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Tonight Show Promo for KQWL-TV (1996-2001)

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This is used to promote The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from 1996 to 2001 on Channel 27.

This is taken from an alternate scenario when KLEW-TV (CBS) was not the only station in the Lewiston-Moscow, ID/Clarkston-Pullman, WA market.

KQWL-TV is a television station in Enterprise, Oregon and serving the Tri-state area of Latah, Lewis and Nez Perce Counties in Idaho, Asotin, Columbia, Garfield and Whitman Counties in Washington State and Wallowa County in Oregon, broadcasting locally on digital channel 16 (virtual channel 27) as an NBC affiliate.

==History==
In Fall 1971, the station went on the air as KQWL, an affiliate of ABC. It was originally a satellite of KATUin Portland. In 1973, channel 19 was sold to Nationwide Communications of Columbus, Ohio and became a separate station due to competition and disputes with Clarkston, Washington-based KTQC (Channel 7) over the Tri-State Area. Eventually, it became an independent station to solve the issue between the two ABC affiliate.

During the mid-70's and 80's, KQWL has became the #1 kids station in the Tri-states, airing programs such as "The Flintstones", "The Jetsons", "Inspector Gadget", "Thundercats", "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe", "She-Ra: Princess of Power", "Bravestarr", "Galtar and the Golden Lance" and "Silverhawks". The station even began to air "Entertainment Tonight" and its weekend edition, "Entertainment This Week" in 1981 until it was transferred to NBC affiliate KQCX-TV (Channel 10) in 1991. Even after the switch to the Fox Network in 1986, it became one of the top-rated independent stations in the Northwestern United States.

KQWL became a charter affiliate of Fox when that network launched on October 9, 1986. However, like most Fox stations, it continued to essentially be programmed as an independent station during the network's early years. KSHB continued to air movies during primetime on nights when Fox did not provide programming until the network began airing primetime shows seven nights a week in September 1993. By the early 1990s, KQWL rebranded as "Fox 27," and began to add a few talk and reality shows to its schedule.

Fox wanted to upgrade affiliates in many markets when it acquired the rights to broadcast games from the NFL's National Football Conference in the mid-1990s. After signing an affiliation deal with New World Communications to switch its "Big Three" affiliates to Fox, the network decided to make affiliate upgrades in smaller markets. In 1995, Fox formed SF Broadcasting in a joint venture with Savoy Pictures, which the network owned a voting stock in, and bought four NBC affiliates and an ABC affiliate; one of the NBC stations it acquired was local rival KQCX-TV (channel 10). On January 1, 1996, KQCX switched its affiliation to Fox, while the NBC affiliation moved to KQWL.

KQWL was carrying the unbranded The Disney Afternoon in January 1998 with the expectations then of dropping the block as its ad sales wasn't doing so well.

Since the 1980s, KQWL holds many great shows like the Dallas, Knots Landing, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, The People's Court and the Popples.

In 1997, Nationwide sold KQWL to Scripps Howard Broadcasting (later renamed the E.W. Scripps Company) upon Nationwide's exit from broadcasting.

==Programming==
KQWL-TV clears the entire NBC network schedule; however, it is one of the few NBC stations that airs the Saturday and Sunday editions of NBC Nightly News a half-hour to one hour earlier than most affiliates due to its hour-long 5:00 p.m. newscast, and also airs the weekend editions of Today and Meet The Press one hour earlier. Syndicated programs broadcast by KQWL-TV include The People's Court, The List, Judge Mathis, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and The Meredith Vieira Show among others. Since 1985 KQWL was the Quad Cities' longtime home to hit game shows Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy! (airing both shows at 7 and 7:30pm respectively prior to their removal), before removing both game shows in September 2014 in a move where Scripps removed both Sony game shows (and a few other shows) from their stations for lower-cost, internally produced programming; with the station adding a 6 p.m. newscast and Scripps' The List newsmagazine in their place. Both game shows ended up moving to Lewiston-Clarkston's ABC-affiliate, KTQC.
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