KGAN

KGAN (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, serving Eastern Iowa as an affiliate of CBS and Fox. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to Dabl affiliate KFXA (channel 28, also licensed to Cedar Rapids) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Second Generation of Iowa, Ltd. The two stations share studios at Broadcast Park on Old Marion Road Northeast (along IA 100) in Cedar Rapids; KGAN's transmitter is located in Rowley, near the junction of Buchanan, Benton and Linn counties.

KGAN
CityCedar Rapids, Iowa
Channels
Branding
  • CBS 2; Iowa's News Now
  • Fox 28 (on DT2)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
  • Sinclair Broadcast Group
  • (KGAN Licensee, LLC)
Sister stations
KFXA
History
First air date
September 30, 1953 (1953-09-30)
Former call signs
  • WMT-TV (1953–1981)
  • KGAN-TV (1981–1984)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 2 (VHF, 1953–2009)
  • Digital: 51 (UHF, 2002–2014)
Former affiliations
DuMont (1953–1956)
Call sign meaning
Guy Gannett Communications, former owner
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID25685
ERP850 kW
HAAT585 m (1,919 ft)
Transmitter coordinates42°18′59″N 91°51′31″W
Links
Public license information
Websitecbs2iowa.com

Channel 2 was the first television station in Eastern Iowa, signing on as WMT-TV on September 30, 1953. It was originally the radio adjunct to Cedar Rapids radio station WMT. A CBS affiliate from its first day on air, channel 2 initially dominated television in the region until other stations caught up. Its original ownership, American Broadcasting Stations, sold WMT radio and television to Orion Broadcasting in 1981; when Orion merged with Cosmos Broadcasting, channel 2 was split from WMT and renamed KGAN by its new owner, Guy Gannett. After being second in news ratings in the 1980s, KGAN sank to third by the early 1990s, a position it continues to hold in the market. Sinclair acquired KGAN as part of its 1999 purchase of Guy Gannett. The Fox programming previously on KFXA relocated to a subchannel of KGAN on January 1, 2021.

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