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KSTR-DT (channel 49) is a
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licensed to
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, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language
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network to the
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. It is
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by
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alongside
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-licensed
Univision Univision () is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the Latino public and includes ...
owned-and-operated station
KUVN-DT KUVN-DT (channel 23) is a television station licensed to Garland, Texas, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision network to the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Irving-lice ...
(channel 23). Both stations share studios on Bryan Street in
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, while KSTR-DT's transmitter is located in
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.


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
KKXT KKXT (91.7 FM) is a listener-supported public radio station, licensed to Dallas, Texas and broadcasting to the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. It has a Triple A (adult album alternative) music format with a mix of acoustic, alt-country, indie ...
), it originally maintained a
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format as an affiliate of the
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(TBN). In early 1986, Thomas sold the station to Silver King Broadcasting, the broadcasting arm of the Home Shopping Network (
HSN HSN, an initialism of its former name Home Shopping Network, is an American free-to-air television network owned by the Qurate Retail Group, which also owns catalog company Cornerstone Brands. Based in the Gateway area of St. Petersburg, Flor ...
). As a result of the sale, the station became an affiliate of HSN in September of that year; this left TBN without an outlet in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex for the next five months, until it launched owned-and-operated station
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(channel 58) in February 1987. On June 1, 1987, the station changed its call letters to KHSX (standing for "Home Shopping in Texas"). On November 27, 1995, veteran television executive
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announced that he would acquire the Home Shopping Network and Silver King Communications, which owned HSN-affiliated stations in several other larger
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s. The purchase was finalized on December 19, 1996, ten months after the transaction received approval by the
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(FCC) on March 11. Two years later in 1997, HSN purchased the
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, and renamed its broadcast television subsidiary as
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, 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
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) at 6:00 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
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format, "CityVision", which infused syndicated programming—including a few produced by sister production unit
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that also aired nationally on USA Network—with a limited amount of local entertainment and magazine programs (reminiscent of the format used by
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in
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and more prominently, that station's sister broadcast television properties that became charter stations of
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, when
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expanded the format to other Canadian markets as a
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in 2002). 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
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sister station
WAMI-TV WAMI-DT (channel 69) is a television station licensed to Hollywood, Florida, United States, serving the Miami area with programming from the Spanish-language UniMás network. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Univision outle ...
on that date, converting into a general entertainment independent station; HSN programming remained part of the schedule, however it was relegated to two separate blocks, running nightly from 2:00 to 5:30 a.m. KSTR's initial lineup under the "CityVision" format began to primarily feature a mix of
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(such as ''
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'' and ''
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''),
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s (such as '' Sister, Sister'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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'') and
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s during the daytime and prime time hours, as well as
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(''
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'' and ''
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'') on weekend evenings, and movies—under the ''Star Time Movies'' banner—during prime time on weekends and on Sunday late afternoons. It also aired USA's original programs (such as ''Tens''—rebroadcast from its Miami sister station WAMI-TV—and ''
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''), along with the regionally syndicated newscast '' The News of Texas''. It also carried a decent lineup of children's programming on Saturday mornings, including those sourced from the
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syndication block (such as '' Highlander: The Animated Series'', '' Mighty Max'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
Pocket Dragon Adventures ''Pocket Dragon Adventures'' (Spanish: ''Pocket Dragons'') is an animated series produced by the Spanish animation studio D'Ocon Films Productions, in co-production with Televisión Española, Bohbot Entertainment, and DIC Productions. The series ...
'', ''
Beakman's World ''Beakman's World'' is an American educational children's television program. The program is based on the Universal Press Syndicate syndicated comic strip ''You Can with Beakman and Jax'' created by Jok Church. The series premiered on Wednesday, S ...
'' and ''
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''). During this period, KSTR served as the official station for the
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franchise. KSTR also broadcast select
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games from the defunct
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. The station also used the "City Vision" ("Your City is Our Studio") bumper cards common with USA-owned stations that had converted to general entertainment independents during this time. The local programming-infused format that was adopted by KSTR-DT and its sister stations in
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and Miami, was originally planned to be expanded to the remainder of USA Broadcasting's stations, with some (such as WHOT-TV (now
WUVG-DT WUVG-DT (channel 34) is a television station licensed to Athens, Georgia, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision and UniMás networks to the Atlanta area. Owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision, the station maintains studios ...
) in Atlanta and WHUB-TV (now
WUTF-DT WUTF-TV (channel 27) is a television station licensed to Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language UniMás network to the Boston area. It is owned by Entravision Communications, which provides certain services t ...
) in
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) having either already adopted or eventually switching to the format. 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
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s during the morning hours and an additional block of HSN programming on weekday mornings from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (later reduced to a three-hour block from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. by September 2001). The station also reduced its children's programs inventory to a daily half-hour of educational programming (consisting of the reality-documentary series ''Animal Rescue'').


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
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—the corporate parent of
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, the network affiliated locally with
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(channel 8)—which was the original frontrunner to purchase the thirteen-station group. However, Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications beat out Disney and the competing bidders in a close race, securing a deal to purchase the USA Broadcasting stations for $1.1 billion on December 7, 2000. When the sale was finalized on May 21, 2001, KSTR became part of a
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with
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owned-and-operated station KUVN (channel 23). The week prior to the sale's completion, on May 15, 2001, Univision Communications announced during its upfront presentation that it would launch a secondary television network—later announced to be named TeleFutura (now UniMás) on July 31—that would compete with Univision,
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and the then-recently launched
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. Univision would utilize the former USA Broadcasting stations to serve as charter outlets of the network, which would cater to bilingual Latinos and young adult males between the ages 18 and 34 that seldom watch Spanish language television other than sporting events. 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
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on the
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in
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and
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in
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, as well as the crash of
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in
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, from KUVN for several days afterward, before resuming what was left of its regular English language schedule on September 18. On September 2, 2001, Channel 49 began incorporating daily, two-hour-long mini-marathons of ''The Andy Griffith Show'' and movies to fill part of its schedule for its final months as an English language station. 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). The meager programming inventory that had occupied KSTR's schedule prior to the switch was subsequently acquired by
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(channel 52, now a
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affiliate), which itself converted into an English language independent station days earlier on January 1, after losing its Telemundo affiliation to
KXTX-TV KXTX-TV (channel 39) is a television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Telemundo network to the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group ...
(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-
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affiliate
KTXA KTXA (channel 21) is an independent television station in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside Fort Worth–based CBS station KTVT (channel 11). Bo ...
(channel 21, now an independent station).


ATSC 3.0 experimental broadcast

In January 2018,
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,
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, and
Univision Communications TelevisaUnivision (formerly known as Univision Communications) is a Mexican-American media company headquartered in New York and Mexico City, which owns the American Spanish language broadcast network Univision. 45% of the company is held by the ...
announced that they reached an agreement with
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to construct an
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in Dallas. It was decided that Univision-owned KSTR-DT would become the test station, with Univision owned-and-operated sister station KUVN-DT, and Sinclair-operated station
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, providing ATSC 1.0 simulcasts of KSTR-DT's programming during the tests. In November 2018, KSTR-DT submitted an experimental
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(STA) to the FCC, to test ATSC 3.0 distributed transmission system (DTS) broadcasting. The FCC granted the STA in February 2019, with testing beginning in March 2019. KSTR-DT's ATSC 3.0 DTS test consisted of four transmitters located throughout the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, all broadcasting on UHF channel 48: Cedar Hill (main transmitter),
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,
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, and Denton. In July 2019, KSTR-DT shut down its channel 48 transmitters as part of the broadcast frequency repacking process following the 2016-2017 FCC incentive auction, and began broadcasting from an auxiliary transmitter on its assigned displacement channel 34. DTS testing resumed after all transmitters were broadcasting on channel 34. 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

These subchannels are also rebroadcast on KUVN-CD in
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, which repeats the entire KUVN multiplex, with different minor channel numbers (49.11 and 49.13, respectively). The station's ATSC 3.0 signal carries the feeds of
KDFW KDFW (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States, broadcasting the Fox network to the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNet ...
and KUVN-DT instead of its secondary program streams:


Analog-to-digital conversion

KSTR-TV shut down its analog signal, over
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channel 49, on January 12, 2009. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 48, using
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to display its
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as 49 on digital television receivers.


References


External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kstr-Dt Television channels and stations established in 1984 Television stations in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex UniMás network affiliates GetTV affiliates Grit (TV network) affiliates Spanish-language television stations in Texas ATSC 3.0 television stations