WCWF

WCWF, virtual channel 14 (UHF digital channel 21), is a CW-affiliated television station located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States that is licensed to Suring. The station is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with Fox affiliate WLUK-TV (channel 11). The two stations share studios located on Lombardi Avenue (U.S. 41) in Green Bay, WCWF's transmitter is located in Glenmore.

History

The station launched on February 22, 1984 as religious independent station WSCO-TV, under the ownership of Northeastern Wisconsin Christian Television Incorporated. The station's former analog transmitter was located outside of the unincorporated Oconto County community of Krakow, four miles north of Pulaski on WIS 32. Financial problems would force the station off the air by 1987; VCY America would purchase the station's license that year and return it to the air by 1993 as a sister station to Milwaukee's WVCY-TV with religious and home shopping programming. On April 30, 1997, Paxson Communications purchased the station and converted it to a paid programming format under Paxson's inTV service. In August 1998, WSCO became a charter owned-and-operated station of Pax TV under the new call sign WPXG (for "Paxson Green Bay").