Network were sold to other owners. Woods then sold KLBK plus three of its stations KARD in West Monroe, Louisiana, KDEB in Springfield, Missouri and WTVW in Evansville, Indiana to Banam Broadcasting, a subsidiary of BankAmerica in 1993. In 1995, Banam sold KLBK along with three of its stations (KARD in West Monroe, Louisiana, WTVW in Evansville, Indiana and KDEB-TV (now KOZL-TV) in Springfield, Missouri to Petracom Broadcasting. KLBK was acquired in late 2003 as part of Nexstar Broadcasting Group's purchase of Quorum Broadcasting. The station updated its logo and news set on February 1, 2007, dropping the channel number from its branding (since KLBK is carried on different channels on different television platforms). News operation KLBK's news coverage centers around the city of Lubbock and across the South Plains region of West Texas. The station produces over 17 hours of news content each week. Newscasts air at 6:00 a.m., 12:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. on weekdays. Saturday night newscasts air at 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. Only one newscast airs on Sunday nights at 10:00 p.m. The station recently dropped the 5:00 p.m. weekday afternoon newscast in 2012 and expanded the 6:00 p.m. newscast to a full hour. On June 17, 2013 the station became the third news operation in Lubbock to begin broadcasting all newscasts in high definition. On that day the station debuted its newly constructed sets, updated branding and image and a new state of the art weather graphics system from WSI. In August 2013 KLBK debuted a new half hour lifestyle show called Trends & Friends, weeknights at 5:00 p.m. Notable former on-air staff From 1988 through 1990, Michael Sommermeyer served as evening news anchor at KLBK. After leaving KLBK, he moved across town to KCBD and served as that station's consumer reporter before leaving KCBD in 1992. However, Sommermeyer's claim to fame arguably came almost two decades after his stint at KLBK, as he served as the courts information officer for Clark County, Nevada during the robbery trial of former NFL star O. J. Simpson. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion KLBK-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 13, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's