KCWX
 
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Fredericksburg/San Antonio, Texas United States |
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| City | Fredericksburg, Texas |
| Branding | KCWX |
| Slogan | fresh.local.fun |
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Digital: 5 (VHF) Virtual: 2 () |
| Translators | 8 (VHF) Austin 8 (VHF) San Antonio (construction permits) |
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| Owner | Corridor Television, LLP |
| First air date | August 3, 2000 |
| Call letters' meaning | The CW TeXas (former affiliation) |
| Former callsigns | KBEJ (2000–2006) |
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| Transmitter power | 23.7 kW |
| Height | 412 m |
| Facility ID | 24316 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°8′13″N 98°36′35″W / 30.13694°N 98.60972°WCoordinates: 30°8′13″N 98°36′35″W / 30.13694°N 98.60972°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.kcwx.com |
KCWX, virtual channel 2 (VHF digital channel 5), is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station located in Fredericksburg, Texas, United States. The station is owned by Austin-based Corridor Television. Although Fredericksburg is within the Austin DMA, the station's signal covers the San Antonio and Bexar County area. KCWX maintains studio facilities in northwest San Antonio, and its transmitter is located on the Gillespie-Kendall county line.
The station first signed on the air on August 3, 2000 as KBEJ. It originally operated as a UPN affiliate; unusual for a network-affiliated station, channel 2 served as the UPN station for two markets – San Antonio and Austin; in a rarity by modern standards (when most the owners of most stations ask for a specific set of calls), the call sign was sequentially assigned within the May 1998 FCC callsign change report. Prior to the station's sign-on, UPN programming had been available in the San Antonio market on KRRT (channel 35, now KMYS) from the network's launch in January 1995 until January 1998, when that station switched to The WB as a result of Sinclair Broadcast Group (which had operated the station at the time, and acquired channel 35 outright three years later)'s affiliation agreement with that network; UPN then was carried during the overnight hours on NBC affiliate KMOL-TV (channel 4, now WOAI-TV). In Austin, the network had been available first on a regional network of low-power stations across Central Texas known as the "Hill Country Paramount Network" (HPN), and later on K13VC (channel 13).
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