KTPN-LD (channel 36) is a

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licensed to

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, United States, affiliated with

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. It is owned by

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alongside

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-licensed

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affiliate KETK-TV (channel 56); Nexstar also provides certain services to Longview-licensed

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affiliate

KFXK-TV KFXK-TV (channel 51) is a television station licensed to Longview, Texas, United States, serving East Texas as an affiliate of the Fox network. It is owned by White Knight Broadcasting, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Ne ...

(channel 51) under a

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agreement (SSA) with White Knight Broadcasting. The stations share studios on Richmond Road (near Loop 323) in Tyler, while KTPN-LD's transmitter is located west of Texas Loop 323 northeast of the city. KTPN-LD's signal was formerly relayed on KLPN-LD (channel 47) in Longview, which provided KTPN-LD's programming to the central and eastern portions of the

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; that station's transmitter was located near

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. KLPN-LD's license was canceled on June 6, 2016. Due to KTPN-LD's low power status, its broadcasting radius only covers the immediate Tyler area. Therefore, in order to reach the entire market, the station is

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in high definition on KFXK's second

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(51.2) from a transmitter near FM 125 in rural northwestern Rusk County (northwest of New London).

History

KTPN-LP first signed on the air from Tyler in 1990 as K48DP; originally operating as an

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, it later became a charter affiliate of

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when the network launched on January 11, 1995. KLPN-LP signed on in Longview as K22EH later that year, serving as a repeater of K48DP and also carrying WB network programming. In 1997, the two stations both dropped their WB affiliations to join the United Paramount Network (

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); they were collectively branded as "UPN 22/48". Accordingly, channel 48 changed its callsign to KTPN-LP (standing for "Tyler Paramount Network"). In 1998, K22EH moved to UHF channel 58 and changed its callsign to K58FS in order to allow KETK-TV (channel 56) to sign on its digital signal on UHF channel 22 (K58FS and KTPN-LP were accordingly rebranded as "UPN 58/48"); two years later in 2000, K58FS changed its callsign to KLPN-LP (standing for "Longview Paramount Network") to match its sister station. KTPN and KLPN received a full-power

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when KCEB (channel 54, now an

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station) signed on in July 2003, simulcasting UPN programming from the low-power outlets; the three stations collectively branded as "UPN 54/58/48". In 2005, KCEB dropped its UPN affiliation to affiliate with The WB; subsequently thereafter in January 2006, KTPN-LP and KLPN-LP lost the UPN affiliation to

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affiliate

KYTX KYTX (channel 19) is a television station licensed to Nacogdoches, Texas, United States, serving East Texas as an affiliate of CBS and The CW Plus. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station has studios near Loop 323 in the southeastern portion of Tyle ...

(channel 19), which added the network as a second

; this resulted in the two stations reverting into independent stations. On January 24, 2006,

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(which

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from

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in December 2005) and

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(the division that operated The WB) announced that the two companies would shut down The WB and

and combine the networks' respective programming to create a new "fifth" network called

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. One month later on February 22,

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announced the launch of a new "sixth" network called

, which would be operated by

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and its syndication division

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. KTPN and KLPN became charter affiliates of MyNetworkTV when the network launched on September 5, 2006; KCEB took the CW affiliation when the network launched two weeks later on September 18 (

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feed carried by the station has since moved to KYTX's second digital subchannel). On April 24, 2013, the

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announced the sale of its television stations, including KETK-TV, to

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 ...

. KFXK and KTPN were planned be sold to Nexstar partner company

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 ...

; in the case of KFXK, that station was being sold to Mission to comply with FCC duopoly rules. But on August 5, 2014, Mission withdrew its application to acquire KFXK. Nexstar continues to operate KFXK and KLPN under a shared services agreement with sister station KETK. The sale was completed on January 1, 2015. On July 6, 2021, Nexstar exercised its option to acquire KTPN-LD outright from White Knight. The transaction was completed on October 1."Notification of Consummation"
October 1, 2021, Retrieved October 2, 2021.

Technical information

Subchannel

Analog-to-digital conversion

KLPN-LP shut down its analog signal over

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channel 58 in January 2012, and "

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" its digital signal into operation to UHF channel 47. KTPN-LP shut down its analog signal over UHF channel 48, in 2013, and flash-cut its digital signal into operation UHF channel 48.

References

External links

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