This article is a table listing of former The CW stations, arranged alphabetically by state, and based on the station's city of license as well as its Designated Market Area; it is also accompanied by footnotes regarding the present network affiliation of the former The CW-affiliated station (if the station remains operational) and the current The CW affiliates in each of the listed markets, as well as any other notes including the reasons behind each station's disaffiliation from the network. There are links to and articles on each of the stations, describing their histories, local programming, and technical information, such as broadcast frequencies.
The station's advertised channel number follows the call letters. In most cases, this is their virtual channel (PSIP) number, which may match the channel allocation that the station originally broadcast on during its prior affiliation with the network.
On December 15, 2015, Gray Television, which owns KALB-TV (channel 5), came to terms on an extension of their existing CW affiliations; the press release announcing the extension also revealed Gray agreed to a new affiliation agreement with The CW for the Alexandria market, placing the network on a new third digital subchannel of KALB-TV in the fall of 2016, meaning KBCA lost their network affiliation at that time.[1]
Became an Ion owned-and-operated station (by way of a trust benefiting Ion Media Networks) on February 10, 2014; had been owned by Roberts Broadcasting prior to then. The station continued to carry CW programming in addition to Ion until being replaced by WKTC on March 17.
Carried CW as primary, and MyNetworkTV as alternate network after primetime. Became a full-time MyNetworkTV affiliate on September 30, 2019; was replaced by WIS-DT2
On October 30, 2023, WADL posted a press release noting it dropped The CW over a dispute with Nexstar, with MyNetworkTV programming moving back two hours to its previous prime time berth.
From November 13, 2023, to September 1, 2024, WMYD was affiliated with the CW on an interregnum basis. The station's disaffiliation with the CW coincided with Nexstar declining to renew the network's affiliation contracts with Scripps-owned stations.[4]
Ceased operations March 24, 2011, after license was cancelled by the FCC following expiration of a permit to construct a digital transmitter facility to increase signal power from 1,110 watts to 1 million watts; was replaced by WAZE-LP, WJPS-LP and WIKY-LP, which previously operated as fill-in translators of WAZE-TV.
Ceased operations January 3, 2013; were replaced by WTVW on January 31. Were eventually purchased in bankruptcy by a trust controlled by Ion Media Networks in February 2014.
On October 22, 2012, Roberts announced that it had sold WRBJ to the Trinity Broadcasting Network.[6] The sale was approved by a bankruptcy court on January 17, 2013, and TBN officially took over operational control of WRBJ five months later, on May 24, 2013.[7][8] CW network programming would not be seen in the Jackson area until WJTV-DT2 picked up The CW in October 2013.
On September 20, 2021, The CW affiliation and other programs aired on the main KMYS subchannel moved to the 4.2 subchannel of WOAI-TV, still known as "CW 35".
KLWB lost its CW affiliation to a subchannel of KATC (channel 3) on June 14, 2010. At that time, the station switched to This TV (which had previously been carried on one of KLWB's subchannels, as well as on sister stationKXKW-LD).
On August 31, 2023, Nexstar announced that KAUT would affiliate with The CW beginning September 1, replacing KOCB as part of an agreement with Sinclair to affiliate with two of its stations in Pittsburgh and Seattle; this resulted in KOCB becoming an independent station for the first time since January 1995.[10]
On November 20, 2023, CW programming moved to the second subchannel of KNXV-TV (which otherwise carried Antenna TV programming), and KASW became an independent station known as Arizona 61; the station airs a mix of local news, sports (including Arizona Coyotes hockey), and entertainment programming, as well as content from Scripps News.
Disaffiliated from The CW and became a news-oriented independent station; Fox affiliate WFXV assumed the affiliation for its DT2 subchannel due to its ownership by Nexstar Media Group, majority owner of The CW.
On January 16, 2009, it was announced that several Pappas stations, including the license for KCWK, would be sold to New World TV Group after the sale received United States bankruptcy court approval.[11] In the interim, Fisher Communications announced that their CBS affiliates KIMA-TV/KEPR-TV would each launch CW subchannels on March 31, 2009, to fill KCWK's void.[12]
