KSWL-LD

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KSWL-LD

Lake Charles, Louisiana United States
Channels	Digital: 34 (UHF) Virtual: 17
Branding	CBS Lake Charles
Programming
Affiliations	17.1: CBS 17.2: Court TV Mystery 17.3: Court TV 17.4: QVC
Ownership
Owner	SagamoreHill Broadcasting (SagamoreHill Lake Charles, LLC)
Sister stations	KWWE-LD
History
First air date	February 15, 2017 (4 years ago) (2017-02-15)
Former call signs	K17KH-D (2011–2017)
Former channel number(s)	Digital: 17 (UHF, 2017–2019)
Call sign meaning	K SouthWest Louisiana
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	185296
ERP	15 kW
HAAT	163.5 m (536 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	30°13′16.4″N 93°18′40.9″W / 30.221222°N 93.311361°W / 30.221222; -93.311361
Translator(s)	KWWE-LD 19.2 (UHF) Lake Charles
Links
Public license information	Profile LMS
Website	www.cbslakecharles.tv

KSWL-LD, virtual channel 17 (UHF digital channel 34), is a low-powered CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States. Owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting, it is a sister station to low-powered primary MyNetworkTV and secondary MeTV affiliate KWWE-LD (channel 19). The two stations share studios on West Prien Lake Road in Lake Charles and transmitter facilities at the KTSR tower in Westlake.

On cable, KSWL-LD is available on Suddenlink channel 10.

History[]

In 2011, the FCC awarded the construction permit for the station, with the call sign of K17KH-D. The current KSWL-LD calls were adopted on February 10, 2017. Five days later, the station went on the air as the Lake Charles area's CBS affiliate.^[1]

KSWL-LD is the area's first CBS affiliate since the shutdown of its original CBS affiliate, KTAG-TV (UHF channel 25), in August 1961.^[2] Between that time, KLFY-TV in Lafayette served as the default CBS affiliate via cable for Southwestern Louisiana, while Beaumont affiliate KFDM was carried by a few cable providers in some areas of the market. Between KSWL-LD's sign-on as part of CBS, sister station KWWE-LD's sign on as a MyNetworkTV affiliate, and Fox affiliate KVHP launching ABC programming on its DT2 subchannel, the year 2017 marks the first time that the Lake Charles area has received over-the-air service from every major television network, having previously relied on cable television to supply network affiliates from Lafayette and Beaumont for CBS, ABC, MyNetworkTV, and until 2009, The CW.^[3][4]

Digital channels[]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

News operation[]

The station is unusual among CBS affiliates in that it carries no local news. However, it airs local weather inserts during CBS This Morning. And on its website

References[]

External links[]

• KSWL in the FCC TV station database
• BIAfn's Media Web Database — Information on KSWL-TV