KETK-LP, UHF

Ultra high frequency

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 channel 53, is a low-powered NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 affiliate in Nacogdoches, Texas

Nacogdoches, Texas

Nacogdoches is a city in Nacogdoches County, Texas, in the United States. The 2010 census recorded the city's population to be 32,996. It is the county seat of Nacogdoches County and is situated in East Texas. Nacogdoches is a sister city of Natchitoches, Louisiana.Nacogdoches is the home of...

, controlled by Jacksonville

Jacksonville, Texas

Jacksonville is located in Cherokee County, Texas, United States. The population was 13,868 at the 2000 census. It is the principal city of the Jacksonville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Cherokee County and part of the larger Tyler-Jacksonville Combined Statistical...

 NBC affiliate KETK-TV

KETK-TV

KETK-TV, virtual channel 56, is the NBC television affiliate serving the East Texas viewing area. It is owned by Communications Corporation of America, under licensee of "ComCorp of Tyler", which also operates Fox network affiliates KFXK and KFXL-LP, and MyNetworkTV affiliate KLPN-LP through a...

. The station also has a permit to operate a digital signal, KETK-LD, on channel 27.

At one time, KETK-LP was a complete simulcast of KETK-TV, but that is no longer the case. KETK has modified KETK-LP's newscasts to have a local insert with news for the Nacogdoches/Lufkin area.

While KETK-LP covers Nacogdoches

Nacogdoches County, Texas

As of the census of 2000, there were 59,203 people, 22,006 households, and 14,039 families residing in the county. The population density was 62 people per square mile . There were 25,051 housing units at an average density of 26 per square mile...

, Angelina

Angelina County, Texas

Angelina County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. Angelina County was formed in 1846 from Nacogdoches County. As of 2000, the population was 80,130. Its county seat is Lufkin. Angelina is named for a Hainai Native American woman who assisted early Spanish missionaries and was named...

, San Augustine

San Augustine County, Texas

As of the census of 2000, there were 8,946 people, 3,575 households, and 2,520 families residing in the county. The population density was 17 people per square mile . There were 5,356 housing units at an average density of 10 per square mile...

, Cherokee

Cherokee County, Texas

As of the census of 2000, there were 46,659 people, 16,651 households, and 12,105 families residing in the county. The population density was 44 people per square mile . There were 19,173 housing units at an average density of 18 per square mile...

 and Shelby

Shelby County, Texas

*Arcadia*Brooklyn*Center*Dreka *Huxley*Joaquin*Possum Trot*Shelbyville *Tenaha*Timpson*Weaver-Education:The following school districts serve Shelby County:*Center ISD*Excelsior ISD...

 Counties, KETK-LP's low-powered signal only covers the immediate Lufkin area, therefore requiring cable to view the channel outside of Lufkin. It is carried by Consolidated and Suddenlink

Suddenlink Communications

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 in Lufkin and Communicomm in Huntington

Huntington, Texas

Huntington is a city in Angelina County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,068 at the 2000 census. The site is named for Collis Potter Huntington, the chairman of the board of the Southern Pacific Railroad when the town was formed and one of The Big Four...

. KETK-LP is not available on Dish Network

Dish Network

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 or DirecTV

DirecTV

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, although KETK-TV is.

History

KETK-TV was originally based in Jacksonville, Texas, with the intention of providing a signal to both the Tyler-Longview and Lufkin-Nacogdoches areas. (The two areas are considered one TV market, although signals from Tyler and Longview can't reach Lufkin and vice-versa.) It later moved its main studio to Tyler, and in 1991 arranged to simulcast its programming in Nacogdoches-Lufkin on full-power KLSB-TV (channel 19) under a local marketing agreement

Local marketing agreement

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. KLSB would run most KETK programs, inserting local commercials and sometimes local news.

In 2004, KLSB owner Max Media canceled the LMA, dropped the KETK simulcast, moved the transmitter north to cover the Tyler-Longview area in addition to Nacogdoches-Lufkin, changed the call letters to KYTX

KYTX

KYTX, virtual channel 19, is a television station based in Tyler, Texas, licensed to Nacogdoches. It operates on digital UHF 18. The CBS affiliate, owned by London Broadcasting Company, serves a swath of East Texas, including Tyler, Jacksonville, Lufkin and Nacogdoches. It is the sister station of...

, and affiliated with CBS

CBS

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. This left KETK and NBC without a signal in the Nacogdoches-Lufkin area. KETK resumed its simulcast by leasing KLSB-LP in Lufkin on channel 53. The station's call sign

North American call sign

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was changed from KLSB-LP to KETK-LP on April 13, 2007.

On Sept. 1, 2009 the KETK-LP Ch.53 transmitter was turned off. The KETK-LP signal is only carried on Suddenlink Communications cable systems in the greater Nacogdoches and Lufkin area. KETK-TV in Tyler programs the same content as KETK-LP, but offers HD when in NBC network.