KASW

KASW
Brand	Phoenix CW
City of License	Phoenix, Arizona
Market	Phoenix, Arizona
Channel	27 digital (ATSC 1.0) 27.3000 digital (ATSC 3.0) Formerly: 61 analog (1995-2009)
Network Affiliation	Current: The CW Historic: The WB (1995-2006)
Founded	1995
Company	Nexstar Media Group
President
Current Popular Non-Network Shows	Judge Mathis How I Met Your Mother The Middle Lauren Lake's Paternity Court Friends

KASW is a CW affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona, the station broadcasts on digital channel 27 and is owned by Nexstar Media Group. The station operates as CW 6 which it is on Cox Communications cable channel 6.

KASW first opened in 1995 as an affiliate of The WB taking the affiliation from former WB affiliate KTVK which became an independent station. In 2006, the station joined The CW after UPN and The WB shut down and merged.

KASW serves as one of two "lighthouse stations" in Phoenix for the ATSC 3.0 (NextGen) broadcast standard. They transmit ATSC 3.0 on RF channel 27.3000. The subchannels HSN Grit have moved to the subchannel tiers of other stations. Grit is now on the subchannel tier of Ion affiliate KPPX/channel 55 (Tolleson city of license), while HSN is on the sub tier of KAZT-CD/channel 7. Escape, which KASW had, appears to be nowhere in Phoenix.

ATSC 3.0 digital programming

Virtual	Physical	Name	Programming
61.1	27.3000	KASW-DT	Main KASW (The CW)
15.1	27.3002	KNXV-DT	ABC
10.1	27.3008	KSAZ-DT	Fox
45.1	27.3009	KUTP-DT	My Network TV

External Links

Query the FCC's TV station database for KASW