KWKB

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KWKB
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Iowa City, Iowa
Branding CW KWKB (primary branding)
My KWKB (used during MNTV programming)
Slogan Free to Be KWKB
Eastern Iowa's CW
Channels Analog: 20 (UHF)

Digital: 25 (UHF)
Affiliations The CW (primary)
MyNetworkTV (secondary)
Owner KM Communications, Inc.
(KM Television of Iowa, LLC)
First air date August 30, 1999
Call letters’ meaning K
Warner
K
Brothers
(after former affiliation)
Former affiliations The WB (1999-2006)
Transmitter Power 5000 kW (analog)
1000 kW (digital)
Height 440.9 m (analog)
418.9 m (digital)
Facility ID 35096
Transmitter Coordinates 41°43′29.2″N, 91°21′10.2″W
Website www.kwkb.com

KWKB is a television station that broadcasts on channel 20 and is the CW (primary) and MyNetworkTV (secondary) affiliate for Eastern Iowa. KWKB is licensed to Iowa City, but its studios and transmitter are located in West Branch. KWKB serves the greater Eastern Iowa area including Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, and Dubuque. (Its signal also reaches the Quad Cities, but cable television systems in that area carry KGCW-TV instead.)

KWKB signed on the air August 30, 1999. It carried the full WB and Kids' WB lineups. Syndicated programs on KWKB include Maury, Tyra Banks, Blind Date as well as reruns of Friends, Sex & the City and Will & Grace. KWKB also carries St. Louis Cardinals baseball as well as selected Iowa State Cyclones and Big 12 Conference basketball games.

Since September 2006, KWKB has affiliated with both The CW as a primary network and My Network TV as a secondary network. To date, KWKB is one of two stations in the country carrying both The CW and MyNetworkTV (the other is KNVA in Austin, Texas). KWKB airs MyNetworkTV programming from 9PM-11PM, immediately following CW programming. The Satellite feed for MyNetworkTV and The CW are actually aired at the same time, so MyNetworkTV is recorded and played 2 hours after it is played by other MyNetworkTV affiliates.

Because The CW does not air any programming on Saturday nights, KWKB airs MyNetworkTV shows from 7-9 PM.


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Former KWKB WB logo.

Former KWKB WB logo, from 2000 to 2002

Former KWKB WB logo, from 2002

Former KWKB WB logo, from 2003

Current KWKB CW logo.

Current My KWKB logo.


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