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Full-power digital · channel 12 · BEAUMONT, TX
| Facility ID | 10150 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | LSB BROADCASTING, INC. |
| Community of licence | BEAUMONT, TX
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 30.19056, -93.88556 |
| Effective radiated power | 26.3 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 310.9 m above average terrain · non-directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | https://www.12newsnow.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | none |
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | none found |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| K02RA-D | 2 | LPD | SAGAMOREHILL OF BEAUMONT, LLC |
| facility 795248 | 6 | LPD | |
| K09AAQ-D | 9 | LPD | |
| K10SC-D | 10 | LPD | |
| KFDM | 15 | DTV | KFDM LICENSEE, LLC |
| KJYK-LD | 19 | LPD | SAGAMOREHILL OF BEAUMONT, LLC |
| KUMY-LD | 22 | LPD | SETX PUBLIC TELEVISION CORPORATION |
| KUMJ-LD | 23 | LPD | MY CENTRAL VALLEY, LLC |
| K24OY-D | 24 | LPD | |
| KOPS-LD | 25 | LPD | OMEGA MEDIA BROADCASTING |
| K28QM-D | 28 | LPD | MAJOR MARKET BROADCASTING OF CALIFORNIA |
| KITU-TV | 29 | DTV | COMMUNITY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION, INC. |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/KBMT | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=KBMT | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.