The permit was awarded on a 4–2 FCC vote; two commissioners dissented because of minimum mileage spacing concerns to a channel 14 allocation at Morgan City.

[3] KLNI-TV operated from the first color-designed television studios in the state of Louisiana, which featured a viewing room to allow the public to watch program production and an outdoor patio for shows and commercials.

In 1969, the station filed an unsuccessful protest with the FCC when then-NBC affiliate WBRZ in Baton Rouge sought to increase its tower height, saying it would cause a signal overlap for over 82,000 people, up from 5,300.

[8] When KPLC in Lake Charles and WBRZ activated taller towers in 1970 and 1971, respectively, the western and eastern parts of Acadiana began receiving Grade B coverage from VHF NBC affiliates, a direct assault on the fledgling KLNI-TV.

[10] On February 21, 1975, channel 15 went dark: while it cited technical issues in the immediate aftermath of going silent,[11] it noted "severe financial troubles" as the reason for its cessation of operations in an FCC filing.