KSTW first signed on in 1953 as the CBS affiliate for Seattle, Washington and was originally known as KTNT (named after and owned by the Tacoma News Tribune). However, the station would lose it's CBS affiliation to the newly launched KIRO-TV in 1958. KTNT would sue KIRO and CBS, and in 1960, the station rejoined CBS as part of a legal settlement, but would later leave in 1962 to become an independent station. In that brief two year period, the Seattle market had 3 CBS affiliates: KTNT, KIRO and KVOS (which served the northern half of the market).

The station was sold by the Tribune to WKY Television Systems in 1974 (later renamed to Gaylord Broadcasting) due to new cross-media ownership restrictions by the FCC. The calls were changed to KSTW (for Seattle-Tacoma, Washington) to reflect the change.

During Gaylord's ownership, the station aired a mix of movies, reruns, news and pre-empted CBS shows by KIRO. The station was considered a "superstation" due to its cable carriage in much of the Pacific Northwest.

KSTW passed over the FOX affiliation in 1986 (going to the other independent station KCPQ) due to fears of losing its superstation status. Gaylord did agree to affiliate KSTW (and several of its other independent stations) with The WB in 1993. However, Gaylord sued The WB due to launch delays and was later approached by CBS to affiliate with their station, KTVT Dallas, which lost its longtime affiliate KDFW which switched over to Fox. Gaylord agreed, on the condition that KSTW was included as well.

In 1995, KSTW rejoined CBS for the third (and final) time, and KIRO joined the new upstart UPN. During that era, the station launched a morning and evening newscast, with its long running 10 PM newscast moving to 11 PM. The new newscasts were far from successful, and were either cancelled and/or moved to various timeslots.

Due to its failures, KSTW was put up for sale in 1996 and was originally going to be purchased by Cox. However, KIRO was also put up for sale, and this resulted in a convoluted station swap. KSTW was sold to Paramount, who would sell KMOV St. Louis to Belo, who would sell KIRO to Cox. As Paramount owned UPN, KIRO and KSTW would once again swap affiliations and KSTW became a UPN O&O station. Paramount (later owning CBS) would later cancel newscasts in 1998.

From 2003-2005, KSTW aired a 10 PM newscast produced by KIRO. KSTW joined The CW upon launch in 2006. No newscasts would air on KSTW until 2022, when Paramount launched "Seattle Now News", featuring a mix of local and national news and produced in San Francisco.

The clips are from 1980 and onward. Here's what you'll see in this compilation:

0:00 - KSTWashington Ident (1987)
0:05 - Newscene 11 (1979-1982) - news update & The 10 O'Clock Report intros
0:51 - Channel 11 (1982-1984) - The Ten O'Clock News intro
1:17 - Channel 11 (1984-1987) - news update and The The Ten O'Clock News intros
1:54 - KSTWashington (1987-1989) - news update, The Ten O'Clock News and The Ten O'Clock News Sunday Report intros
3:50 - KSTWashington (1989-1990) - news update & The Ten O'Clock News intros
4:21 - KSTWashington (1990-1991) - news update & The Ten O'Clock News intros
4:37 - KSTW TV 11 (1991-1993) - news update & The 10 O'Clock News (generic & talent) intros
5:46 - KSTW Northwest 11 (1993-1995) - The 10;00 News intro
6:16 - 11 News (1995-1997) - Eye on 11 (CBS affiliation prelaunch piece), 5 PM and 11 PM intros
7:38 - UPN 11 News (1997-1998) - The Ten O'Clock News intro
8:20 - UPN 11 Seattle (2003-2005) - KIRO 7 Eyewitness News at 10 intro (produced by KIRO 7 Seattle)
8:35 - CW 11 Seattle (2012-2022) - Weather Watch & Inside Sports intros (produced by KPIX San Francisco)
9:01 - CW 11 Seattle (2022-present) - Seattle Now News at 10 intro (local segments produced by KPIX San Francisco)
9:43 - KSTWashington promo (late-1980s)

10:43 - Endcard

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