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KGAN
Image:KGAN2Logo.jpg
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Branding CBS 2
Channels Analog: 2 (VHF)

Digital: 51 (UHF)
Affiliations CBS
Owner Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
(KGAN Licensee, LLC)
First air date September 30, 1953
Call letters’ meaning Guy GANnett
(former owner)
Former callsigns WMT-TV (1953-1981)
KGAN-TV (1981-1984)
Transmitter Power 100 kW (analog)
500 kW (digital)
Height 442 m (analog)
585 m (digital)
Facility ID 25685
Transmitter Coordinates 42°17′43.3″N, 91°53′10.3″W (analog)
42°18′58.4″N, 91°51′31.1″W (digital)
Website www.kgan.com

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History

On September 30, 1953, WMT-TV began broadcasting. Events 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England. 1744 - France and Spain defeat the Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. General manager William B. Quarton made some remarks, which were then followed by a broadcast of a World Series game between the Yankees and Dodgers. For other events named "World Series" see World Series (disambiguation. The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the borough of The Bronx, in New York City, New York. The Los Angeles Dodgers are a Major League Baseball team based in Los Angeles California, USA

The station was authorized to transmit at 100,000 watts, and WMT became the very first station to transmit at full power. The station was licensed to serve the Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, and Dubuque areas, making it the first station to be given split-market status by the Federal Communications Commission. Initially the station was owned by a group consisting of American Broadcasting Stations, Quarton, and several others. WMT-TV was a sister station of WMT-AM 600, which had been broadcasting in the area since 1922. WMT (600 AM) is a news/talk Radio station broadcasting in Cedar Rapids Iowa, in the United States. The call sign stood for the Waterloo Morning Tribune, which owned WMT radio from 1928 until 1934.

The station was based at what came to be known as Broadcast Park. When the KGAN facilities were first built, the surrounding area was still mainly rural. A 702 foot (214 meter) high broadcast tower was built to transmit the signal. This tower served as the primary tower for the next four years. In 1956 a taller tower near Walker, Iowa, was built to transmit the signal, but a storm on December 10 blew the tower down. Walker is a city in Linn County, Iowa, United States. The population was 750 at the 2000 census Events 1041 - Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V The tower was soon rebuilt, and remains in service today.

In 1968, WMT-AM-FM-TV was sold to what would become Orion Broadcasting of Louisville, Kentucky. They would remain under Orion's ownership until 1981, when Orion merged with Cosmos Broadcasting, a subsidiary of insurance and broadcasting conglomerate Liberty Corporation. The Liberty Corporation (Public NYSE: LC was a media Corporation originally based out of Greenville South Carolina. However, the two companies owned more TV stations than the FCC allowed at the time. As a condition of the sale, Cosmos had to sell WMT-TV, and found a buyer in Guy Gannett Publishing of Portland, Maine. Guy Gannett Communications -- no relation to the larger Gannett communications chain -- was a family-owned business consisting of newspapers in Maine and a handful Portland is the largest city in the US state of Maine and the County seat of Cumberland County. On October 16, 1981 WMT-TV changed its callsign to KGAN-TV. Events 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 In Broadcasting and Radio communications a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call, or otherwise The station was purchased by Sinclair, along with most of Gannett's broadcasting holdings, in 1999. Sinclair then announced the sale of KGAN, along with WICS in Springfield, Illinois and WICD in Champaign, Illinois, to Sunrise Television that same year. WICS is the ABC affiliate located in Springfield Illinois. Branding itself as "ABC NewsChannel 20" it is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group Springfield is the capital of the US state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County with a population of 116482 (U WICD which brands itself as "ABC NewsChannel 15" is an ABC affiliate TV station in Champaign Illinois. Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, in the United States. However, the FCC did not allow Sunrise to buy WICS/WICD due to Sunrise's ownership structure. Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst (HMTF), an investment firm controlled by Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars owner Tom Hicks, owned a large block of Sunrise stock. The Texas Rangers are an American professional baseball team based in Arlington Texas, United States, representing the Dallas-Ft The Dallas Stars are a National Hockey League team based in Dallas Texas. Thomas O Hicks Sr (born 1946 in Dallas Texas but later moved to Port Arthur Texas) is a Dallas Businessman According to Forbes Magazine HMTF is majority stockholder of LIN TV, then-owner of WAND in Decatur. WAND is an NBC affiliate serving the Decatur&ndash Springfield &ndash Champaign area Decatur is the largest city and the county seat of Macon County in the U The FCC ruled that HMTF held enough stock in Sunrise that an acquisition of WICS/WICD would have resulted in a duopoly between two of the four highest-rated stations in the Central Illinois market--something which is forbidden by FCC rules. A true duopoly is a specific type of Oligopoly where only two producers exist in one Market. And because KGAN was part of the package deal, it would not have been sold to Sunrise alone, without the inclusion of WICS/WICD. As such, Sinclair retained ownership of all three stations.

The weather department at WMT-TV was highly revered by eastern Iowans for many decades under the direction of Conrad Johnson in the 1960's and 1970's. Shortly after his retirement, longtime meteorologist Dave Towne continued that tradition for another decade. Dave was joined briefly by Andre Bernier (weekday morning and noon weather) in 1981. Andre left KGAN-TV in March 1982 when he became part of the launch team for The Weather Channel. The Weather Channel (also TWC) is a commercially-sponsored US In 1984, Dave Towne brought Doppler RADAR to KGAN, the first television station in the Cedar Rapids area to utilize Doppler Radar for it's weathercasts and for severe weather coverage. Dave Towne took a sabbatical from television to pursue other interests and returned briefly to KGAN on weekends, but has now retired from Cedar Rapids television altogether.

The station has won two George Foster Peabody awards. George Foster Peabody (July 27 1852 &ndash March 4 1938 was banker born in Columbus Georgia to George Henry Peabody and Elvira Canfield The first Peabody Award was awarded in 1956 for the station's role in developing "The Secret of Flight" television programs. The George Foster Peabody Awards, better known as simply the Peabody Awards, are annual international awards for excellence in Radio and Television broadcasting These programs were made with the assistance of Dr. Alexander Lippisch, who was the director of the Collins Aeronautical Research Laboratory. The programs focused on aeronautical education. Later, in 1994, KGAN won another Peabody award. This Peabody was awarded for the work investigative reporter Sandy Riesgraf performed in helping to expose a sewer solvent scandal.

KGAN began producing FOX 17 News at Nine (now known as FOX News at Nine) in 2001, for their Sinclair Broadcast Group sister station, KDSM, in Des Moines. KDSM-TV is a Television station that broadcasts on channel 17 in Des Moines Iowa. In 2002, Cedar Rapids FOX affiliate, KFXA began simulcasting the newscast to its Eastern Iowa viewers. KFXA is a television station based out of Cedar Rapids Iowa. KFXA is an affiliate of the Fox Television network.

On January 5, 2007, KGAN was pulled from Mediacom systems as part of an ongoing retransmission dispute between Mediacom and Sinclair. Events 1477 - Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Mediacom Communications ( usually called just Mediacom) is a Cable television and communications provider in the United States. The Sinclair Broadcast Group ( SBG) is the operator of the largest number of local Television stations in the United States with a total of 57 stations The move threatened to leave many eastern Iowa cable viewers without coverage of Super Bowl XLI, even though some viewers in KGAN's viewing area were served by other CBS affiliates such as WHBF-TV in the Quad Cities, which was added to Mediacom's lineup in Iowa City shortly before the impasse. Super Bowl XLI was an American football game played on February 4 2007 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, a suburb of WHBF-TV, channel 4 is a television station licensed to Rock Island Illinois, which serves as the CBS affiliate for the Quad Cities television market (comprised of The Quad Cities is geographic region of the Mid-Mississippi Valley of the United States that includes multiple communities in the states of Iowa and Illinois [1] The dispute ended on February 2, when the two sides reached an agreement that restored KGAN to Mediacom systems. Events 962 - Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor [2]

KGAN has frequently pre-empted shows from CBS, like in the past, CBS Kids shows pre-empted by movies, sports and paid programs, today CBS 2 pre-empts programming from CBS in favor of special paid programs such as Billy Graham.

KGAN does not have a morning newscast, but it does air the CBS Early Show from 6 to 8 a. The Early Show is an American Television morning news Talk show broadcast by CBS from New York City, 7 to 9 a m. with a return to local weather updates during the show, anchored by a meteorologist.

In early 2008, Sinclair announced its purchase of KFXA from Second Generation of Iowa. Normally, the Federal Communications Commission's duopoly rules forbid common ownership of two of the four largest stations in a single media market. A true duopoly is a specific type of Oligopoly where only two producers exist in one Market. A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area, DMA or simply market is a region where the Population Sinclair is expected to seek a "failed or failing station" waiver from the FCC for the purchase.

Personalities and programming

CBS 2 News Staff:

References

  1. ^ Gallegos, Rachel; Kathryn Fiegen. "Mediacom loses 22 Sinclair stations", Iowa City Press-Citizen, 2007-01-06. The Iowa City Press-Citizen is a daily Newspaper published in Iowa City Iowa, that serves most of Johnson County and portions of surrounding Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England. 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King  
  2. ^ Brady, Shirley. "Mediacom and Sinclair Make A Deal", Cable360, 2007-02-02. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 962 - Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor  

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