KWBJ-CD

KWBJ-CD
Morgan City/Houma, Louisiana United States

City	Morgan City, Louisiana
Branding	KWBJ-TV 22 (general) KWBJ News (newscasts)
Slogan	News That Matters
Channels	Digital: 22 (UHF) Virtual: 22 (PSIP)
Subchannels	22.80 Main programming
Affiliations	Youtoo TV (since 2015)
Owner	Price Media Corporation
First air date	1987 (1987)
Call letters' meaning	The WB (former affiliation)
Former callsigns	K39BJ (1987–1996) KWBJ-LP (1996–2009)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 39 (UHF, 1987–2009)
Former affiliations	Primary: independent (1987–1995) The WB (1995–2006) America One (2006-2015) Secondary: A1 (1999-2006)
Transmitter power	15 kW
Height	60 m
Class	Class A
Facility ID	24218
Transmitter coordinates	29°43′15″N 91°12′18″W / 29.72083°N 91.20500°W / 29.72083; -91.20500
Licensing authority	FCC
Public license information:	Profile CDBS
Website	www.kwbj.net (outdated)

KWBJ-CD, virtual channel 39 (UHF digital channel 22), is an Youtoo TV-affiliated television station located in Morgan City, Louisiana, United States. The station is owned by the Price Media Corporation. KWBJ maintains studio facilities located on Michigan Street/Route 90/Highway 182, and its transmitter is located on Shaw Street (northeast of Jimmy Magee Park) in Morgan City.

History

The station first signed on the air in 1987 as K39BJ, broadcasting on UHF channel 39. Serving Morgan City, Houma, and the south Baton Rouge market, it originally operated as an independent station. On January 11, 1995, K39BJ became a charter affiliate of The WB Television Network; the following year, the station changed its call letters to KWBJ-LP. The station began carrying programming from America One as a secondary affiliation in 1999.

On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation (which split from Viacom in December 2005) and Time Warner's Warner Bros. Entertainment (the division that operated The WB) announced that they would dissolve UPN and The WB, and move some of their programming to a newly-created network, The CW.^[1]^[2]

One month later on February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced the launch of a competing "sixth" network called MyNetworkTV, which would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television.^[3]^[4] KWBJ-LP opted against seeking an affiliation with either The CW or MyNetworkTV, instead opting to become a part-time America One affiliate while continuing to carry general entertainment programs interspersed within the network's programming. KWBJ became a YouToo America affiliate once America One folded into that network.

KWBJ's coverage via over-the-air and cable is limited to St. Mary, lower Assumption, and lower St. Martin Parishes and is not available over the air or via cable/satellite in the Lafayette, Baton Rouge, or New Orleans areas. Per its affiliation with Allen's TV Cable, which provides cable service to said area, the station is NOT carried on any other cable lineups in that area.^[5]

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming^[6]
22.80	480i	4:3		Main KWBJ-CD programming / Youtoo TV

Analog-to-digital conversion

KWBJ flash-cut its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 22 in 2009. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its UHF channel 22 instead of its former UHF analog channel 39 (most, though not all, television stations that maintain digital signals map them to their former analog channel allocations).

Programming

Syndicated programs broadcast by KWBJ-CD include Extra, Judge Mathis, Highway to Heaven, Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures, Leverage, The Middle and Friends. Since September 2011, the station has carried weekly telecasts of college football and basketball games from the Southland Conference, along with the conference's soccer and volleyball championship games.

Newscasts

KWBJ produces a local newscast aimed at the Morgan City area, branded as KWBJ News; the half-hour newscasts air Monday through Fridays at 6:30 p.m and is repeated at 9:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. the next day. The station also airs local weather updates produced by WeatherVision and provided by meteorologists Edward Saint Pé and Brandon Bouché, during syndicated programming on its evening schedule. The station also carries the national newscast produced by the Davenport, Iowa-based Independent News Network each weeknight at midnight.

References

↑ 'Gilmore Girls' meet 'Smackdown'; CW Network to combine WB, UPN in CBS-Warner venture beginning in September, CNNMoney.com, January 24, 2006.
↑ UPN and WB to Combine, Forming New TV Network, The New York Times, January 24, 2006.
↑ "News Corp. to launch new mini-network for UPN stations". USA Today. February 22, 2006. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
↑ News Corp. Unveils MyNetworkTV, Broadcasting & Cable, February 22, 2006.
↑ https://www.facebook.com/kwbjtv22/info/?entry_point=page_nav_about_item&tab=page_info
↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KWBJ

External links

Television stations in Eastern Acadiana and the Florida Parishes, including Baton Rouge and Morgan City

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Local stations	WBRZ-TV (2.1 ABC, 2.2 News2 Louisiana, 2.3 WX) KJUN-CD (7.1 Ind.) WAFB (9.1 CBS, 9.2 Bounce TV, WBXH-CD 9.4 MNTV) KPBN-LD (11.1 Pursuit Channel) KZUP-CD (19.1 Independent) WBRL-CD (21.1 CW) KWBJ-CD (22.1 Youtoo) WSTY-LD (23.1 The Family Channel) WLPB (27.1 PBS/LPB, 27.2 LPB/PBS, 27.3 Create) WLFT-CD (30.1 Religious/MeTV, 30.2 MeTV, 30.3 GetTV, 30.4 AntTV soon) WVLA-TV (33.1 NBC, 33.2 Laff) WBXH-CD (39.1 MNTV, 39.2 Grit, 39.3 Escape) KBTR-CD (41.1 Independent/This TV) KGLA-DT (42.1 TMD) WGMB-TV (44.1 Fox, 44.2 The CW) W48DW-D (48.1 Daystar) KLWB (TV) (50.1 MeTV, 50.2 H&I→ KDCG-CD)

Cable channels	Metro 21 Cox 4 Catholic Life

Adjacent locals	Lafayette KATC (3.1 ABC, 3.2 The CW, 3.3 Grit) KLFY (10.1 CBS, 10.2 GetTV, 10.3 Ion Television) KADN (15.1 Fox, 15.2 NBC → KLAF-LD, 15.3 MNTV) KDCG-CD (22.1 Heroes & Icons) KLPB (24.1 PBS/LPB, 24.2 PBS Kids/Encore, 24.3 Create) KXKW-LD (32.1 ASN, 32.2 AntTV) KLAF-LD (46.1 NBC) KLWB (50.1 MeTV, 50.2 Heroes & Icons→ KDCG-CD) New Orleans WWL (4.1 CBS, 4.2 Justice, 4.3 Decades) WDSU (6.1 NBC, 6.2 MeTV) WVUE (8.1 Fox, 8.2 Grit) WYES (12.1 PBS, 12.2 PBS Kids/World), 12.3 Create) WHNO (20.1 LeSEA, 20.2 WeatherNation TV, 20.3 Cozi TV) WGNO (26.1 ABC, 26.2 Antenna TV, 26.3 Escape) WLAE (32.1 Public Ind., 32.2 MHz Worldview, 32.3 CatholicTV, 32.4 V-me) WNOL (38.1 CW, 38.2 This TV, 38.3 Comet) KGLA (42.1 TMD) WPXL (49.1 Ion, 49.2 Qubo, 49.3 Ion Life, 49.4 Ion Shop, 49.5 QVC, 49.6 HSN) WUPL (54.1 MNTV, 54.2 MundoMax) Alexandria KALB (5.1 NBC, 5.2 CBS, 5.3 The CW) WNTZ (48.1 Fox/MNTV, 48.2 Bounce TV, 48.3 Escape, 48.4 Laff) Jackson, Mississippi WLBT (3.1 NBC, 3.2 Bounce TV, 3.3 Escape) WJTV (12.1 CBS, 12.2 The CW, 12.3 Ion Television) WMAU (17.1/17.2 PBS/MPB, 17.3 Create, 17.4 MPB Music Radio)

Defunct	KHMA 11 (Houma, Ind.) WCBZ 7 (The Family Channel)

Broadcast television in the New Orleans region, including Hammond and Slidell

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Full-power	WWL (4.1 CBS, 4.2 Justice, 4.3 Decades) WDSU (6.1 NBC, 6.2 MeTV) WVUE (8.1 Fox, 8.2 Bounce TV, 8.3 Grit) WYES (12.1 PBS, 12.2 World, 12.3 Create) WHNO (20.1 LeSEA, 20.2 Cozi TV, 20.3 WeatherNation TV) WGNO (26.1 ABC, 26.2 Antenna TV, 26.3 Escape) WLAE (32.1 Public Ind. LPB, 32.2 MHz Worldview, 32.3 CatholicTV, 32.4 V-me (Spanish)) WNOL (38.1 CW, 38.2 This TV, 38.3 Comet) KGLA-DT (42.1 TMD (Spanish)) WPXL (49.1 Ion, 49.2 qubo, 49.3 Ion Life, 49.4 Shop TV, 49.5 QVC, 49.6 HSN) WUPL (54.1/.2 MNT, 54.3 H&I)

Low-power	WTNO-LP (22.1 AZA (Spanish)) KNLD-LD (28.1 Daystar) KFOL-CD (30.1 Ind) KNOV-CD (41.1 Tourist Info) K47JO-D (47.1 HSN2)

Local cable channels	NewsWatch 15 Catholic Life Fox Sports New Orleans

Defunct stations	KHMA 11 (independent, Houma)

See also Baton Rouge TV Biloxi TV Jackson TV

Other Television Stations in the state of Louisiana

Alexandria market	KNTS-LP 17 (Ind., Natchitoches) KLAX-TV 31 (DT2) (MeTV, Alexandria) KBCA 41 (H&I, DT2 AntTV, Alexandria)

Baton Rouge market	KPBN-LP 11 (A1) KZUP-CD 20 (RTV, Baton Rouge) KWBJ-CD 22 (A1, Morgan City) WLFT-CD 30 (Religious/MeTV/GetTV, Baton Rouge) WBXH-CA 39 (DT2 Escape, DT3 Grit, Baton Rouge) KBTR-CA 41 (Ind., Baton Rouge)

Lafayette market	KXKW-LP 6 (Ind./Radio, Lafayette) KDCG-CD 22 (This 22.1 & H&I 22.2, Opelousas) KXKW-LD 32 (This 32.1 & AntTV 32.2, Carencro) KLWB 50 (MeTV/H&I, Carencro)

Monroe market	KMLU 11 (MeTV, Monroe) KWMS 17 (H&I, West Monroe)

New Orleans market	WHNO 20 (LeSEA, New Orleans) WTNO 22 (AZA, New Orleans) KFOL-CD 30 / KJUN-CA 7 (Ind, Houma / Morgan City) WLAE 32 (Public Ind., New Orleans) KGLA 42 (Telemundo, Hammond) WPXL-TV 49 (Ion, New Orleans) KNOV-CD 57 (Ind., New Orleans)

Defunct or silent	KCDH-LP 4 (FamilyNet, Winnfield)

See also ABC CBS CW Fox Ion MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in Louisiana

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