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{{Short description|Television station in Carencro, Louisiana}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign            = KDCG-CD
| city                = Carencro, Louisiana
| logo                = KDCG-Logo.png
| branding            = KDCG TV
| analog              = 
| digital             = 22 ([[UHF]])
| virtual             = 22
| affiliations        = {{ubl|'''22.1:''' [[Heroes & Icons]]|''for others, see {{Section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| owner               = Delta Media Corporation
| sister_stations     = [[KLWB (TV)|KLWB]], [[KXKW-LD]]
| founded             = February 1996
| airdate             = {{start date and age|1996}}
| location            = [[Carencro]]–[[Lafayette, Louisiana]]
| country             = United States
| callsign_meaning    = Dupre Carrier Godchaux (co-owned insurance agency)
| former_callsigns    = K22EP (1994−1996)
| former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[Independent station|Independent]] (1996−1998)|[[Ion Television|Pax TV]] (1998−2003)|[[The Sportsman Channel]]|[[America One]] (2005−2009)|[[FamilyNet]] (1994–2017)|[[Retro TV|RTV]] (2007−2012)|[[Antenna TV]] (2012−2015)|[[This TV]] (2015−2016)}}
| erp                 = 15 [[kW]]
| haat                = {{Convert|279|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id         = 349
| class               = [[Low-power broadcasting#Television|LD]]
| coordinates         = {{coord|30|20|33|N|91|57|46.6|W|display=inline,title|region:US-LA_type:landmark}}
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| website             = {{URL|https://kdcg.com/}}
}}

'''KDCG-CD''' (channel 22) is a [[Low-power broadcasting#Television|low-power]], [[Class A television station]] licensed to [[Carencro, Louisiana]], United States, serving the [[Lafayette, Louisiana|Lafayette]] area as an affiliate of [[Heroes & Icons]]. It is owned by Delta Media Corporation alongside dual [[MeTV]]/[[Telemundo]] affiliate [[KLWB (TV)|KLWB]] (channel 50) and low-power station [[KXKW-LD]] (channel 32). The three stations share studios on Evangeline Thruway in Carencro; KDCG-CD's transmitter is located northeast of Lafayette.

==History==
It signed on in 1996 as an [[independent station]] serving [[Opelousas]] with a focus on family entertainment programming and broadcasting [[local news]]. The station gained its first network affiliation by affiliating with Pax TV (now [[Ion Television]]) in 1998. It has had numerous affiliations, primary and secondary, ever since. It was previously associated with [[Antenna TV]], [[Retro Television Network]] and [[America One]], while also airing programming from [[The Sportsman Channel]], [[FamilyNet]], [[Real America's Voice|America's Voice]], and the Pandamerica Shopping Network. KDCG dropped Pax TV when the Lafayette cable system chose to add the network's national feed to its lineup instead of the local station due to signal reception issues.

[[Image:Rtn kdcg logo.png|thumb|left|KDCG logo while RTV was branded RTN]]
On November 8, 2007, KDCG joined the Retro Television Network and changed branding to "RTN KDCG". At this time, programming from the Sportsman Channel was reduced to a limited basis, whenever the signal from RTN is off the air, plus some scheduled programming weekdays and Sunday mornings. The branding was changed again to "RTV 22.1" upon RTN's own rebranding to RTV and KDCG's [[flash-cut]] to digital broadcasts.

On August 15, 2006, after a long and drawn-out negotiation process, KDCG was added to [[Cox Communications]]' Acadiana cable system, reaching viewers in [[Abbeville, Louisiana|Abbeville]], [[Crowley, Louisiana|Crowley]], [[Franklin, Louisiana|Franklin]], Lafayette, [[New Iberia]], and [[St. Martinville]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070311101437/http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060713/NEWS01/607130314/1002 The Advertiser] </ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cox.com/acadiana/ChannelLink/LineupResults_full.asp|title=Cox Channel Link<!-- Bot generated title -->|accessdate=August 29, 2023}}</ref> KDCG previously offered a live video feed of its programming over the Internet, a practice that ended in the late 2000s.

On March 30, 2012, Delta Media purchased KDCG from Acadiana Cable Advertising and added the station to the second subchannel of [[KLWB (TV)|KLWB]] (50.2). On August 1 that year, KDCG changed its affiliation from RTV to Antenna TV on 22.1 and 50.2. [[Retro Television Network|RTV]] was switched to KLWB's third subchannel thereafter and eventually dropped from the station altogether a few months later. On July 1, 2015, KDCG changed its affiliation again, this time adding Weigel's newest diginet [[Heroes & Icons]] on 22.2 with [[This TV]] ([[simulcast]] off sister station [[KXKW-LD]]) broadcasting on 22.1, however, Delta Media kept Antenna TV by launching it on KXKW-LD with [[Tribune Media]]'s other owned diginet This TV. When KDCG dropped its affiliation with This TV on June 30 the following year and affiliated with American Sports Network, its second subchannel went silent.  It was announced mid-2022 that a fourth subchannel will launch with [[Tegna Inc.|Tegna]]'s [[Twist (TV network)|Twist]] airing at a later date. On November 21, 2022, Twist made its official launch on KDCG and sister station K29NX-D out of [[Alexandria, Louisiana]]. On January 1, 2024, Twist ceased operations and 22.4 was replaced with [[Movies!]].

In 2017, Delta Media moved KDCG-CD from its location on LA 182 in Opelousas to their main office in Carencro, Louisiana.

==Subchannels==
The station's signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KDCG-CD<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KDCG|title=RabbitEars TV Query for KDCG|website=[[RabbitEars.info]]|accessdate=August 29, 2023}}</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 22.1 
| rowspan=4| [[480i]] || [[16:9]] || KDCG TV || [[Heroes & Icons|H&I]] 
|-
! scope = "row" | 22.2 
| [[4:3]] || GetTV || [[Get (TV network)|Get]] 
|-
! scope = "row" | 22.3 
| rowspan=2|[[16:9]] || BuzzrTV || [[Buzzr]] 
|-
! scope = "row" | 22.4 
| Twist || [[Movies!]]
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://kdcg.com/ Official website]

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{{Lake Charles TV}}
{{Other Louisiana Stations}}

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[[Category:Carencro, Louisiana]]
[[Category:Get (TV network) affiliates]]
[[Category:Heroes & Icons affiliates]]
[[Category:Low-power television stations in Louisiana]]
[[Category:Movies! affiliates]]
[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1998]]
[[Category:Television stations in Lafayette, Louisiana|DCG-CD]]