PBS member station KBTC-TV), as well as Northwest Indian News (produced by local cable channel KANU TV-99), which focuses on the Native Americans in the Northwest. In 2013, KSTW debuted a public affairs program on Sunday mornings called The Impact, produced by Washington state's public affairs channel TVW. All of these programs have since gone off the air. Local newscasts returned to KSTW after 17 years on July 18, 2022, with the debut of Seattle News Now at 10 on CW 11. The newscast is produced through CBS News and Stations. In popular culture The callsign and channel number for KSTW were co-opted by The CW to create a fictional representation of the station with a news department for the Seattle-set iZombie (which aired from 2015 to 2019), though not with "CW 11" branding, but retaining the station's callsign font, and a completely different image from that of the real KSTW. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion KSTW shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 11, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 36 to VHF channel 11. Former translators KSTW no longer has any over-the-air translators. KSTW's last remaining translator, analog translator K62FS (channel 62) in Port Townsend, was permanently shut down on December 29, 2011. The FCC required that all television transmitters occupying channels 52 to 69 to vacate those channels by December 31, 2011. KSTW had already applied to change the broadcast channel and to broadcast in digital so as to use channel 51; however, on August 21, 2011, the FCC issued a freeze on processing applications to use channel 51; that channel would eventually be removed for TV use as part of the spectrum incentive auction. According to an online posting by KSTW, there are no other channels on which this translator can broadcast in digital, resulting in the permanent shutdown of the transmitter. KSTW also had low-power translators serving certain areas of Seattle, all of which have been shut down. References External links STW The CW affiliates Start TV affiliates Dabl affiliates CBS News and Stations Television channels and stations established in 1953 1953 establishments in Washington (state) Superstations in the United States Ryman Hospitality Properties