KCWW-TV

KCWW-TV, virtual channel 68 (UHF digital channel 14), is a CW-affiliated television station licensed to, United States, serving Northwest Washington and the Northern Olympic Peninsula. The station is owned by -based as part of a duopoly with CBS affiliate KVOS-TV (channel 12). The two stations share studios on Ellis Street in Bellingham; their shared transmitter is situated atop on  in the, at an altitude of 2,621 feet (799 m) above the adjacent terrain. KCWW-TV unusually has two websites: one is integrated with that of KVOS-TV, the other is part of yourcwtv.com

KCWW-TV identifies itself on-air using its cable designation (channel 13, previously occupied by former service "KWBB") rather than its over-the-air channel position, only mentioning their actual channel number on-air during maintenance sign-off disclosures and FCC-mandated legal station IDs.

History
KCWW-TV originally signed-on for the first time on December 1, 1982 as KVOX-TV, a semi-satellite of KVOS-TV licensed to with it's transmitter at.

In 1992, Ackerley Communications sold KVOX-TV to Bulman Television Inc., a woman-owned business headed by former Bellingham city councilor Rebekah Bulman. KVOS-TV continued to operate KVOX-TV under a local marketing agreement until 2003, when the station's operations were taken over by the Knowledge Network Corporation, the Canadian Crown corporation of the Government of British Columbia that runs the, under a lease agreement. KVOX-TV relocated it's transmitter to the antenna farm (thus now giving it city-grade reception in  and ) and became the Vancouver/Victoria area's secondary over-the-air Knowledge Network outlet (as CKNO-TV had poor over-the-air reception in Victoria).

In 2005, the Knowledge Network's lease for KVOX-TV ended after CKNO-TV built a repeater in Victoria. KVOS-TV took back control of KVOX-TV and briefly programmed it as a "burner" pass-through for automated programming from the network. When UATV left the air on May 1, 2006, KVOX-TV switched to an all-infomercial lineup.

On September 18, 2006, KVOX-TV changed it's callsign to KCWW-TV and became one of the charter affiliates of the new network, which was created by the merger of  (which had been available in the Bellingham/Blaine/San Juan market by way of cable-only KWBB, which was part of, and in the Vancouver/Victoria area via 's  on cable) and  (which had been available in the area on KGNQ-TV, which is now dual / affiliate KMYB-TV).