KTXA
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KTXA is a local UPN affiliated television station serving the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas designated market area. With its transmitter in Cedar Hill, KTXA is currently owned by the CBS Corporation and is the sister station of CBS affiliate KTVT. Although the station does not carry a regular newscast, it will pre-empt its programming for news coverage from either KTVT or CBS News when situations warrant. Throughout the Metroplex, KTXA is aired on cable channel 12.
On September 16, 2006 KTXA will go back to being an independent station, for the first time since 1995. On May 5, it was announced that the station will call itself TXA-21 (based off calls, similar to former branding of sister WTVX) from September, and will be filling the time normally filled by UPN programming with a 2-hour primetime newscast similar to the current primetime schedule of sister station KCAL-TV [link]. TXA21's logo was officially unveiled on July 4 after a promotional ad campaign called 'What Could it Mean,?' in which the distinctive star shape showed up on buildings, sidewalks, and billboards around the metroplex. The website also revealed that the station plans to begin covering high school football games in the fall.
History
KTXA began broadcasting on January 4, 1981, and was owned by Grant Broadcasting. The station ran a general entertainment format of cartoons and sitcoms during the day, while at night it broadcast ON TV, a subscription TV service. By 1983, KTXA became a full time general entertainment station which also included old movies and off network dramas. The channel 21 frequency had previously been occupied by KFWT, which went on the air in 1967, but went dark 3 years later.Grant Broadcasting signed on a similarly formatted station, KTXH, in Houston in 1983. In 1984, both KTXA and KTXH were sold to Gulf Broadcasting. Weeks later, Gulf Broadcasting was sold to Taft in a group deal.
KTXA was a money loser throughout the 1980s, but Taft kept strong programming on the station. The company sold its network affiliates to Great American while selling independent stations, including KTXA, to TVX. In 1989, TVX was sold as a unit to Paramount Stations Group.
In the early 1990s, KTXA began turning a profit. It was not substantially affected by the 1995 affiliation switches but did pick up syndicated Disney cartoons from future sister station KTVT along with a few other syndicated shows. In 1995, the station became one of the first affiliates of the United Paramount Network.
In the early days of UPN, KTXA was known as "Paramount 21". In the late 1990s, more first run syndicated talk/reality shows began moving onto KTXA while the amount of sitcoms and cartoons was reduced. Viacom, who had purchased Paramount in 1994, bought CBS in 2000. This made KTXA a sister station to KTVT. At the same time, Fox acquired the Chris-Craft stations in 2001, which included sister KBCW. Fox acquired KTXH and WDCA in Washington, D.C. from Viacom, which got KBCW, thus ending the sister relationship to KTXH, which now only share the same network: this will end when the My Network TV service premieres September 5, 2006.
Today, KTXA broadcast a lineup of off network sitcoms, talk shows, sports, reality shows, court shows, and first run prime time programming from UPN.
In 1998, the station, then owned by what was then called the Paramount Stations Group (and is now CBS Television Stations Group), began airing long-form paid programming and 6 years later, it had been purchased with sister-station KTVT on weekends. Upon ownership under then-Viacom, KTXA moved from the Paramount Building in downtown Dallas on Market Street to share studios with KTVT in Fort Worth (both are two of four stations based here, the other being KXAS and KXTX).
In September 2006, the UPN and WB networks will shut down and be replaced by The CW, the letters representing the first initial of its corporate parents CBS and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner. KDAF will be the CW affiliate in Dallas/Fort Worth. KTXA will revert to independent status alongside WSBK in Boston, both of which will join Los Angeles' KCAL as CBS-owned independents. KTXA has aired CBS' primetime schedule on occasions when KTVT cannot, such as emergencies or coverage of sporting events.
Logos
References
- Shannon, Mike (January, 2004). [Dallas-Fort Worth TV Station History. ''The History of Dallas-Fort Worth Radio and Television].
External links
| Broadcast television in the Dallas / Fort Worth market [(Nielsen DMA #7)] | ||
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| 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) |
| '''UPN Network Affiliates in the state of Texas | |
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| KCWX 2 ( / ) - KFDA-DT 9.2 () - KMYL-LP 14 () - KYTX-DT 18.2 () - KTXH 20 () - KXII-DT 20.2 () - KTOV-LP 21 () - KTXA 21 () - KOSA-DT 31.2 () - KJBO-LP 35 () - KXTS-LP 41 () - KIDZ-LP 54 () - KUIL-LP 64 () | |
| '''See also: , , , , , , , , , , , and stations in Texas | |
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