June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 28, using PSIP to display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 3. Out-of-market cable coverage KTBS is carried on various cable providers outside of the Shreveport-Texarkana market. The station is carried as far as Longview, Texas to the west, Mount Pleasant, Texas to the northwest, El Dorado, Arkansas to the northeast, Jonesboro, Louisiana to the southeast, and Carthage, Texas to the southwest. The station became one of two default ABC affiliates (alongside KLAX-TV in Alexandria) for the Monroe–El Dorado market after that market's ABC affiliate, KARD-TV, became a Fox affiliate in April 1994; the market would not receive an ABC affiliate of its own again until KAQY signed on the air in December 1998 (that station would go dark in 2014, and return to the air the next year as a MeTV station; ABC is now carried in the market on KNOE's 8.2 subchannel identifying itself as KAQY). See also Channel 28 digital TV stations in the United States Channel 3 virtual TV stations in the United States References External links – KTBS/KPXJ-TV official website TBS-TV ABC network affiliates Local AccuWeather Channel affiliates Movies! affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1955 1955 establishments in Louisiana