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| Branding | MeTV & My 19 Lake Charles |
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| KSWL-LD | |
| History | |
| Founded | February 22, 2011 |
First air date | March 2017 (8 years ago) (2017-03) |
Former call signs | K19JB-D (2011–2017) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 184601 |
| Class | LD |
| ERP | 15kW |
| HAAT | 163.5 m (536 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°13′16.4″N93°18′40.9″W / 30.221222°N 93.311361°W /30.221222; -93.311361 |
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Public license information | LMS |
KWWE-LD (channel 19) is alow-power television station inLake Charles, Louisiana, United States, affiliated withMyNetworkTV,MeTV, andTelemundo. It is owned bySagamoreHill Broadcasting alongsideCBS affiliateKSWL-LD (channel 17). The two stations share studios on West Prien Lake Road in Lake Charles; KWWE-LD's transmitter is located at theKTSR tower inWestlake.
Although granted aconstruction permit by theFederal Communications Commission (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 byDTV America ofSunrise, Florida.
In February 2017, the permit for K19JB-D was sold to Lake Charles Television,LLC, a unit of Waypoint Media, which signed onCBS affiliateKSWL-LD in the same month.[2]
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, with somesyndicated programming surrounding the network's prime time schedule. Prior to this,KADN-DT3 inLafayette (and its sister station and now-NBC affiliateKLAF-LD prior to that) served as the market's default MyNetworkTV affiliate. KWWE-LD's sign-on also leftABC as the only major network not available on a local outlet in the Lake Charles area (Lafayette'sKATC-TV and/orBeaumont, Texas–basedKBMT served as Lake Charles' default ABC affiliates until August 31, 2017, whenFox affiliateKVHP launched an ABC affiliate on its DT2 subchannel[3]).
In addition to MyNetworkTV programming, KWWE-LD also serves as the Lake Charles market'sMeTV affiliate, filling in programming for all time slots outside of the MyNetworkTV programming schedule with the MeTV schedule.[4] 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.
On December 31, 2019, SagamoreHill Broadcasting acquired the station from Waypoint Media.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 19.1 | 480i | 16:9 | KWWE-LD | MyNetworkTV &MeTV |
| 19.2 | 720p | Telemun | Telemundo | |
| 19.3 | 480i | Sonlife | Sonlife | |
| 19.4 | HSN | HSN | ||
| 19.5 | JTV | Jewelry Television |
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