Decades (TV network)

Decades

Type	Digital broadcast television network (Classic TV)
Country	United States
Broadcast area	Nationwide (available on OTA digital television, Cable TV) (U.S. coverage: 55%) [1]
Headquarters	Chicago, Illinois
Programming
Picture format	1080i (HDTV; widescreen)
Ownership
Owner	Decades LLC (Weigel Broadcasting)
Key people	Neal Sabin (Vice Chairman, Weigel Broadcasting) Norman Shapiro (President, Weigel Broadcasting)
Sister channels	MeTV MeTV+ Heroes & Icons Movies! Start TV Story Television
History
Founded	October 21, 2014;8 years ago (2014-10-21)
Launched	January 16, 2015;8 years ago (2015-01-16) (soft launch) May 25, 2015;7 years ago (2015-05-25) (official launch) [2]
Replaced by	Catchy Comedy (Rebranding March 27, 2023)
Links
Website	decades.com catchycomedy.com
Availability
Terrestrial
See List of affiliates
Streaming media
Service(s)	Frndly TV, Philo

Decades is an American digital broadcast television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting. ^{[2] [3]} The network, which is mainly carried on the digital subchannels of television stations, primarily airs classic television sitcoms from the 1950s through the early 1990s.

Through its ownership by Weigel, Decades is a sister network to MeTV, which focuses on classic television series from the 1950s to the 1990s and carries some programming from former Decades corporate cousin CBS Media Ventures. As the network has access to theatrical films and television series remastered for high-definition television and widescreen presentation, the network is carried in 480i widescreen.

Since fall 2019, Decades is carried on Fox-owned stations in 12 markets as part of a multi-year agreement with Fox Television Stations, after switching from CBS-owned stations. ^[4]

History

On October 21, 2014, CBS Corporation and Weigel Broadcasting announced the launch of Decades, with plans to debut the network in 2015. Through its part-ownership by CBS Corporation, Decades announced that owned-and-operated stations of the CBS television network would serve as its initial charter network affiliates. ^{[5] [6]}

The network was the first national multicasting venture by CBS News and Stations. The group did not carry subchannels on any of its television stations prior to 2013. And at the time of the Decades announcement, only three of its stations even maintained subchannels (CBS O&Os WCBS-TV in New York City and KYW-TV in Philadelphia carried rolling news channels under the "CBS Plus" brand on their respective secondary subchannels, while independent station KTXA in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas carried MeTV on its second subchannel). In addition, CBS Television Distribution had already maintained a content distribution agreement with Weigel Broadcasting's classic television network MeTV, which sourced much of its programming from that library.

On January 13, 2015, Weigel Broadcasting confirmed that its Milwaukee CBS affiliate WDJT-TV would carry the network on its fourth digital subchannel. ^[7] It would replace the digital news service TouchVision.

Decades officially launched at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time Zone on May 25, 2015, with the series premiere of Through the Decades as its inaugural telecast. At the time, the network was available in over 45% of all American households with a television set. ^[8]

Times for the programming are televised across all six time zones. For example, a show that begins at 8 PM Eastern Time, begins at 5 PM Pacific Time.

On March 27, 2023, Decades will be re-branded as Catchy Comedy. It will focus on primarily classic sitcoms and sketch comedy variety shows weekdays with comedy marathons on weekends. ^[9]

Programming

See also: List of programs broadcast by Decades

Early days

Decades relies primarily on programming from the extensive content library owned by CBS Television Distribution, ^[5] which includes the pre-2006 Paramount Television library – which CBS had acquired as a result of absorbing Paramount's syndication unit in 2006 through its split from Viacom into a separate company (CBS and Viacom re-merged to form ViacomCBS in 2019) – along with series from Desilu Productions, Bing Crosby Productions, Don Fedderson Productions, QM Productions, Spelling Television and Republic Pictures Television. Decades also carries series and movies from NBCUniversal, Warner Bros., Disney (20th Century Studios), Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Lionsgate, Sonar Entertainment, the Peter Rodgers Organization, Shout! Factory, The Carsey-Werner Company and the public domain.

In an early effort to stand out from other "retro-TV" multicast services (such as MeTV and Antenna TV), the Monday through Friday schedule initially featured a block of programming based on a daily theme, with interstitial programs to highlight the theme. Each six-hour block of programming was repeated four times a day and typically included a feature film, episodes of theme related TV programs, and biographical programs featuring celebrities, actors and actresses, musicians, athletes, and public figures of interest. The theme blocks were bookended with Through the Decades, an hour-long program hosted and narrated by Bill Kurtis (who formerly served as a presenter for Chicago CBS O&O WBBM-TV and CBS News) that explores the events and news from a particular day or period in history, using archival footage that CBS owns via services such as CBS News and CBS Television Distribution's syndicated newsmagazine program Entertainment Tonight . ^{[3] [5] [10]}

The network's Saturday and Sunday schedules feature marathon of classic television series. Beginning on Saturday at 12:00 p.m. (ET), forty-two consecutive hours are devoted to a particular series, which is usually sourced from either the CBS Television Distribution library of shows or a show Weigel Broadcasting has a contract to carry (such as one of the shows it broadcasts on MeTV). ^[11]

Airings of The Dick Cavett Show were added to the schedule February 1, 2016 within the daily themed block, as appropriate. Episodes from Cavett's late-night ABC talk show from 1969 to 1974 as well as his later interview series on PBS, USA, and CNBC were all made available for airing. ^[12]

On November 1, 2016, a major change was made to the programming lineup, with the daily programming block reduced to two airings daily (one from mid-morning to mid-afternoon, the other in overnight) as the 2:00 p.m. to midnight (ET) time period was converted to a "daily binge" with a different show airing each day. During the month of November, a different "cop show" was aired each weekday. ^[13]

A further shift in direction from the original channel concept came on December 5, 2016, when the network added two daily airings of the NBC series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In , the first breaking the daily binge in half at 6:00 p.m. (ET) and the same show repeating at the conclusion of the binge time block. ^[14]

2017–2023

In 2017, the theme and binge programming on weekdays was stopped altogether and the network became mostly sitcom focused, featuring the "Television Across the Decades" block, where comedies from the 1950s through the 1980s air weekdays from mid-morning into early evening, and late evenings through the overnight hours featuring the "Smart Comedy" block – highlighted by classic sitcoms such as The Dick Van Dyke Show , Cheers , Taxi , The Honeymooners , and The Abbott and Costello Show .

While the bulk of the lineup was primarily sitcoms, there were deviations – most notably in prime time – which featured the classic variety program The Ed Sullivan Show , Through the Decades and The Dick Cavett Show . Also, the weekend binge marathons continued, with a single series (regardless of genre) airing for 42 hours straight on Saturdays and Sundays.

The final program to air under the Decades name was The Mod Squad , which was the featured show of the March 25-26, 2023 weekend binge.

Through the Decades

Through the Decades, hosted by Bill Kurtis, ^[15] is a retrospective-type show on the American TV channel Decades. Each day's edition of the show features events that happened on that date in history.

The show debuted in September 2016. ^[16] After the network rebrands to Catchy Comedy on March 27, 2023, the program will no longer be shown.

Catchy Comedy (2023–present)

Catchy Comedy logo, effective March 27, 2023

On March 27, 2023, Decades will change its name to Catchy Comedy, which will focus primarily on sitcoms (with some variety shows featuring sketch comedy thrown in).

The weekend "binge" marathons will be carried over, but now are strictly comedy focused.

The only deviation from comedy programming comes from the network fulfilling their FCC obligations by airing E/I programming Saturday mornings from 9 a.m. until noon (ET). ^[17]

Affiliates

As of May 2015 ^[update] , Decades has current or pending affiliation agreements with 35 television stations covering at least 44% of the United States. ^[8] Weigel Broadcasting handles the responsibility of affiliate distribution to stations outside the core CBS O&O group. ^[3]

Decades is offered to stations on a barter basis, in which the network and the local affiliate will share the responsibility of selling advertising inventory and split the allocated hourly commercial time. CBS affiliates and their owners hold the right of first refusal to carry the network in their local market, before it is offered to other network-affiliated stations. ^[3] The network is also available on local cable television providers (most likely through their digital cable tiers, as is the case with most multicast networks) and other multichannel television in the United States at the discretion of the affiliate's parent station. ^[18]

CBS Television Stations initially planned to launch Decades on all 16 CBS owned-and-operated stations (including two that operate as satellite stations of Minneapolis O&O WCCO-TV). Not all of the CBS Television Stations outlets were announced to carry Decades initially, as CW owned-and-operated stations in markets where CBS Corporation does not own a CBS Television Stations (such as WTOG and KSTW) were originally excluded from its initial list of affiliates. The standalone CW O&Os were later added as charter stations by late April 2015. In the Chicago market, where CBS Television Stations and Weigel Broadcasting each own television stations, the network was carried on CBS O&O WBBM-TV, instead of one of Weigel's three stations in that market – WCIU-TV, WWME-CD and WMEU-CD. (A similar situation existed in that market with Movies!, in which WPWR-TV – owned by Weigel's partner in that network, Fox Television Stations – carries the network in lieu of any of Weigel's outlets.) Conversely, Weigel-owned WBME-CD carries the network in the Milwaukee market. ^[7] WMYS-LD in South Bend, Indiana is the other Weigel-owned station to carry the network.

On January 9, 2015, Decades reached its first affiliation agreement with a station outside the core CBS Television Stations, through a deal with Media General for its Green Bay, Wisconsin ABC affiliate WBAY-TV (which was previously affiliated with CBS from 1953 to 1992). WBAY planned to carry the marathon blocks on its third subchannel as a replacement for the Live Well Network. ^[2] However, on January 13, as a result of Walt Disney Television's decision to temporarily continue Live Well Network's national operations, WBAY announced that its 2.3 subchannel would not switch to Decades until after LWN's new March 2015 shutdown date. ^[19] It eventually picked up Ion Television as part of a group deal with WBAY owner Media General to carry the network in markets without an Ion station. When the E.W. Scripps Co. purchased the Ion Television network in 2020, Ion moved to a newly-assigned digital subchannel, 26.5, on competitor WGBA-TV. A few days later, WBAY-TV started airing Decades on channel 2.6.

On September 3, 2018, Decades was replaced on CBS-owned stations with Start TV, a new Weigel-owned diginet focusing on crime dramas with female leads. ^[20] Weigel maintained its commitment to Decades, with the company's owned-and-operated stations taking over in Los Angeles and Chicago. When it began airing on Fox-owned television stations, Decades moved to KTTV in Los Angeles. In Chicago, Decades continues to be seen on Weigel-owned WMEU-CD and WCIU-TV.

On April 19, 2022, Decades began airing on the Frndly TV live streaming service. ^[21]

List of current affiliates

City of license/market	Station [22]	Affiliate	Virtual channel (RF)	Owner	Launch date	Notes
Anchorage	KDMD	Ion	33.9 (32)	Ketchikan Television	December 2020
Phoenix	KUTP	MyNetworkTV	45.4 (10)	Fox Television Stations	October 2019	Previously on KASW from 2015 to 2018
Fort Smith	KFLU-LD	The Country Network	20.3 (35)	DTV America	March 2017
Fresno-Visalia	KFAZ-CA	Charge!	8.2 (18.2)	Cocola Broadcasting
Los Angeles	KPOM-CD		14.1 (27.3)	Weigel Broadcasting	May 26, 2022	Previously on KCBS-TV 2/3/15 to 9/2/18
	KTTV	Fox	11.4	Fox Television Stations
Sacramento–Stockton–Modesto	Coming soon (per Decades website)					Previously on KOVR 2/3/15 to 9/2/18
San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose	KAXT-CD		1.2 (22)	Weigel Broadcasting	April 2019	Previously on KPIX-TV 2/9/15 to 9/2/18
San Jose–Oakland-San Francisco	KICU-TV	Independent	36.4	Fox Television Stations	late 2019	Previously on KPIX-TV 2/9/15 to 9/2/18. Channel 36.4 was previously Heroes & Icons (H&I).
Denver	KHDT-LD	Movies!	26.2/28.3 (10/30)	Syncom Media Group, Inc.	March 2020	Previously on KCNC-TV 1/23/15 to 9/2/18
Glenwood Springs, Colorado	KREG-TV	H&I	3.5 (23)	Weigel Broadcasting
Hartford and New Haven	WHCT-LD	MeTV	35.5	Weigel Broadcasting	September 30, 2020
Washington, D.C.	WDME-CD	MeTV	48.3 (20)	Weigel Broadcasting		Previously on WRZB-LD until April 2022
Gainesville, Florida	WOGX	Fox	51.4 (31)	Fox Television Stations	Coming soon (per Decades website)
Jacksonville	WJAX-TV	CBS	47.3 (19)	Cox Media Group	June 1, 2015
Miami–Fort Lauderdale, Florida	Coming soon (per Decades website)					Previously on WFOR-TV 3/7/15 to 9/2/18
Orlando, Florida	WKMG-TV	CBS	6.5 (26)	Graham Media Group	December 12, 2016	Previously on 6.3 from 2016 to 2019
St. Petersburg–Tampa	WTVT	Fox	13.5 (12)	Fox Television Stations	Coming soon	Previously on WTOG 3/7/15 to 9/2/18
Atlanta	WAGA-TV	Fox	5.5 (27)	Fox Television Stations	Coming soon	Previously on WUPA 5/8/15 to 9/2/18
Toccoa, Georgia–Athens, Georgia	WGTA	MeTV	32.3 (24)	Marquee Broadcasting
Boise, Idaho	KRID-LD	H&I	22.4 (22)	Idaho TV 22	July 1, 2017
Idaho Falls, Idaho	KPVI-DT	NBC	6.2 (23)	Imagicomm Communications	January 13, 2016
Chicago	WCIU-TV	The CW	26.6	Weigel Broadcasting	September 3, 2018	Previously on WBBM-TV 1/29/15 to 9/2/18
	WMEU-CD	Independent	48.4 (18)		2017	Simulcast of WCIU-TV 26.6
Indianapolis	WSDI-LD	Ve Plus TV	30.2	DTV America		Previously on WBXI-CD in 2018
South Bend, Indiana	WMYS-LD	MyNetworkTV	69.3 (28)	Weigel Broadcasting		Previously TouchVision
Wichita, Kansas	KSCW-DT	The CW	33.2 (12)	Gray Television		Sister station to KWCH-DT, in which KSCW does not have a separate website and is instead integrated with KWCH-DT's website
Topeka, Kansas	KCMN-LD	Independent	42.1 (28)	DTV America Corporation
Louisville, Kentucky	WBNA	Independent	21.5 (8)	Evangel World Prayer Center		Replaced Retro TV
New Orleans	WWL	CBS	4.3 (36)	Tegna		Deal between Weigel Broadcasting and Tegna
Bangor, Maine	WABI-TV	CBS	5.3 (13)	Gray Television	October 1, 2015
Baltimore	Coming soon (per Decades website)					Previously on WJZ-TV 13.2 until 9/2/18
Boston	Coming soon (per Decades website)					Previously on WBZ-TV 2/26/15 to 9/2/18
Detroit	WJBK	Fox	2.5 (7)	Fox Television Stations	October 2019	Previously on WWJ-TV 2/10/15 to 9/2/18
Roscommon, Michigan	WURO-LD	Heroes & Icons	18.4 (18)	M33 Media LLC
West Branch, Michigan	WUWB-LD		20.4	M33 Media LLC
Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota	KMSP-TV	Fox	9.6 (9)	Fox Television Stations	Oct 16 2019	Previously on WCCO-TV 2/10/15 to 9/2/18
St. Louis	KNLC	MeTV	24.5 (14)	Weigel Broadcasting
Las Vegas	KHSV	MeTV	21.6 (2)	Howard Stirk Holdings	June 1, 2022	Displaced from channel 21.2 by H&I
Albuquerque	KOB	NBC	4.7 (26)	Hubbard Broadcasting	November 23, 2021	Previously on 4.4 from May to October 2021; replaced Newsy on 4.7
Farmington	KOBF		12.4 (12)		April 30, 2021
Roswell	KOBR		8.4 (8)
Albany, New York/Pittsfield, Massachusetts	WNYA	MyNetworkTV	51.3 (7)	Hubbard Broadcasting	December 31, 2015
Buffalo, New York	WBBZ-TV	Independent	67.7 (7)	Philip A. Arno	July 1, 2020
New York City	WNYW	Fox	5.5 (27)	Fox Television Stations	October 2019	Previously on WCBS-TV 1/16/15 to 9/2/18
Olean	WVTT-CD/WVTT-CD	This TV	25.2	DTV America	June 1, 2018	Affiliation agreement signed under Vision Communications ownership
Rochester, New York	WBGT-CD	MyNetworkTV	46.5	Vision Communications	June 1, 2018
Saranac Lake, New York	WYCI	MyNetworkTV	40.2 (34)	Gray Television	2018
Syracuse, New York	WTVU-CD	Cornerstone TV	22.5	Rennard Comm. Corp.	2021
Cincinnati	WBQC-LD	Independent	25.11 (28)	Block Broadcasting
Cleveland	WOCV-CD	Decades	35.1 (27)	Weigel Broadcasting	November 1, 2022	Previously on WBNX-TV 55.6 (17)
Columbus	WCBZ-CD	Ind.	22.5 (18)	Columbus Broadcasting Corp.	January 1, 2020	Previously on WBNS-TV 10.3 (21)
Tulsa, Oklahoma	KOTV	CBS	6.4	Griffin Media
Philadelphia	WDPN-TV	MeTV	2.6 (2)	Maranatha Broadcasting Company	September 3, 2018	Previously on KYW-TV 1/16/15 to 9/2/18
Pittsburgh	WOSC-CD	HSN	61.1 (26)	The Videohouse, Inc.		Previously on KDKA-TV 3/16/15 to 9/2/18
Columbia	WLTX	CBS	19.3 (15)	TEGNA Inc.	April 1, 2020	Previously Antenna TV
Greenville-Spartanburg	W31AZ-D	GEB Network	31.6 (15)	CAROLINA CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING
Jackson	WYJJ	Antenna TV	27.6 (27)	HC2 Holdings
Lebanon/Nashville	WJFB	MeTV	44.4 (25)	Weigel Broadcasting
Memphis	WQEK-LD	Cozi TV	36.2 (30)	HC2 Holdings		Previously on WHBQ-TV
Austin	KTBC	Fox	7.5 (7)	Fox Television Stations
Dallas- Fort Worth	KAZD	MeTV	55.6 (31)	Weigel Broadcasting	May 14, 2021	Previously on KTVT 2/3/15 to 9/2/18 and KDFW 2019 to 5/14/21
Fredericksburg/San Antonio	KCWX	MyNetworkTV	2.4 (5)	Corridor Television, L.L.P.	February 3, 2020 [23]
Houston	KRIV	Fox	26.2 (26)	Fox Television Stations	November 29, 2020	Previously on KTXH from 2015 to 2020 [24]
Odessa/Midland	KWWT	MeTV	30.3 (22)	JB Broadcasting	2018
Cedar City/St. George	KCSG	H&I	8.2 (14)	Weigel Broadcasting	November 27, 2017	Previously Back Country TV
Bellingham	KVOS	H&I	12.4 (35.4)	Weigel Broadcasting	added January 17, 2018
Tacoma–Seattle	KFFV	MeTV	44.4 (16)	Weigel Broadcasting	September 3, 2018	Previously on KSTW 5/9/15 to 9/2/18
Charleston/Huntington	WVAH-TV	Decades	11.1 (24)	Sinclair Broadcasting	February 1, 2021	Previously Fox
Crandon	WMOW	The CW	4.3 (13)	Allen Media Broadcasting	September 2, 2015	Previously This TV
Green Bay	WBAY-TV	ABC	2.6 (23)	Gray Television	November 1, 2021	Previously Ion Television (Decades was originally planned to replace Live Well Network on WBAY-TV 2.3 in January 2015, before those plans were aborted.)
Madison	WKOW		27.2 (26)	Allen Media Broadcasting	September 2, 2015	Previously This TV
Milwaukee	WMLW-TV	Independent	49.4 (17)	Weigel Broadcasting	January 16, 2015	Previously TouchVision
Wausau	WAOW	ABC	9.3 (9)	Allen Media Broadcasting	September 2, 2015 [25]	Previously This TV

Former affiliates

Market	Station	Channel	Current owner	Years of affiliation	Notes
Phoenix (Arizona)	KASW	61.2	E. W. Scripps Company (Was owned at the time by Nexstar Media Group)	2015-2018
Los Angeles (California)	KCBS-TV	2.2	CBS News and Stations	2015-2018	Replaced by Start TV
Sacramento–Stockton–Modesto (California)	KOVR	13.2		2015-2018	Replaced by Start TV
San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose (California)	KPIX-TV	5.2		2015-2018	Replaced by Start TV
Denver (Colorado)	KCNC-TV	4.2		2015-2018	Replaced by Start TV
Miami–Fort Lauderdale, Florida (Florida)	WFOR-TV	4.2		2015-2018	Replaced by Start TV
St. Petersburg–Tampa (Florida)	WTOG	44.2		2015-2018	Replaced by Start TV
Atlanta (Georgia)	WUPA	69.2		2015-2018	Replaced by Start TV
Chicago (Illinois)	WBBM-TV	2.2		2015-2018	Replaced by Start TV
Indianapolis (Indiana)	WBXI-CD	47.1		2018	Replaced by Start TV
Sioux City (Iowa)	KMEG	14.2	Waitt Broadcasting, Inc. (Operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group)	2015-2016
Baltimore (Maryland)	WJZ-TV	13.2	CBS News and Stations	2015-2018	Replaced by Start TV
Boston (Massachusetts)	WBZ-TV	4.2		2015-2018	Replaced by Start TV
New Bedford (Massachusetts)	WLWC	28.3	Inyo Broadcast Holdings (at the time owned by OTA Broadcasting)	2015-2017
Detroit (Michigan)	WWJ-TV	62.2	CBS News and Stations	2015-2018	Replaced by Start TV
Minneapolis–Saint Paul (Minnesota)	WCCO-TV	4.2		2015-2018	Replaced by Start TV
New York City (New York)	WCBS-TV	2.2	CBS News and Stations	2015-2018	Replaced by Start TV
Charlotte (North Carolina)	WCNC-TV	36.3	Tegna Inc.	2015-2018	Replaced by Court TV
New Bern (North Carolina)	WCTI-TV	12.2	Sinclair Broadcast Group	2015-2018
Fargo-Valley City (North Dakota)	KRDK-TV	4.4	Major Market Broadcasting	2015-2016
Cincinnati (Ohio)	WOTH-CD	20.2	Station now defunct (was owned at the time by Block Broadcasting)	2015-2018
Cleveland (Ohio)	WBNX-TV	55.6	Winston Broadcasting	2018-2022	Deactivated after Decades moved to WOCV-CD
Columbus (Ohio)	WBNS-TV	10.3	Tegna Inc.	2015-2018	Replaced by Dabl
Portland (Oregon)	KOIN	6.3	Nexstar Media Group	2016-2019
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)	KYW-TV	3.2	CBS News and Stations	2015-2018	Replaced by Start TV
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)	KDKA-TV	2.2		2015-2018	Replaced by Start TV
Memphis (Tennessee)	WHBQ-TV	13.3	Imagicomm Communications (was owned at the time by Cox Media Group)	2016-2018
Nashville (Tennessee)	WJDE-CD	31.3	Word Broadcasting Network	2015-2019
Fort Worth–Dallas (Texas)	KTVT	11.2	CBS News and Stations	2015-2018	Moved to KDFW 4.2 to accommodate Start TV launch in 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth (Texas)	KDFW	4.2	Fox Television Stations	2019-2021	Moved to KAZD 55.2 to accommodate MyNetworkTV launch in 2021
Houston (Texas)	KTXH	20.3	Fox Television Stations	2015-2020	Was the only affiliate owned by Fox Television Stations prior to 2019. Moved to KRIV to accommodate theGrio launch on January 15, 2021.
Bristol (Virginia)	WCYB-TV	5.3	Sinclair Broadcast Group (was owned at the time by Bonten Media Group)	2015-2017
Roanoke (Virginia)	WDBJ	7.3	Gray Television	2015-2018
Spokane (Washington)	KREM	2.3	Tegna Inc.	2015-2018	Replaced by Court TV
Tacoma–Seattle (Washington)	KSTW	11.2	CBS News and Stations	2015-2018	Replaced by Start TV
Eagle River (Wisconsin)	WYOW	34.3	Allen Media Broadcasting	2015-2021
Eau Claire (Wisconsin)	WQOW	18.3		2015-2020
La Crosse (Wisconsin)	WXOW	19.3		2015-2020

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External links

• Official website (Decades)
• Official website (Catchy Comedy)