KDTN
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| KDTN | |
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| Denton/Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas | |
| Channels | Analog: 2 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | Daystar |
| Owner | Word of God Fellowship (Community Television Educators of DFW, Inc.) |
| First air date | 1990 |
| Call letters’ meaning | DenToN |
| Former affiliations | PBS (1990-2004) |
| Transmitter Power | 100 kW (analog) 1000 kW (digital) |
| Height | 412 m (analog) 494.2 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 49326 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | (analog) (digital) |
| Website | www.daystar.com |
KDTN is a Daystar-owned television station, under the license of Community Television Educators of DFW Inc. Broadcasting its digital signal on channel 43 and its analog signal on channel 2, the station is licensed to Denton, Texas.
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[edit] History
In 1948, the owner of KIXL-AM/FM in Dallas applied for a station on channel 2. It would have shared the KIXL call letters. The station never went on the air. By the time the television license freeze was lifted in 1952, Channel 2 had been reassigned to Denton and as an educational station. That didn't stop Harwell V. Shepard, the owner of KDNT-AM/FM, from applying for a commercial license for the station. The application was declined.
Dallas public television station KERA first expressed interest in establishing a station on channel 2 in May 1977. Several other groups applied for the frequency and a long fight for a construction permit ensued with the FCC. After several other applicants dropped out, KERA worked out an agreement with the lone remaining applicant in 1984 to gain the right to put the station on the air. As part of the agreement, KERA put a studio on the campus of the University of North Texas in Denton for KDTN and agreed to run some programming produced by the school. KDTN signed on in 1990. KERA used it primarily to run educational and instructional programming that had previously filled much of KERA's daytime schedule. KERA then shifted to offering primarily entertainment programming. KDTN was referred to as "KERA 2" in the early 2000s, although no official change in calls was made.
In 2004, KERA sold KDTN to Daystar, as they saw no need for having a secondary analog channel. When the station was put up for sale, this gave Daystar an opportunity to get a better signal in the market, as a result, Daystar sold KMPX-Channel 29 to purchase KDTN, and became a Daystar-owned station in 2004. However, by special arrangement, KERA announced plans to continue its digital feeds on KDTN's digital signal, so that the bandwidth on its main KERA digital signal could be freed up for HDTV broadcasts. However, to date, KERA has never broadcast any programming on KDTN's digital signal under this arrangement.
[edit] Post-analog shutdown
After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009[1], KDTN will move its digital broadcasts to channel 43. [2] However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display KDTN's virtual channel as 2.
[edit] References
- Shannon, Mike (January, 2004). Dallas-Fort Worth TV Station History. The History of Dallas-Fort Worth Radio and Television.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- DayStar Television Network
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KDTN
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KDTN-TV
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