KWWE-LD (channel 19) is a low-power television station in

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, United States, affiliated with

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, and

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. It is owned by

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alongside

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affiliate

KSWL-LD KSWL-LD (channel 17) is a low-power television station in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting alongside MyNetworkTV/MeTV/Telemundo affiliate KWWE-LD (channel 19). Both stations s ...

(channel 17). Both stations share studios on West Prien Lake Road in Lake Charles, while KWWE-LD's transmitter is located at the

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tower in Westlake.

History

Although granted a

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by the

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(FCC) on February 22, 2011, the station did not make 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

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. DTV America, which have launched several low-powered television stations in several other markets providing multicast network programming throughout the mid 2010s, initially planned to launch a MyNetworkTV/

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hybrid station on UHF channel 19 as they held a

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

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, which signed on

affiliate

in the same month. 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

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(and its sister station and now-

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affiliate

KLAF-LD KLAF-LD (channel 14) is a low-power television station in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Allen Media Broadcasting alongside Fox affiliate KADN-TV (channel 15). Both stations share studios on Eraste ...

prior to that) served as the market's default MyNetworkTV affiliate. KWWE-LD's sign-on also left

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as the only major network not available on a local outlet in the Lake Charles area (Lafayette's

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and/or

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-based

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served as Lake Charles' default ABC affiliates until August 31, 2017 when

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affiliate

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launched an ABC affiliate on its DT2 subchannel). In addition to MyNetworkTV programming, KWWE-LD also serves as the Lake Charles market's

affiliate, filling in programming for all time slots outside of the MyNetworkTV programming schedule with the MeTV schedule. 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. In 2019, the station added Telemundo to its third subchannel.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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References

External links

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