KADN
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| Lafayette, LA | |
| Branding | Fox 15 |
| Channels | 15 (UHF) analog, 16 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | Fox |
| Owner | Communications Corporation of America |
| Founded | March 1980 |
| Call letters meaning | When said quickly, sounds like "Acadian" |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1980-1986), CBS secondary (1980-2005) |
| Website | www.fox15tv.com |
KADN (Fox 15) is the Fox affiliate in Lafayette, Louisiana.
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[edit] History
Channel 15 in Lafayette was originally home to KLNI-TV, which operated as an NBC affiliate in the early 1970s. With KATC and KLFY already operating, the Lafayette market was considered too small at the time to support three TV stations. After suffering financial difficulties for the few years it was on the air, KLNI had shut down by the late 1970s, leaving WBRZ (and later WRBT, now WVLA) from Baton Rouge & KPLC from Lake Charles as Lafayette's de facto NBC affiliates. The allocation for channel 15 in Lafayette as a commercial TV station remained after the demise of KLNI and went unused until KADN signed on.
KADN, the current incarnation of channel 15, began broadcasting as "TV15, Acadiana's Alternative" in March 1980 as an independent station, offering mainly movies, old sitcoms, children's programming, and local sports. Another name it called itself was "The Movie Station". Movie blocks were given titles such as "Cinema 15", "Nightowl Theater" and "Primetime Theater".
KADN was innovative in creating its own original programming, esp. in the music genre. Shows such as "The Larry Brasso Show" (country music), "Cypress with Warren Storm" (swamp pop) and the long-running "Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler" (Cajun French music) were a Saturday mainstay during the station's early years. The latter produced so many episodes, that reruns aired weekday mornings under the title "Bon Temps Rouler Encore". A music video hour aired daily called "Acadiana Music Box" around the same time MTV was catching on.
Also in the early years, KADN had its own news department, first with just 5 minute newsbreaks called "Capsule News 15" and then its own 5pm daily newscast called "Acadiana in Review". After just a couple of years, it was realized that it was not fiancially feasible to compete with KLFY and KATC in news, so the news department was eliminated.
Shortly after KADN signed on the air, KLFY preempted an episode of the popular prime-time drama series Dallas to run a Billy Graham televangelical special. This caused then-owner Charles Chatelain to seek to run the episode that KLFY was going to miss on his station. At that time, an arrangement was made for channel 15 to officially become a CBS secondary affiliate, picking up a microwave relay of WAFB in Baton Rouge for network programming. KADN then began airing all of CBS's programming that KLFY dropped for one reason or another, especially the morning daytime offerings from 9am-10am (KADN would re-air those shows in the afternoon.) The arrangement lasted until 2005, with preempted CBS programming running in the later years on sister station KLAF.
KADN joined the Fox network upon its debut in 1986.
[edit] Today
KADN serves as the flagship station for the Lafayette, LA-based Communications Corporation of America (ComCorp) chain of TV stations. ComCorp began operating KADN in 1997 through a leased marketing agreement with original owner Charles Chatelain until purchasing the station outright in late 2004. After being located on cable channel 8 since signon, KADN moved to channel 6 on August 15, 2006 as part of a lineup restructuring of the Cox Communications Greater Lafayette system. [1]
In June 2006, owner ComCorp filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. ComCorp said in a press release viewers and staff would see no changes at the station.
[edit] Fox 15 News
On March 26, 2007, KADN began running on-air promos teasing a 9:00 newscast to start April 9 with the tagline "At 9 it's news, by 10 it's history." Upon its launch, Fox 15 News will be the first primetime newscast in the market.
[edit] Technical information
- Frequency: Channel 15
- Radius: 60 miles (Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Jeff Davis, Lafayette, St Mary, and St Martin parishes)
- Start of Operation: March 1980
- Transmitter Location: Church Point, LA (30° 21' 44.00" N Latitude, 92° 12' 53.00" W Longitude)
- Transmitter Power: 2510 kW
[edit] External links
| Broadcast television in the Lafayette, LA market (Nielsen DMA #124) | ||
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KATC 3 (ABC) - KPLC 7 (NBC) (NBC Weather Plus on DT2, the Tube on DT3) - KLFY 10 (CBS) - KADN 15 (FOX) - KLFT-CA 21 (TSC) - KDCG-CA 22 (America One/TSC) - KLPB 24 (PBS/LPB) - KAJN-LP 40 / KAGN-LP 31 (Ind) - KLWB 50 (The CW) - KLAF-LP 62 (MNTV) |
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Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations |
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Cox 4 - Acadiana Open Channel |
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| See also: Broadcast television stations in the Baton Rouge, Lake Charles, Alexandria, and New Orleans, Louisiana Markets | ||
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WVUE 8 (New Orleans) - KARD 14 (West Monroe) - KADN 15 (Lafayette) - KVHP 29 (Lake Charles) - KMSS 33 (Shreveport) - WGMB 44 (Baton Rouge) - K47DW 47 / K61GO 61 / K51FO 521 (Alexandria/Hicks/Leesville) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, and Other Stations in Louisiana | |
