A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned receivers simultaneously.
66-747: KDFI (channel 27), branded More 27 , is a television station licensed to Dallas, Texas , United States, serving as the MyNetworkTV outlet for the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex . It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside KDFW (channel 4). The two stations share studios on North Griffin Street in downtown Dallas ; KDFI's transmitter is located in Cedar Hill, Texas . Channel 27 began broadcasting in January 1981 as KTWS-TV. It
132-572: A TV network and an individual station within the network is referred to as O&O or affiliate , respectively. Because television station signals use the electromagnetic spectrum, which in the past has been a common, scarce resource, governments often claim authority to regulate them. Broadcast television systems standards vary around the world. Television stations broadcasting over an analog system were typically limited to one television channel , but digital television enables broadcasting via subchannels as well. Television stations usually require
198-587: A barter in some cases. Ultra high frequency Ultra high frequency ( UHF ) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (one decimeter ). Radio waves with frequencies above the UHF band fall into the super-high frequency (SHF) or microwave frequency range. Lower frequency signals fall into
264-504: A broadcast license from a government agency which sets the requirements and limitations on the station. In the United States, for example, a television license defines the broadcast range , or geographic area, that the station is limited to, allocates the broadcast frequency of the radio spectrum for that station's transmissions, sets limits on what types of television programs can be programmed for broadcast and requires
330-490: A local marketing agreement (LMA) with Dallas Media Investors. This was the first such agreement in the Dallas–Fort Worth market, or any top-10 media market, and grew out of a previous sublicensing arrangement for reruns of Murphy Brown and Taxi that were not being used by KDFW. The deal was announced just days before Argyle agreed to sell KDFW-TV and other stations to New World Communications , which in turn struck
396-451: A $ 50 installation fee and $ 20 a month for continued service, programming sports and feature films; its management believed it would take three to five years for cable to arrive in the city of Dallas. Later that year, the station hired Bob Gooding, an 18-year veteran of WFAA-TV (channel 8), to anchor news briefs. All three stations contributed to an intense STV marketplace; KTXA aired ON TV , KTWS-TV aired Preview, and KNBN aired VEU , which
462-710: A cable regional sports network serving Texas. In 2000, the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars—then commonly owned by Tom Hicks —sold their broadcast TV rights to Fox in a ten-year, $ 250 million deal that moved Rangers games to KDFW and KDFI. This followed Fox Sports Net acquiring cable rights to the two teams in a fifteen-year, $ 250 million pact. On January 24, 2006, UPN and The WB announced their merger into The CW . The combined network would have as its charter affiliates 16 stations owned by Tribune Broadcasting and 13 stations owned by CBS Corporation . Skipped over were all of Fox's UPN affiliates, many of which competed with
528-484: A day on Saturdays and Sundays. ON TV remained out of the fray; it was the only one of the three services showing growth in subscribers. One observer told Jerry Coffey of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that one reason VEU succeeded where Preview flagged was a stronger lineup of late-night adult movies. Liberty was a more accepting station of adult STV programming than KNBN, which once vetoed a showing of
594-569: A deal to switch KDFW-TV and 11 other stations to the Fox network. During the murder trial of O. J. Simpson , KDFI presented a nightly wrap-up show featuring highlights of the day's activity. The affiliation shuffle that followed KDFW's switch to Fox caused KTVT (channel 11), an independent station which held multiple sports team rights, to become the CBS affiliate. KDFW–KDFI began aggressively pursuing sports rights. With KTVT now airing network programming in
660-421: A distance greater than the line of sight is required. Occasionally when conditions are right, UHF radio waves can travel long distances by tropospheric ducting as the atmosphere warms and cools throughout the day. The length of an antenna is related to the length of the radio waves used. Due to the short wavelengths, UHF antennas are conveniently stubby and short; at UHF frequencies a quarter-wave monopole ,
726-649: A division of American Television and Communications, to provide STV service to paying subscribers on evenings as well as weekend afternoons. It announced a lineup of syndicated game shows, movies, children's shows, and classic reruns for its commercial broadcast schedule. By this time, Liberty Television also owned four TV stations in Wisconsin, with which KTWS-TV was placed in Liberty's corporate structure. KTWS-TV made its first broadcast on January 26, 1981, initially with just Preview programming. Preview charged subscribers
SECTION 10
#1732780115043792-463: A heavy diet of Western movies, with 28 in the first three days; and short local segments hosted by former KDFW-TV personality Jocelyn White. In 1985, the station became the alternate outlet for network programs from NBC that KXAS-TV preempted. It also aired a weekly series of hosted B-movies, The Film Vault , and attempted a weekend magazine-type program featuring White, which only aired for three months. If Dallas Media Investors had intended to make
858-540: A legal duopoly with KDFW. The sale received FCC approval on February 18, 2000. The acquisition resulted in the KDFW–KDFI combination becoming the first duopoly owned by Fox, predating the group's acquisition of Chris-Craft/United Television 's UPN -affiliated stations that August. At that time, KDFW employed 245 people, while KDFI employed 18. The acquisition by Fox also brought KDFI under the same corporate umbrella as Fox Sports Net and its subsidiary Fox Sports Southwest ,
924-467: A month. The first step in consolidation took place on September 1, 1982, when VEU announced it would acquire Preview's customer base and move its programming from KNBN to KTWS-TV by year's end. Preview subscribers began receiving VEU programming on September 12. In the deal, VEU acquired Preview's decoder boxes and added Preview's 25,000 local subscribers to its 42,000. With the consolidation would come an expansion of weekend STV programming, rising to 18 hours
990-415: A much shorter wavelength, and thus requires a shorter antenna, but also higher power. North American stations can go up to 5000 kW ERP for video and 500 kW audio, or 1000 kW digital. Low channels travel further than high ones at the same power, but UHF does not suffer from as much electromagnetic interference and background "noise" as VHF, making it much more desirable for TV. Despite this, in
1056-672: A period lasting nearly two years. The market experienced a shake-out that began in September 1982, when VEU , a competing service owned by Golden West Broadcasters , acquired Preview's Metroplex operations. VEU then moved its programming from KNBN . By the end of April 1983, VEU was the last subscription system standing. Liberty Television was purchased by Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), a major owner of cable systems, in 1983. TCI determined that it could not keep Liberty's television stations, including KTWS-TV, because of rules that barred cross-ownership of broadcast stations and cable systems in
1122-451: A quick flip of channel 27, as some analysts believed, this never materialized. The owners put the station on the market for two months in 1985, when analysts believed it could go for twice the price the firm had paid, but opted not to sell. Softness in the regional economy and the advertising market for independent stations, as well as a crowded market, changed the picture. McKay told Michael Weiss of The Dallas Morning News , "[T]he competition
1188-635: A station to broadcast a minimum amount of certain programs types, such as public affairs messages . Another form of television station is non-commercial educational (NCE) and considered public broadcasting . To avoid concentration of media ownership of television stations, government regulations in most countries generally limit the ownership of television stations by television networks or other media operators, but these regulations vary considerably. Some countries have set up nationwide television networks, in which individual television stations act as mere repeaters of nationwide programs . In those countries,
1254-483: A station which broadcasts structured content to an audience or it refers to the organization that operates the station. A terrestrial television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, via digital television signals. Television stations are differentiated from cable television or other video providers as their content is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as
1320-518: A trust to be sold within a year. By that time, Liberty had reached an agreement in principle with Dallas Media Investors Corporation to acquire the station. Dallas Media Investors was led by James R. Grant, a financial consultant, and funded by Warburg Pincus Capital Partners. The group planned to honor the existing contract with VEU, which ran until either 1994 or 1996, while restructuring the station's ad-supported programming. The station sold for $ 15 million. Dallas Media Investors then lured John McKay,
1386-425: A variety of ways to generate revenue from television commercials . They may be an independent station or part of a broadcasting network , or some other structure. They can produce some or all of their programs or buy some broadcast syndication programming for or all of it from other stations or independent production companies. Many stations have some sort of television studio , which on major-network stations
SECTION 20
#17327801150431452-410: Is multiplexed : KDFI began broadcasting a digital signal, initially at low power, on May 1, 2002. KDFI shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television . The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 36, using virtual channel 27. The station was repacked to channel 27 on June 18, 2019, as a result of
1518-428: Is a considerable amount of lawful unlicensed activity (cordless phones, wireless networking) clustered around 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz, regulated under Title 47 CFR Part 15 . These ISM bands —frequencies with a higher unlicensed power permitted for use originally by Industrial, Scientific, Medical apparatus—are now some of the most crowded in the spectrum because they are open to everyone. The 2.45 GHz frequency
1584-535: Is for cellphones , allowing handheld mobile phones be connected to the public switched telephone network and the Internet . Current 3G and 4G cellular networks use UHF, the frequencies varying among different carriers and countries. Satellite phones also use this frequency in the L band and S band . UHF channels are used for digital television broadcasting on both over the air channels and cable television channels . Since 1962, UHF channel tuners (at
1650-792: Is often used for newscasts or other local programming . There is usually a news department , where journalists gather information. There is also a section where electronic news-gathering (ENG) operations are based, receiving remote broadcasts via remote pickup unit or satellite TV . Outside broadcasting vans, production trucks , or SUVs with electronic field production (EFP) equipment are sent out with reporters , who may also bring back news stories on video tape rather than sending them back live . To keep pace with technology United States television stations have been replacing operators with broadcast automation systems to increase profits in recent years. Some stations (known as repeaters or translators ) only simulcast another, usually
1716-452: Is the standard for use by microwave ovens , adjacent to the frequencies allocated for Bluetooth network devices. The spectrum from 806 MHz to 890 MHz (UHF channels 70 to 83) was taken away from TV broadcast services in 1983, primarily for analog mobile telephony . In 2009, as part of the transition from analog to digital over-the-air broadcast of television , the spectrum from 698 MHz to 806 MHz (UHF channels 52 to 69)
1782-416: Is very difficult ... The day of buying a property, popping a number and selling are over." Without the backing of a large TV station group, the station worked its way into the independent station conversation in the market with cheaper, sometimes lowbrow programming that sometimes attracted better ratings than its more expensive rivals. In February 1987, KDFI beat KDAF and KXTX-TV in the ratings and tied KTXA;
1848-537: The 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction . Television station The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow ( TV Station Paul Nipkow ) in Berlin , Germany , was the first regular television service in the world. It was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow , the inventor of the Nipkow disk . Most often the term "television station" refers to
1914-671: The Fox Kids programming block, which remained with KDAF following Fox's sale of that station to Renaissance Broadcasting; like other New World stations affected by the affiliation agreement, KDFW declined to carry the Fox Kids weekday and Saturday blocks upon joining Fox, choosing instead to air news and talk programming. In December 1999, one month after the FCC began permitting television station duopolies , Fox Television Stations purchased KDFI from Dallas Media Investors for $ 6.2 million, creating
1980-708: The Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars . These teams moved their limited over-the-air schedules off KDFI at the end of the 2000s. Channel 27 was assigned to Dallas in a compromise between two applicants who sought channel 29 in 1965. That year, Maxwell Electronics Corporation applied for a new television station on channel 29 in Dallas, which placed it into comparative hearing with two other applicants: Overmyer Communications and Grandview Broadcasting Company. Grandview dropped out, and in January 1967, Maxwell amended its application to specify channel 33 instead of 29. The change
2046-534: The electricity bill and emergency backup generators . In North America , full-power stations on band I (channels 2 to 6) are generally limited to 100 kW analog video ( VSB ) and 10 kW analog audio ( FM ), or 45 kW digital ( 8VSB ) ERP. Stations on band III (channels 7 to 13) can go up by 5 dB to 316 kW video, 31.6 kW audio, or 160 kW digital. Low-VHF stations are often subject to long-distance reception just as with FM. There are no stations on Channel 1 . UHF , by comparison, has
KDFI - Misplaced Pages Continue
2112-605: The Independent American Group, acquired VEU from Golden West Broadcasters. The move marked the end of the company's foray into subscription television. On April 30, ON TV bowed out of the market, leaving VEU alone; one reason was that KTXA's owner, Milton Grant , had been unwilling to give more time to the service, and the station began objecting to the airing of adult movies in the conservative Metroplex market. Meanwhile, in February 1983, Liberty Television
2178-517: The MyNetworkTV switch. In 2007, the station simulcast two Dallas Cowboys appearances on Thursday Night Football from NFL Network ; the first attracted 46 percent of the audience. At the end of the ten-year contracts to carry Rangers and Stars games, the teams opted not to renew their deals with KDFI and instead moved their games to KTXA beginning in 2010. In the case of the Rangers, the team
2244-517: The Stars continued with KDFW and KDFI. While the stations had pursued the rights to Texas Rangers baseball in 1995, the team signed with KXTX and KXAS-TV, which at the time was programming channel 39 under an LMA. News Corporation acquired New World Communications outright for $ 2.8 billion in a deal announced in July 1996 and completed in January 1997. In September 1997, KDFI acquired the local rights to
2310-460: The Tribune and CBS stations selected for the new network. A month later, News Corporation announced the creation of MyNetworkTV , its own secondary network to serve its own outgoing UPN stations as well as those that had not been selected for The CW. It also included KDFI as a MyNetworkTV affiliate. By May, the station had changed its branding to "My27". KDFI continued to air sports telecasts after
2376-647: The U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking another large portion of this band (channels 52 to 69) away, in contrast to the rest of the world, which has been taking VHF instead. This means that some stations left on VHF are harder to receive after the analog shutdown . Since at least 1974, there are no stations on channel 37 in North America for radio astronomy purposes. Most television stations are commercial broadcasting enterprises which are structured in
2442-607: The UHF radar band as frequencies between 300 MHz and 1 GHz. Two other IEEE radar bands overlap the ITU UHF band: the L band between 1 and 2 GHz and the S band between 2 and 4 GHz. Radio waves in the UHF band travel almost entirely by line-of-sight propagation (LOS) and ground reflection; unlike in the HF band there is little to no reflection from the ionosphere ( skywave propagation), or ground wave . UHF radio waves are blocked by hills and cannot travel beyond
2508-469: The UHF spectrum is used worldwide for land mobile radio systems, two-way radios used for voice communication for commercial, industrial, public safety, and military purposes. Examples of personal radio services are GMRS , PMR446 , and UHF CB . The most rapidly-expanding use of the band is Wi-Fi ( wireless LAN ) networks in homes, offices, and public places. Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 low band operates between 2412 and 2484 MHz. A second widespread use
2574-556: The VHF ( very high frequency ) or lower bands. UHF radio waves propagate mainly by line of sight ; they are blocked by hills and large buildings although the transmission through building walls is strong enough for indoor reception. They are used for television broadcasting , cell phones , satellite communication including GPS , personal radio services including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth , walkie-talkies , cordless phones , satellite phones , and numerous other applications. The IEEE defines
2640-498: The air on September 30, bringing to an end the era of subscription television in Dallas–Fort Worth and making way for a full-time commercial programming schedule on channel 27. McKay hoped advertisers and viewers would take the relaunched station seriously, given its reputation of vanishing at night when it operated in subscription mode. Among the new programs on the channel 27 lineup were Southland Conference , North Texas State University , and University of Texas at Arlington football;
2706-463: The attenuation increases with frequency. UHF TV signals are generally more degraded by moisture than lower bands, such as VHF TV signals. As the visual horizon sets the maximum range of UHF transmission to between 30 and 40 miles (48 to 64 km) or less, depending on local terrain, the same frequency channels can be reused by other users in neighboring geographic areas ( frequency reuse ). Radio repeaters are used to retransmit UHF signals when
KDFI - Misplaced Pages Continue
2772-569: The construction permit had been canceled. On November 15, 1973, Liberty STV applied for a construction permit for channel 27. Liberty STV was a subsidiary of Liberty Television, which owned cable TV systems as well as television stations in Oregon. Also seeking the channel was United Television Broadcasting Corporation, a related company to United Cable. United, though, withdrew its application in 1976. The FCC granted Liberty's construction permit application on February 11, 1980. The permit grant came in
2838-652: The evenings, the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA moved their games to KDFI in the 1995–96 season ; channel 27 aired 30 games, with the team handling all production. The Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League , another team affected by KTVT's new CBS affiliation, moved their games to KDFI that same year. The Mavericks deal lasted one season, as the Mavericks moved to KXTX-TV the following season;
2904-415: The general manager of local CBS affiliate KDFW-TV , to become general manager of KTWS-TV and partner in the corporation. VEU petitioned the FCC to deny the sale to Dallas Media Investors, but the commission approved of the transaction on June 22, 1984, and the new owners took control five days later. On August 16, 1984, KTWS-TV changed its call sign to KDFI-TV. Days later, VEU announced that it would leave
2970-420: The highest point available in the transmission area, such as on a summit , the top of a high skyscraper , or on a tall radio tower . To get a signal from the master control room to the transmitter, a studio/transmitter link (STL) is used. The link can be either by radio or T1 / E1 . A transmitter/studio link (TSL) may also send telemetry back to the station, but this may be embedded in subcarriers of
3036-429: The horizon, but can penetrate foliage and buildings for indoor reception. Since the wavelengths of UHF waves are comparable to the size of buildings, trees, vehicles and other common objects, reflection and diffraction from these objects can cause fading due to multipath propagation , especially in built-up urban areas. Atmospheric moisture reduces, or attenuates , the strength of UHF signals over long distances, and
3102-400: The local television station has no station identification and, from a consumer's point of view, there is no practical distinction between a network and a station, with only small regional changes in programming, such as local television news . To broadcast its programs, a television station requires operators to operate equipment, a transmitter or radio antenna , which is often located at
3168-419: The main broadcast. Stations which retransmit or simulcast another may simply pick-up that station over-the-air , or via STL or satellite. The license usually specifies which other station it is allowed to carry. VHF stations often have very tall antennas due to their long wavelength , but require much less effective radiated power (ERP), and therefore use much less transmitter power output , also saving on
3234-476: The middle of revived activity around three previously dormant ultra high frequency (UHF) TV channels in the Metroplex, all seeking hybrid stations airing partly commercial and partly subscription television (STV) programming. The new station would share a tower with the other two: KTXA (channel 21) and KNBN (channel 33). Liberty Television set up shop on Regal Row in Dallas and signed a deal with Preview ,
3300-530: The most common omnidirectional antenna is between 2.5 and 25 cm long. UHF wavelengths are short enough that efficient transmitting antennas are small enough to mount on handheld and mobile devices, so these frequencies are used for two-way land mobile radio systems , such as walkie-talkies , two-way radios in vehicles, and for portable wireless devices ; cordless phones and cell phones . Omnidirectional UHF antennas used on mobile devices are usually short whips , sleeve dipoles , rubber ducky antennas or
3366-591: The movie Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens ; Ed Bark of The Dallas Morning News called KTWS-TV "a compliant caretaker station". It cost Golden West $ 1.5 million to convert the existing VEU subscribers to receive channel 27 instead of 33; further, Golden West had shuttered its only other STV operation, on KAUT-TV in Oklahoma City , and began shipping its decoder boxes south to Dallas. Meanwhile,
SECTION 50
#17327801150433432-483: The planar inverted F antenna (PIFA) used in cellphones. Higher gain omnidirectional UHF antennas can be made of collinear arrays of dipoles and are used for mobile base stations and cellular base station antennas . The short wavelengths also allow high gain antennas to be conveniently small. High gain antennas for point-to-point communication links and UHF television reception are usually Yagi , log periodic , corner reflectors , or reflective array antennas . At
3498-476: The programmes seen on its owner's flagship station, and have no television studio or production facilities of their own. This is common in developing countries . Low-power stations typically also fall into this category worldwide. Most stations which are not simulcast produce their own station identifications . TV stations may also advertise on or provide weather (or news) services to local radio stations , particularly co-owned sister stations . This may be
3564-585: The ratings. Dallas Media Investors reorganized in bankruptcy in the early 1990s to settle a lawsuit with Paramount Pictures and a dispute among stockholders. In 1994, Argyle Television, then-owner of KDFW-TV, took over KDFI-TV's programming under a local marketing agreement ; KDFW and KDFI became co-owned in 1999 when the Federal Communications Commission permitted duopolies . In the years following KDFW's takeover of KDFI, channel 27 increased its profile with higher-quality entertainment programming and rights to telecast various Dallas-area sports teams, most notably
3630-483: The same areas. It sold KTWS-TV to a consortium known as Dallas Media Investors. With VEU continuing to lose subscribers, the station changed its call letters to KDFI-TV in August 1984 and became a full-time commercial independent on October 1 of that year. The station ran on a lean basis, avoiding the more expensive program purchases that characterized its competitors, but held its own against stations like KTXA and KDAF in
3696-414: The slot antenna or reflective array antenna are used: the slotted cylinder, zig-zag, and panel antennas. UHF television broadcasting channels are used for digital television , although much of the former bandwidth has been reallocated to land mobile radio system , trunked radio and mobile telephone use. Since at UHF frequencies transmitting antennas are small enough to install on portable devices,
3762-455: The station also improved its finances. However, what little operating profit KDFI-TV generated was dwarfed by interest payments on its debt. In 1991, Paramount Pictures sued KDFI-TV over failing to pay for reruns of Mork & Mindy , which McKay believed was connected to its acquisition later that year of KTXA. Paramount won in court; the station then filed for bankruptcy reorganization in order to be fairer to other creditors. The proceeding
3828-493: The station continued to experiment with its commercial lineup. The station aired two Saturday morning shows produced by kids, Kids' View and Kids' Zone ; the former was anchored by a 13-year-old. In January 1983, the station began airing the syndicated Financial News Network in daytime hours. By September 1983, the Star-Telegram was calling the station's daytime lineup "peculiar". In April 1983, IASTV, an affiliate of
3894-527: The time, channels 14 to 83) have been required in television receivers by the All-Channel Receiver Act . However, because of their more limited range, and because few sets could receive them until older sets were replaced, UHF channels were less desirable to broadcasters than VHF channels (and licenses sold for lower prices). A complete list of US Television Frequency allocations can be found at Pan-American television frequencies . There
3960-399: The top end of the band, slot antennas and parabolic dishes become practical. For satellite communication, helical and turnstile antennas are used since satellites typically employ circular polarization which is not sensitive to the relative orientation of the transmitting and receiving antennas. For television broadcasting specialized vertical radiators that are mostly modifications of
4026-502: Was built by Liberty STV, a subsidiary of Oregon-based Liberty Television, and was primarily created to serve as a conduit for over-the-air subscription television programming. It was the third such station to sign on within four months in the Metroplex. The station's subscription programs originally came from Preview , a division of American Television & Communications. The Dallas–Fort Worth market proved brutal for subscription TV, as three different companies competed for subscribers for
SECTION 60
#17327801150434092-624: Was dominated by disputes between secured creditors, primarily Warburg Pincus, and the dozens of unsecured creditors; when the creditors resolved their differences in July 1993, they ended an effort by businessman Carl Westcott to buy the station. Channel 27's lineup was highlighted by syndicated talk shows ; the station branded itself The Talk of Texas and aired The Jerry Springer Show , The Sally Jessy Raphael Show , and Geraldo in prime time. On May 20, 1994, Argyle Television —then-owner of KDFW-TV—took over management responsibilities for KDFI, including programming and advertising sales, under
4158-473: Was owned by Golden West Broadcasters . Anthony Cassara, the market manager for VEU, called the Metroplex STV competition "total insanity" in an interview with Broadcasting published in August 1982 and said the market only could support one profitable system. In adopting aggressive discounting, the services accumulated many non-paying subscribers, with a disconnect rate running as high as eight percent
4224-468: Was part of a plan by Overmyer to give both applicants stations by moving the channel 27 allocation from Tyler, Texas , thus replacing 29 with 27 and 33. Overmyer dropped out in November 1967 amid an investigation into his businesses. The next month, Gordon McLendon , owner of KLIF (1190 AM) and KNUS (98.7 FM), obtained the construction permit. However, by 1969, McLendon had abandoned the plans, and
4290-576: Was purchased by cable system operator Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI) for $ 182 million. The television stations would have been TCI's first. However, TCI ran into issues with overlap between cable systems and television holdings, then barred by the FCC. When it closed on the transaction in September 1983, it spun off the Liberty TV station in Eugene, Oregon , and placed the Texas and Wisconsin stations into
4356-468: Was reportedly upset with Fox allocating just 24 games to KDFI and 133 to Fox Sports Southwest in the 2009 season, even though the replacement pact with KTXA consisted of a 25-game package. In February 2022, KDFI began simulcasting programming from Fox Weather . This programming airs from 10 to 11 a.m. on weekdays and from 5 to 7 a.m. on Saturdays on the main channel. The station reairs KDFW's 5 to 6:30 p.m. news block from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The station's signal
#42957