KATC (TV)

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KATC (channel 3) is a television station in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Gray Media alongside Fox affiliate KADN-TV (channel 15) and NBC affiliate KLAF-LD (channel 14). KATC's studios are located on Eraste Landry Road in Lafayette, and its transmitter is located near Branch, Louisiana. KATC began broadcasting on September 19, 1962, and has been an ABC affiliate since its inception. It was Lafayette's second TV station after KLFY-TV (channel 10) and for decades was a distant second-place outlet in local news under several owners, including Loyola University. A typo in a letter to the station's founding owner and namesake, Acadian Television Corporation, is claimed to have resulted in the coining of the term Acadiana for southern Louisiana. The station airs local newscasts covering the region.

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