KFDM (channel 6) is a television station in Beaumont, Texas, United States, affiliated with CBS, The CW Plus, and Fox.

The two stations share studios on Walden Road in southwest Beaumont; KFDM's transmitter is located in Vidor, Texas.

KFDM also previously served the Lake Charles, Louisiana, market as its default CBS station until KSWL-LD signed-on February 15, 2017[3] (especially since Lafayette affiliate KLFY-TV's coverage was severely crippled by its low-power digital signal on channel 10; KLFY's analog signal could easily cover Lake Charles).

[4] Original Chief Engineer Harold Bartlett, ham call sign W5KWA, oversaw all technical aspects of the station from its construction until his retirement in July 1980.

It held onto KFDM-TV until 1969, when it sold the station to A. H. Belo Corporation,[5] earning a handsome return on its 1939 purchase of KFDM radio.

[7] In 2008, KFDM agreed to provide Southland Conference Television Network programming on Time Warner Cable Channel 35 starting on September 13.

Freedom Communications announced on November 2, 2011, that it would bow out of television and sell its stations, including KFDM, to Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Sinclair began operating KFDM under a time brokerage agreement from December 1, 2011, until the group deal was consummated on April 2, 2012.

[15] On August 22, 2012, Nexstar Broadcasting Group filed with the FCC to sell its Fox affiliate KBTV-TV to Deerfield Media, a company also involved in Sinclair's acquisition of stations from Newport Television.

However, the stations will likely have to move in the near future, as the I-10/US 69 interchange will be expanded onto the footprint where those studios, along with the next-door facilities of iHeartMedia's East Texas cluster, currently sit, and Sinclair is currently in negotiations with TxDOT to sell its land.

[5] In April 2024, the station relocated to a smaller facility on Walden Road in southwest Beaumont, with actual production of the newscasts to be outsourced to Sinclair's San Antonio duopoly of WOAI-TV/KABB.

[1] The 1970s KFDM weekday news team consisted of Beaulieu, Burandt, weatherman Gary Powers, and sportscaster Cy Hurst.