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KMYQ is a television station in Seattle, Washington. It is an affiliate of the WB television network. Owned by the Tribune Company, KMYQ broadcasts on analog channel 22 and digital channel 25. Its transmitter is located in Seattle. The station also operates two UHF translators: K25CH (channel 25) in Centralia and K29ED (channel 29) in Everett. Most Western Washington cable TV systems carry it on channel 10. KMYQ's offices and broadcasting center along with its transmitter are co-located with sister station KCPQ (channel 13) on the west shore of Lake Union in the Westlake neighborhood.
On May 15, 2006, Tribune Broadcasting announced that KMYQ will be part of a new primetime network called My Network TV, which is scheduled to launch on September 5, 2006. My Network TV will be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division, Twentieth Television. [1]
History
The station began broadcasting as KTZZ on June 22, 1985. The call letters stood for Television 22, the Zs closely resembling numeral 2s. At that time there was a hole in the market for cartoons and sitcoms. While KSTW was running such programming, KCPQ counterprogrammed with children's shows. As such, KTZZ signed on with a lineup of classic off-network sitcoms, westerns, cartoons, movies, and dramas. Initially the station was profitable under the ownership of Alden Communications.
A couple years later, the station was sold to Dudley Broadcasting. By 1988, KCPQ and KSTW had strong lineups, including almost all of the children's programming available. KTZZ was also the home, for several years, of eclectic Seattle talkshow host Spud Goodman. Producing the weekly interview/music/feature show was an ambitious undertaking for a small station, and the program relied heavily on a large staff of volunteers. The programming costs became too high for KTZZ. As a result, KTZZ began mixing in religious shows, rejected CBS shows, infomercials, and brokered shows to the lineup. It still ran some syndicated products, but they were essentially programs that no other stations wanted. For a time in 1993, it had a 10pm newscast produced by KIRO-TV.
Originally, KTZZ agreed to affiliate with the new UPN network in 1994. However, the UPN affiliation went to KIRO when that station lost its CBS affiliation to KSTW (which was eventually sold to Paramount Pictures), and KTZZ agreed to affiliate with WB instead. KTZZ picked up cartoons from KSTW in 1995, added more off-network sitcoms and moved away from the brokered format. As it began airing programming from the WB, KTZZ was helped in part by the fact that KCPQ was moving towards news and more first-run syndicated talk, courtroom, and drama shows.
KTZZ was purchased by Tribune Broadcasting with sister station WXMI Grand Rapids, Michigan from Emmis Communications in 1998, and changed its call letters to KTWB-TV the next year. After Tribune acquired KCPQ in early 1999, the licence was transferred back to Emmis in the short-term until the FCC's approval of television duopolies later that year (Tribune kept control of the station during this period via a local marketing agreement). In 2004, KTWB revised its on-air brand from "WB 22" to "Seattle's WB" as part of a groupwide branding effort.
On January 24, 2006, the WB and UPN networks announced they would merge. The newly combined network would be called The CW, the letters representing the first initial of its corporate parents CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner. The merger will take effect in September 2006, and at that time current UPN station KSTW, owned by CBS, will become the CW's Seattle/Tacoma affiliate.
On July 14, 2006, channel 22's call letters were officially changed to KMYQ to reflect its new affiliation. The Q is a reference to its sister station, KCPQ (Q13 FOX). The station's brand name was changed to "My Q²" on August 7, 2006.
Logos
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WB 22 logo.
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Seattle's WB logo.
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My Q² logo.
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