KUIL-LD
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Beaumont, Texas United States |
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| Branding | MYTX |
| Channels |
Digital: 43 (UHF) Virtual: 12.5/12.6 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 12.5 MyNetworkTV 12.6 Ion Television |
| Translators | K36ID-D 36 Beaumont K27JJ-D 27 Forbes/Warren, TX |
| Affiliations | MyNetworkTV (2012-present) |
| Owner |
Tegna Media (LSB Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | 2003(?) |
| Sister station(s) | KBMT |
| Former callsigns | KUIL-LP (2003–2009) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 64 (UHF, 2003–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Fox (2003–2008) UPN (secondary, 2003–2006) Independent (2009–2010) Azteca América (to 2012) MundoFox/MundoMax (2012-2016) |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | http://www.12newsnow.com/ |
KUIL-LD is a low-powered MyNetworkTV station, broadcasting on digital channel 43 and digital channel 36 (K36ID-D) for the Beaumont / Port Arthur, Texas area of the United States. This station also operates a translator at K27JJ-D in Warren, Texas.
Owned by Tegna, Inc., KUIL-LD is the sister station of KBMT, the local ABC/NBC affiliate. Currently on Time Warner Cable in the Beaumont-Port Arthur area, KUIL can be found on channel 15 and in high definition on digital channel 870.
KUIL-LP went on the air on analog channel 64 in 2003 as the market's first Fox affiliate. The station was originally owned by National Communications, owner of KVHP in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Prior to 2003, KVHP served Beaumont and Port Arthur as the local Fox affiliate, in addition to Lake Charles; KUIL was established as a way to provide local programming just for that region, plus alternate coverage of sports that are more relevant to the Beaumont market (such as Houston Texans and Dallas Cowboys football). At the outset, KUIL also held a secondary affiliation with UPN; when UPN and The WB merged into The CW, KFDM added the CW to its digital subcarrier channel, leaving KUIL as solely a Fox affiliate.
In November 2007, KUIL signed on a digital signal on channel 36 (K36ID-D) near Orange, Texas, to help cover the Orange area where the analog 64 signal could not reach.
On October 24, 2008, it was announced that then-NBC affiliate KBTV-TV would become a Fox affiliate on January 1, 2009, indicating that KUIL lost the affiliation at that time. Despite early reports of KUIL pursuing the NBC affiliation, competing station KBMT would broadcast NBC programming on a digital subchannel. As a result, after the Fox affiliation ceased, KUIL became an independent station, and began to add some local programming, some of which would be produced by Lamar University. KUIL's last program as a Fox affiliate was New Year's Eve Live with Spike Feresten and Mark Thompson; that program ended at 12:30AM CT. The station adopted The U as its identity, using the same moniker and logo as unrelated station WCIU-TV in Chicago.
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