KASW (channel 61), branded Arizona 61, is an independent television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. It is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company alongside ABC affiliate KNXV-TV (channel 15). The two stations share studios on North 44th Street on the city's east side; KASW's primary transmitter is located on South Mountain.
KASW went on the air in 1995 as the Phoenix affiliate of The WB. Its first owner contracted with KTVK (channel 3) for programming and support services, and KTVK bought the station in 1999. In addition to being an affiliate of The WB and later The CW, the station also broadcast several secondary local sports teams at various times. KASW was split from KTVK in 2014 as the result of KTVK's sale to the Meredith Corporation, owner of KPHO-TV.
Scripps acquired it in 2019 and added local newscasts from KNXV. In 2023, Scripps flip-flopped the programming on KASW and KNXV's second subchannel, with KASW becoming an independent station and home to telecasts of the Arizona Coyotes hockey team. KASW is the high-power ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) station for the Phoenix area and provides the ATSC 3.0 broadcasts of six major Phoenix commercial stations.
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KASW (channel 61), branded Arizona 61, is an independent television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company...
operations, the following television stations carried the team's games: KASW (Independent, Phoenix) KGUN-DT2 (Laff, Tucson) KUPX-TV/KSTU-DT2 (Independent/Antenna...
afterward. After initially airing on the Antenna TV-affiliated KNXV-DT2, KASW moved its The CW affiliation to that channel and similarly converted to an...
KASW's license. Meredith's purchase of KMOV was completed on February 28, 2014, and its purchase of KTVK, along with SagamoreHill's purchase of KASW,...
until 1999. The Belo Corporation acquired KTVK in 1999 and also took over KASW (channel 61), which KTVK had been programming since it began broadcasting...
by former ETG CEO Phillip Hyun. On October 23, 2014, Nexstar bought out KASW in Phoenix from SagamoreHill Broadcasting and Meredith Corporation, and it...
network's programming at 1080p via an ATSC 3.0 multiplex stations, such as KASW with KNXV-TV. ABC began its conversion to high definition with the launch...
– Solomon Asante 17 (2019) Saves (season) – Carl Woszczynski 130 (2015) KASW-61, The CW affiliate in Phoenix, signed a deal to broadcast Phoenix Rising...
market, which includes Utah and New Mexico. Partway through the season, KASW-TV became the flagship broadcast channel From its move to Phoenix in 1996...
airing on KUPX under a regional simulcast arrangement with Phoenix sister KASW—which will continue to air the team's games post-relocation in a flip of...
from the low-power KFPH-CD multiplex to KASW. As part of a simultaneous rebalancing of KASW's subchannels, KASW's subchannel of Grit was moved to the KPNX...
earlier lost the ABC affiliation to KNXV-TV; The WB affiliation moved to KASW, which KTVK began managing under a local marketing agreement upon its sign-on...
in April of that year and then the Arizona Coyotes to Scripps Sports (via KASW) in early October, Diamond Sports Group ultimately shut down Bally Sports...
Gray Television KPHO-TV 5 1952–2021 CBS affiliate owned by Gray Television KASW 61 2014 Independent station owned by the E. W. Scripps Company Fresno, CA...
MyNetworkTV 45.4 (10) Fox Television Stations October 2019 Previously on KASW from 2015 to 2018 Fort Smith KFLU-LD The Country Network 20.3 (35) DTV America...
stations under the Nexstar buyout deal on September 1, 2023. Phoenix, Arizona KASW 61 2006–2023 Independent KAZT-TV 7 On November 20, 2023, CW programming moved...
Cardinals Dave Pasch Ron Wolfley Paul Calvisi KTAR-FM/AM 13 Dani Sureck KPNX/KASW 3 Gabriel Trujillo Rolando Cantú KQMR/KHOV-FM (Spanish radio) Los Angeles...
games, whichever games were not picked up by ESPN, to include playoff games. KASW-TV WB6 WB61 took over broadcasting the Rattlers. Starting in the 2004 season...
New York, USA (cable channel KECY-DT3 in Yuma, Arizona, USA (cable channel KASW in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, branded as CW 6 from 2006 to 2018 WXCW in Naples...
KMOV, along with KTVK and KASW. As Meredith would have a duopoly between KTVK and its Phoenix CBS affiliate KPHO-TV, KASW was to be sold to SagamoreHill...
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