KGWC-TV
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Casper, Wyoming United States |
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| Branding | CBS 14 |
| Channels |
Digital: 14 (UHF) Virtual: 14 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 14.1 CBS 14.2 ABC |
| Owner | Mark III Media, Inc. |
| First air date | August 12, 1980 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Greater Wyoming Casper (after former sister station, KGWN-TV) |
| Former callsigns | KCWY-TV (1980–1986) |
| Former channel number(s) | 14 (UHF analog, 1980–2009) 15 (UHF digital, 2002–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 53.3 kW |
| Height | 562 m |
| Facility ID | 63177 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°44′36″N 106°21′34″W / 42.74333°N 106.35944°W |
KGWC-TV, channel 14 is the local CBS affiliate for Casper, Wyoming, owned by Mark III Media. Programming is repeated on its satellite stations, KGWL-TV (channel 5) in Lander, and KGWR-TV (channel 13) in Rock Springs (part of the Salt Lake City DMA). Operations for the three stations are based in Casper, in the same studios as ABC affiliate KTWO-TV, Fox affiliate KFNB and Me-TV affiliate KWYF-LD. Syndicated programming on KGWC includes: Two and a Half Men, Wheel of Fortune, Judge Judy, Dr. Phil, and Castle.
KGWC is one of the few stations in the country that signs off at night every night, doing so at 1:07 am M-F, 1AM Saturday, and 1:30AM Sunday. Its repeaters KGWL and KGWR stay on air, but freeze up on the last image transmitted by KGWC.
KGWC signed on August 12, 1980 as KCWY-TV, the second television station in western Wyoming. In 1982, KCWY began operating satellite stations to expand its reach; it bought KTUX-TV in Rock Springs, which had signed on October 21, 1977, and renamed it KWWY-TV, and in September started a second satellite, KOWY, in Lander. All three stations adopted their current call letters on January 1, 1987 (the KCWY calls are now located on channel 13 in Casper), and were grouped together as the "Wyoming News Network" until June 2000, when then-owner Benedek Broadcasting closed much of the Casper operation and made the stations semi-satellites of KGWN-TV, the CBS affiliate in Cheyenne. The stations were sold to Chelsey Broadcasting in 2002, following Benedek's bankruptcy.
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