KGAN

KGAN

Cedar Rapids–Waterloo– Iowa City–Dubuque, Iowa United States
City	Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Channels	Digital: 29 (UHF) Virtual: 2
Branding	CBS 2; Iowa's News Now Fox 28 (on DT2)
Programming
Affiliations	2.1: CBS 2.2: Fox 2.3: Quest
Ownership
Owner	Sinclair Broadcast Group (KGAN Licensee, LLC)
Sister stations	KFXA
History
First air date	September 30, 1953 (70 years ago) (1953-09-30)
Former call signs	WMT-TV (1953–1981) KGAN-TV (1981–1984)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 2 (VHF, 1953–2009) Digital: 51 (UHF, 2002–2014)
Former affiliations	DuMont (1953–1956)
Call sign meaning	Guy Gannett Communications, former owner
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	25685
ERP	850 kW
HAAT	585 m (1,919 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	42°18′59″N 91°51′31″W / 42.31639°N 91.85861°W / 42.31639; -91.85861
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	cbs2iowa.com

KGAN (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, serving Eastern Iowa as an affiliate of CBS and Fox. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to Dabl affiliate KFXA (channel 28, also licensed to Cedar Rapids) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Second Generation of Iowa, Ltd. The two stations share studios at Broadcast Park on Old Marion Road Northeast (along IA 100) in Cedar Rapids; KGAN's transmitter is located in Rowley, near the junction of Buchanan, Benton and Linn counties.

Channel 2 was the first television station in Eastern Iowa, signing on as WMT-TV on September 30, 1953. It was originally the radio adjunct to Cedar Rapids radio station WMT. A CBS affiliate from its first day on air, channel 2 initially dominated television in the region until other stations caught up. Its original ownership, American Broadcasting Stations, sold WMT radio and television to Orion Broadcasting in 1981; when Orion merged with Cosmos Broadcasting, channel 2 was split from WMT and renamed KGAN by its new owner, Guy Gannett. After being second in news ratings in the 1980s, KGAN sank to third by the early 1990s, a position it continues to hold in the market. Sinclair acquired KGAN as part of its 1999 purchase of Guy Gannett. The Fox programming previously on KFXA relocated to a subchannel of KGAN on January 1, 2021.