KJNB-LD (channel 39) is a low-power television station in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States, affiliated with Fox and CBS.
Owned by Coastal Television Broadcasting Company LLC, the station maintains a small office in the Regions Bank Building in Jonesboro, and its transmitter is located on Highway 91/Southern Avenue in unincorporated Lawrence County, southeast of Walnut Ridge.
[5] On September 1, 2015, KTHV was replaced with KJNB-LD2 on the Jonesboro area Suddenlink cable system, but WREG remains on the lineup.
[6] KJNE-LD was previously K54ER channel 54 and later, K42GX; during both instances, the station served as an owned-and-operated repeater of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, with all programming retransmitted from a satellite feed.
[11] Jackson's WZMC-LP [12] and Ottumwa's KUMK-LP had their licenses canceled at New Moon's request,[13] while WDON-LP (now WRGX-LD) in Dothan signed on as an NBC affiliate after its sale to Gray Television.
[5] The station was issued its license for digital operation on September 6, 2017, at which point it changed its call sign to KJNE-LD.
[16] In addition to the Fox network schedule, syndicated programs broadcast on KJNB-LD/KJNE-LD include The People's Court, Maury, TMZ, Family Feud, and The Big Bang Theory.
Prior to September 3, 2018, the default MyNetworkTV affiliates in Jonesboro were KPMF-LD of Memphis, Tennessee, and WDKA of Paducah, Kentucky.
Lon Tegels, a 30-year veteran at various television stations, including WXXV-TV in Biloxi, Mississippi, became KJNB's first news director.
Sarah Blakely became the station's inaugural news anchor, broadcasting from a Waypoint-owned studio in Little Rock, airing segments from Jonesboro-based reporters Simone Jameson and Alexis Padilla.