KLWB (TV)

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KLWB
KLWB logo
New Iberia/Lafayette, Louisiana
United States
Branding Me-TV Acadiana & This TV Lafayette
Channels Digital: 22, 32, and 50 (UHF)
Subchannels 22.1 Heroes & Icons
22.2 KDCG-CD This TV
32.1 This TV
32.2 Antenna TV
50.1 Me-TV
50.2 Heroes & Icons (KDCG-CD 22.2)
50.3 programming soon KFXZ-FM
50.5 KLFT-FM EWTN Radio.
Translators KDCG-CD 22.1/22.2 Opelousas, Louisiana, KXKW-LD 32.1/32.2 Lafayette, Louisiana
Affiliations This TV (2008-present), Me-TV (2011-present), Antenna TV (2012-present), Heroes and Icons (2015-present)
Owner Delta Media Corporation/Wilderness Communications, LLC
First air date April 3, 2006 (2006-04-03)
Call letters' meaning Lafayette
(or L for 50 in Roman numerals)
The WB
(former affiliation)
Sister station(s) KLWB-FM, KFXZ-FM, KXKW-LP, KXKW-LD, KDCG-CD
Former channel number(s) Analog:
50 (UHF, 2006-2009)
Former affiliations The WB (2006)
The CW (2006-2010)
Transmitter power 1000 kW
Height 303.4 m
Facility ID 82476
Transmitter coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website This TV Lafayette
Me-TV KLWB
[2]/[3] (H&I)
[4] (AntTV).

KLWB is the Me-TV affiliate in the Lafayette, Louisiana, area of the United States. The station is owned by Wilderness Communications.

History

KLWB originated in 1999 as a cable-only affiliate of The WB, via The WB 100+. Its broadcast signal began broadcasting on April 3, 2006. Soon afterward, it began to be carried by DirecTV (which previously imported WBZL in Miami and WNUV in Baltimore for WB programming) and Dish Network. The station joined The CW upon its formation that September, carrying The WB 100+'s successor, The CW Plus.

KLWB lost its CW affiliation to a subchannel of KATC on June 14, 2010. At that time, the station switched to This TV (which had previously been carried on a subchannel of KLWB, as well as on sister station KXKW-LD). The station also moved to channel 23 on Cox Cable (its previous position, channel 10, is now occupied by the KATC subchannel). On July 25, 2011, KLWB began airing Me-TV on a new subchannel.[1]

Beginning in fall 2011, KLWB became part of the Southland Conference Television Network, airing live sporting events from that league.

On March 30, 2012, Delta Media (Wilderness Communications) purchased KDCG (then RTV) from Acadiana Cable Advertising and added the station on channel 50.2. On August 1, 2012, KDCG switched affiliations from RTV to Antenna TV and in the process Antenna TV was moved to 50.2, RTV was moved to 50.3 but was dropped from the lineup months later. On July 1, 2015, Heroes & Icons launched on 22.2 subchannel, (This on 22.1), and KLWB 50.2 stemming from an agreement between Delta Media Corporation and Weigel Broadcasting of Chicago. Antenna TV now can be seen with the Tribune sister station This TV on KXKW-LD 32.2. Possible future launches on 32 and 50 are: Grit and Escape in January 2016, Decades and Movies! in March 2016, and Laff some time in June or July 2016

Stations that are owned by Delta Media in the Lafayette Market KDCG-CD, KXKW-LD and KLWB (TV)

Digital television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[2] Notes
22.1 480i 4:3 KDCGH&I H&I Simulcasts on KLWB-TV 50.2
22.2 KDCGThis This Simulcast from 32.1 KXKW-LD

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[3] Notes
32.1 480i 4:3 KXKW-LD This TV Replaced The CW then moved from 50.1 when MeTV launched in 2011
32.2 Antenna TV Launched on 32.2 when KDCG switched to H&I

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[4] Notes
50.1 480i 4:3 KLWB-DT Me-TV Replaced This TV on July 25, 2011
50.2 KDCG-CD Heroes & Icons Simulcast of 22.1 KDCG-CD
50.3 KLWB-DT Decades Launches Soon
50.4 KFXZ FM KFXZ-FM Audio
50.5 KLFT FM KLFT-FM Audio

Analog-to-digital conversion

KLWB shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 50, on June 12, 2009, and "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation on channel 50.[5][6] Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station.

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