KLBK
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Lubbock, Texas United States |
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| Branding | KLBK (general) KLBK News in HD (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Local News That Matters |
| Channels |
Digital: 40 (UHF) Virtual: 13 () |
| Subchannels | 13.1 CBS 13.2 Laff |
| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | November 13, 1952 |
| Call letters' meaning | LuBbocK |
| Sister station(s) | KAMC |
| Former callsigns | KDUB-TV (1952–1961) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 13 (VHF, 1952–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Both secondary: DuMont (1952–1955) ABC (1955?–1969) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 219.4 m |
| Facility ID | 3660 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°31′33.8″N 101°52′8.6″W / 33.526056°N 101.869056°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.everythinglubbock.com |
KLBK-TV is the CBS affiliated television station, serving the Lubbock, Texas metropolitan area. KLBK is owned and operated by Nexstar Media Group and through a local sales agreement the station also provides services to ABC affiliate KAMC, owned by Mission Broadcasting. The two stations share studios and transmitter located on South University Avenue (Loop 289) in Lubbock.
The station operates digitally on UHF channel 40 at 1,000 kilowatts.
The station began its broadcasting operation as KDUB-TV, founded by the late television pioneer W.D. "Dub" Rogers, Jr, putting the station on the air for the very first time on November 13, 1952. It was the first commercially licensed television station in a medium to small-sized market. Over the next few years, Rogers signed on KPAR-TV in Abilene (now KTXS-TV), KEDY-TV in Big Spring (now KWAB, a satellite of KWES-TV in Midland) and KVER-TV in Clovis, New Mexico (now KVIH-TV, a satellite of KVII-TV in Amarillo). These stations made up the West Texas Television Network, the first regional television network in the United States.
Originally the station also carried ABC as a secondary affiliation until 1969 when KSEL-TV (now KAMC) became the local primary ABC affiliate. The station also carried an affiliation with DuMont during the early 1950s. The station later changed its call letters to KLBK in 1961. The KDUB call letters was later used by KFXB-TV in Dubuque, Iowa from 1976 to 1995 when it was an ABC affiliate, now affiliated with the Christian Television Network.
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