KTPN-LP

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KLPN/KTPN| station_
station_branding = My KLPN/KTPN
analog = KTPN 48/KLPN 58(UHF)
digital = 31 (UHF)
affiliations = My Network TV
founded = 1995
location = Tyler, Texas/Longview, Texas
callsign_meaning =KLPN= K Longview Paramount Network
KTPN= K Tyler Paramount Network (Reflects stations' former affiliation UPN)| owner = ComCorp
licensee = White Knight Broadcasting
former_affiliations = The WB (1995-1997)
UPN (1997-2006)
Independent (January-September, 2006)
homepage = [http://www.fox51.com/ www.fox51.com]

KTPN-LP, channel 48, and KLPN-LP, channel 58, are low-powered affiliates of MyNetworkTV based in Tyler, Texas and Longview, Texas, respectively.

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.

KLPN-LP has its roots in low power channel 22 K22EH, Longview, which went on the air in 1995. Between 1995 and 2000, the Tyler and Longview stations were collectively known as UPN22-48. In 2000, to may 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 all television services above channel 51, KLPN-LP has construction permit with the [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?list=0&facid=8097 FCC] to construct a low power digital facility (LD) on channel 47.

External links

* [http://www.mynetworktv.com Network site]
*TVQ|KTPN-LP
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