KMYS

KMYS

Kerrville/San Antonio, Texas
Branding	CW 35
Channels	Digital: 32 (UHF) Virtual: 35 (PSIP)
Affiliations	The CW
Owner	Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (San Antonio (KRRT-TV) Licensee, Inc.)
First air date	November 6, 1985
Call letters' meaning	MYNetworkTV San Antonio (former affiliation)
Sister station(s)	KABB
Former callsigns	KRRT (1985-2006)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 35 (UHF, 1985-2009)
Former affiliations	independent (1985-1986) Fox (1986-1995) UPN (1995-1998) The WB (1998-2006) MyNetworkTV (2006-2010)
Transmitter power	1000 kW
Height	530.8 m
Facility ID	51518
Transmitter coordinates	29°36′38″N 98°53′33″W
Website	www.kmys.tv

KMYS, virtual channel 35, is the CW-affiliated television station in San Antonio, Texas. The station is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. It is licensed to the nearby city of Kerrville. Its 473.3-meter-high, guy-wired aerial transmitter, built in 1985, is located near Lakehills, Texas.

Digital television

KMYS shut down its analog signal on February 17, 2009, continuing digital broadcasts on its pre-transition channel number, 32 using PSIP to display KMYS' virtual channel as 35.

Channel	Video	Aspect	Programming
35.1	1080i	16:9	main KMYS programming / The CW
35.2	480i	4:3	TheCoolTV

History

Founding

KMYS first hit the airwaves on November 6, 1985, as KRRT, an independent station. The station would be the first independent general entertainment station in the San Antonio market, as well as San Antonio's first new English-language commercial station in 28 years. Prior to 1985, San Antonio was the largest market without an independent station. While San Antonio was large enough on paper to support an independent station, the market is a fairly large one geographically. Additionally, despite the city proper's large size (it had almost a million people at the time channel 35 signed on), San Antonio has always been a medium-size market because the surrounding rural and suburban areas, then as now, were not much larger than San Antonio itself.

Affiliations with Fox and then UPN

The station was founded by the TVX Broadcast Group, and along with its TVX stablemates became a charter affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company in 1987. Paramount Pictures bought a minority ownership interest in TVX in 1989 and would acquire the rest in 1991, changing its name to the Paramount Stations Group (at the time, it was Paramount's smallest-market station). Paramount ended KRRT's Fox affiliation in 1995, and made the station a charter affiliate of UPN, which it operated as a joint venture with Chris-Craft Industries.

Later that year, Paramount sold the station to Jet Broadcasting, who began a local marketing agreement (LMA) with cross-town KABB (which had picked up the Fox affiliation abandoned by KRRT), owned by River City Broadcasting; the arrangement was inherited by Sinclair upon its purchase of River City the following year. Jet Broadcasting then sold the station to Glencairn, Ltd. (now Cunningham Broadcasting) in 1997.

With the purchase by Glencairn, KRRT became effectively owned by Sinclair since the Smith family (owners of Sinclair) controlled more than 90 percent of Glencairn's stock. By all accounts, Glencairn/Cunningham has been serving as a shell corporation for Sinclair to circumvent Federal Communications Commission ownership rules, which at the time did not permit duopolies.

The WB affiliation

The UPN affiliation was dropped in favor of The WB in 1998, as part of a larger affiliation agreement between the network and Sinclair (prior to the switch The WB had been shown only on cable through Superstation WGN (now WGN America)). From that point KMOL-TV (now WOAI-TV) aired UPN during the overnight hours (in part due to it being owned at the time by Chris-Craft) until KBEJ, which at that time served both Austin and San Antonio, signed on in 2000.

In the following years, KRRT moved away from classic sitcoms and movies and toward more talk/reality and court shows. It also gradually cut back on cartoons, leaving only the network-provided Kids WB programming. Sinclair bought KRRT outright in 2001 as part of a group deal with four other Glencairn stations after it was slapped with a $40,000 fine earlier that year for illegally controlling Glencairn.

Switch to MyNetworkTV

KRRT seemed likely to become an affiliate of The CW upon the closure of The WB and UPN in 2006, since KBEJ has a rimshot signal over San Antonio and Austin. However, on March 2, 2006, Sinclair announced that most of its WB and UPN affiliates, including KRRT, would instead join MyNetworkTV; the CW affiliation ultimately went to the renamed KCWX, which soon pulled out of the Austin market due to KNVA serving as its CW affiliate. To reflect the new affiliation, the call letters were changed to KMYS on June 19, 2006.

In late 2006, Sinclair moved the 4Kids TV line-up from KABB back to KMYS (which had shown the predecessor Fox Kids block as a Fox affiliate). Fox's current Saturday morning infomercial block, Weekend Marketplace, is likewise aired on KMYS.

"My35" logo utilized by the station until August 2010.

Affiliation with The CW

Sinclair cut a deal with The CW on February 12, 2010 to move its San Antonio affiliation from KCWX to KMYS; as a result, the two stations swapped affiliations on August 30. KMYS retained Weekend Marketplace on Saturday mornings but has opted to air Toonzai over two shorter blocks: The first two hours of the block air from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. on Sunday mornings while the last three hours air from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. on Monday mornings.

As such, it is one of a handful of CW affiliates which do not air The CW's children's programming block in pattern, and one of the few network affiliates in the country which air network children's programming at a time when young viewers would likely require the use of a DVR to watch (WISN-TV in Milwaukee aired ABC's non-E/I programming on early Monday mornings before World News Now in 2005 before receiving network permission to not air it at all).

Programming

KMYS-TV is home to mainly syndicated programming that includes Access Hollywood, The Wendy Williams Show, The People's Court and Jerry Springer as well as other programming.

External links

• Official website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KMYS
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KMYS-TV
• ASR Registration for KMYS's Tower