KPXD-TV
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| Arlington/Fort Worth, Texas/Dallas, Texas | |
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| City of license | Arlington, Texas |
| Branding | ION Television |
| Channels | Digital: 42 (UHF) Virtual: 68 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 68.1 Main KPXD Feed 68.2 qubo 68.3 ION Life |
| Affiliations | Ion Television |
| Owner | Ion Media Networks, Inc. (Ion Media Dallas License, Inc.) |
| First air date | December 21, 1996 |
| Call letters' meaning | PaX TV Dallas |
| Former callsigns | KINZ (1996-1998) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 68 (UHF, 1996-2009) |
| Former affiliations | DT1: inTV (1996-1998) Pax TV (1998-2005) i (2005-2007) Worship (1996-2005) DT4: Worship (2005-2010) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 368 m |
| Facility ID | 68834 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°35′25″N 96°58′23.8″W / 32.59028°N 96.973278°W |
| Website | www.ionline.tv |
KPXD-TV, virtual channel 68 (digital channel 42), is the Ion Television owned-and-operated station for Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas. The station is licensed to Arlington and is owned and operated by ION Media Networks (the former Paxson Communications).
[edit] History
Channel 68 began its broadcast as KAQV in 1996 but quickly changed the call letters to KINZ-TV (meaning In TV), showing Infomercials during the Day and Worship Videos during the night. In early 1998, Paxson communications (now ion Media Networks) bought the station, and renamed the call letters to KPXD-TV as part of its new Pax network.
As part of a wide-ranging deal that gave NBC partial ownership of Pax, NBC owned-and-operated stations provided sales and marketing assistance for Pax stations in several markets. Repeats of KXAS's 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts were broadcast on KPXD at 6:30 and 10:30 for several years. The news repeats stopped in 2003 when Pax TV was scaling back its programming due to financial losses, therefore much of the afternoon timeslots had to be filled with infomercials. After Pax was rebranded "i", The Worship Network was moved to one of three KPXD's digital subchannels. The network was renamed once again to Ion Television on January 29, 2007.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- www.ionline.tv
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KPXD
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KPXD-TV
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