KMYS

KMYS
ATSC 3.0 station
CityKerrville, Texas
Channels
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
OperatorSinclair Broadcast Group
KABB, WOAI-TV
History
First air date
November 6, 1985
(39 years ago)
 (1985-11-06)
Former call signs
KRRT (1985–2006)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 35 (UHF, 1985–2009)
Call sign meaning
"MyNetworkTV San Antonio" (former affiliation)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID51518
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT530.8 m (1,741 ft)
Transmitter coordinates29°36′38″N 98°53′33″W / 29.61056°N 98.89250°W / 29.61056; -98.89250
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Public license information

KMYS (channel 35) is a television station licensed to Kerrville, Texas, United States, serving the San Antonio area as an affiliate of the digital multicast network Dabl. It is owned by Deerfield Media, which maintains joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of dual NBC/CW affiliate WOAI-TV (channel 4) and Fox affiliate KABB (channel 29), for the provision of certain services. The three stations share studios between Babcock Road and Sovereign Drive (off Loop 410) in northwest San Antonio; KMYS's transmitter is located in rural southeastern Bandera County (near Lakehills).

Channel 35 began broadcasting in November 1985 as KRRT, the first independent station serving San Antonio and the first new commercial TV station in the San Antonio market in 28 years. It was owned in part, and eventually entirely, by TVX Broadcast Group, a Virginia-based group of independent stations. KRRT served as San Antonio's first affiliate of Fox when the network launched in 1986. TVX was acquired by Paramount Pictures in two stages between 1989 and 1991.

The Paramount Stations Group sold KRRT in 1994 to Jet Broadcasting of Erie, Pennsylvania. Jet then contracted with River City Broadcasting, owner of KABB, to run the station. The Fox affiliation moved to KABB, which was starting a news department; KRRT then became a UPN affiliate, and it also inherited San Antonio Spurs telecasts from KABB. After River City merged into Sinclair in 1996, KABB and other Sinclair-owned UPN stations switched to The WB in a major group deal that took effect in January 1998. KRRT became KMYS, an affiliate of MyNetworkTV, in 2006; it then became the CW affiliate in 2010, replacing KCWX. In September 2021, the programming that had been airing on KMYS, along with its "CW 35" branding, moved to a subchannel of WOAI-TV; KMYS itself began exclusively airing diginets ahead of conversion to ATSC 3.0.

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KMYS". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.