| Lafayette, Louisiana | |
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| Branding | KATC TV 3, Acadiana's News Channel |
| Slogan | News That Gets to the Point. |
| Channels | Digital: 28 (UHF) Virtual: 3 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 3.1 ABC 3.2 The CW |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner | Evening Post Publishing Company (KATC Communications, Inc.) |
| First air date | September 19, 1962 |
| Call letters' meaning | Acadian Television Corporation (former owner) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 3 (VHF, 1962-2009) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 537 m |
| Facility ID | 33471 |
| Website | www.katc.com/ |
KATC, channel 3, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Lafayette, Louisiana. It began operations on September 19, 1962.
A 1000 kW transmitter for its digital broadcast is located near Branch, Louisiana and became operational November 6, 2007. KATC continued to use its transmitter for its analogue signal located south of Crowley, Louisiana until the mandated digital date of June 12, 2009.
KATC is also an affiliate of The CW, the signal of which is carried on digital subchannel 3.2. Before June 14, 2010, KLWB had the affiliation.
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KATC Channel 3 is owned by Cordillera Communications, the television subsidiary of the Evening Post Publishing Company. At first, KATC Signed on September 19, 1962 and was locally owned by Acadian Television Company, but through the 70s and 80s was a sister station to New Orleans' WWL-TV under the ownership of Loyola University New Orleans. In 1984, Loyola divested their broadcast properties, with WWL going to a group of station employees and KATC going to investment firm Merrill Lynch and eventually being sold to Cordillera. In 1993, the station joined other ABC affiliates, including WBRZ in Baton Rouge, in not airing the pilot to NYPD Blue. In 1998 The Evening Post Publishing Company purchased the station along with WLEX-TV in Lexington, Kentucky as the present owner. In 2003, the station started broadcasting in stereo. On June 12, 2009 KATC Channel 3 turned off the analog transmitter and turned on the digital transmitter on Channel 28 and the virtual channel is 3.
KATC is also the ABC affiliate of record for Lake Charles and Southwest Louisiana, since that area does not have an ABC affiliate of its own.
The station produces local news and talk programming, with such shows as Good Morning Acadiana, Friday Night Football and "hard-news" newscasts that air weekdays at 5, 6, and 10 p.m., Saturdays at 6 and 10 p.m., and on Sundays at 5:30 and 10 p.m.
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