KPBI (TV)

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KPBI
KBBL-TV (former KWFT)
(former logo, no current logo available)
Eureka Springs / Fayetteville / Fort Smith, Arkansas
Channels 34 (UHF) analog
Affiliations My Network TV
Owner Equity Broadcasting
Founded June 25, 1999
Former callsigns KWBS (1999-2004)
KWFT (2004-2006)
KBBL (2006)
Former affiliations Lick TV, FOX, WB, UPN, PAX
Transmitter Power 1200 kW
Height 224.4 m
"KWFT" redirects here. For the former KWFT-AM in Texas, see KMKI. For the former KWFT-TV in Texas, see KAUZ-TV. "KBBL-TV" redirects here, for the fictional KBBL-TV of "The Simpsons", see Media in The Simpsons.

KPBI is a television station in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, serving the Fayetteville market on channel 34 as an affiliate of My Network TV. While the station's city of license is located in the Springfield, Missouri market, ACNielsen considers this station to be part of the Fayetteville-Fort Smith market. The station is currently owned by Equity Broadcasting, and also serves Fort Smith, Arkansas via low-powered repeater station KPBI-CA.

Originally, this station was known as KWBS, which was to be WB Springfield (however, Equity signed KWBM on the air and this station aired programming from PAX until 2003). PAX programming was removed and the station ran a short lived format called Lick TV until sometime in 2004 when it started airing WB and FOX programming, under the KWFT callsign.

The station changed its calls to KBBL-TV on July 6, 2006, and adopted its current calls on September 22, 2006. At present, however, its old Fort Smith repeater still goes by KWFT-LP, it is unknown if that repeater is still operating.

The KBBL-TV call letters were almost certainly not inspired by the KBBL-TV of The Simpsons, even though both stations are located in a DMA with the same name as the Simpsons' fictional hometown. Equity likes to use former radio call letters from its hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas as TV call letters, and KBBL was once used by a Little Rock radio station.

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Broadcast television in the Fort Smith / Fayetteville / Rogers market  (Nielsen DMA #104)

KOET 3 (PBS/OETA) - KFSM 5 (CBS) - KWNL-CA 9 (UNI) - KFDF-CA 10 (RTN) - KAFT 13 (PBS/AETN) - KFTA 24 (Fox) - KPBI 34/KPBI-CA 46 (MNTV) - KHBS 40/KHOG 29 (ABC) - KNWA 51 (NBC) - KSBN 57 (Wor/A1)
MyNetworkTV Affiliates in the state of Arkansas

KWBM 31 (Harrison) - KPBI-TV 34 / KPBI-CA 46 (Fayetteville / Fort Smith) - KWBF 42 (Little Rock) - KEJB 43 (El Dorado)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, NBC, PBS, and Other stations in Arkansas
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