11 Facts About KSTW

KSTW is a television station licensed to Tacoma, Washington, United States, serving the Seattle area as an affiliate of The CW.

KSTW rejoined CBS in 1995 during a nationwide affiliation shuffle; two years later, the station became a UPN owned-and-operated station via a three-way deal involving it and KIRO-TV, which led it to become that of The CW when UPN shut down in 2006.

KSTW is available on cable television to Canadian customers in southwestern British Columbia on numerous cable providers such as Shaw Cable and TELUS Optik TV in Vancouver, Victoria, Penticton and Kelowna.

CBS agreed, partly because at the time, KSTW was the only non-Big Three station in Seattle with a fully functioning news department.

Cox had plans to expand the news department at KSTW and make it more competitive with the other stations in the market.

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The cartoons on KSTW had disappeared, and more first-run syndicated talk and reality shows moved to KSTW.

In July 2001, KSTW moved their studios from Tacoma to Renton; despite the move, KSTW remains licensed to Tacoma to this day.

In November 2006, after cost-cutting measures were put in place by CBS, it was announced that KSTW would become a "hosting station", with master control located at the facilities of the company's San Francisco duopoly of KPIX and KBCW.

In 2013, KSTW debuted a public affairs program on Sunday mornings called The Impact, produced by Washington state's public affairs channel TVW.

Callsign and channel number for KSTW were co-opted by The CW to create a fictional representation of the station with a news department for the Seattle-set iZombie, though not with "CW 11" branding, but retaining the station's callsign font, and a completely different image from that of the real KSTW.

KSTW had low-power translators serving certain areas of Seattle, all of which were discontinued.