KWTX-TV
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Waco/Temple/Killeen, Texas United States |
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| Branding | News 10 The CW Central Texas (DT2) |
| Slogan | The Breaking News and Weather Authority |
| Channels | Digital: 10 (VHF) |
| Affiliations |
CBS (1956–present) The CW (DT2; 2006–present) |
| Owner |
Gray Television (Gray Television Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | April 3, 1955 |
| Call letters' meaning | Killeen/Waco, TeXas |
| Sister station(s) |
KBTX-TV KOSA-TV (Odessa/Midland) KXII (Sherman, TX/Ada, OK) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 10 (VHF, 1955–2009) Digital: 53 (UHF, 2001–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (April-September 1955) ABC (1955–1983, secondary from 1956) UPN (DT2, 2001–2006) |
| Transmitter power | 39 kW |
| Height | 554.9 m (1,820.5 ft) |
| Facility ID | 35903 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 31°19′19″N 97°19′2″W / 31.32194°N 97.31722°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KWTX-TV, channel 10, is the CBS television station in Waco, Texas, serving Central Texas. Owned by Gray Television, it airs a digital signal on VHF channel 10. It is broadcast on cable channel 2 in the immediate part of the market. The station's studios are located on American Plaza in Waco, and its transmitter tower is outside Moody, Texas.
KWTX also offers The CW programming on its digital feed, branded as "The CW12 Central Texas" From May 11, 2001 until September 15, 2006, KWTX offered UPN programming ("UPN Waco") on digital channel 10.2.
KWTX was the first station in the Central Texas area to broadcast in digital high definition. KWTX-DT first went on the air on May 11, 2001 at 5:10 p.m. It began regular programming on May 15, 2001 on digital channel 53; however, since channels 52-69 would no longer be used for television broadcasts after the end of analog broadcasting on the United States, KWTX opted to move its digital broadcasts to channel 10 in 2009.
Along with the rest of the major Central Texas stations, KWTX began broadcasting solely in digital on February 17, 2009.
KWTX first signed on the air as an independent station on April 3, 1955. At the time, crosstown KANG-TV, channel 34, had the ABC, CBS and DuMont affiliations. KWTX picked up ABC in time for the fall 1955 TV season, and DuMont's closure left KANG as a full-time CBS station.
Long plagued by financial difficulties due to being the only UHF station in the market at a time when UHF tuners were rare, KANG, owned by Texas Broadcasting Company, shut down at the end of 1955. KWTX bought KANG's assets in exchange for a 29% share in the combined operation. KWTX picked up the CBS affiliation as a result of the merger with KANG, and has been a primary CBS affiliate ever since. It shared a secondary ABC affiliation with KCEN-TV until 1983. KCEN later briefly switched to being a full-time ABC affiliate.
Beginning December 6, 1955, KWTX televised the murder trial of Harry L. Washburn, marking the first live telecast of a courtroom trial in the United States. The telecast earned near universal praise from the legal community. District Judge D.W. Bartlett praised the station's crew for its unobtrusiveness: "I have not noticed anything that would in any way interfere with the administration of justice. I don't think anyone could object to the television being run while this is on. It is perfectly quiet, it's outside the jury, and there's been perfect decorum of all concerned, and I don't think there would be any reflection on any court to have this television carried on as it has been carried on in this court."
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