KBXW

KBXW is a television station licensed to Deering, North Dakota serving the Minot area. KBXW is owned by East Coast Broadcasting Company and transmits on digital channel 15 (PSIP channel 53) from a transmitter northeast of the Minot International Airport in Minot. KBXW broadcasts programming from Escape on it's main channel, acting as a satellite of KAXW

Much like parent KAXW, KBXW has always struggled to find a network to affiliate itself with.

History
The station first signed on the air on March 1, 1985 as KOJS and was owned by Pentecostal Telecasters of Minot. It was slated to become the Fox affiliate for Minot upon that network's launch in 1986, but Fox turned around and gave it to KMIT instead. KOJS decided to become a religious independent instead.

KOJS never saw any success and Pentecostal Telecasters gave the station to Dakota Power Television Associates in 1999. It became a satellite of KAXW and changed its call letters to KBXW. It broadcasted America's Store from 1999 to 2006, then HSN from 2006 until 2012 when both KAXW and KBXW went silent.

East Coast Broadcasting Company purchased both KAXW and KBXW in 2013. The two remained silent for another year while ECBC shopped around for a new network to affiliate the two with. ECBC signed an agreement with Katz Broadcasting to launch Escape on KAXW and KBXW. The two returned to the air on August 8, 2014. The stations aired a countdown to Escape's official launch which wouldn't take place for another 2 days.

On January 2, 2015, the two stations began airing it's signal in 1080i high definition, even though Escape's native picture format is 480i standard definition.

Both have since added Buzzr, Retro TV, and JUCE TV to their other subchannels

Digital Television
The station's digital signal is multiplexed KBXW's broadcasts are digital-only as of June 11, 2009