KWWF, virtual and UHF digital channel 22, was an independent television station licensed to Waterloo, Iowa, United States, which served the Eastern Iowa television market (Cedar Rapids–Waterloo–Iowa City–Dubuque). The station was owned by Stratus Media Holdings. KWWF's transmitter was located near Walker, Iowa. History KWWF opened on December 1, 2002, with a format of infomercials, home shopping and public domain reruns. Later, the station began airing religious programs from LeSEA Broadcasting. Equity Broadcasting bought the station in 2004, and quickly made it a general entertainment station. KWWF affiliated with UPN on September 13, 2004 and the station soon gained carriage on cable systems throughout the market. Under Equity ownership, the station's master control, located in Little Rock, Arkansas, relayed its signal via the Galaxy 18 satellite to the transmitter and area cable systems. In 2006, Equity outright refused to affiliate their stations with The CW, the merger of UPN and The WB, with KWKB taking both that affiliation and second replacement network MyNetworkTV. This left Equity to have KWWF become an affiliate of Equity Broadcasting's own Retro Television Network to fill the gaps left by the end of UPN programming. In 2008, most RTN programming was removed from KWWF and moved to a digital subchannel of KWWL. KWWF then became an independent station, carrying various syndicated programs, as well as a handful of Equity-produced live shows, which were also aired on many RTN stations. KWWF was sold to Valley Bank at auction on April 16, 2009 as a part of Equity's bankruptcy. Valley Bank, in turn, filed to sell KWWF to an ownership group connected to Fusion Communications in August. Because it was granted an original construction permit after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, at the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KWWF was required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash-cut"). , this station was scheduled to go dark in 2009. According to the station's DTV status report, "On December 8, 2008, the licensee's parent corporation filed a petition for bankruptcy relief under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code... This station must obtain post-petition financing and court approval before digital facilities may be constructed. The station will cease analog broadcasting on February 17,