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KLPN-LP

KTPN-LP, channel 48, and KLPN-LP, channel 58, are low-powered affiliates of MyNetworkTV based in Tyler, Texas and Longview, Texas, respectively. they are sister to KETK, KFXK & KCEB

History

From at least 2003 through 2005, those stations, as well as full-powered KCEB, were affiliates of UPN. But in 2005, KCEB and its ownership decided to jump to the then-rival WB network. KTPN and KLPN became independent stations after CBS affiliate KYTX added a second digital signal and added UPN.

In 2006, White Knight Broadcasting, owners of both KTPN and KLPN, decided to affiliate with MyNetworkTV, a sister network of Fox. The network launched on September 5, 2006.

To increase its chances of carriage by local cable operators and satellite providers, the stations are also simulcast on digital subchannel 31.2/51.2 of Fox affiliate KFXK. KLPN is also available on Longview Cable Television analog channel 4 and digital channel 252, and on Tyler SuddenLink cable on channel 9.

KLPN-LP has its roots in low power channel 22 K22EH, Longview, which went on the air in 1995 as an affiliate of The WB. Between 1995 and 2000, the Tyler and Longview stations were collectively known as UPN22-48. In 2000, to make way for KETK's new digital channel assignment on channel 22, K22EH moved to channel 58 with new calls K58FS and new moniker UPN58-48. In 2001, the K58FS calls were changed to KLPN-LP. When KCEB went on the air in 2003 and joined the UPN simulcast, the three stations collectively called themselves UPN54-58-48. In 2005, when KCEB moved to the WB network and KTPN and KLPN dropped UPN to became independents, the stations called themselves simply KLPN. With the impending shutdown of analog broadcasting in 2009 and the vacating of primary television services above channel 51, KLPN-LP has a construction permit with the FCC to construct a low power digital facility (LD) on channel 47.

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v • d • Broadcast television in East Texas (Tyler / Longview / Lufkin / Nacogdoches)
Stations

KLTV 7 / KTRE 9 (ABC) • KYTX 19 (CBS, RTN on DT2, AZA on DT3) • KLNM-LP 42 (TBN) • KTPN 48 / KLPN 58 (MNTV) • KFXK 51 / KFXL 30 (Fox) • KCEB 54 (CW) • KETK 56 / KETK-LP 53 (NBC)
Distant Stations

(reception pending on location) Dallas-Fort Worth: KDFW 4 (Fox) • KXAS 5 (NBC) • WFAA 8 (ABC) • KERA 13 (PBS) • KXTX 39 (TEL) Houston: KPRC 2 (NBC) • KUHT 8 (PBS) • KHOU 11 (CBS) • KTRK 13 (ABC) • KETH 14 (TBN) • KRIV 26 (Fox) • KIAH 39 (CW) Shreveport: KTBS 3 (ABC) • KTAL 6 (NBC) • KSLA 12 (CBS) • KLTS 24 (PBS/LPB) • KMSS 33 (Fox) Alexandria: KALB 5 (NBC) Bryan/College Station: KBTX 3 (CBS)
Texas Broadcast television areas by city:

Abilene/Sweetwater • Amarillo (Texas Panhandle) • Austin • Beaumont/Port Arthur • Corpus Christi • Dallas-Fort Worth • Del Rio, TX • El Paso • Houston • Laredo • Lubbock • Midland-Odessa (Permian Basin) • Rio Grande Valley • San Angelo • San Antonio • Sherman/Ada, OK • Texarkana/Shreveport, LA • Tyler/Longview (East Texas) • Victoria • Waco/Bryan (Brazos Valley) • Wichita Falls/Lawton, OK

See also Lake Charles TV
v • d • MyNetworkTV Network Affiliates in the state of Texas

XHRIO-TV 2 (Matamoros, TAM/Brownsville/McAllen) - KDBC-DT 4.2 (El Paso) - KOSA-DT 7.2 (Odessa) - KMYL-LP 14 (Lubbock) - KBVO 14 (Llano/Austin) - KTXH 20 (Houston) - KXII-DT 20.2 (Sherman) - KTOV 21 (Corpus Christi) - KXOF-CA 39 (Laredo) - KUMY-LP 22 (Beaumont) - KDFI 27 (Dallas) - KCPN-LP 33 (Amarillo) - KJBO-LP 35 (Wichita Falls) - KMYS 35 (Fredericksburg) - KXTS-LP 41 (Victoria) - KIDZ-LP 42 (Abilene) - KWKT 44 / KYLE 28 (Waco/Bryan) - KLPN-LP 58 (Longview)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Texas
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