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KJBO-LD (channel 35) is a
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in
Wichita Falls, Texas Wichita Falls ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Wichita County, Texas, United States. It is the principal city of the Wichita Falls metropolitan area, Wichita Falls metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Archer County, Tex ...
, United States, affiliated with
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. It is owned by
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alongside
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affiliate
KFDX-TV KFDX-TV (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Wichita Falls, Texas, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the western Texoma area. Its third digital subchannel serves as an owned-and-operated station of The CW (via The CW P ...
(channel 3); Nexstar also provides certain services to
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affiliate
KJTL KJTL (channel 18) is a television station licensed to Wichita Falls, Texas, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the western Texoma area. It is owned by locally based Mission Broadcasting as its flagship station; Mission maintains ...
(channel 18) under joint sales and
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agreements (JSA/SSA) with
Mission Broadcasting Mission Broadcasting, Inc. is a television station group that owns 29 full-power television stations in 26 markets in the United States. The group's chair is Nancie Smith, the widow of David S. Smith, who founded the company in 1996 and died in 2 ...
. The three stations share studios near Seymour Highway (US 277) and Turtle Creek Road in Wichita Falls; KJBO-LD's transmitter is located near Arrowhead Drive and Onaway Trail (near Seymour Highway) southwest of the city. Although KJBO-LD broadcasts a digital signal of its own, due to its low-power status, the station's broadcasting radius does not reach the entire Wichita Falls– Lawton
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. Therefore, KJBO-LD is
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on KFDX-TV's second
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(3.2)—which also transmits from the Seymour Highway facility—in order to reach Lawton and surrounding areas of southwestern Oklahoma and northwest Texas not covered by the channel 35 signal. Ever since its inception, the KFDX-DT2 simulcast of KJBO-LP/LD had been presented in
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, with most programs (including the MyNetworkTV prime time schedule) airing in
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4:3; however, sometime in 2020, it was upgraded to
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.


History


Early history

The station first signed on the air on July 1, 1988, as K35BO, which originally operated as an
independent station An independent station is a broadcast station, usually a television station, not affiliated with a larger broadcast television network, network. As such, it only broadcasts broadcast syndication, syndicated programs it has purchased; brokered pr ...
. It was known as Sports 35 and broadcast sports programming including
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and Texas Rangers games, also airing part-time on local cable. It was the sister station to Fox affiliate
KJTL KJTL (channel 18) is a television station licensed to Wichita Falls, Texas, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the western Texoma area. It is owned by locally based Mission Broadcasting as its flagship station; Mission maintains ...
(channel 18) and shared its sports inventory with that station. By 1992, the channel was known as Fox Sports Net—years before the
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name was used nationally. In addition to local sports, it aired programming from the
Prime Sports Prime Sports (originally known as the Prime Sports Network (PSN), and also known as Prime Network or simply Prime) is the collective name for a former group of regional sports networks in the United States that were owned by Liberty Media, oper ...
network. In May 1995, Epic announced it would sell KJTL and K35BO as well as the Amarillo duopoly of fellow Fox affiliate
KCIT KCIT (channel 14) is a television station in Amarillo, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox network. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting, which maintains local marketing agreement, joint sales and shared serv ...
and low-powered K65GD (now MyNetworkTV affiliate
KCPN-LD KCPN-LD (channel 33) is a low-power television station in Amarillo, Texas, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside NBC affiliate KAMR-TV (channel 4); Nexstar also provides certain services to Fox ...
) to
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–based Wicks Broadcast Group—then a primarily radio-based broadcasting division of
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The Wicks Group, which intended the purchases to be a stepping stone to build a group of middle-market television stations complementary to its nine existing radio properties—for $14 million; the sale was finalized on August 31, 1995.


UPN affiliation; JSA/SSA with KFDX-TV

On March 3, 1996, KJTL converted K35BO from a sports channel into a
UPN The United Paramount Network (UPN) was an American broadcast television network that operated from 1995 to 2006. It was originally a joint venture between Chris-Craft Industries (later sold to News Corporation)'s subsidiary, United Television, ...
affiliate, branded UPN 35, with a general-entertainment lineup. Previously, KJTL had been airing UPN programs under a secondary affiliation. The change was necessary after Fox acquired Prime Sports parent
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. As a result, Fox rescinded the approval previously given to the station to air Prime Sports programming, provided as a pay cable channel elsewhere in the U.S., on an over-the-air broadcast station. Later in 1996, it became KJBO-LP. Wicks began seeking buyers for its stations in 1998, citing an inability to compete in an increasingly consolidated landscape.
Mission Broadcasting Mission Broadcasting, Inc. is a television station group that owns 29 full-power television stations in 26 markets in the United States. The group's chair is Nancie Smith, the widow of David S. Smith, who founded the company in 1996 and died in 2 ...
acquired the Wichita Falls operation (for $15.5 million) and KCIT-TV in Amarillo (for $13 million). Previously, a related company,
Nexstar Broadcasting Group Nexstar Media Group, Inc. is an American publicly traded media company with headquarters in Irving, Texas, Midtown Manhattan, and Chicago. The company is the largest television station owner in the United States, owning 197 television stations ...
, had acquired Wichita Falls–based
NBC The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. It is one of NBCUniversal's ...
affiliate
KFDX-TV KFDX-TV (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Wichita Falls, Texas, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the western Texoma area. Its third digital subchannel serves as an owned-and-operated station of The CW (via The CW P ...
. Nexstar took over the operations of KJTL and KJBO on June 1, 1999, under joint sales and shared services agreements with Mission, under which KFDX would handle news production, engineering, security and certain other services as well as handling advertising sales for the two stations. KJTL and KJBO subsequently vacated their shared facility on Call Field Road and relocated its operations southeast to KFDX's studio facility on Seymour Highway and Turtle Creek Road.


As a MyNetworkTV affiliate

On January 24, 2006, the respective parent companies of UPN and
The WB The WB Television Network (shortened to The WB, stylized as "THE WB", and nicknamed the "Frog Network" and/or "The Frog" for its former mascot Michigan J. Frog) was an American television network that ran from 1995 to 2006. It launched on ter ...
,
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and the
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division of
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, announced that they would dissolve the two networks to create
The CW Television Network The CW Network, LLC (commonly referred to as The CW or simply CW) is an American commercial broadcast television network which is controlled by Nexstar Media Group through a 75% ownership interest. The network's name is derived from the first ...
, a joint venture between the two media companies that initially featured programs from its two predecessor networks as well as new series specifically produced for The CW. Subsequently, on February 22, 2006,
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announced the launch of
MyNetworkTV MyNetworkTV (stylized as mynetworkTV; unofficially abbreviated MNT or MNTV) is an American commercial broadcast television syndication service and former television network owned by Fox Corporation, operated by its Fox Television Stations ...
, a network operated by
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and its syndication division
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that was created to primarily to provide network programming to UPN and WB stations that The CW decided against affiliating based on their local viewership standing in comparison to the outlet that The CW ultimately chose as its charter outlets, giving these stations another option besides converting to a general entertainment independent format. On March 30, in a joint announcement by the network and Nexstar Broadcasting Group/Mission Broadcasting, KJBO-LP was confirmed as MyNetworkTV's charter affiliate for the Wichita Falls-Lawton market. KJBO remained a UPN affiliate until September 4, 2006, with the network's Sunday late-night repeat block as the final UPN offering to be carried on the station. Channel 35 officially joined MyNetworkTV upon that network's launch on September 5, at which point KJBO changed its branding to "MyTV KJBO". As a result of the network changes, "KWB", a cable-only affiliate of The WB (through its small-market network feed,
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) available in the market on systems such as Fidelity Cablevision in Lawton and
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in Wichita Falls, was expected to affiliate with The CW; however, as a result of a deal between the network and
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that was announced on April 10, 2006, the CW affiliation instead went to
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affiliate
KAUZ-TV KAUZ-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Wichita Falls, Texas, United States, serving as the CBS affiliate for the western Texoma area. It is owned by American Spirit Media, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) wit ...
(channel 6)—which launched a digital subchannel affiliated with the network's small-market feed,
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, when the network debuted on September 17, assuming the operations of "KWB". On March 26, 2021, the station
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to digital and became KJBO-LD. In July 2021, Nexstar exercised its option to acquire KJBO-LD outright from Mission. The transaction was completed on October 1."Notification of Consummation"
October 1, 2021, Retrieved October 2, 2021.


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* {{NXST TV 1988 establishments in Texas JBO MyNetworkTV affiliates Nexstar Media Group Television channels and stations established in 1988 JBO-LD