KCWT-CD (CW) · Channel 21

Class A stations are low-power stations that gained protected status under the Community Broadcasters Protection Act of 1999. They cover a smaller area than a full-power station, but other stations may not interfere with them.

We estimate a fair-or-better signal out to about 36 miles with an outdoor antenna. That area includes 67 cities and towns in our guide with about 833,000 residents, as far as San Benito, TX (27 miles).

KCWT-CD shares its transmitter site with KTFV-CD, KFXV-LD (Fox) and KNVO (Univision). One antenna aimed at this site picks up all of them.

The nearest other CW station in our data is KMBH in Harlingen, TX, 15 miles away. Viewers between the two can sometimes receive both.

The CW is a commercial broadcast network carrying entertainment series and a growing slate of sports. In smaller markets it often runs as a subchannel of another station rather than its own transmitter.