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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 for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	SagamoreHill Broadcasting (SagamoreHill Lake Charles, LLC)
Sister stations	KWWE-LD
History
First air date	February 15, 2017 (7 years ago) (2017-02-15)
Former call signs	K17KH-D (2011–2017)
Former channel number(s)	Digital: 17 (UHF, 2017–2019)
Call sign meaning	Southwest Louisiana
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	185296
Class	LD
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
Links
Public license information	LMS
Website	www.cbslakecharles.tv

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). The two stations share studios on West Prien Lake Road in Lake Charles; KSWL-LD's transmitter is located at the KTSR tower in Westlake.

History

In 2011, the FCC awarded a 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, owned by Lake Charles Television, LLC, a unit of Waypoint Media.

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. 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.

On December 31, 2019, SagamoreHill Broadcasting acquired the station from Waypoint Media.

News operation

The station is unusual among CBS affiliates in that it carries no local news. However, it airs local weather inserts during CBS Mornings as well as a five-minute weathercast at the conclusion of CBS' prime time programming. KSWL also produces and airs two sports programs focused on Southwest Louisiana-area sports: Sound Off, which is a call-in show about secondary and postsecondary sports, and Poke Nation, covering sports at McNeese State University.

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

References

1. "Facility Technical Data for KSWL-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
2. "Lake Charles gets a local CBS television station". AmericanPress.com. Archived from the original on February 20, 2017. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
3. "Lake Charles First CBS Television Network Affiliate - Lake Charles, LA". lakecharles.com. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
4. Digital TV Market Listing for KWWE-LD
5. KVHP Launching ABC Feed On Subchannel
6. RabbitEars TV Query for KSWL-LD

• 2017 establishments in Louisiana
• CBS affiliates
• Court TV affiliates
• Ion Mystery affiliates
• Laff (TV network) affiliates
• Low-power television stations in Louisiana
• SagamoreHill Broadcasting
• Television channels and stations established in 2017
• Television stations in Lake Charles, Louisiana