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Updated 05-May-2020.
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New TV channel ‘with backbone’ debuts in Beaumont: Fans of western and action movies have a new channel to cure the winter doldrums. Grit, a KFDM sub-channel, debuted Dec. 29 on channel 6.3 for viewers who have an antenna. Grit, which is described by owners as “TV with a backbone,” shows western, war and action films as well as a few classic western television shows. The network was first launched in April 2013. This weekend, viewers can enjoy such classics as “Rio Grande,” “Young Guns” and “High Plains Drifter,” the first western Clint Eastwood ever directed.
TV – Analog ends; Digital begins: Viewers not yet prepared for the end of the analog era can expect to begin seeing the results at 9 a.m. today when KFDM, the local CBS affiliate, ushers in the age of digital television in Southeast Texas by turning off its analog signal. Aaron Trahan, director of merchandising for Conn’s Appliances, said converter box sales surged during the lead-up to last holiday season, when the state of Texas ran numerous public service announcements about the upcoming transition. A federal mandate requiring stations nationwide to stop broadcasting analog signals was originally set to take effect Feb. 17, but that deadline was extended to June 12 by the U.S. Congress to grant viewers more time to prepare. In addition to airing countless public service announcements to prepare viewers, the stations also have had to take steps of their own to prepare for the deadline.
KFDM, Time Warner reach deal to air SLC network: The Southland Conference Television Network will televise 36 events this year, including 16 basketball games and nine football games – starting with Saturday’s game between Grambling State and Northwestern State. The network also will televise tournament championship games for volleyball and baseball, as well as a monthly feel-good show about the SLC, titled “Inside the Southland Conference.”
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: KFDM, virtual channel 6 (UHF digital channel 15), is a dual CBS/CW+-affiliated television station licensed to Beaumont, Texas, United States . the station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast KFDM-TV’s call sign was borrowed from its sister radio station . the station used the “-TV” suffix in its call sign to differentiate from kfdm radio . original chief engineer Harold bart don dobbs, former director of engineering at KTVT and KXAS-TV in Dallas–Fort Worth, took over as Director of Engineering at KFDM . don did not last long and returned to radio engineering the merger also put the company over the VHF station ownership limit . Belo sold KFDM-TV, along with WTVC in chattanooga, Tennessee, to Freedom Communications in 1984 . in 2008, KFDM agreed to provide Southland Conference Television Network programming on Time Warner Cable Channel 35 starting on September 13 . at the beginning of 2007, the station started broadcasting The CW on its second subchannel. KF channel 21 was occupied by KLTL, the Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) station in Lake Charles . on April 11, 2011, KFDM completed its move to channel 25 with higher power and a new omnidirectional Sinclair already owned KABB and KMYS in San Antonio and completed its purchase of Austin’s KEYE-TV on January 3, 2012 . Sinclair began operating KFDM under a time brokerage agreement from Greg Bostwick has been with the station over 30 years and approximately twenty as chief meteorologist . former KFDM manager Larry Beaulieu joined the station in 1974 when he was hired as News Director . Beaulieu retired on September 29, 2011, and was replaced the following December by longtime station employee Rix Garey.KFDM became the second station in Southeast Texas after KBMT to broadcast its local newscasts in high definition