KCWH-LD

KCWH-LD
Channels
BrandingThe CW Nebraska
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KNHL, KOLN/KGIN, KSNB-TV
History
First air date
August 9, 1999
(25 years ago)
 (1999-08-09)
Former call signs
  • K18CD (1999–2011)
  • K18CD-D (2011–2018)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 18 (UHF, 1999–2011)
Call sign meaning
The CW, Huskers
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID21165
ERP15 kW
HAAT112.7 m (370 ft)
Transmitter coordinates40°49′17″N 96°39′44″W / 40.82139°N 96.66222°W / 40.82139; -96.66222
Translator(s)
Links
Public license information
LMS

KCWH-LD (channel 18) is a low-power television station in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with The CW Plus. It is owned by Gray Television alongside CBS affiliates KOLN/KGIN (channels 10 and 11) in Lincoln and Grand Island and NBC affiliate KSNB-TV (channel 4) in York. KCWH-LD is broadcast from a tower at the KOLN studios on North 40th Street in Lincoln.

For most of its history, KCWH-LD, under the call sign K18CD, served as a translator for KSNB-TV, whose signal was weak in Lincoln until its transmitter was moved to the KOLN tower near Beaver Crossing in 2022. It signed on in 1999, when KSNB-TV broadcast Fox programming; in 2009, the parent station left the air, only intermittently broadcasting until shortly before Gray acquired it in 2013. K18CD-D, now a digital station, continued to provide a rebroadcast of KSNB-TV, which broadcast MyNetworkTV programming before becoming the regional NBC affiliate in 2014. In 2018, after the station lost its tower in a collapse, Gray converted the station into a standalone CW+ affiliate, simulcast on KNHL (channel 5) in Hastings and the second subchannel of Fox affiliate KIIT-CD (channel 11) in North Platte.

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KCWH-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.