KWWE-LD

KWWE-LD
Lake Charles, Louisiana
United States
Branding My 19 Lake Charles
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 (2017-03)
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 / 30.279306; -93.245778
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 primary MyNetworkTV and secondary MeTV 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 surrounded 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 served as Lake Charles' default ABC affiliates until August 31, 2017 when Fox affiliate KVHP launched an ABC affiliate on its DT2 subchannel[2]).

In addition to MyNetworkTV programming, KWWE-LD also serves as the Lake Charles market's MeTV affiliate, filling in programming for all time slots outside of the MyNetworkTV programming schedule with the MeTV schedule.[3] Initially shown by itself on its LD2 subchannel, MeTV programming has since moved to KWWE-LD's main channel and was replaced on LD2 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 [4]
19.1 1080i 16:9 KWWE-LD MyNetworkTV & MeTV
19.2 480i 4:3 Simulcast of KSWL-LD / CBS

References

  1. ↑ "Lake Charles gets a local CBS television station". AmericanPress.com. Retrieved 2017-02-19.
  2. ↑ Miller, Mark (23 August 2017). "KVHP Launching ABC Feed On Subchannel". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  3. ↑ "Where to Watch MeTV In Lake Charles". © 2018 MeTV National Limited Partnership. Retrieved September 25, 2018.
  4. ↑ Digital TV Market Listing for KWWE-LD


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