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| City | Beaumont, Texas |
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| History | |
First air date | April 24, 1955 |
Former call signs | KFDM-TV (1955–2009) |
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Call sign meaning | K("C")all for Dependable Magnolene (the motor oil line of founding owner Magnolia Petroleum Company) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 22589 |
| ERP | 560 kW |
| HAAT | 275 m (902 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°8′25″N 93°58′45″W / 30.14028°N 93.97917°W |
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KFDM (channel 6) is a television station in Beaumont, Texas, United States, affiliated with CBS, The CW Plus, and Fox. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to Port Arthur–licensed Dabl affiliate KBTV-TV (channel 4) under joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Deerfield Media. The two stations share studios on Walden Road in southwest Beaumont; KFDM's transmitter is located in Vidor, Texas.
KFDM also previously served the Lake Charles, Louisiana, market as its default CBS station until KSWL-LD signed-on February 15, 2017[3] (especially since Lafayette affiliate KLFY-TV's coverage was severely crippled by its low-power digital signal on channel 10; KLFY's analog signal could easily cover Lake Charles).
- ^ "Fox 4 moving to new home on KFDM 6.3". fox4beaumont.com. December 23, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KFDM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Lake Charles gets a local CBS television station". Archived from the original on February 20, 2017. Retrieved February 20, 2017.