KAKW-DT is a television station

Television station

A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...

 licensed to Killeen, Texas

Killeen, Texas

Killeen is a city in Bell County, Texas, The United States. The population was 86,911 at the 2000 census. As of 2009, Killeen had 119,510 people. In 2010 Killeen's population shot to 127,921...

, serving the Waco and Austin

Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

 markets

Media market

A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content...

 as a Univision

Univision

Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...

 owned-and-operated station

Owned-and-operated station

In the broadcasting industry , an owned-and-operated station usually refers to a television station or radio station that is owned by the network with which it is associated...

 on channel 62 from a tower approximately halfway between Austin and Killeen. Although it is based in the Waco market, most of its news and advertising is targeted for the Austin market.

KAKW was originally a dual UPN

UPN

United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...

/The WB affiliate for the Waco/Killeen/Temple market, and was owned by Communications Corporation of America

Communications Corporation of America

Communications Corporation of America is a broadcasting company in the United States that owns television stations in smaller markets. The company is headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana...

, along with simulcast Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

 affiliates KWKT

KWKT

KWKT-TV channel 44 and KYLE-TV channel 28 are Fox affiliates in Central Texas and are owned by Communications Corporation of America. KWKT serves the Waco/Killeen/Temple area. KYLE serves the Bryan-College Station area....

 (Waco) and KYLE

KWKT

KWKT-TV channel 44 and KYLE-TV channel 28 are Fox affiliates in Central Texas and are owned by Communications Corporation of America. KWKT serves the Waco/Killeen/Temple area. KYLE serves the Bryan-College Station area....

 (Bryan

Bryan, Texas

Bryan is a city in Brazos County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 76,201. It is the county seat of Brazos County and is located in the heart of the Brazos Valley . It shares its border with the city of College Station, which lies to its south...

/College Station). That was until 2002 when KAKW dropped both networks and expanded its market coverage to Austin and became a Univision

Univision

Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...

 affiliate under new ownership of the Spanish television network itself. It also started up a Spanish news operation. KWKT and KYLE would pick up The WB as secondary affiliation while UPN viewers had to rely on Dallas-Fort Worth station KTXA

KTXA

KTXA, virtual channel 21 , is an independent television station based in Fort Worth, Texas, and serving the Dallas/Fort Worth designated market area. With its transmitter in Cedar Hill, KTXA is owned by CBS Corporation and is the sister station of CBS outlet KTVT .KTXA was originally an...

 for de-facto network programming until 2006 when CBS

CBS

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 affiliates KWTX-TV

KWTX-TV

KWTX-TV, channel 10, is a full-power television station in Waco, Texas, serving Central Texas as a CBS affiliate. Owned by Gray Television, it airs a digital signal on VHF channel 10...

 and KBTX-TV

KBTX-TV

KBTX-TV 3 is the CBS television network affiliate located in Bryan/College Station, Texas, and has the only television news organization based in the Brazos Valley. It airs on digital UHF Channel 50 and is owned by Gray Television. It is a sister station to KWTX-TV in Waco...

 launched digital subchannels to carry UPN programming. Both have since became The CW affiliates when The WB and UPN merged into that new network later that September.

Until 2009, KAKW also operated a repeater in Austin, KAKW-CA channel 31. In 2009, this station switched to Telefutura

TeleFutura

TeleFutura is a U.S. Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida.-Overview:TeleFutura Is America’s #2 Spanish-Language Network in prime time...

 programming, as KTFO-CD

KTFO-CD

KTFO-CD channel 36 is a TeleFutura affiliate in Austin, Texas, owned-and-operated by Univision Communications.- History :KTFO-CD started broadcasting in 1988 as K30CE channel 30. The station became K31FM in 2001, and moved to channel 31...

. KAKW broadcasts its HD signal on channel 31.2 making Univision available over-the-air in the Austin DMA.

Digital television

PSIP Channel	Programming
62.1	Univision Univision Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
62.2	Telefutura TeleFutura TeleFutura is a U.S. Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida.-Overview:TeleFutura Is America’s #2 Spanish-Language Network in prime time...  (repeating KTFO-CD KTFO-CD KTFO-CD channel 36 is a TeleFutura affiliate in Austin, Texas, owned-and-operated by Univision Communications.- History :KTFO-CD started broadcasting in 1988 as K30CE channel 30. The station became K31FM in 2001, and moved to channel 31... )

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