KLKW-LD, virtual and

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channel 22, is a low-powered

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- affiliated

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, United States. Owned by

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,Amarillo, TX TV market profile @ RabbitEars.Info
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KNKC-LD KNKC-LD, virtual and UHF digital channel 29, is a low-powered Estrella TV- affiliated television station licensed to Lubbock, Texas, United States. Owned by DTV America Corporation, it is a sister station to fellow Estrella TV affiliate KL ...

(channel 29) in

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History

Its

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dates back to November 7, 2012, though it did not start broadcasting until January 2014. The station's original callsign was K22LK-D, which was changed to the current KLKW-LD on March 11, 2013.

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is

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, as of February 10, 2023, as follows: Estrella TV programming is broadcast on KLKW's main channel, 22.1. Doctor TV, a healthy lifestyle-oriented television network, was broadcast on KLKW's second subchannel on channel 22.2 until 2015, when it was replaced by

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network. In late 2015,

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and

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were added on channels 22.3 and 22.4, respectively. In 2016, Grit was added to digital subchannel 22.5 after

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affiliate

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replaced it on 7.3 with

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. That same year,

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was added to subchannel 22.6, and GetTV was replaced with

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, bringing the network back to the Amarillo market since former Azteca America affiliate

KTXD-LP KTXD-LP, UHF analog channel 43, was a low-powered Azteca América- affiliated television station licensed to Amarillo, Texas, United States. The station was owned by Una Vez Mas Holdings. On September 22, 2009, KTXD-LP ceased operations due to ...

ceased operations in 2009. On January 1, 2023, Azteca ceased operations, leaving channel 22.2 blank.

References

External links

Query the FCC’s TV station database for KLKWSearch KLKW-LD on RECNetDTV AmericaDoctor TV websiteKLKW-LD AMARILLO, TX at RabbitEars.Info
LKW Estrella TV affiliates Get (TV network) affiliates Buzzr affiliates LKW-LD Innovate Corp. {{Texas-tv-station-stub