KJAC-CD

KJAC-CD, virtual and UHF digital channel 21, is a low-powered, Class A NBC-affiliated television station licensed to, United States and serving southeast Texas' region. The station is owned by KJAC-CD's studios are located on Turtle Creek Drive in ; it's transmitter is located off Service Road in Orange. On cable, KJAC-CD is carried on Charter Spectrum channel 11.

Due to KJAC-CD's low-powered class A status, its over-the-air coverage in much of southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana is severely crippled by its low-power digital signal and it can only be seen in Orange and it's environs, with spotty-to-no reception in Beaumont and Port Arthur. Therefore, the station's main digital subchannel is simulcast in 1080i HD on the third digital subchannel of Daystar owned-and-operated television station KGFB-TV under a channel leasing agreement with Word of God Fellowship, Inc (mapped to 21.2).

History
Although the Wahrmann Broadcasting Corporation filed for an application for the low-power channel 21 license in 1996, it took 3 years for, then named KBPO-LP, to begin broadcasting, signing-on for the first time on July 8, 1999 as an affiliate of. The station was founded by Stephen E. Wahrmann, a successful franchisee. His son Nathan Wahrmann joined the company in 1998 shortly after graduating from the. Outside of America One, KBPO-LP relied mainly on syndicated programming the other Beaumont stations hadn't picked up and paid programming, along with brokered local programming. It also briefly aired some programming that  pre-empted.

Despite the challenges and it's low-power status, KBPO-LP had managed to get carriage on cable throughout the market and some of it's syndicated programming became fairly popular in the local ratings.

In October 2008, shortly after reached an agreement to switch longtime NBC affiliate KBTV-TV (channel 4) to Fox, the Wahrmann Broadcasting Corporation reached an agreement with NBC in which KBPO-LP would become the new NBC affiliate for the Beaumont market. The move was made by Wahrmann to improve KBPO-LP's presence in the market. The switch from KBTV-TV to Fox and KBPO-LP to NBC took effect on January 1, 2009, ending KBPO-LP's 10-year affiliation with America One. Shortly afterwards, KBPO-LP changed it's callsign to KJAC-LP. After obtaining digital Class A status in 2013, it became the current.

Wahrmann Broadcasting Corporation sold KJAC-CD to in March 2014. Later that year on August 5, Gannett announced that it would split its broadcast and print media properties into separate publicly traded companies. Once the corporate separation was finalized on June 29, 2015, KJAC-CD became part of Tegna, which was structured as the legal successor of the old Gannett and assumed ownership of the original company's non-publishing assets (including the broadcasting unit and most of its digital media properties); the Gannett Company, meanwhile, was re-established as a new company absolved of all existing debt that retained its predecessor's newspapers (including the company's flagship publication, USA Today) and select digital assets not acquired by Tegna.

Programming
On October 9, 2012, KJAC-LP stopped airing The New Normal after 6 episodes due to the show's crude humor and potentially offensive characterizations (though complaints from conservative viewers over it's depictions of gay marriage and LGBT viewers over "insensitive depictions of intersex people and lesbians" also factored in). The rest of the series was broadcast by affiliate  on Saturday night at 8:30 p.m., while viewers could also watch the series via out-of-market NBC affiliates  (channel 7; ) and  (channel 2; ).

News operation
Upon affiliating with NBC on January 1, 2009, KJAC-LP added a weeknight prime time newscast, K-JAC News at 5. Produced by the (INN), the newscast, running from 5:00 to 6:00, was produced out of INN's facilities in  and taped in advance. Although news anchors, meteorologists and sports anchors were provided by the centralized news operation, KJAC-LP maintained four locally-based reporters that contributed to the broadcast.

Upon 's purchase of KJAC-CD in March 2014, the agreement with INN was terminated and production of K-JAC News at 5 was shifted to the in, home to KJAC-CD's new sister station, ABC affiliate. As before, the newscast was produced in advance using centralized anchors in Dallas, with contributions from locally-based reporters.

In October 2016, KJAC-CD launched a full-on news department with the debut of newscasts at 10:00 and 11:00 on weekdays and 7:00 and 7:30 on weeknights. Henry Fassbender, a former reporter for The Beaumont Enterprise, was hired to anchor the newscasts.

Newscast themes

 * "C Clarity" (2018-present)

Notable current on-air staff

 * Henry Fassbender - anchor