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KXTX-TV

KXTX-TV, digital channel 40 (virtual channel 39.1), is the Telemundo O&O in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area. Its transmitter is located in Cedar Hill, Texas.

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History

1960s-1970s

The station signed on March 2, 1968[1] as a business news/general entertainment independent station under the call sign KDTV. Its original owner, Doubleday, later decided to exit the market, and donated its programming and broadcast license to CBN, which already owned channel 33. CBN returned the license for channel 33 to the FCC and combined its existing assets with channel 39. The station changed call letters to KXTX in 1973. (The KDTV calls now reside on a TV station in San Francisco, which is unrelated to KXTX. Interestingly, that station is currently an O&O of Telemundo's chief rival, Univision.) KDTV offered Japanese cartoons dubbed into English including Speed Racer and Johnny Cypher in Dimension Zero

As an independent station, KXTX ranked behind KTVT in the ratings. Initially, the station ran cartoons, off-network classic sitcoms, family dramas, old movies, and westerns about twelve hours a day. The programming included Little Rascals, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Brady Bunch, McHale's Navy, Andy Griffith Show, Star Trek, Gomer Pyle USMC, Munsters, Tom & Jerry, Scooby Doo, The Jetsons, Heckle & Jeckle, Mighty Mouse, Deputy Dawg, Magilla Gorilla, Jonny Quest, Flintstones (by the late 70's), westerns listed below, among others. It also ran religious shows about five hours a day, and all day on Sundays. The 700 Club, which is produced by CBN, was broadcast three times a day during the week on the station. The station also ran a variety of older movies from the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's. By the end of the 1970's, KXTX was on the air about 20 hours a day and running secular programming about 15 hours a day except on Sundays.

1980s

In 1980, KXTX reduced Sunday religious shows from the entire day to 6-10 a.m. and 7 p.m.-Midnight and therefore began broadcasting secular shows in the afternoon on Sundays.

For years KXTX was known for its "Western weekends," broadcasting a lineup of classic westerns in the afternoons and early evenings on Saturdays and Sundays. Shows included in the lineup through the years included The Lone Ranger, The Rifleman, Bonanza, Rawhide, Alias Smith and Jones, The Virginian, Little House on the Prairie, Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, and Have Gun, Will Travel. Movies based on these shows often occupied the weekend evening timeslots.

For the last weeks of its English broadcasts, KXTX broadcast a handful of episodes of even older Westerns, such as Jim Bowie, over and over again. After the demise of English broadcasting on KXTX, Westerns in the DFW market found a home for a time on the local PAX-TV (now i network) affiliate.

By 1983, competitors began overextending themselves to get strong programming. Channel 21 (KTXA) was converted into a full time entertainment station. Channel 33 (now KDAF) began to run a strong lineup by 1986. KDFI also became a full time entertainment station in 1984. As a result, KXTX moved away from cartoons sucha s Tom & Jerry and classic sitcoms such as the Brady Bunch (which both fell off KXTX's schedule by the mid to late 80's) and more toward westerns, family dramas, and more movies. In 1986, the station was put up for sale along with other CBN stations, but there were no buyers for KXTX.

1990s-2000s

The station began broadcasting infomercials by 1990. By the early 1990s, KXTX was broadcasting mostly paid programming, a few drama shows, westerns, and low budget movies along with some religious programming. In 1993, LIN Broadcasting, which owned KXAS, began managing the station and added some first-run syndicated shows, with Channel 5's newscasts rebroadcast later in the day. WB programming aired on KXTX from January 1995 until July 1995, when KDAF affiliated with the WB network. On October 12, 1996, tragedy struck when an accident by a tower crew (gin pole high centered) caused the collapse of the 1535 ft. tall tower in Cedar Hill, putting the station, as well as 3 radio stations in the area on temporary and lashed together facilities for many months. KXTX improvised facilities at the nearby tower of KXAS. The FM stations built on one tower or another.

The local marketing agreement between KXTX and KXAS ended in the late 1990s when NBC bought KXAS. The network later bought KXTX in 2001. NBC, which owned Telemundo, made KXTX the market's Telemundo affiliate, while longtime Dallas Telemundo affiliate KFWD-TV became an English speaking independent station. The meager programming inventory from KXTX moved over to KFWD along with some programming from another station, Channel 49 KSTR, which also converted to a Spanish format at the same time as KXTX.

On November 19, 2009 a fire at the Fort Worth studios of KXTX and sister station KXAS knocked both stations off the air. The fire was located in the electrical room of the studio. Fire alarms went off at 9:30 p.m., which lead to the studio to be evacuated when a fire alarm went off, but then again were evacuated when the fire disrupted the 10:00 newscast on KXTX.[1]

Digital television

The station's digital channel is UHF 40, multiplexed:

Subchannel Programming
39.1 Main KXTX-TV/Telemundo Programming HD
39.2 Inmigrante TV

Analog-to-digital conversion

On June 12, 2009 [2], KXTX shut down its analog channel 39 transmitter (to make way for KLDT to transmit its channel 39 digital signal) at 10:35 p.m. and will continue digital TV broadcasting on channel 40 [3] using PSIP to display KXTX-DT's virtual channel as 39 on digital television receivers.

References

  1. ^ http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local-beat/Fire-Forces-NBC-5-Off-Air-70592727.html#comments
  2. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
  3. ^ CDBS Print

External links

v • d • Broadcast television serving the Dallas/Fort Worth area
English

KDFW (4.1 Fox) • KXAS (5.1 NBC, 5.2 NBC Plus, 5.3 USp) • WFAA (8.1 ABC, 8.2 Radar/News, 8.3 This TV) • KTVT (11.1 CBS) • KERA (13.1 PBS, 13.2 World) • KTXA (21.1 Ind) • KDFI (27.1 MNTV) • KDAF (33.1 CW, 33.2 LATV) • KFWD (52.1 Ind) • KPXD (68.1 ION, 68.2 Qubo, 68.3 ION Life)
Spanish

KUVN (23.1 UNI) • KODF (26.1 Mega TV, 26.2 Spanish Infomercials, 26.3 English Infomercials) • KMPX (29.1 Estrella, 29.2 Inmigrante TV) • KVFW (38.1 Almavision, 38.2 Test Card, 38.3 Test Card, 38.4 Test Card) • KXTX (39.1 TMD, 39.2 Inmigrante TV) • KLEG 44 (AZA) • KSTR (49.1 TFT, 49.2 Silent) • KATA (50.1 MTV3, 50.2 Reino, 50.3 AZA, 50.4 Silent)
Religious

KDTN (2.1 DayStar) • KZFW 6 (Ind/Religious) • K31GL-D (31.1 Genesis Spanish, 31.2 Mexicanal, 31.3 TeleRitmo, 31.4 Retro Television Network) • KJJM (34.1 UAN, 34.2 Infomercials, 34.3 Infomercials, 34.4 CTN) • KTAQ (47.1 Promise) • KDTX (58.1 TBN, 58.2 Church, 58.3 JCTV, 58.4 Enlace, 58.5 Smile) • KPFW (61.1 Ind/Religious, 61.2 Test Card, 61.3 Test Card, 61.4 Silent)
Shopping and infomercials

K25FW 25 (HSN) • KHPK 28 (3.1 Infomercials, 3.2 Gems TV) • KLDT (54.1 LC) • KSEX 57 (Infomercials)
Cable

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Defunct

KFWT 21 (Ind) • KNAV 22 (Infomercials) • KRET 23 (Educ Ind) • KMEC 33 (Ind)
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  2. ^ Co-owned with Dentsu.
  3. ^ Combined operation with InterMedia Partners.
  4. ^ a b Co-owned with Microsoft in a joint venture (82% owned by NBC, 18% owned by Microsoft).
  5. ^ a b c Co-owned with Blackstone Group and Bain Capital.
  6. ^ Co-owned with Mediaset.
  7. ^ a b The stations are co-owned with LIN TV in a joint venture (76% owned by NBC, 24% owned by LIN).
  8. ^ a b c The stations are owned by NBC Universal, but are controlled by ZGS Broadcast Holdings.
  9. ^ Co-owned with News Corporation and The Walt Disney Company.
  10. ^ Co-owned with Corus Entertainment, Classic Media, Scholastic Books and ION Media Networks.
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  2. WOGX is a semi-satellite of WOFL.
  3. Both NBC and Telemundo are owned by NBC Universal, a joint venture between General Electric (80%) and Vivendi SA (20%).
  4. Both stations are jointly owned in a joint venture between NBC Universal (76%) and LIN Television (24%).
  5. Both Univision and Telefutura are privately owned by Broadcasting Media Partners, Inc., a venture which includes Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC, Providence Equity Partners, Inc., TPG Capital, L.P., Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P., and Saban Capital Group, Inc.
  6. Univision owns the licenses to these stations but the stations themselves are operated by Entravision Communications under Local Marketing Agreements.
  7. NBC Universal owns the license but the station is operated by ZGS Communications.

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