KCWX Promo/ID/News Brief Montage, 8/2021

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KCWX is the MyNetwork Affiliate for San Antonio, Texas broadcasting 24 hours a day off-Network shows, movies, news and sports, syndicated shows such as Dateline, Murdoch Mysteries, and featured movies. It's legally considered part of the San Antonio market currently after the station elected to be placed there due to having better cable carriage in that market. KCWX invokes must-carry for satellite as neither provider was carrying them before. KCWX is technically licensed within the Austin market, has its transmitter in it, and has its main studio/master control in Austin itself. KCWX is looking to build a multi-transmitter network to improve its coverage, but it is unknown if the station will actually follow through (they've held these CPs for almost a decade now). Here's a montage of promos, legal IDs and news briefs, recorded August 11th, 14th, 15th, and 16th, 2021.

A few people have asked me to do something like this over the years, so I figured I might as well finally. KCWX has an interesting history: it started in 2000 as the UPN affiliate serving BOTH Austin and San Antonio. The FCC dropped the channel 2 allocation to Fredericksburg back in the late 1980s. The transmitter is located where it is because it could not move in any direction during the analog era. Otherwise it would interfere with KPRC-TV Houston, KMID-TV Midland/Odessa and KDTN in Denton. The station also wanted to put a usable signal over both Austin and San Antonio and felt the Stonewall site they've been based at since day one was the best option. However, as we saw with KLRN's attempt at serving both markets in the 1960s and 1970s, this works well on paper but not so much in reality. I barely was able to get KCWX's analog signal from my Helotes location and cannot receive the digital at all (being on low-VHF certainly doesn't help).

Original applicants for the channel 2 frequency included Telemundo (before pulling out to pursue the UHF 60 allocation for San Antonio proper), the Tawil family (who originally built K13VC in Austin before selling it to KTBC's ownership; they had already been programming it), and the Roth family (behind KONO radio and TV). Another ownership group won the allocation although it went to court and eventually the Roths won the allocation instead. They would join together with the Tawils to form Corridor Television. Eventually the Tawils would buy out the Roths' stake (a date of when this happened could not be found but it was after the station signed on).

Originally hitting the air in 2000 with the call letters KBEJ, it was operated by Belo, who owned KENS and KVUE in the KBEJ service area. KENS managed and programmed the station and while they did a good job at first, eventually after the station switched to The CW (and adopted the present KCWX call letters in 2006), Belo began to treat the station as an afterthought. The CW yanked their affiliation in 2010, moving it to KMYS (who is technically a rimshot too but has a much better overall signal in the market core). KCWX picked up the MyNetwork affiliation while Belo terminated the LMA with Corridor. Corridor quickly built a new master control facility in Austin and hired a small staff in Austin to produce local programming. This local programming would be subsumed by San Antonio-based Quarter Moon Productions in 2015 (which Corridor owns a stake in), who produces all of the station's limited local content output today. From 2017-2021, KCWX produced the nightly sports program "Sports2Nite", which was canceled due to budgetary concerns brought about by the pandemic. Most of the on-air staff was let go or reassigned within the company (with Hector Ledesma fronting nightly sports updates that retain the "Sports2Nite" branding and co-host Jill Jelnick moving to QMP's "YOLO Texas" syndicated Texas travel show; the rest of the on-air talent was let go).

Sean Caldwell is the station's voiceover, while default MyNetwork graphics are used for most cases. Despite the logo depicting a "My2" brand, the station uses its call letters as its sole branding.

0:00 - Legal IDs
1:38 - "Coming Up Next" bumpers
8:01 - Movie intros
8:46 - Various show promos w/ tagouts
20:27 - Eagle Scout/Gold Award nomination promo
20:43 - KCWX app promo
20:58 - KCWX news brief montage (anchored by Isabella Radovan and Valerie Lopez) (movie trailers in some of the briefs have been edited out due to copyright issues)
29:16 - Sports2Nite Sports Brief montage (anchored by Hector Ledesma and Isabella Radovan)

©2021 Corridor Television, LLP and KCWX-TV, no copyright infringement intended. For educational and historical purposes only. We do not profit off of this video.

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