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 58.2: TBN Inspire 58.3: Smile 58.4: Enlace 58.5: Positiv
Ownership
Owner	Trinity Broadcasting Network (Trinity Broadcasting of Texas, Inc.)
History
First air date	February 9, 1987 (34 years ago) (1987-02-09)
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 / 32.54333; -96.95889Coordinates: 32°32′36″N 96°57′32″W / 32.54333°N 96.95889°W / 32.54333; -96.95889
Links
Public license information	Profile LMS
Website	www.tbn.org

KDTX-TV, virtual channel 58 (UHF digital channel 21), is a TBN owned-and-operated television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States and serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The station is owned by the Tustin, California-based Trinity Broadcasting Network. KDTX-TV'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 (a Spanish translation for the word "day"). The station was founded on January 15, 1985, however it is not known if it ever signed on.

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 digital signal is multiplexed:

TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.^[1]

References[]

External links[]

• TBN official website
• BIAfn's Media Web Database — Information on KDTX-TV