an Agreement with Gray to Carry Antenna TV on a new third subchannel for KSCW. The subchannel launched on March 1 the same year. Analog-to-digital conversion Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the digital television allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for its digital signal. Instead, at the end of the digital conversion period for full-power television stations, KSCW was required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (an action called a "flash-cut"). The station shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 33, on February 17 of that year, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were federally mandated to transition from analog to digital broadcasts (which was later pushed back to June 12). Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 33. References External links Main KSCW portion of KWCH website CW Spotlight KWCH 12 official website Television channels and stations established in 1999 The CW affiliates Decades (TV network) affiliates Antenna TV affiliates Start TV affiliates Gray Television SCW-DT Low-power television stations in the United States 1999 establishments in Kansas ATSC 3.0 television stations