KWWL
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| Waterloo, Iowa | |
| Branding | KWWL Iowa’s News Channel 7 |
| Channels | Analog: 7 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | NBC NBC Weather Plus (DT2) |
| Owner | Quincy Newspapers, Inc. (KWWL Television, Inc.) |
| First air date | November 29, 1953 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Keep Watching WaterLoo |
| Former callsigns | KWWL-TV (1953-1983) |
| Transmitter Power | 316 kW (analog) 194 kW (digital) 21800 watts (after 2009) |
| Height | 604 m (analog) 527 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 593 |
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| Website | www.kwwl.com |
KWWL is a television station operating out of Waterloo, Iowa. The station operates on VHF channel 7. KWWL is owned by Quincy Newspapers. Its transmitter is located at the AFLAC Tower north of Rowley, Iowa.
KWWL is an affiliate of NBC. The station is the primary NBC affiliate for the northeastern third of the state of Iowa, incuding 21 counties and the larger cities of Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Dubuque and Iowa City. The station's headquarters is in Waterloo, Iowa. KWWL also operates newsrooms and sales offices in Cedar Rapids and Dubuque.
In addition to its primary digital channel, KWWL operates KWWL StormTrack7 on DT2. KWWL also transmitted "The Tube" digital music video channel until The Tube ceased operations on October 1, 2007. It now carries classic programming from Retro Television Network on DT3.[1]
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[edit] History
KWWL came into existence at about the same time that other television stations — most notably KCRG and KGAN of Cedar Rapids, Iowa — began operating. (KGAN was WMT-TV at the time.) KWWL was founded by R.J. McElroy and the Black Hawk Broadcasting Company after a legal battle with a rival group in Waterloo. McElroy and Black Hawk Broadcasting won a lawsuit which allowed them to be granted a Federal Communications Commission license.
Black Hawk Broadcasting sold the station to the American Family Life Insurance Company or AFLAC's broadcast division in 1980. Alabama-based Raycom Media later bought KWWL and six other stations from AFLAC. In 2006, Raycom sold KWWL and a handful of other stations following it's purchase of The Liberty Corporation in late 2005. [2] Quincy Newspapers, Inc. became owner of KWWL on July 1, 2006. QNI owns about a dozen television stations, primarily in the Midwest. Other QNI stations serving parts of Iowa include KTIV in Sioux City and KTTC in Rochester, Minnesota. QNI's flagship station, WGEM also serves far southeastern Iowa.
[edit] Personalities and programming
Current news personalities (as of March 2008) include:
- Ron Steele, Weekday Evening Anchor/Reporter
- Tara Thomas, Weekday Evening Anchor/Reporter
- Chris Carter, Weekday Morning/Noon Anchor/Reporter
- Sunny Layne, Weekday Morning/Noon Anchor/Reporter
- Rick Coleman, Sports Director, Weekday Sports Anchor
- Bryan Goettel, Weekend Sports Anchor
- Sid Jacob, Sports Reporter
- Jeff Kennedy, Weekday Evening Meteorologist
- Mark Schnackenberg, Weekday Morning and Noon Meteorologist
- Eileen Loan, Weekend Evening Meteorologist
- Jennifer Hildreth, Weekend Morning Meteorologist
- Danielle Wagner, Weekend Morning Anchor/Reporter
- Bob Waters, Weekend Evening Anchor/Reporter
- Jamie Grey, Dubuque Area Reporter
- John Wilmer, Waterloo Area Reporter
- Jon Keimig, Cedar Rapids Area Reporter
- Breanne Palmerini, Cedar Rapids Area Reporter
- Jenn Jarvis, Waterloo Area Reporter
Syndicated programs aired by KWWL include Dr. Phil, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! and Martha.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- KWWL Web Site
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KWWL
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KWWL-TV
[edit] Sources
1. Lipps, Rick and Weaver, Tim. KWWL Station History (http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=277765) Date Accessed: July 30, 2005. Waterloo: KWWL.
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