KSWL-LD call letters were changed from the channel owners on February 10, 2017. In the area of Lake Charles was broadcasting as CBS affiliated on 15 February 2017. In August 1961, KTAG-TV channel 25 which was CBS affiliated went off and KSWL-LD becomes the first CBS affiliated channel in the market. KLFY-TV was serving its transmission in Lafayette with CBS affiliation with cable connections for Southwestern Louisiana and KFDM was served by cable providers in the region.
KSWL Local News Live:
KVHP which was Fox-affiliated launched ABC programming on a subchannel of DT2 and KSWL sisters station KWWE was on-airing as MyNetworkTV during 2017 when the Lake Charles market was receiving over the air service during 2017. Lafayette and Beaumont were having CBS, ABC, and MyNetwork transmission based on cable television until 2009. Court TV Mystery on digital channel 17.2 and Court TV can be watched on 17.3 tunned channel. Local news was not broadcasted from the KSWL CBS 17 during CBS affiliation. It only telecast the weather updates and information during CBS This Morning program.
News App:
KSWL CBS 17 news app brings you the most exclusive and top local stories and news from the daily transmission. Weather details, Traffic situations, Breaking news and entertainment material from different communities in the region of Raleigh, Lake Charles and North Carolina is available on the mobile application. These local news sources directly came from trusted channel reporters and were updated every minute of an hour. You have direct access to the media contents in video formats and are also available in article forms which are published by famous media journalists of KSWL.
News Team:
KSWL CBS 17 news team has a different source of exclusive and breaking news in the broadcasting market. Evening anchors of the KSWL team are having Angela Taylor and Rod Carter and a member of the NAACP. She won the Edward R. Murrow award during KSWL TV as a breaking news anchor. Anchor and reporter of the KSWL team have Randi Ayala and Liz Ortiz with help of other team members during news transmission which is Maggie Newland and Nick Sturdivant. Weather forecast CBS TV team has chief meteorologist Wes Hohenstein and meteorologist Bill Reh and Rachel Duensing served the forecasting team. Digital data reporters of CBS 17 are Joedy McCreary and Judith Retana which have collectively data analyst skills and development.
Weather App:
Weather mobile app is a socialized source of information during the modern phase of technologies. CBS 17 weather news department relies on storm tracker devices and satellite imaging in which detailed information is available during usage of the mobile app. Temperature monitoring, geographical surveys with radar imaging are available in high resolution which helps to demonstrate actual weather conditions from all across the counties in the United States.
First Weather Alert:
Weather and traffic conditions are providing from KSWL CBS with Laura Smith. Her skills and abilities are matching for this role in weather forecasting and meteorologists Melissa Le Fevre and her team is describing and evaluating every little detail during severe weather conditions. First weather alerts are necessary to deliver immediately in case of emergency and such alerts can help to evacuate people from directly affected areas.
Live Streaming:
An internet-enabled device can help to watch and avail of live transmission services from KSWL. The immediacy of such services is more appealing in the young generation which is broadly using many applications on their mobile/tablet devices. KSWL 17 studio contents in which raw videos and entertainment material is available after signing up the subscription methods and paying monthly and yearly plans.
KSWL-LD is a functional operating system by UHF digital channel 34 and virtually frequency 17 is the source of the channel. It is basically a low-powered station which is CBS affiliated television channel for the licensed area of Lake Charles, Louisiana in the United States. Sagamore Hill Broadcasting acquired the channel and MyNetworkTV which is also functioned through low power and KWWE-LD channel 19 which is associated with MeTV.
