The station first signed on the air as KFEL-TV on July 18, 1952. 1.4.2 Aborted sale to Sinclair sale to Nexstar.superstation by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) however, KWGN is not currently available on any pay television providers in that country.

The station is authorized for cable and satellite distribution as a U.S. KWGN is available to subscribers of satellite provider Dish Network throughout the United States as part of its superstations package (for grandfathered subscribers that purchased the a la carte tier before Dish halted sales of the package to new subscribers in September 2013), and is carried on cable television providers in parts of the western United States. The station's signal is relayed on three low-power translators: K14JZ-D in Peetz, K15MH-D in Anton and K31IQ-D in Sterling. Both stations share studios on East Speer Boulevard in Denver's Speer neighborhood, while KWGN-TV's transmitter is located atop Lookout Mountain, near Golden. It is owned and operated by network majority owner Nexstar Media Group alongside Fox affiliate KDVR, channel 31 (and its Fort Collins–licensed satellite KFCT, channel 22). KWGN-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Denver, Colorado, United States, airing programming from The CW.

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