KWBJ-CD

KWBJ-CD
Morgan City/Houma, Louisiana
United States
City Morgan City, Louisiana
Branding KWBJ-TV 22 (general)
KWBJ News (newscasts)
Slogan News That Matters
Channels Digital: 22 (UHF)
Virtual: 22 (PSIP)
Subchannels 22.80 Main programming
Affiliations Youtoo TV (since 2015)
Owner Price Media Corporation
First air date 1985 (1985)(Cable only)
April 2, 1990 (over the air)
Call letters' meaning The WB (former affiliation)
Former callsigns ATVC Channel 7 (April 1986-1990
K39BJ (1990–1996)
KWBJ-LP (1996–2009)
Former channel number(s) Analog: 39 (UHF, 1990–2009)
Former affiliations Primary:
independent (1987–1995)
The WB (1995–2006)
America One (2006-2015)
Secondary:
A1 (1999-2006)
Transmitter power 15 kW
Height 60 m
Class Class A
Facility ID 24218
Transmitter coordinates 29°43′15″N 91°12′18″W / 29.72083°N 91.20500°W / 29.72083; -91.20500
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.kwbj.net (outdated)

KWBJ-CD, virtual channel 39 (UHF digital channel 22), is an Youtoo TV-affiliated television station located in Morgan City, Louisiana, United States. The station is owned by the Price Media Corporation and Allen's TV Cable, which is Morgan City's main cable provider. KWBJ maintains studio facilities located on Michigan Street/Route 90/Highway 182, and its transmitter is located on Shaw Street (northeast of Jimmy Magee Park) in Morgan City.

History

The station known as KWBJ originally had its origins as a cable only channel known as ATVC Channel 7. It was managed by Allen's TV Cable, which has served the Morgan City area since the 1960s, and it carried local programs and special events for the Morgan City and St. Mary Parish area, before serving as a full-fledged cable channel in April 1986. Among its original programs was a newscast known as Newslook 7. On April 2, 1990, Allen's TV Cable brought the station over the air as K39BJ, broadcasting on UHF channel 39.[1] Serving Morgan City, Houma, and the south Baton Rouge market, it originally operated as an independent station. In early 1996, K39BJ became a charter affiliate of The WB Television Network.[2]; in September of that year, the following year, the station changed its call letters to KWBJ-LP. The station began carrying programming from America One as a secondary affiliation in 1999.

On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation (which split from Viacom in December 2005) and Time Warner's Warner Bros. Entertainment (the division that operated The WB) announced that they would dissolve UPN and The WB, and move some of their programming to a newly created network, The CW.[3][4]

One month later on February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced the launch of a competing "sixth" network called MyNetworkTV, which would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television.[5][6] KWBJ-LP opted against seeking an affiliation with either The CW or MyNetworkTV, instead opting to become a part-time America One affiliate while continuing to carry general entertainment programs interspersed within the network's programming. KWBJ became a YouToo America affiliate once America One folded into that network.

KWBJ's coverage via over-the-air and cable is limited to St. Mary, lower Assumption, and lower St. Martin Parishes and is not available over the air or via cable/satellite in the Lafayette, Baton Rouge, or New Orleans areas. Per its affiliation with Allen's TV Cable, which provides cable service to said area, the station is NOT carried on any other cable lineups in that area that compete with Allen's TV Cable.[7]

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[8]
22.80480i4:3Main KWBJ-CD programming / Youtoo TV

Analog-to-digital conversion

KWBJ flash-cut its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 22 in 2009. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its UHF channel 22 instead of its former UHF analog channel 39 (most, though not all, television stations that maintain digital signals map them to their former analog channel allocations).

Programming

Syndicated programs broadcast by KWBJ-CD include Extra, Judge Mathis, Highway to Heaven, Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures, Leverage, The Middle and Friends. Since September 2011, the station has carried weekly telecasts of college football and basketball games from the Southland Conference, along with the conference's soccer and volleyball championship games.

Newscasts

KWBJ produces a local newscast aimed at the Morgan City area, branded as KWBJ News; the half-hour newscasts air Monday through Fridays at 6:30 p.m and is repeated at 9:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. the next day. The station also airs local weather updates produced by WeatherVision and provided by meteorologists Edward Saint Pé and Brandon Bouché, during syndicated programming on its evening schedule. The station also carries the national newscast produced by the Davenport, Iowa-based Independent News Network each weeknight at midnight. South Louisiana Quiz Bowl programming with the greatest contestant every, Jarris Folse.

References

  1. ↑ The Daily Review, Morgan City, March 26, 1990, Page 10.
  2. ↑ The Daily Review, Morgan City, February 7, 1996, Page 10.
  3. ↑ 'Gilmore Girls' meet 'Smackdown'; CW Network to combine WB, UPN in CBS-Warner venture beginning in September, CNNMoney.com, January 24, 2006.
  4. ↑ UPN and WB to Combine, Forming New TV Network, The New York Times, January 24, 2006.
  5. ↑ "News Corp. to launch new mini-network for UPN stations". USA Today. February 22, 2006. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
  6. ↑ News Corp. Unveils MyNetworkTV, Broadcasting & Cable, February 22, 2006.
  7. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/kwbjtv22/info/?entry_point=page_nav_about_item&tab=page_info
  8. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KWBJ
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