KWWE-LD
| Lake Charles, Louisiana United States | |
|---|---|
| Channels |
Digital: 19 (UHF) Virtual: 19 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels |
19.1 MyNetworkTV / MeTV 19.2 KSWL-LD / CBS |
| Affiliations | MyNetworkTV |
| Owner |
Waypoint Media (Lake Charles Television, LLC) |
| Founded | February 22, 2011 |
| First air date | March 2017 |
| Sister station(s) | KSWL-LD |
| Former callsigns | K19JB-D (2011–2017) |
| Transmitter power | 10 kW |
| Height | 334 feet (102 m) |
| Facility ID | 184601 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°16′45.5″N 93°14′44.8″W / 30.279306°N 93.245778°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
KWWE-LD is a digital low-powered television station that is licensed to and located in Lake Charles, Louisiana; it serves as that area's MyNetworkTV affiliate. The station’s digital signal is broadcast over UHF channel 19.
Owned by Waypoint Media, KWWE-LD is sister to low-powered CBS affiliate KSWL-LD and the two stations share studios and broadcasting facilities on West Prien Lake Road, with transmitter tower in Westlake, just north of Lake Charles.
History
Although granted a construction permit by the FCC on February 22, 2011, the station never made it to air for another six years or so. The permit was granted under the assigned callsign of K19JB-D. It was originally owned by DTV America Corporation of Sunrise, Florida.
DTV America, which have launched several low-powered television stations in several other markets providing multi-cast network programming throughout the mid 2010s, initially planned to launch a MyNetworkTV/DrTV hybrid station on UHF channel 19 as they held a construction permit under a callsign of K19JB-D, but it never went on the air.
Those plans were canceled indefinitely in February 2017 when the permit for K19JB-D was sold to Lake Charles Television, LLC, a unit of Waypoint Media, which signed on CBS affiliate KSWL-LD in the same month.[1]
The callsign was changed to the current KWWE-LD on February 7, 2017. The following month, KWWE-LD signed-on as the area’s first MyNetworkTV affiliate, but instead of DrTV, some syndicated programming surrounds the network’s primetime schedule. Prior to this, KADN-DT3 in Lafayette (and its sister station and now-NBC affiliate KLAF-LD prior to that) served as the market's default MyNetworkTV affiliate. KWWE-LD's sign-on also left ABC as the only major network not available on a local outlet in the Lake Charles area (Lafayette’s KATC-TV and/or Beaumont, Texas-based KBMT serve as Lake Charles' default ABC affiliates).
In addition to MyNetworkTV programming, KWWE-LD also provides the area’s MeTV affiliate on its LD2 subchannel, but has moved to main channel with continuing to MyNetworkTV programming and replaced with a simulcast of KSWL-LD.
Digital television
Digital channels
The station’s digital signal is multiplexed in this manner listed below.
| Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming [2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KWWE-LD | Main KWWL programming / MyNetworkTV / MeTV |
| 19.2 | 480i | 4:3 | KSWL-LD / CBS | |
References
- ↑ "Lake Charles gets a local CBS television station". AmericanPress.com. Retrieved 2017-02-19.
- ↑ Digital TV Market Listing for KWWE-LD