KTXA
Categories: United States broadcasting stubs | Television stations in Dallas-Fort Worth | UPN network affiliates | Viacom television stations
| KTXA | |
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| Image:Ktxa.jpg | |
| Dallas, Texas/Fort Worth, Texas | |
| Branding | UPN 21 |
| Slogan | Made you Look UPN 21 |
| Analog channel | 21 (UHF) |
| Digital channel | 18 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | UPN |
| Owner | CBS Corporation |
| Founded | January 4, 1981 |
| Call letters meaning | K Texas America or Texas/Arlington |
| Former affiliations | Independent |
| Website | www.upn21.com |
KTXA (UPN 21) is a local UPN affiliated television station serving the Dallas/Fort Worth designated market area. With its transmitter in Cedar Hill, KTXA is currently owned by Viacom and is the sister station of CBS affiliate KTVT. Although the station does not carry a regular newscast, it will pre-empt its programming for news coverage from either KTVT or the CBS News (both owned by CBS) when situations warrant.
History
KTXA began broadcasting on January 4, 1981, and was owned by Grant Broadcasting. The station ran a general entertainment format of cartoons and sitcoms, while at night it broadcast ON TV, a subscription TV service. By 1983, KTXA became a full time general entertainment station which also included old movies and off network dramas.
Grant Broadcasting signed on a similarly formatted station, KTXH, in Houston in 1983. In 1984, both KTXA and KTXH were sold to Gulf Broadcasting. Weeks later, Gulf Broadcasting was sold to Taft in a group deal.
KTXA was a money loser throughout the 1980s, but Taft kept strong programming on the station. The company sold its network affiliates to Great American while selling independent stations, including KTXA, to TVX. In 1989, TVX was sold as a unit to Paramount Stations Group.
In the early 1990s, KTXA began turning a profit. It was not substantially affected by the 1995 affiliation switches but did pick up syndicated Disney cartoons from KTVT along with a few other syndicated shows. In 1995, the station became one of the first affiliates of the United Paramount Network.
In the early days of UPN, KTXA was known as "Paramount 21". In the late 1990s, more first run syndicated talk/reality shows began moving onto KTXA while the amount of sitcoms and cartoons was reduced. Paramount, which merged with Viacom in the early 1990s, would buy CBS in the very late 1990s. This made KTXA a CBS-owned station affiliated with UPN.
Today, KTXA broadcast a lineup of off network sitcoms, talk shows, sports, reality shows, court shows, and first run prime time programming from UPN.
References
- Shannon, Mike (January, 2004). Dallas-Fort Worth TV Station History. The History of Dallas-Fort Worth Radio and Television.
External links
| Broadcast television in Dallas-Fort Worth market | ||
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KDFW 4 (Fox) - KXAS 5 (NBC) - WFAA 8 (ABC) - KTVT 11 (CBS) - KERA 13 (PBS) - KTXA 21 (UPN) - KUVN 23 (UNI) - KDFI 27 (Ind) - KDAF 33 (The WB) - KXTX 39 (TMD) - KLEG 44 (Ind/Spanish - KJJM 46 (Religious/FamilyNet) - KSTR 49 (TFR) - KFWD 52 (Ind) - KDTX 58 (TBN) - KPXD 68 (i) | ||
| Viacom Inc. |
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