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K15CZ is the low-powered CW-affiliated television station for the Ozark Plateau area of Southwestern Missouri that is licensed to Springfield. It broadcasts a digital signal on UHF channel 15 from a transmitter on East Kearney Street (MO 744) near Doling Park. Owned by Schurz Communications of South Bend, Indiana, the station is sister to NBC affiliate KYTV and ABC affiliate KSPR (owned by Perkin Media but operated through a shared services agreement by Schurz). All three share studios on West Sunshine Street in Springfield. Syndicated programming on the station includes: Law & Order: SVU, Family Guy, Tyra, and Judge Joe Brown.

History

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Its UPN logo.

K15CZ signed on-air March 15, 1990 as an independent station and could also be seen on K17DL in Branson. It became a charter UPN affiliate on January 16, 1995 and was known on-air as "UPN 15". At some point, it entered into a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Schurz Communications and was eventually bought outright by the company in 2002.

On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced that they would end broadcasting and merge. The new combined network would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents: CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner.

On September 18, it became The CW affiliate for the area. Since the station was licensed as a low-powered translator, it did not originally offer a digital signal of its own. There was one offered in standard definition on KYTV's second digital subchannel. It has since switched to KSPR-DT2. This broadcasts from a transmitter in Fordland. K15CZ was able to perform a "flash-cut" to digital after a construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission was granted.

At some point in time, K17DL was sold to Branson Visitors TV, LLC and now airs tourist information. In programming guides, DirecTV viewers see the station as KCZ while Dish Network subscribers see it as KDL. Its current logo contains these fictional call signs. There is currently a website for the station, located at "theozarkscw.com". This web address pointed to The CW's network website for a while.

Newscasts

On August 22, 2011 K15CZ will begin airing an hour-long extension of KYTV's weekday morning newscast at 7 a.m., along with a nightly half-hour 9 p.m. newscast; although the station's largest over-the-air carriage comes from its subchannel on KSPR's digital signal in addition to its low-power signal, the newscasts are being produced by KYTV.

Ozarks Today on The Ozarks CW
(weekday mornings 7-8 a.m.)

• Anchors:
  • Paul Adler
  • Maria Neider
• Weather:
  • Brandon Beck
• Reporter:
  • Mike Corcoran

KY3 News at Nine (9-9:30 p.m.)
Weeknights

• Anchors:
  • Ethan Forhetz
  • Lisa Rose
• Weather:
  • Ron Hearst
• Sports:
  • Ned Reynolds

Weekends

• Anchors:
  • Paula Morehouse
  • Chad Plein
• Weather:
  • Abby Dyer
• Sports:
  • Sarah Jones

K15CZ will feature additional personnel from KYTV. See that article for a complete listing.

External links

• TheOzarksCW.com - Official Website
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