KCER-TV

KCER-TV is a commercial-free independent television station in Benton, Arkansas and broadcasts on channel 42. It is owned by KCER Media which also owns KWAB-TV along with CER2 Digital Networks, CER2 HD and KCER Magazine, and offers a all-video game format with all of the live programming being broadcast on a sustaining basis unlike local news and sportscasts on other Benton stations including up-to-the-minute updates, interviews, live reports, play-by-play, phone-ins, high scores, features, whiparound/live coverage, analysis, and roundtable discussions of arcade/video games that is exclusively to KCER-TV. Originally the station was independent until 1986, affiliated with Fox until 1997, UPN until 2006, MyNetworkTV until 2008, and for a short time, ABN until April 27th, 2015 when that network moved to KSPA-TV and KCER's new sister station KCEZ-TV (channel 53) as the US TV shakeup and the January 2015 realignment both came to a dignified end.

August 1979-March 1987


 During the Field Communications years, it was sold to Metromedia in 1983. In 1986, it became an affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company and was sold to Fox Television Stations Group.

March 1987-June 1993




June 1993-September 1995


Classic daytime and syndicated episodes of The Merv Griffin Show, Dance Fever, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! were added in 1993, but lasted until 2001.

September 1995-July 1997


July 1997-October 2002


 In 1997, UPN moved from KEFL-TV to KCER-TV.

October 2002-August 2004


August 2004-September 2006


September 2006-December 2008
 In September 2006, KCER switched from UPN to MyNetworkTV.

December 2008-March 2011
 In 2008, it reverted to being a independent station.

March 2011-February 2013


In 2012, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! were removed from KCER, The Simpsons and Futurama was instead.



February 2013-January 2014; January 2014-April 2015 (secondary); Mid-April 2015-present (secondary)


Same as the previous logo, but the rounded rectangle is removed.

In mid-April, KCER reverts back to independent status, sending ABN to KSPA-TV (channel 30), thus ending the U.S. TV shakeup which stations returned to normal.

January 2014-April 2015 (primary), Mid-April 2015-present (primary)


In 2014, KCER-TV (along with the 9-channel KCER Satellite Network) begin to offer a standardized new look and logo along with new graphics and music. On August 1, 2014, KCER-TV's signal was uplinked via a satellite to all 50 states, upgrading KCER-TV from a small station in Benton to a nationwide superstation serving the whole of the United States of America.

Also, this logo has still used on KCER Media.

April 2015
In April 2015, KCER temporary switched from a independent to ABN during the one week short-lived US TV shakeup.