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CER2 (known on-air as CER2 HD) is a commercial-free digital television station broadcasting from the KCER Digital Broadcast Center in Benton, Arkansas, and is owned by KCER Media, it launched on June 5th, 2011. Unlike the commercial channel CBN, CER2 HD is a 24-hour ad-free entertainment/TV information service and offers a variety of un-interrupted programming from foreign and domestic broadcasters like the BBC, ABC Television, and other international networks along with originally-produced entertainment programming, the latest entertainment and music news, movie and TV previews, up-to-the-minute news and weather, the hottest videos and trends, live traffic reports and stock markets, road closings, festival and event closings, delays, and cancellations, movie reviews, sports news/highlights and live scores, the latest broadcast and cable TV listings and scheduling information, and the most up-to-date travel forecasts and conditions along with airport delays when available. CER2 HD is also seen on cable TV across Saline County, and on the digital subchannels of both KCER-TV and KWAB-TV.

2011-2013


In 2011, CER2 was SD 4:3 format, but starting 2012, its now HD 16:9.

2013-present (primary)


As a part of KCER rebrand, launched in Febuary 2013, the font of "CER" is kept, the font of "2" is changed to same font of the main channel, KCER, and the shape changed to the circle.

The logo was done with Landor and Tom Geismar, and the idents were done in Pentagon.

On August 1, 2014, CER2's signal was uplinked to national availability in the USA via a satellite, coverting CER2 from a small digital TV station in Benton to a nationwide digital station serving all 50 states of the USA.

On September 1st, 2015, in preparation for the launch of CER2's new commercial channel in Asia called CBN, CJ E&M along with Turner Broadcasting System, Discovery Communications, and iHeartMedia sell their stakes of CER2 which will remain commercial-free back to KCER Media in order to offer new un-interrupted original programming for the station including scripted drama and comedy series which will be produced by CER2's new television production division called "CER2 Studios" along with new original TV movies produced for the station by the new original motion pictures division called "CER2 Scene".

On September 13th, 2015, CER2 will revamp its commercial-free format and will add more short-form features (including 60 Second Sitcoms and a MTV News-style music news feature), behind-the-scenes featurettes (under the title "CER2 First Look"), show/movie introductions by the station's new continuity hosts, telling you what's coming up next and later on CER2 and other KCER channels, and a new tabloid/newsmagazine-style nightly newscast to be called "CER2 NewsBeat Tonight" and it will be produced by CER2's new news division.

October 2015 (tenative) (secondary)


In October 2015, CER2 HD will offer a new look and logo, but will only be used for its Nightscreen service and testcard.

For idents and promos see CER2 HD/Others, and for voiceover-free kaleidoscope promos for cartoons see CER2 HD/Cartoon kaleidoscope promos.