KCDH

KCDH is a FOX affiliate serving Alexandria, LA, and the Alexandria, Louisiana, market, as well as Natchez, MS., and the Natchez, MS market Broadcasting on channel 4, KCDH is owned and operated by Kimball Entertainment. Launched in 1985 as an independent, KCDH became a FOX affiliate in 1991 after spending five years as a silent station.
== History ==
=== First Incarnation of KCDH ===
KCDH was granted its license on January 31, 1985, to the Perkins family of Natchez, Mississippi. This would be their first and only foray into television.
KCDH began as an independent station, airing local programming exclusively to the Natchez area. This included a fully staffed newscast.
KCDH's fortunes quickly eroded, as it was placed in bankruptcy for the first time (around 1986). Due to the bankruptcy, the station went off the air for a number of years, until the license for the station was sold in 1991 to Lafayette, Louisiana businessman Charles Chatelain and his company, Delta Media Corporation.
=== KCDH returns with FOX affiliation ===
Under Delta Media ownership, the goal was to give the Alexandria, Louisiana DMA a full Fox network affiliation. However, a few challenges were ahead.
KCDH's license is designated to Natchez, Mississippi, where its transmitter and tower are located behind the original studios for the station.
Executives at Fox were concerned to give KCDH its affiliation because they did not want to grant a second affiliation in the Jackson, Mississippi DMA. In order to alleviate the problem, the original transmitter was sold and moved to future KCDH owner Communications Corporation of America.
This was done in order to build a new tower and transmitter site in the small farming community of Frogmore, in neighboring Concordia Parish, Louisiana. The license remains in Natchez, even though its tower and transmitter site were moved across to the Louisiana side of the Mississippi River.
Fox then, in turn, granted KCDH the Fox affiliation for the Alexandria market. The original tower which transmitted KCDH's signal in 1985 still remains behind its original studio in Natchez, but it now only relays a live signal to the main transmitter tower in Frogmore for emergency broadcasts, per FCC requirement.
On April 24, 2013, ComCorp announced the sale of its entire group (including KCDH) to Kimball Entertainment. The sale was completed on January 1, 2015.
Category:Fox network affiliates
Category:Channel 4
Category:Alexandria, Louisiana
Category:Louisiana
Category:Kimball Broadcasting
Category:Former independent stations
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1985