CBS affiliate in Lafayette, Louisiana
KLFY-TV
(channel 10) is a
television station
in
Lafayette, Louisiana
, United States, affiliated with
CBS
and owned by
Nexstar Media Group
. The station's studios are located on Eraste Landry Road in Lafayette, and its transmitter is located in Maxie, north of
Rayne
.
KLFY-TV is notable as the oldest television station in the Lafayette area.
The station is also carried on
cable
and
satellite
providers in the
Lake Charles
metro area and
Southwest Louisiana
, where it previously served as the market's default CBS affiliate until February 15, 2017, when
KSWL-LD
signed on as the first CBS affiliate in the area since the sign-off of
KTAG-TV
in 1961,
[3]
as well as over-the-air in most of the
Baton Rouge
and
Alexandria
viewing areas. KLFY also served as one of two default CBS affiliates for the Alexandria market (along with
KNOE-TV
) of Monroe until local NBC affiliate
KALB-TV
launched a CBS affiliate on its subchannel in 2006. Until mid-2015, KLFY was carried on
Suddenlink
cable in Alexandria concurrently with CBS affiliate KALB-DT2.
History
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The station signed on June 3, 1955. Owned by Camellia Broadcasting at the time alongside KLFY radio (AM 1420, now
KPEL
), it was intended to share time on channel 10 with KVOL-TV, owned at the time by the
Morgan Murphy Stations
along with
KVOL
, KVOL-FM (96.1, off-air and
moved to Lake Charles
by 1976), and
The Daily Advertiser
. However, prior to the station's launch, KVOL's owners decided to yield the channel's operations to Camellia Broadcasting; Morgan Murphy later filed an interest to broadcast on channel 3, but this was denied. Its original studio facilities were located on Jefferson Street in downtown Lafayette.
[4]
It has always been a CBS affiliate, though it aired some
ABC
programming until
KATC
signed on in 1962. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the
NTA Film Network
.
[5]
In 1965, Camellia Broadcasting sold KLFY to Texoma Broadcasters, which owned
KWTX-TV
in
Waco, Texas
, and was partially owned by
Lyndon B. Johnson
along with businessman Milford N. "Buddy" Bostick. The station currently operates out of newer, larger purpose-built studio facilities on Eraste Landry Road, on the city's south side. KLFY was the first station in Lafayette and one of the earliest in Louisiana to broadcast in
stereo
, launching stereo broadcasting in mid-1986.
Young Broadcasting
acquired the station from Texoma Broadcasters in 1988. Young, and KLFY with it, was sold to
Media General
in 2013. This marked Media General's return to Louisiana after selling Alexandria
NBC
affiliate
KALB-TV
to Hoak Media in 2008.
After an aborted merger plan with
Meredith Corporation
, Media General announced on January 27, 2016, that it was being acquired by
Nexstar Broadcasting Group
with the new company named "Nexstar Media Group". As Nexstar had already owned
KADN-TV
and since the Lafayette market is too small to allow duopolies in any case, in order to comply with FCC ownership rules as well as planned changes to rules regarding same-market television stations which would prohibit future
joint sales agreements
, the company was required to sell either KLFY or KADN to another company. NBC affiliate
KLAF-LD
, KADN-TV's sister station, was the only station involved in the deal that could have been legally acquired, since FCC rules allow for common ownership of full-power and low-power television stations, regardless of the number of stations in a market.
[6]
[7]
However, four months later, Nexstar agreed to sell KADN and KLAF-LD to
Bayou City Broadcasting
, allowing it to retain KLFY.
[8]
Upon being acquired by Nexstar, the station upgraded its set and look. It has retained the "Hello Acadiana" greeting as well as the morning newscast title
Passe Partout
. However, in November 2017, the station dropped its hurricane eye logo it has used for over four decades, has renamed its noon newscast (formerly titled
Meet Your Neighbor
) to
KLFY News 10 at Noon
, and has changed its news theme to Stephen Arnold Music's "Canvas", which was and is still used by numerous former Media General stations.
In September 2024, KLFY will become the Lafayette market's third affiliate of
The CW
once its contract with KATC expires as part of a plan for Nexstar to carry the network on more of its owned and operated stations.
[9]
[10]
The CW will replace
Dabl
on subchannel 10.2.
[1]
News operation
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KLFY-TV broadcasts to and gathers news from throughout the South Central Louisiana area, a region known as "
Acadiana
". This includes the
parishes
(counties) of
Lafayette
,
Saint Martin
,
Saint Landry
,
Evangeline
,
Acadia
,
Vermilion
,
Iberia
,
Saint Mary
, and
Jefferson Davis
. Many of the station's branding campaigns and slogans use the moniker "Acadiana", such as "Hello Acadiana", which was adopted in 1982 along with the
Frank Gari
news theme "Hello News", which KLFY used from 1982 until 2004.
KLFY is well known in the market for its local
morning show
,
Passe Partout
?derived from the
French
word for "all-purpose". It has been on the air for over half a century (since 1957), and is one of the longest-running programs of its kind in the country. The station's noon show,
KLFY 10 News at Noon
, has been on the air for almost as long; it was formerly known as
Meet Your Neighbor
. The two programs are typically accompanied by paid live remotes promoting local car dealers, furniture stores and other commercial businesses. KLFY's weather department utilizes the "Live Doppler 10 Stormtracker" title for live up to date weather forecasts and branding. Weather coverage is featured prominently throughout station branding promotions.
In Lafayette, KLFY ranked first in viewership throughout most of its early history. This changed in the early-to-mid-2000s when a resurgent KATC began to attract viewers away from KLFY with different news formats and by luring various well-known talent from KLFY.
[11]
On December 28, 2011, KLFY became the first television station in the Lafayette market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. In May 2013, the longtime
Eyewitness News
name in use since 1969 was dropped for
Acadiana's Multi-Media News
; it has since been replaced by simply
KLFY News 10
. Upon being acquired by Nexstar, KLFY began producing and airing a weekend sports program
Cajun Nation
, focusing on sporting events from
UL Lafayette
, and airs
Geaux Nation
, focusing on athletic events from
LSU
, that is produced by sister station
WVLA
in Baton Rouge.
Former on-air staff
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Technical information
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Subchannels
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The station's signal is
multiplexed
:
Analog-to-digital conversion
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KLFY-TV shut down its analog signal, over
VHF
channel 10, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States
transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts
under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition
UHF
channel 56, which was among the high band UHF channels (52?69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its former analog-era VHF channel 10.
[13]
In June 2012, Young Broadcasting signed on the
Live Well Network
to its stations including KLFY. On May 29, 2015, the Live Well Network was pulled off the air on all Media General Stations (including the former Young ones). Media General launched
Ion Television
on KLFY on November 11, 2015, as part of a deal on their stations where there was no stand-alone Ion channel in those markets. On November 16, 2015, KLFY began running a signal test on 10.2 (formerly Live Well Network) with
GetTV
launching as the subchannel replacing the defunct Live Well Network. According to an article on TV Newscheck's website, Media General signed an agreement to launch GetTV on 20 of its stations, including KLFY, beginning February 1, 2016.
[14]
On October 30, 2017, Nexstar launched a fourth subchannel on 10.4, adding Katz Broadcasting's
Laff
network.
[15]
On February 2, 2021, KLFY-DT2 dropped GetTV (now on KDCG-CD 22.2) and replaced it with
Dabl
.
References
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a
b
c
Lafayette, Jon (May 1, 2024).
"Nexstar Will Move The CW Affiliation to WGN Chicago"
.
Broadcasting & Cable
. Retrieved
May 1,
2024
.
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"Facility Technical Data for KLFY-TV"
.
Licensing and Management System
.
Federal Communications Commission
.
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Lake Charles gets a local CBS television station
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"For The Record"
(PDF)
.
Broadcasting & Telecasting
. November 2, 1953
. Retrieved
September 22,
2015
.
- ^
"Require Prime Evening Time for NTA Films"
,
Boxoffice
: 13, November 10, 1956, archived from
the original
on June 14, 2009
- ^
"Nexstar-Media General: It's A Done Deal"
.
TVNewsCheck
. Retrieved
January 27,
2016
.
- ^
Picker, Leslie (January 27, 2016).
"Nexstar Clinches Deal to Acquire Media General"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
January 27,
2016
.
- ^
"Nexstar Selling Five Stations in Four Markets"
. May 27, 2016.
- ^
Lafayette, Jon (April 19, 2024).
"Nexstar Dropping Scripps-Owned The CW Affiliates in 7 Markets"
.
Broadcasting & Cable
. Retrieved
April 21,
2024
.
- ^
Daigle, Adam (April 20, 2024).
"The CW will end its affiliation with KATC, move to KLFY"
.
The Acadiana Advocate
. Retrieved
April 21,
2024
.
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"Huebner out at KLFY"
. July 8, 2014.
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RabbitEars TV Query for KLFY
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"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds"
(PDF)
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on August 29, 2013
. Retrieved
March 24,
2012
.
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[1]
from TVNewsCheck January 2, 2016
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"Nexstar Adds 4 Katz Diginets on 43 New CHS"
. November 2017.
External links
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Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with
cable television
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Full power
|
- KATC
(3.1
ABC
, 3.2
CW+
→
Dabl
, 3.3
Grit
, 3.4
Court
, 3.5
Bounce
, 3.6
QVC
)
- KLFY-TV
(10.1
CBS
, 10.2
Dabl
→
CW+
, 10.3
Ion
, 10.4
Laff
)
- KADN-TV
(15.1
Fox
,
15.2
NBC
, 15.3
MNTV
)
- KLPB-TV
(24.1
PBS
/
LPB
, 24.2
PBS Kids
, 24.3
Create
)
- KLWB
(50.1
MeTV
,
50.2
H&I
, 50.3
TMD
, 50.4
Start
, 50.5
Cozi
, 50.6
Story
)
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Low-power
|
- KLAF-LD
(14.1
NBC
)
- K21OM-D
(20.1
Mystery
, 20.2
Law and Crime Network
, 20.3
Defy
, 20.4
SMPTE Color Bars
, 20.5
Ion
, 20.6
Scripps News
)
- KDCG-CD
(22.1
H&I
, 22.2
Get
, 22.3
Buzzr
, 22.4
Movies!
)
- KXKW-LD
(32.1
NewsNet
, 32.2
ANT
, 32.3 Sports News Highlights, 32.4
Crime
, 32.5
Quest
)
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Cable
channels
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Local stations
|
- KPLC
(7.1
NBC
, 7.2
CW+
, 7.3
Bounce
, 7.4
Grit
, 7.5
Dabl
, 7.6
Mystery
)
- KSWL-LD
(17.1
CBS
, 17.2
Court
, 17.3
Laff
, 17.4
QVC
, 17.5
Scripps News
)
- KLTL-TV
(18.1
PBS
/
LPB
, 18.2
PBS Kids
, 18.3
Create
)
- KWWE-LD
(19.1
MNTV
/
MeTV
, 19.2
TMD
, 19.3
Sonlife
, 19.4
HSN
, 19.5
JTV
)
- KFAM-CD 24 (
Ind.
)
- KVHP
(29.1
Fox
, 29.2
ABC
, 29.3 Blank, 29.4
Ion
, 29.5
Defy
, 29.6
Laff
)
- KITU-TV
(34.1
TBN
, 34.2
Inspire
, 34.3
Smile
, 34.4
Enlace
)
- K21OB-D
(45.1
Ind.
)
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Distant
stations
|
- Lafayette
- KATC
(3.1
ABC
, 3.2
CW+
, 3.3
Grit
, 3.4
Court
, 3.5
Bounce
, 3.6
QVC
)
- KLFY-TV
(10.1
CBS
, 10.2
Dabl
, 10.3
Ion
, 10.4
Laff
)
- KLAF-LD
(14.1
NBC
)
- KADN-TV
(15.1
Fox
,
15.2
NBC
, 15.3
MNTV
)
- KDCG-CD
(22.1
H&I
, 22.2
Get
, 22.3
Buzzr
, 22.4
Movies!
)
- KXKW-LD
(32.1
NewsNet
, 32.2
ANT
, 32.3
NewsNet
, 32.4
Crime
, 32.5
Quest
)
- KLWB
(50.1
MeTV
,
50.2
H&I
, 50.3
TMD
, 50.4
Start
, 50.5
Cozi
, 50.6
Story
)
- Beaumont
- KBTV-TV
(4.1
Dabl
, 4.2
TBD
, 4.3
Comet
, 4.4
Nest
, 4.5
Charge!
)
- KFDM
(6.1
CBS
, 6.2
CW+
, 6.3
Fox
)
- KBMT
(12.1
ABC
, 12.2
NBC
, 12.3
Cozi
, 12.4
MeTV
, 12.7
Crime
, 12.8
Quest
, 12.16
Crime
)
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