KBCA, the Glossary
KBCA (channel 41) is a television station in Alexandria, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with the digital multicast network Heroes & Icons.[1]
Table of Contents
48 relations: Alexandria, Louisiana, Analog signal, Antenna TV, Aspect ratio (image), Broadcasting & Cable, Carencro, Louisiana, CBS Corporation, Cozi TV, Digital broadcasting, Digital television, Display resolution, Federal Communications Commission, Flash cut, Fox Broadcasting Company, Gray Television, Heroes & Icons, Infomercial, KALB-TV, KCEB, KDCG-CD, KLWB (TV), KSLO-FM, KWCE-LP, Lafayette, Louisiana, Limited liability company, Local marketing agreement, Multiplex (television), MyNetworkTV, News Corporation, Oakdale, Louisiana, Planning permission, RabbitEars, Retro TV, Start TV, Story Television, Television station, The CW, The CW Plus, The WB, The WB 100+ Station Group, Tyler, Texas, Ultra high frequency, UPN, Warner Bros. Television Studios, WarnerMedia, WNTZ-TV, 16:9 aspect ratio, 480i.
- 2005 establishments in Louisiana
Alexandria, Louisiana
Alexandria is the ninth-largest city in the state of Louisiana and is the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Analog signal
An analog signal is any continuous-time signal representing some other quantity, i.e., analogous to another quantity.
Antenna TV
Antenna TV is an American digital television network owned by Nexstar Media Group.
Aspect ratio (image)
The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height.
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Broadcasting & Cable
Broadcasting & Cable (B&C, or Broadcasting+Cable) is a monthly telecommunications industry trade magazine published by Future US.
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Carencro, Louisiana
Carencro (historically Saint-Pierre) is a city in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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CBS Corporation
The second incarnation of CBS Corporation (the first being a short-lived rename of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation) was an American multinational media company with interests primarily in commercial broadcasting, publishing, and television production.
Cozi TV
Cozi TV (stylized on-air as COZI TV) is an American free-to-air television network owned by the NBC Owned Television Stations division of NBCUniversal.
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Digital broadcasting
Digital broadcasting is the practice of using digital signals rather than analogue signals for broadcasting over radio frequency bands (radio broadcasting).
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Digital television
Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier analog television technology which used analog signals.
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Display resolution
The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor, or other display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed.
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Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.
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Flash cut
A flash cut, also called a flash cutover, is an immediate change in a complex system, with no phase-in period.
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by the Fox Entertainment division of Fox Corporation, headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.
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Gray Television
Gray Television, Inc. is an American publicly traded television broadcasting company based in Atlanta.
Heroes & Icons
Heroes & Icons (H&I) is an American digital multicast television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting.
Infomercial
An infomercial is a form of television commercial that resembles regular TV programming yet is intended to promote or sell a product, service or idea.
KALB-TV
KALB-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Alexandria, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with NBC, CBS and The CW Plus.
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KCEB
KCEB (channel 54) is a television station in Longview, Texas, United States, affiliated with beIN Sports Xtra. The station is owned by Innovate Corp. alongside Tyler-licensed low-power station KPKN-LD, both of which share RF channel 35. Although KCEB is licensed as a full-power station, it shares spectrum with KPKN-LD, whose low-power signal only covers the immediate Tyler–Longview area.
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KDCG-CD
KDCG-CD (channel 22) is a low-power Class A television station in Carencro, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with Heroes & Icons. KBCA and KDCG-CD are Heroes & Icons affiliates.
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KLWB (TV)
KLWB (channel 50) is a television station licensed to New Iberia, Louisiana, United States, serving the Lafayette area as a dual affiliate of MeTV and Telemundo. KBCA and KLWB (TV) are Heroes & Icons affiliates.
KSLO-FM
KSLO-FM 105.3 is a zydeco radio station licensed to Simmesport, Louisiana, serving the fringe area between the Lafayette, Alexandria, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana radio markets.
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KWCE-LP
KWCE-LP (channel 27) was a low-power analog television station in Alexandria, Louisiana, United States, which operated from 2000 to 2021.
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Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette is the most populous city in and parish seat of Lafayette Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located along the Vermilion River.
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Limited liability company
A limited liability company (LLC) is the United States-specific form of a private limited company.
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Local marketing agreement
In North American broadcasting, a local marketing agreement (LMA), or local management agreement, is a contract in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another party.
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Multiplex (television)
A multiplex or mux, also known as a bouquet, is a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium, particularly terrestrial broadcasting.
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MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV (stylized as myNetworkTV; unofficially abbreviated MyTV, MyNet, MNT or MNTV, and sometimes referred to as My Network) is an American commercial broadcast television syndication service and former television network owned by Fox Corporation, operated by its Fox Television Stations division, and distributed through the syndication structure of Fox First Run.
News Corporation
The original incarnation of News Corporation (abbreviated News Corp. and also variously known as News Corporation Limited) was an American multinational mass media corporation controlled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch and headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in New York City.
Oakdale, Louisiana
Oakdale is a city in Allen Parish in south Louisiana, United States.
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Planning permission
Planning permission or building permit refers to the approval needed for construction or expansion (including significant renovation), and sometimes for demolition, in some jurisdictions.
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RabbitEars
RabbitEars is a website that provides information on over-the-air digital television in the United States, its territories, protectorates, and border areas of Canada and Mexico.
Retro TV
Retro TV (stylized as retrotv), formerly known as Retro Television Network, is an American broadcast television network owned by Get After It Media. KBCA and retro TV are television channels and stations established in 2005.
Start TV
Start TV is an American free-to-air television network owned as a joint venture between Weigel Broadcasting and the CBS News and Stations subsidiary of Paramount Global.
Story Television
Story Television is an American digital broadcast television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting that airs programming which is related to history, normally older programs which are licensed from other networks.
Television station
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned receivers simultaneously.
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The CW
The CW Television Network (commonly referred to as the CW or simply CW) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is controlled by Nexstar Media Group through a 75-percent ownership interest.
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The CW Plus
The CW Plus is a secondary national broadcast television syndication service feed of The CW (which is 75-percent owned by Nexstar Media Group, with Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery each owning 12.5-percent).
The WB
The WB Television Network (shortened to The WB, and nicknamed the "Frog Network" or "The Frog" for its former mascot Michigan J. Frog) was an American television network launched on broadcast television on January 11, 1995, as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner and the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Company, with the former acting as controlling partner (and from which The WB received its name).
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The WB 100+ Station Group
The WB 100+ Station Group (originally called The WeB from its developmental stages until March 1999) was a national programming service of The WB—owned by the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner, the Tribune Company, and group founder and longtime WB network president Jamie Kellner—intended primarily for American television markets ranked #100 and above by Nielsen Media Research estimates.
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Tyler, Texas
Tyler is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, United States.
Ultra high frequency
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (one decimeter).
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UPN
The United Paramount Network (UPN) was an American broadcast television network that operated from 1995 to 2006.
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Warner Bros. Television Studios
Warner Bros.
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Warner Media, LLC (doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T.
WNTZ-TV
WNTZ-TV (channel 48) is a television station licensed to Natchez, Mississippi, United States (which is technically part of the Jackson television market), but serving the Alexandria, Louisiana, area as an affiliate of Fox and MyNetworkTV.
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16:9 aspect ratio
16:9 is a widescreen aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9 units.
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480i
480i is the video mode used for standard-definition digital video in the Caribbean, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Myanmar, Western Sahara, and most of the Americas (with the exception of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay).
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See also
2005 establishments in Louisiana
- Big Easy Roller Derby
- Cajun Catahoulas
- Chimp Haven
- Common Ground Health Clinic
- Covington Brewhouse
- Cripple Creek Theatre Company
- Florida Avenue Bridge
- Holy Rosary School (New Orleans)
- KBCA
- KCRJ-LP
- KTOC-FM
- L'Auberge Casino Resort Lake Charles
- Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
- Louisiana Fuel
- Louisiana Music Hall of Fame
- Louisiana Southern Railroad
- Louisiana Swashbucklers
- Magnet Academy for Cultural Arts
- MechaCon
- Newcomb–Tulane College
- Poverty Point Reservoir State Park
- Thou (American band)
- Tulane University School of Liberal Arts
- Tulane University School of Science and Engineering
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBCA
Also known as KBCA-TV.