KSTR-DT
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HAAT | 517 m (1,696 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 32°32′36″N 96°57′33″W / 32.54333°N 96.95917°W |
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Website | www |
KSTR-DT (channel 49) is a
History
Early history
The station first signed on the air on April 17, 1984, as KLTJ-TV (the call letters stood for "Keep Looking to Jesus"). Founded by Eldred Thomas, owner of radio station KVTT-FM (91.7, now
On November 27, 1995, veteran television executive Barry Diller announced that he would acquire the Home Shopping Network and Silver King Communications, which owned HSN-affiliated stations in several other larger media markets. The purchase was finalized on December 19, 1996, ten months after the transaction received approval by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 11.[2][3][4][5] Two years later in 1997, HSN purchased the USA Network, and renamed its broadcast television subsidiary as USA Broadcasting, as part of a corporate rebranding borrowing from the identity of its new cable channel property. That year, KHSX began carrying a one-hour block of programming from business news channel Bloomberg Information Television (now simply Bloomberg Television) at 6 a.m. daily and added a block of classic children's programs on Sunday mornings.
As an independent station
In June 1998, USA Broadcasting launched a customized
On October 15, 1999, the station changed its call letters to KSTR-TV (which were used as part of the station's branding, phonetically pronounced as "K-Star"). Channel 49 adopted the "CityVision" format first adopted the previous fall by
KSTR's initial lineup under the "CityVision" format began to primarily feature a mix of
During this period, KSTR served as the official station for the
Due to financial problems, in September 2000, USA eliminated half of KSTR's entertainment programming inventory, filling the newly opened time periods with an expanded block of
Sale to Univision
In the summer of 2000, USA Networks announced that it would sell off its television station group, in order to focus on its cable network and television production properties. Among the prospective buyers for the USA Broadcasting unit was
The week prior to the sale's completion, on May 15, 2001, Univision Communications announced during its
Univision, however, continued to maintain English language programming formats on the ten HSN affiliates (including WUTF-DT, which reaffiliated with HSN in January 2001) and three independent stations it acquired from USA Networks for fourteen months following the completion of the purchase. Despite this, the station utilized its ties to Univision on September 11, 2001, when KSTR simulcast live coverage of the
KSTR officially converted into a Spanish language station on January 14, 2002, when it became an owned-and-operated station of TeleFutura, which initially launched on that date on 18 Univision-owned stations (including eleven of KSTR's large-market sister stations under USA Broadcasting ownership).[12][13][14] The meager programming inventory that had occupied KSTR's schedule prior to the switch was subsequently acquired by KFWD (channel 52, now a ShopHQ affiliate), which itself converted into an English-language independent station days earlier on January 1, after losing its Telemundo affiliation to KXTX-TV (channel 39) as a result of NBC/Telemundo's acquisition of that station; the local over-the-air television rights to the Mavericks were concurrently transferred to then-UPN affiliate KTXA (channel 21, now an independent station).
ATSC 3.0 experimental broadcast
In January 2018,
In November 2018, KSTR-DT submitted an experimental
In July 2019, KSTR-DT shut down its channel 48 transmitters as part of the
Due to ATSC 3.0-capable tuners not being widely available, KSTR-DT began simulcasting its programming on KUVN-DT (49.1 UniMás & 49.3 Grit) and KTXD-TV (49.2 getTV) in February 2019.
Technical information
Subchannels
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming | ATSC 1.0 host |
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49.1 | 720p | 16:9 |
KSTR-DT | UniMás | KUVN-DT |
49.3 | 480i | CourtTV | Court TV |
These subchannels are also rebroadcast on KUVN-CD in
The station's ATSC 3.0 signal carries the feeds of KDFW, KUVN-DT, and KDAF instead of its secondary program streams:
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
---|---|---|---|---|
4.1 | 1080p | 16:9 |
KDFW*NX | Fox (KDFW) |
23.1 | KUVN*NX | Univision (KUVN-DT) | ||
33.1 | KDAF*NX | The CW (KDAF) | ||
49.1 | KSTR*NX | UniMás |
Analog-to-digital conversion
KSTR-TV shut down its analog signal, over
References
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- ^ Jones, Tim (November 28, 1995). "A Pair Of Deals Put Spotlight On Diller". Chicago Tribune. Tribune Publishing. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
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- ^ "Diller Is Cleared to Take Control of Silver King". The New York Times. Associated Press. March 12, 1996. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ^ Littleton, Cynthia (January 17, 1999). "USA looking at L.A., Chi, others for expansion". Variety. Cahners Business Information. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ^ Mike Barack Hockey PBP. Fort Worth Brahmas vs.Bossier- Shreveport Mudbugs. WPHL 3-3-01. 1st Half., retrieved May 10, 2022
- ^ Jones, Tim (December 8, 2000). "Univision Buys 13 TV Stations For $1.1 Billion". Chicago Tribune. Tribune Publishing. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ^ "Univision gets FCC OK for USA stations buy". Broadcasting & Cable. Cahners Business Information. May 21, 2001. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ^ Calvo, Dana (May 15, 2001). "New Network in Works for Univision". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
- ^ James, Meg (July 31, 2001). "BRIEF / Entertainment: Univision to Call New Network Telefutura". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
- ^ James, Meg (January 14, 2002). "Univision Aims 3rd Network at Bilinguals". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 11, 2015.
- ^ Stamler, Bernard (January 16, 2002). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING; Univision bets on a new Spanish-language network, TeleFutura". The New York Times. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
- ^ Johnson, Allan (January 18, 2002). "'Chair' and 'Chamber' fight to be the hot seat". Chicago Tribune. Tribune Publishing. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
- ^ "Sinclair Broadcast, Nexstar, Univision and American Tower Partner on ATSC 3.0 (Next Gen TV) Single Frequency Network Deployment in Dallas Market" (Press release).
- ^ "Atsc 3 Coming to Big D!". February 2018.
- ^ "ATSC 3.0 "SFN" Scheduled for DFW Deployment | Radio & Television Business Report". January 18, 2018.
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- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ^ "KSTR goes digital Jan. 12". Dallas Business Journal. American City Business Journals. January 7, 2009.