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| City | Houma, Louisiana |
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| Branding | HTV 10 |
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| Affiliations | Independent |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Folse Communications,LLC |
| History | |
| Founded | Both stations: August 28, 1989 (35 years ago) (1989-08-28) |
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| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 24978 |
| Class | CD |
| ERP | 15kW |
| HAAT | 122.5 m (402 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°36′25.2″N90°41′42.6″W / 29.607000°N 90.695167°W /29.607000; -90.695167 |
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| Website | www |
KFOL-CD (channel 30) is alow-power,Class Aindependenttelevision station inHouma, Louisiana, United States. The station is owned by Folse Communications (owned by station manager and news anchor Martin Folse). KFOL-CD's studios are located on Main Street/LA 24 in downtown Houma, and its transmitter is located on Hunley Court (southwest of the Saint Louis Bayou) in the city's northeast side.
KFOL's programming issimulcast ontranslator stationKJUN-CD (VHF digital channel 7) inMorgan City, whose transmitter is located onLA 70 in rural southernSt. Martin Parish (northeast of Morgan City). Together, the two stations utilize the unified brandHTV 10 ("HTV" meaning "Houma Television").
Oncable, KFOL-CD is available on channel 10 onComcast Xfinity in Houma,Charter Spectrum inThibodaux,Raceland, andBourg, Vision Communications inLarose andAT&T U-verse inNew Orleans, and on Allen TV Cable Service channel 71 in Morgan City.
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KFOL and KJUN both first signed on the air on August 28, 1989.
On September 1, 2008, during the height ofHurricane Gustav, KFOL's transmitter tower, located behind its studio facility, collapsed. Interrupting a live news broadcast on the station, anchor Martin Folse thought that the loud crash came from the station's tape library (located behind the studio), until an operator in KFOL/KJUN's control room informed him that the tower had fallen to the ground. Until new transmitter facilities were set up, the station temporarily streamed local news updates focused onTerrebonne Parish via its website. KFOL provided a direct feed to area cable providers, restoring service until a temporary tower was erected.
On January 20, 2014, KFOL began broadcasting from a new studio facility located on Main Street in downtown Houma, within a building that formerly housed a Dupont's Department Store location.
The two stations generally carry locally produced programming including news andpublic affairs programs. Programs broadcast by KFOL/KJUN include the weeknight news, interview and call-in programBayou Time; the interview programOne on One; theNew Orleans Saints-focused sports magazine seriesSaints on the Bayou; the college football analysis programThe Charlie Stubbs Show; the sports wrap-up programFriday Night Sports, andThe Beat (a series similar in format to the long-running reality seriesCops that follows local police officers).
KFOL and KJUN's signals aremultiplexed:
| Channel | Video | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 30.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | HTV-10 | Main KFOL-CD/KJUN-CD programming |
| 30.2 | 480i | 4:3 | Silent | |
| 30.3 | HTV-10 in standard definition |
| City of license | Callsign | Channel | ERP | HAAT | Facility ID | Transmitter coordinates |
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| Morgan City | KJUN-CD | 7 | 2.75 kW | 99.5 m (326 ft) | 24979 | 29°45′15.6″N91°10′25.5″W / 29.754333°N 91.173750°W /29.754333; -91.173750 (KJUN-CD) |
In 2010, KFOLflash-cut its digital signal into operation through the activation of a new transmitter tower located on the east side of Houma, operating at 15 kW. KJUN also activated its new transmitter facility, operating at 300 watts, near its existing site off of Highway 70. On January 20, 2014, KFOL began broadcasting all in-studio and field segments within its programming in 1080ihigh definition.