near Halstead, Kansas.

At its sign-on, KMTW, then known as KSCC, was owned by Paramount Stations Group (then a subsidiary of Viacom, now part of CBS Corporation as the CBS Television Stations Group), a rarity for a market of Wichita's size. In late 2001, Viacom sold the station to Mercury Broadcasting. Two years later, KSAS (then owned by Clear Channel Communications) took over the operations of KSCC under an LMA, and the latter station moved its operations into the former's facility.

On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group (including KSAS and its LMA with KMTW) to Newport Television, a holding company controlled by Providence Equity Partners.^[1] The sale was finalized on March 14, 2008.

[edit] MyNetwork TV

On January 24, 2006, the WB and UPN networks announced that 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 officially took effect on-air in September, 2006. Former WB affiliate, KSCW, became the Wichita area CW affiliate.

On February 22, 2006, Fox announced that they would start up a new primetime network to be called MyNetworkTV, which launched on September 5, 2006. My Network TV is operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division, Twentieth Television. The idea behind My Network TV was to give WB and UPN station another option besides becoming CW or independent.

It was announced on June 15, 2006 that KSCC would become the MyNetworkTV affiliate in Wichita. MNTV is owned by Fox, which is the affiliation of sister station KSAS. KSCC changed its call letters to KMTW on August 1, 2006. The station branding with MNTV affiliation became MyTV Wichita.