KWBA-TV
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Sierra Vista / Tucson, Arizona United States |
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| City | Sierra Vista |
| Branding | Tucson CW (general) KGUN 9 News (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 44 (UHF) Virtual: 58 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 58.1 The CW 58.2 LATV 58.3 This TV |
| Affiliations | The CW (2006–present) |
| Owner |
E. W. Scripps Company (Scripps Broadcasting, LLC) |
| First air date | January 1, 1999 |
| Call letters' meaning | The WB Arizona (after previous affiliation) |
| Sister station(s) | KGUN-TV, KFFN, KTGV, KMXZ-FM, KQTH |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 58 (UHF, 1999–2009) |
| Former affiliations | The WB (1999–2006) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 319 m |
| Facility ID | 35095 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 31°45′32″N 110°48′5.5″W / 31.75889°N 110.801528°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | thecwtucson.com |
KWBA-TV, virtual channel 58 (UHF digital channel 44), is a CW-affiliated television station serving Tucson, Arizona, United States, that is licensed to Sierra Vista. Owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, the station is operated as part of a duopoly with ABC affiliate KGUN-TV (channel 9). KWBA maintains transmitter facilities located atop the Santa Rita Mountains southeast of Tucson. Both stations share studios on East Rosewood Street in East Tucson. It is currently Scripps' only CW affiliate since KNIN-TV in Caldwell, Idaho switched from The CW to Fox in 2011. Syndicated programming on KWBA includes: Judge Judy, TMZ on TV, and Hot Bench among others.
The first attempt at putting a station on channel 58 in Sierra Vista was KCCA-TV (calls standing for Cochise County, Arizona). KCCA was owned by Sierra Vista Television, owned by Thomas Gramatikas. The proposed station would have broadcast from a tower in the Sierra Vista area with a power of 2.38 million watts. It may have desired to operate as a subscription television station, indicated by a 1982 filing where the FCC granted KCCA permission to install subscription television equipment. By 1985, the permittee was Manning Telecasting, who also held the construction permit for channel 11 in Yuma, but the permit vanished the next year, and KCCA never made it to air.
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