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KLDT is a full-service digital television station in Lake Dallas, Texas, United States, broadcasting locally on channel 54 as a Gems TV affiliate. Founded March 18,1997, the station is owned by Johnson Broadcasting. The station broadcasts from a tower site in Lewisville, Texas, but holds a construction permit to move the transmitter to a location on Cedar Hill, the broadcast site for nearly all Dallas-Fort Worth area stations. It is the first station in the market to broadcast exclusively in digital. The station is carried on cable via Time Warner (channel 19), Charter (channels vary), and Verizon FiOS (channel 3).

History

Two television stations have been licensed to Lake Dallas with the callsign KLDT. The first KLDT, initially licensed in 1990, is noted for a hefty US$15,500 fine imposed by the FCC for failing to adequately staff its main studio, for not making its public inspection file freely available, and for other filing violations.[1] The station lost its license in the mid-1990s in favor of the current KLDT licensee.

The current KLDT was founded March 18 1997 with a grant of an original construction permit to Johnson Broadcasting of Dallas LLC. The application was mutually exclusive with the license renewal application of the first KDLT station,[2] but the FCC granted the Johnson Broadcasting application and did not renew the license of the previous station.

The station originally had call letters KAVB, but quickly changed to KLDT. Originally an affiliate of ACN, the station soon relegated shopping programming to the nighttime hours, and began broadcasting syndicated classic programming and movies, as well as news from Bloomberg TV, college sports from ESPN Plus, Lone Star Park Horseracing, and Houston Astros MLB games simulcast from sister station KNWS-TV in Houston. During this time, the station adopted the slogan TV55 Has The Shows You Know.

By 2000, the station had dropped most of its entertainment programming in favor of infomercials, or shopping from ACN. It also broadcasts Plano pastor Doyle Davidson's Water of Life church services during weeknights and on weekends, from nine to ten pm. In 2000, however, the station received a much-needed shot in the arm: it became the flagship station for the Hispanic Television Network. HTVN aired programming targeted towards Hispanic viewers from Mexico. Due to numerous missteps, the network folded in 2003, and the station began airing shopping programs again, this time from ShopNBC.

By this time, most of the station's sports programming had moved to former Telemundo affiliate KFWD. In 2005, the station became the temporary home for the FC Dallas soccer team, but that too eventually moved to KFWD. The station eventually dropped its ShopNBC affiliation and began to fill its empty time slots with infomercials, as well as religious programming.

On May 22 2006, KLDT signed on their digital broadcasts on channel 54.[3] This would be key, as Qualcomm, who was launching MediaFLO service over channel 55's bandwidth, would request them to go digital-only on channel 54. On November 17 2006, the Federal Communications Commission gave permission for KLDT to shut off their analog facilities and "flash cut" to their final digital channel (39) at the end of the DTV transition period, February 17 2009.[4] KLDT shut off their analog station on January 1 2007.[5] Two weeks prior to the shutoff, KLDT became an affiliate of Gems TV (U.S.).

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References

  1. ^ "Daily Digest". FCC CDBS database. 1995-03-22. Retrieved 2007-08-25. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ "Public Notice Comment". FCC CDBS database. 1997-03-24. Retrieved 2007-08-25. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ J. Eggerton (2006-05-22). "Dallas Station Asks To Go Digital". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved 2006-08-19. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ "Analog shutoff authorization" (PDF). FCC CDBS database. 2006-11-17. Retrieved 2007-08-25. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ J. Eggerton (2006-11-17). "KLDT Switches To All-Digital". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved 2006-11-18. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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