KXNW
 
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Eureka Springs/Fort Smith/ Fayetteville, Arkansas United States |
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| Branding | My 5.2 (general) 5 News (newscasts) Channel 5 (on DT2) |
| Channels |
Digital: 34 (UHF) Virtual: 34 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 34.1 MyNetworkTV 34.2 Antenna TV 34.3 CBS |
| Affiliations | MyNetworkTV (2006–2009, 2012–present) |
| Owner |
Tribune Broadcasting (Tribune Broadcasting Fort Smith License, LLC) |
| First air date | June 2000 |
| Call letters' meaning | K X North West Arkansas (viewing area) |
| Sister station(s) | KFSM-TV |
| Former callsigns | KWBS-TV (2000–2004) KWFT (2004–2006) KBBL-TV (2006) KPBI (2006–2012) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 34 (UHF, 2000–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
DT1: Pax TV (2000–2003) Lick TV (2003–2004) The WB (2004–2006) MeTV/RTV/Tuff TV (2009–2012) DT2: Univision (until 2012, via KXUN-LP) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW 1000 kW (KFSM-DT2) |
| Height | 224.4 m 286 m (KFSM-DT2 |
| Facility ID | 81593 66469 (KFSM-DT2) |
| Transmitter coordinates |
36°24′41″N 93°57′13″W / 36.41139°N 93.95361°W 35°49′49.2″N 94°9′24.1″W / 35.830333°N 94.156694°W (KFSM-DT2) |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | 5newsonline.com |
KXNW, UHF digital channel 34, is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for Northwest Arkansas that is licensed to Eureka Springs. The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of Tribune Media Company as part of a duopoly with Fort Smith-based CBS affiliate KFSM-TV (channel 5). Both stations share studios located on North 13th Street in downtown Fort Smith.
While Eureka Springs also is located in the Springfield, Missouri market, Nielsen considers this station to be part of the Fort Smith/Fayetteville market.
Channel 34 began operations in 2000 as KWBS-TV, which stood for WB Springfield; however, original station owner Equity Broadcasting decided to make another new station, KWBM (channel 31), as the WB-affiliate for Springfield, and KWBS instead affiliated with Pax (now Ion Television). KWBS dropped the Pax-affiliation in 2003 in favor of the Equity-owned Lick TV, which was a short-lived network that broadcast wrestling events. But one year, later the station dropped that network and finally affiliated with The WB as its Northwest Arkansas affiliate. This was accompanied by a call-letter change to KWFT.
After it was announced in January 2006 The WB and UPN would close down to form The CW in September, KWFT changed its call-letters to KBBL-TV on July 6, 2006. However, its Fort Smith repeater retained the KWFT-LP call sign, which to this day it still uses. The KBBL-TV call-letters were almost certainly not inspired by the KBBL-TV of The Simpsons, even though both stations are located in a DMA with the same name as the Simpsons' fictional hometown. Equity likes to use former radio call-letters from its hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas as TV call letters, and the KBBL call sign was once used by a Little Rock radio station.
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