KDTX-TV

KDTX-TV
Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas; United States;
City	Dallas, Texas
Channels	Digital: 21 (UHF); Virtual: 58;
Branding	Trinity Broadcasting Network
Programming
Affiliations	58.1: TBN; for others, see § Subchannels;
Ownership
Owner	Trinity Broadcasting Network; (Trinity Broadcasting of Texas, Inc.);
History
First air date	February 9, 1987 (37 years ago)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 58 (UHF, 1987–2009); Digital: 45 (UHF, 2002–2019);
Call sign meaning	Dallas, Texas
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	67910
ERP	735 kW
HAAT	494 m (1,621 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	32°32′36″N 96°57′32″W / 32.54333°N 96.95889°W
Links
Public license information	Public file; LMS;
Website	www.tbn.org

KDTX-TV (channel 58) is a religious television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States, serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's studios are located at TBN's International Production Center in Irving, and its transmitter is located in Cedar Hill, Texas.

History

The UHF channel 58 allocation in the Dallas–Fort Worth market was initially applied for broadcasting use by the Metroplex Broadcasting Company (owned by Adam Clayton Powell III (son of civil rights activist and congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr.) and former KDFW (channel 4) anchor/reporter Barbara Harrison) for a television station under the call letters KDIA-TV; the call sign was assigned on January 15, 1985, and was changed to KDTX-TV on July 1.

KDTX-TV first signed on the air on February 9, 1987 (the call letters had previously been used by a radio station on 102.9 FM, now KDMX); it was built and signed on by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. In recent years, KDTX has been considered TBN's second-most important television station (after its flagship station, KTBN-TV in Santa Ana, California), particularly as the Dallas–Fort Worth market has a large religious base. TBN has since moved several of its operations, including some production facilities, to the Metroplex.

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KDTX-TV
Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
58.1	720p	16:9	TBN HD	TBN
58.2	720p	16:9	Merit	Merit Street
58.3	480i	4:3	Inspire	TBN Inspire
58.4		16:9	SMILE	Smile
58.5		16:9	POSITIV	Positiv

TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.^[2]

References

^ "Facility Technical Data for KDTX-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
^ RabbitEars TV Query for KDTX

External links

TBN official website

[1] "Facility Technical Data for KDTX-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.

[2] RabbitEars TV Query for KDTX

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