KDFW

KDFW is also the ICAO airport code for the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

KDFW ("FOX4 - The News Station") is the FOX owned and operated television station in the Dallas, Texas/Fort Worth, Texas DMA. Its transmitter is located in Cedar Hill. It is co-owned with KDFI-TV channel 27.

Contents

1 History

1.1 Former logos

2 Newscasts

2.1 Weekdays
2.2 Weekends
2.3 See also

3 References
4 Newscast Titles
5 Station Slogans
6 External links

History

The station signed on as CBS affiliate KRLD-TV on December 3, 1949, and was owned by the now-defunct Dallas Times Herald newspaper; the two were located next to each other. KRLD served as the headquarters of the CBS network's coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, led by Dan Rather, on November 22, 1963. The Times Herald and the station remained neighbors until the paper shut down.

The station changed its call letters to KDFW on July 2, 1970. Once owned by Times Mirror, in 1993 KDFW was sold to Argyle in a group deal. Early in 1994, KDFW began managing a struggling station, KDFI, which was rebroadcasting KDFW's newscasts in different time slots.

In late 1994, when Fox gained the contract from CBS to carry the NFC package, New World Communications reached an agreement to make for its stations to make the big switch to the network. Afterwards, New World bought out Argyle, which owned KDFW along with sister stations KTVI in St Louis, WVTM in Birmingham, Alabama, and KTBC in Austin. With that buyout was final, those three stations switched affiliation to Fox on July 1, 1995. Upon the network switch, the Cowboys football games moved back to KDFW after a 1-year absence; KDFW as a CBS affiliate carried the Cowboys through 1993, after which the NFC package moved from CBS to Fox. The CBS affiliation moved to KTVT, and former Fox O&O station KDAF (which Fox sold to Renaissance, later Tribune Company) took The WB affiliation from KXTX. News Corporation purchased KDFW and its LMA with KDFI in a group deal in early 1997. Like most New World-owned station, KDFW did not pick up Fox Kids; it stayed with KDAF until 1997 when Fox Kids moved to KDFI.

KDFW broadcasts close to 50 hours of local news a week along with prime time Fox programming, sports, syndicated talk, court and reality shows. By the very late 1990s, the station also began to broadcast a few off-network sitcoms. When the station switched networks in 1995, it was known as FOX4 TEXAS. It is now known as FOX4 - The News Station.

Former logos

Image:KDFW 1979.jpg|Channel 4 in 1979. Image:KDFW 1990s.jpg|News 4, Late 1980s and Early 1990s.

Newscasts

KDFW, WITI in Milwaukee, WDAF in Kansas City, WBRC in Birmingham and KSAZ in Phoenix are the only Fox stations to have a 10 p.m. newscast in either the Central and Mountain Time Zones. Whereas, sister station WTVT in Tampa-St. Petersburg is currently experimenting with an 11 p.m. newscast -- and Fox may have all the O&O's add an 11 p.m. newscast should this become a success. So that means more of the Fox O&Os in the Central and Mountain Time Zones could add a 10 p.m. newscast as well (KTBC in Austin had a 10 p.m. newscast for years after switching to Fox, which has since been scaled back to 9 p.m.).

At one time KDFW had an Eyewitness News format. Local counterpart WFAA also used this format as well.

Weekdays

Good Day 5-9 a.m.
FOX4 News at Noon 12-12:30 p.m.
FOX4 News at 5 5-5:30 p.m.
FOX4 News at 5:30 5:30-6 p.m.
FOX4 News at 6 6-6:30 p.m.
FOX4 News at 9 9-10 p.m.
FOX4 News at 10 10-10:30 p.m.

Weekends

Saturdays

FOX4 Good Day Saturday 8-10 a.m.
FOX4 News at 6 6-7 p.m.
FOX4 News at 9 9-10 p.m.

Sundays

FOX4 News at 5:30 5:30-6 p.m.
FOX4 News at 9 9-10 p.m.
Sports Sunday 10-10:30 p.m.

References

Shannon, Mike (January, 2004). [Dallas-Fort Worth TV Station History. ''The History of Dallas-Fort Worth Radio and Television].
KDFW FOX 4 -- 50 Years and Counting! (1999) [KDFWFox4.com].

Newscast Titles

NewsScene (1970s)
Eyewitness News (1975-78)
News 4 Dallas-Fort Worth (1980-1984)
Channel 4 News (1984-1990)
News 4 Texas (1990-1997 kept this news title after switch to FOX in 1995)
Fox 4 News (1997-present)

Station Slogans

From KDFW-TV Dallas Fort Worth (1980s)
Channel 4 News, Working For You (1989)
Believing in Texas (1989)
Fox 4 Texas (1995-1997)
Fox 4: The News Station (1997-)
Fox 4 News: Just You Watch

External links

Broadcast television in the Dallas / Fort Worth market [(Nielsen DMA #7)]
KDTN 2 (DS) - KDFW 4 (Fox) - KXAS 5 (NBC) - WFAA 8 (ABC) - KTVT 11 (CBS) - KERA 13 (PBS) - KTXA 21 (UPN/Ind) - KNAV 22 (Almavision) - KUVN 23 (UNI) KODF 26 (AZA) - KDFI 27 (Ind/MNTV) - KHPK 28 (Almavision) - KMPX 29 (Ind) - KDAF 33 (The WB/The CW/The Tube) - KJJM 34 (LAT TV) - KXTX 39 (TEL) KLEG 44 (Ind) - KSTR 49 (TFU) - KATA 50 (MMTV) - KFWD 52 (Ind) - KLDT 55 (Ind) - KDTX 58 (TBN) - KPXD 68 (i)

Fox Network Affiliates in the state of Texas

XHRIO 2 ()* - KDFW 4 () - KIDY 6 () - KTBC 7 () - KCIT 14 () - KFOX 14 () - KXVA 15 () - KJTL 18 () - KVCT 19 () - KPEJ 24 () - KRIV 26 () - KABB 29 () - KJTV 34 / 32 () - KWKT 44 / KYLE 28 () - K47DF 47 () - KFXK 51 () - KUIL 64 / KVHP-DT 30.2 ( / )**
XHRIO is licensed in Matamoros, Mexico, but primarily serves viewers on the US side of the Rio Grande. *KUIL can also be seen on the digital signal of KVHP in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
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News Corporation

Annual Revenue: .9 billion USD ( 17% FY 2005) | Employees: 44,000 | Stock Symbol: NYSE: [NWS] ASX: [NWS] | Website: [www.newscorp.com]

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