 The owners eventually moved the entire operation of KBCA to its headquarters in Carencro shortly thereafter, leaving no base of operation for KBCA in Alexandria at all.On December 15, 2015, Gray Television, which owns KALB-TV (channel 5), came to terms on an extension of their existing CW affiliations; the press release announcing the extension also revealed Gray agreed to a new affiliation agreement with The CW for the Alexandria market, placing the network on a new third digital subchannel of KALB-TV in the fall of 2016, meaning KBCA lost their network affiliation at that time.KBCA substituted programming on their main channel with a simulcast of their subchannel running Heroes & Icons, taking the 3rd subchannel dark.