KWTX-TV

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KWTX-TV
Waco / Temple / Killeen, Texas
Branding News 10
CW Waco
Slogan First, fast and accurate
Channels Analog: 10 (VHF)
Digital: 53 (UHF)
Affiliations CBS
The CW (on digital)
Owner Gray Television
Founded April 3, 1955
Call letters meaning K Waco, TX
Former affiliations UPN (on digital, to 9/2006)
Website www.kwtx.com

KWTX-TV (News 10) is a full-power television station in Waco, Texas, serving Central Texas as a CBS affiliate. It is owned by Gray Television. It is broadcast on cable channel 2 in the immediate part of the market.

KWTX also offers The CW programming on its digital feed, branded as "CW Waco." Prior to September 2006, KWTX offered UPN programming (UPN Waco) on digital.

Contents

Anchors

  • Gordon Collier - News 10 at 5, 6, and 10
  • Julie Shelton - News 10 at 5, 6, and 10
  • Bill Young - News 10 This Morning; News 10 at Noon
  • Emily Matthews - News 10 This Morning
  • Christopher Heath - News 10 Saturday at 6 and 10; News 10 Sunday at 5:30 and 10

Weather

  • Rusty Garrett - Chief Meteorologist (News 10 at 6 and 10)
  • Lon Curtis - News 10 at Noon; News 10 at 5
  • Brady Taylor - News 10 This Morning
  • Keith Cavey - News 10 Saturday at 6 and 10; News 10 Sunday at 5:30 and 10

Sports

  • Matt Iazzetti - Sports Director (News 10 at 5, 6, and 10)
  • Dan Ingham - News 10 Saturday at 6 and 10; News 10 Sunday at 5:30 and 10
  • Adam Winkler - Sports Anchor/Reporter

Reporters

  • Matt Felder (Killeen Bureau)
  • Megan Fleetwood
  • Adam Fox
  • ShaVonne Herndon
  • Robyn Kriel
  • Eli Ross

Just before the Mount Carmel raid on February 28, 1993, Davidians learned that they were facing not a service of warrants, but a shootout. KWTX-TV cameraman James Peeler asked directions of Davidian David Jones, who was driving his postal truck. David Koresh's attorney Dick DeGuerin told reporters that Peeler told Jones, "Well, you better get out of here because there's a United States National Guard helicopter over at TSTC (Texas State Technical College) and they're going to have a big shootout with the religious nuts. Peeler was distressed to see Jones immediately drive to Mount Carmel Center and left the area to call his superiors.

According to the Treasury report, Jones told DeGuerin that "Peeler warned him not to go near the Compound as there were going to be `60 to 70 TABC (Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission) guys in helicopters and a shoot-out would occur'." And Peeler himself confessed to the Treasury review team that he had told Jones there would be "some type of law enforcement action" and that "the action was likely to be a raid of some type and that there might be shooting." KWTX-TV cameraman Dan Mulloney testified that KWTX-TV's initial information came from law enforcement agents he refused to name--something the Treasury report failed to reveal--as well as from a private ambulance driver working with BATF. (Similarly, BATF agent Ballesteros admitted that it was non-BATF law enforcement that tipped off the Waco Tribune-Herald.) Therefore, BATF agents' expectations of a shootout were directly transmitted to the Davidians.

Mulloney, Peeler, and reporter John McLemore were the only non-combatants at Mount Carmel that fateful day. And the three became the only independent witnesses in the subsequent trials that attempted to assess blame for the botched raid as well as the subsequent federal assault and fire on April 19, 1993, that left about 80 people dead. Mulloney shot the TV footage that was shown around the world, of agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms storming the Davidians’ home. Mulloney and McLemore, later used their vehicle to transport injured ATF agents away from the shootout.[4]

KWTX was the first station in the Central Texas area to be broadcasting in High Definition Television (HDTV). KWTX-DT first went on the air on Friday, May 11th, 2001 at 5:10 PM. It began regular programming on Tuesday, May 15th, 2001 on Digital Channel 53.

KWTX shares the callsign with radio station 97.5 FM, a Top 40 Pop station and 1230 AM, a News/Talk station both owned by Clear Channel Communications. In 1997 the radio stations were sold to GulfStar and later Clear Channel. As part of the deal, the radio stations moved out of the building at American Plaza and into their own building. Today KWTX-TV uses the area once occupied by the radio stations for offices and edit bays.

Though identifying as a station in its own right, KBTX-TV in Bryan / College Station is considered a semi-satellite of KWTX. It has most of its internal operations run alongside KWTX, and clears all of KWTX's syndicated programming (although it has some shows not seen on KWTX).

KWTX DT2 UPN logo, used prior to September 2006.

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Broadcast television in the Waco market  (Nielsen DMA #95)

Waco / Temple / Killeen:
KCEN 6 (NBC) - KWTX 10 (CBS, The CW on DT2) - KXXV 25 (ABC, Telemundo on DT2, 25 Weather Now on DT3) - KPLE-LP 31 (TBN) - KWBU 34 (PBS) - KWKO-LP 38 (Ind) - KWKT 44 (FOX/MNTV) - KNCT 46 (PBS) - KAKW 62 (UNI)
Bryan / College Station:
KBTX 3 (CBS, The CW on DT2) - KSCM-LP 12 (A1) - KAMU 15 (PBS) - KMAY-LP 23 (NBC) - KYLE 28 (FOX/MNTV) - KRHD-LP 40 (ABC) - K47ED 47 (TBN)
Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations
Reception may vary by geographical location
KUHT 8 (PBS, Houston) - WFAA 8 (ABC, Dallas)
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Gray Television, Inc.

ABC Network Affiliate: KAKE · KOLO · WBKO · WHSV · WTOK · WVAW · TV3 Winchester (WHSV-DT3) (cable only)
CBS Network Affiliates: KBTX · KKTV · KOLN/KGIN · KWTX · KXII · WCAV · WCTV · WIBW · WIFR · WKYT · WRDW · WSAW · WSWG · WTVY · WVLT · WYMT
The CW Network Affiliates1: KBTX · KKCO · KWTX · WBKO · WJHG · WKYT · WTOK · WYMT
Fox Network Affiliates: KXII1 · WAHU · WBKO1 · WHSV1 · WSYM2 · WTOK1 · WTAP1
Independent Television Station1: WOWT
MyNetworkTV Affiliates1: KKTV (KKTV-DT2) · KOLN/KGIN · KXII · WAHU · WCTV · WHSV · WIBW · WJHG · WRDW · WSAW · WSAZ · WSWG · WTOK · WTVY · WTAP · WVLT
NBC Network Affiliates: KKCO · WEAU · WILX · WITN · WJHG · WMTV · WNDU · WOWT · WSAZ · WTAP
1These stations broadcast these networks on their digital subchannels.
2Gray and Journal Broadcast Group entered into a "news share" agreement.
Annual Revenue: $332.1 USD (2006) · Employees: N/A · Stock Symbol: NYSE: GTN · Website: www.graycommunications.com
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CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Texas
See also: ABC, CW, Fox, MyNetwork TV, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Religious, Other English and Other Spanish stations in Texas
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CW Network Affiliates in the state of Texas
See also: ABC, CBS, Fox, MyNetwork TV, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Religious, Other English and Other Spanish stations in Texas
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