 On July 26, 2012, Time Warner Cable (which was purchased by Charter in 2016) dropped the KPTM HD signal from all of their cable headends within the Lincoln market, in favor of carrying only the KFXL HD signal.Dish Network carries KFXL on local channels 17, 5163 and 7554 across the entire Lincoln–Hastings–Kearney DMA, and DirecTV carries KFXL on local channel 17.The 17 placement is carried over from KTVG, KFXL's predecessor.