KUIL-LD

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KUIL-LD is a small, low-power TV station in Beaumont, Texas. It broadcasts on virtual channels 12.5 (and 12.6) as MyNetworkTV and on digital channel 36 (K36ID-D). It is owned by Tegna Inc. and operates alongside its sister station KBMT, a combined ABC/NBC affiliate. The two stations share studios in Beaumont and transmit from a tower near Mauriceville. KUIL-LD began in 2003 as an analog Fox affiliate on channel 64, created to serve the Beaumont area with local programming and sports, and it also carried a UPN secondary affiliation for a time. In 2009 it lost Fox and became an independent station, adding local programming. In 2010 it launched Azteca América on a subchannel and, later that year, London Broadcasting proposed a Texas-focused network called MYTX for its subchannels. By 2012 KBMT began operating KUIL under a local service agreement, and KUIL carried MyNetworkTV. MeTV appeared on a KUIL subchannel for a time, but by 2013 moved to KBMT’s subchannels. In 2018 the call letters were shuffled: KBMT-LD took over the channel 36 facility, and KUIL-LD moved to K36ID-D; KBMT-LD’s license was canceled later that year. Today KUIL-LD remains a MyNetworkTV station on virtual channels 12.5/12.6 as part of Tegna’s Beaumont group. The analog signal ended on November 27, 2009.