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KTXS-TV

January 01, 1970

Not to be confused with KXTS-LD.

KTXS-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Sweetwater, Texas, United States, serving the Abilene area as an affiliate of ABC and The CW Plus. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside KTES-LD (channel 40), broadcasting TBD, and KTXE-LD, which rebroadcasts KTXS-TV in the San Angelo area. The stations share studios on North Clack Street in Abilene; KTXS-TV's transmitter is located near Trent, Texas, and KTXE-LD is broadcast from a site on West 26th Street in San Angelo.

KTXS-TV
CitySweetwater, Texas
Channels
Branding
  • KTXS (pronounced "K-Texas")
  • The CW Abilene (on DT2)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KTES-LD
History
First air date
January 30, 1956 (68 years ago) (1956-01-30)
Former call signs
KPAR-TV (1956–1966)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 12 (VHF, 1956–2009)
  • CBS (1956–1979)
  • ABC (secondary, 1956–1979)
Call sign meaning
Texas
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID308
ERP710 kW
HAAT439.3 m (1,441 ft)
Transmitter coordinates32°24′48.4″N 100°6′26.3″W / 32.413444°N 100.107306°W / 32.413444; -100.107306
Links
Public license information
  • Public file
  • LMS
Websitektxs.com
Satellite station
KTXE-LD
Channels
Branding
  • ABC 38
  • The CW San Angelo (on DT2)
Programming
Affiliations
  • 12.1: ABC
  • 12.2: CW+
Ownership
Owner
  • Sinclair Broadcast Group
  • (Sinclair Media Licensee, LLC)
History
First air date
July 19, 1971 (52 years ago) (1971-07-19)
Former call signs
  • K55AA (1971–1997)
  • KTXE-LP (1997–2014)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 55 (UHF, 1971–1997), 38 (UHF, 1997–2014)
  • Digital: 38 (UHF, 2014–2021)
Call sign meaning
Disambiguation of KTXS
Technical information[2]
Facility ID309
ClassLD
ERP15 kW
HAAT108.2 m (355 ft)
Transmitter coordinates31°29′6″N 100°27′27″W / 31.48500°N 100.45750°W / 31.48500; -100.45750
Links
Public license information
LMS

Channel 12 began broadcasting on January 30, 1956, as KPAR-TV, which was owned by and rebroadcast most of the programming of KDUB-TV, the CBS affiliate in Lubbock. Texas Key Broadcasting assumed operational control in 1960; the station added ABC affiliation and broke away from the Lubbock station, and the station moved its transmitter to Trent to increase coverage.

Grayson Enterprises bought KPAR-TV in 1966 and immediately changed the call sign to KTXS-TV. It built the present Abilene-area studios, which replaced facilities in Sweetwater and led to fines and a hearing by the Federal Communications Commission; the station also built the San Angelo translator at this time. As a result of multiple indiscretions, Grayson divested itself of KTXS-TV and other stations in "distress sales" to minority-controlled broadcasters in 1980. KTXS had four owners in a six-year period, all of whom tried to raise the station from a distant last place in news ratings.

Lamco Communications purchased KTXS in 1986 and raised its news department to a more competitive second place in the Abilene market. KTXS provided the local outlet of Telemundo from 2000 to 2010 and added The CW in 2006. It was purchased by Sinclair as part of its 2017 acquisition of Bonten Media Group.

History edit

KPAR-TV: Early years edit

Texas Telecasting, Inc., the owner of KDUB-TV in Lubbock, filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on June 29, 1953, to build a new TV station on channel 12 in Sweetwater[3] as well as a station at Big Spring.[4] The FCC approved the Sweetwater application on August 26,[3] and Texas Telecasting revealed its plans for the station, which would mostly rebroadcast KDUB-TV and its CBS programs.[5]

Construction on KPAR-TV began in September 1955, after KDUB-TV received new equipment; items previously used in Lubbock would be transferred to the new Sweetwater station.[6] The tower was erected in January 1956,[7] and KPAR-TV began broadcasting on January 30, 1956, with a three-hour dedication broadcast from its studio in Sweetwater.[8] The station also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network, which began in September 1956.[9] In 1958, the station opened a second studio in downtown Abilene.[10]

In 1960, Texas Telecasting filed to lease KPAR-TV to Texas Key Broadcasting in a 10-year, nearly $800,000 agreement. Texas Key was owned by residents of Abilene including the station's general manager, James M. Isaacs.[11] The new operators filed to move the station's transmitter to a site south of Trent in 1961; the higher elevation would improve coverage in the Abilene market.[12] Texas Key bought the physical assets of KPAR-TV, as well as KDUB radio and television in Lubbock and KEDY-TV in Big Spring, in 1961.[13]

The new transmitter and 568-foot (173 m) tower at Trent were activated on February 1, 1962, by which time the station had added ABC programs to its schedule.[14] Texas Key sued the Lubbock TV station, which had become KLBK-TV, and its new corporate parent Grayson Enterprises in 1964 for failing to maintain the microwave transmission system that brought CBS programs from Lubbock to KPAR-TV, forcing channel 12 to contract for its own network feed from CBS.[15]

KTXS-TV: Grayson Enterprises ownership edit

Grayson Enterprises agreed to buy KPAR-TV from Texas Key Telecasting in January 1966; part of the sale agreement stipulated the abandonment of the microwave system lawsuit.[16] The $625,000 sale was completed on June 23, and on July 1, the station changed its call sign to KTXS-TV ("K-Texas TV"). Grayson promised to reactivate the Sweetwater studio, which had been previously shuttered, and add new video tape and color equipment.[17][18]

Grayson invested in two translators to expand KTXS-TV's reach. In 1969, it received approval to build a rebroadcaster at Brownwood.[19] Two years later, on July 19, 1971, KTXS-TV installed translator K55AA in San Angelo, bringing that city the previously unseen ABC network; CBS programs were blacked out to protect KCTV there.[20] In addition to providing ABC to San Angelo, the move derailed plans by SRC, Inc., to construct a new local station affiliated with the network.[21]

The operation of Grayson's Texas stations came into question by the FCC as early as 1971, when the commission fined KTXS-TV $5,000 for moving its studio from Sweetwater to Abilene. It defended the move as necessary to compete with KRBC-TV, the only Abilene station at the time, which told the FCC that much of the operation had been relocated anyway.[22] In 1977, the FCC designated the licenses of all four Grayson stations, including KTXS-TV, for hearing. Two of the charges specifically concerned channel 12: the commission sought to ascertain whether Grayson lacked candor in its communications about the Abilene studio move, and the FCC cited the station as having engaged in the practice of "clipping", or running local commercials over network material.[23][24] Grayson got a new way out of the hearings after the commission introduced the "distress sale" policy, which permitted a station facing possible revocation of its broadcast license to be sold a group that was minority-controlled. The sale had to be made at a price substantially below the station's market value.[25] Grayson was given time to find qualified buyers for its four TV stations.[26]

While Grayson searched for a buyer, an ice storm collapsed the KTXS-TV tower at Trent, by this point 1,000 feet (300 m) high, on January 1, 1979. The top 650 feet (200 m) separated and landed on the adjacent transmitter building, damaging the roof.[27][28] In time to air the 1978 NFC Championship Game, KTXS-TV returned to the air on January 12, broadcasting from an antenna attached to the remaining 300 feet (91 m) of the mast.[29] The replacement tower was completed in January 1980.[30] Also during this time, a third Abilene station, KTAB-TV (channel 32), was authorized and took the CBS affiliation, leaving KTXS-TV a sole ABC affiliate;[31] by that time, channel 12 was already mostly airing ABC programming.[32]

Carousel of owners edit

In April 1979, Grayson agreed to sell KTXS-TV and KLBK-TV to Silver Star Communications, a majority-Black partnership soon renamed Prima Inc., for $15 million.[33][34] The Black owners in Prima were Wayne Embry, a former professional basketball player; and John Robert Lee, assistant athletic director at the University of Wisconsin; and Larry Reed, a basketball coach at the same university.[33] Charles Woods later became an investor in the company.[35] The sale process dragged out due to protests by another group that sought to purchase the stations, led by former congresswoman Barbara Jordan, and wanted clarity as to the then-new distress sale policy.[36] During this time, Grayson's principal creditor, the Mercantile National Bank of Dallas, threatened foreclosure.[37] The FCC rebuffed the objections in March and April 1980, upholding the distress sale to Prima.[38][39] Final closure of the deal came three months later after several delays.[40]

Prima set up its corporate office in Abilene and announced plans to expand the news staff and purchase new equipment.[41] The firm showed signs of financial weakness in 1982. Former shareholders in Grayson Enterprises sued the company for $1.18 million, alleging non-payment on the note that financed the transactions,[42] and in March 1983, syndicator Lorimar Productions sued for breach of contract.[43]

Catclaw Communications, an Abilene-based company led by S. M. Moore, purchased KTXS-TV in 1983 from Prima.[35][44] Two years later, SouthWest MultiMedia of Houston purchased the station from Catclaw.[45]

Lamco ownership edit

SouthWest MultiMedia, just over a year after agreeing to purchase KTXS-TV, sold it to Lamco Communications of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1986.[46] KTXS briefly aired Fox programs in late-night hours on Saturdays from September 1990 to February 1991, when a translator of San Angelo Fox affiliate KIDY opened in Abilene.[47][48]

In 2000, Lamco acquired the former K40DX, a low-power Telemundo station started by the network in 1995,[49] and renamed it KTES-LP, with Spanish-language local news briefs produced by the KTXS news department.[50]

Lamco put its stations on the market in 2003. After a deal with Larry Wilson, a former Citadel Broadcasting executive, fell through,[51][52] the Lamco portfolio was sold to BlueStone Television, a company led by Sandy DiPasquale, in 2004.[53][54] The CW was added on a subchannel in 2006.[55]

The BlueStone stations were sold in 2007 to Bonten Media Group, led by former Emmis Communications station group president Randy Bongarten, for $230 million.[56] Bonten discontinued the Telemundo feed and replaced it with This TV in 2010 in response to low ratings, especially compared to The CW.[55] Sinclair Broadcast Group acquired the Bonten portfolio in 2017 for $240 million.[57][58]

News operation edit

KTXS-TV was traditionally the last-place news outlet in Abilene, even when the market only had two local stations. KRBC-TV commanded viewer loyalty with ratings shares as high as 80 percent. After KTAB-TV signed on in 1979, it supplanted KRBC as the number-one station, but KTXS remained a distant third, with its evening newscasts drawing 12 to 15% of the Abilene-market audience.[59] Successive owners of channel 12 attempted with little success to improve the ratings by making changes to the newscasts.[60] When Prima acquired KTXS, its vice president assessed that "KTXS has not been doing what it should have been doing in news", and the new news director called the existing news product "a joke".[61]

A short upturn in ratings began in 1985, during Catclaw Communications ownership, with increases of 20 to 40% in news audience and a growing viewership among adults 18–49 even as ABC's prime time ratings slumped.[62] Catclaw had hired Len Johnson, a longtime radio newsman for KRBC, because owner S. M. Moore wanted to remedy the news image of having inexperienced reporters and anchor and bring in someone with "gray around the temples".[63] He was replaced as main anchor in early 1985 with Pat Brown, under whom the ratings increases began.[64][62] The momentum was soon lost, and KTXS fell further back of KRBC.[65]

During the 1990s and 2000s, the station's ratings for news increased. By 1995, KTXS had pulled ahead of KRBC at 6 and 10 p.m.,[66] and in February 1999 it swept the ratings, knocking KTAB-TV out of first place.[67] KTAB quickly retook first place in those time periods, but KTXS had increased its margin on KRBC;[68] its newscasts continued to reach a younger audience desired by advertisers; and it led in the 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. slots.[69]

As of 2023, the station produces 19+1⁄2 hours a week of local news and a weekly sports show, KTXS Sports Sunday.[70]

Technical information edit

Subchannels edit

The stations' signals are multiplexed:

Subchannels of KTXS-TV[71]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
12.1 720p 16:9 KTXS ABC
12.2 CW The CW Plus
12.3 480i TBD TBD (KTES-LD 40.1)
  Simulcast of subchannels of another station
Subchannels of KTXE-LD[72]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
12.1 720p 16:9 KTXE ABC
12.2 CW The CW Plus

Analog-to-digital conversion edit

KTXS-TV began providing a digital signal in September 2002, making it the first Big Country television station to broadcast in digital.[73] It shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 12, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 20, using virtual channel 12.[74]

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External links edit

  • Official website
  • Facility details for Facility ID 64972 (KTES-LD) in the FCC Licensing and Management System

January 01, 1970
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Not to be confused with KXTS LD KTXS TV channel 12 is a television station licensed to Sweetwater Texas United States serving the Abilene area as an affiliate of ABC and The CW Plus It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside KTES LD channel 40 broadcasting TBD and KTXE LD which rebroadcasts KTXS TV in the San Angelo area The stations share studios on North Clack Street in Abilene KTXS TV s transmitter is located near Trent Texas and KTXE LD is broadcast from a site on West 26th Street in San Angelo KTXS TVSweetwater Abilene TexasUnited StatesCitySweetwater TexasChannelsDigital 20 UHF Virtual 12BrandingKTXS pronounced K Texas The CW Abilene on DT2 ProgrammingAffiliations12 1 ABC12 2 CW 12 3 TBD KTES LD OwnershipOwnerSinclair Broadcast Group Sinclair Media Licensee LLC Sister stationsKTES LDHistoryFirst air dateJanuary 30 1956 68 years ago 1956 01 30 Former call signsKPAR TV 1956 1966 Former channel number s Analog 12 VHF 1956 2009 Former affiliationsCBS 1956 1979 ABC secondary 1956 1979 Call sign meaningTexasTechnical information 1 Licensing authorityFCCFacility ID308ERP710 kWHAAT439 3 m 1 441 ft Transmitter coordinates32 24 48 4 N 100 6 26 3 W 32 413444 N 100 107306 W 32 413444 100 107306LinksPublic license informationPublic fileLMSWebsitektxs wbr comSatellite stationKTXE LDSan Angelo TexasUnited StatesChannelsDigital 22 UHF Virtual 12BrandingABC 38The CW San Angelo on DT2 ProgrammingAffiliations12 1 ABC12 2 CW OwnershipOwnerSinclair Broadcast Group Sinclair Media Licensee LLC HistoryFirst air dateJuly 19 1971 52 years ago 1971 07 19 Former call signsK55AA 1971 1997 KTXE LP 1997 2014 Former channel number s Analog 55 UHF 1971 1997 38 UHF 1997 2014 Digital 38 UHF 2014 2021 Call sign meaningDisambiguation of KTXSTechnical information 2 Facility ID309ClassLDERP15 kWHAAT108 2 m 355 ft Transmitter coordinates31 29 6 N 100 27 27 W 31 48500 N 100 45750 W 31 48500 100 45750LinksPublic license informationLMS Channel 12 began broadcasting on January 30 1956 as KPAR TV which was owned by and rebroadcast most of the programming of KDUB TV the CBS affiliate in Lubbock Texas Key Broadcasting assumed operational control in 1960 the station added ABC affiliation and broke away from the Lubbock station and the station moved its transmitter to Trent to increase coverage Grayson Enterprises bought KPAR TV in 1966 and immediately changed the call sign to KTXS TV It built the present Abilene area studios which replaced facilities in Sweetwater and led to fines and a hearing by the Federal Communications Commission the station also built the San Angelo translator at this time As a result of multiple indiscretions Grayson divested itself of KTXS TV and other stations in distress sales to minority controlled broadcasters in 1980 KTXS had four owners in a six year period all of whom tried to raise the station from a distant last place in news ratings Lamco Communications purchased KTXS in 1986 and raised its news department to a more competitive second place in the Abilene market KTXS provided the local outlet of Telemundo from 2000 to 2010 and added The CW in 2006 It was purchased by Sinclair as part of its 2017 acquisition of Bonten Media Group Contents 1 History 1 1 KPAR TV Early years 1 2 KTXS TV Grayson Enterprises ownership 1 3 Carousel of owners 1 4 Lamco ownership 2 News operation 3 Technical information 3 1 Subchannels 3 2 Analog to digital conversion 4 References 5 External linksHistory editKPAR TV Early years edit Texas Telecasting Inc the owner of KDUB TV in Lubbock filed with the Federal Communications Commission FCC on June 29 1953 to build a new TV station on channel 12 in Sweetwater 3 as well as a station at Big Spring 4 The FCC approved the Sweetwater application on August 26 3 and Texas Telecasting revealed its plans for the station which would mostly rebroadcast KDUB TV and its CBS programs 5 Construction on KPAR TV began in September 1955 after KDUB TV received new equipment items previously used in Lubbock would be transferred to the new Sweetwater station 6 The tower was erected in January 1956 7 and KPAR TV began broadcasting on January 30 1956 with a three hour dedication broadcast from its studio in Sweetwater 8 The station also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network which began in September 1956 9 In 1958 the station opened a second studio in downtown Abilene 10 In 1960 Texas Telecasting filed to lease KPAR TV to Texas Key Broadcasting in a 10 year nearly 800 000 agreement Texas Key was owned by residents of Abilene including the station s general manager James M Isaacs 11 The new operators filed to move the station s transmitter to a site south of Trent in 1961 the higher elevation would improve coverage in the Abilene market 12 Texas Key bought the physical assets of KPAR TV as well as KDUB radio and television in Lubbock and KEDY TV in Big Spring in 1961 13 The new transmitter and 568 foot 173 m tower at Trent were activated on February 1 1962 by which time the station had added ABC programs to its schedule 14 Texas Key sued the Lubbock TV station which had become KLBK TV and its new corporate parent Grayson Enterprises in 1964 for failing to maintain the microwave transmission system that brought CBS programs from Lubbock to KPAR TV forcing channel 12 to contract for its own network feed from CBS 15 KTXS TV Grayson Enterprises ownership edit Grayson Enterprises agreed to buy KPAR TV from Texas Key Telecasting in January 1966 part of the sale agreement stipulated the abandonment of the microwave system lawsuit 16 The 625 000 sale was completed on June 23 and on July 1 the station changed its call sign to KTXS TV K Texas TV Grayson promised to reactivate the Sweetwater studio which had been previously shuttered and add new video tape and color equipment 17 18 Grayson invested in two translators to expand KTXS TV s reach In 1969 it received approval to build a rebroadcaster at Brownwood 19 Two years later on July 19 1971 KTXS TV installed translator K55AA in San Angelo bringing that city the previously unseen ABC network CBS programs were blacked out to protect KCTV there 20 In addition to providing ABC to San Angelo the move derailed plans by SRC Inc to construct a new local station affiliated with the network 21 The operation of Grayson s Texas stations came into question by the FCC as early as 1971 when the commission fined KTXS TV 5 000 for moving its studio from Sweetwater to Abilene It defended the move as necessary to compete with KRBC TV the only Abilene station at the time which told the FCC that much of the operation had been relocated anyway 22 In 1977 the FCC designated the licenses of all four Grayson stations including KTXS TV for hearing Two of the charges specifically concerned channel 12 the commission sought to ascertain whether Grayson lacked candor in its communications about the Abilene studio move and the FCC cited the station as having engaged in the practice of clipping or running local commercials over network material 23 24 Grayson got a new way out of the hearings after the commission introduced the distress sale policy which permitted a station facing possible revocation of its broadcast license to be sold a group that was minority controlled The sale had to be made at a price substantially below the station s market value 25 Grayson was given time to find qualified buyers for its four TV stations 26 While Grayson searched for a buyer an ice storm collapsed the KTXS TV tower at Trent by this point 1 000 feet 300 m high on January 1 1979 The top 650 feet 200 m separated and landed on the adjacent transmitter building damaging the roof 27 28 In time to air the 1978 NFC Championship Game KTXS TV returned to the air on January 12 broadcasting from an antenna attached to the remaining 300 feet 91 m of the mast 29 The replacement tower was completed in January 1980 30 Also during this time a third Abilene station KTAB TV channel 32 was authorized and took the CBS affiliation leaving KTXS TV a sole ABC affiliate 31 by that time channel 12 was already mostly airing ABC programming 32 Carousel of owners edit In April 1979 Grayson agreed to sell KTXS TV and KLBK TV to Silver Star Communications a majority Black partnership soon renamed Prima Inc for 15 million 33 34 The Black owners in Prima were Wayne Embry a former professional basketball player and John Robert Lee assistant athletic director at the University of Wisconsin and Larry Reed a basketball coach at the same university 33 Charles Woods later became an investor in the company 35 The sale process dragged out due to protests by another group that sought to purchase the stations led by former congresswoman Barbara Jordan and wanted clarity as to the then new distress sale policy 36 During this time Grayson s principal creditor the Mercantile National Bank of Dallas threatened foreclosure 37 The FCC rebuffed the objections in March and April 1980 upholding the distress sale to Prima 38 39 Final closure of the deal came three months later after several delays 40 Prima set up its corporate office in Abilene and announced plans to expand the news staff and purchase new equipment 41 The firm showed signs of financial weakness in 1982 Former shareholders in Grayson Enterprises sued the company for 1 18 million alleging non payment on the note that financed the transactions 42 and in March 1983 syndicator Lorimar Productions sued for breach of contract 43 Catclaw Communications an Abilene based company led by S M Moore purchased KTXS TV in 1983 from Prima 35 44 Two years later SouthWest MultiMedia of Houston purchased the station from Catclaw 45 Lamco ownership edit SouthWest MultiMedia just over a year after agreeing to purchase KTXS TV sold it to Lamco Communications of Williamsport Pennsylvania in 1986 46 KTXS briefly aired Fox programs in late night hours on Saturdays from September 1990 to February 1991 when a translator of San Angelo Fox affiliate KIDY opened in Abilene 47 48 In 2000 Lamco acquired the former K40DX a low power Telemundo station started by the network in 1995 49 and renamed it KTES LP with Spanish language local news briefs produced by the KTXS news department 50 Lamco put its stations on the market in 2003 After a deal with Larry Wilson a former Citadel Broadcasting executive fell through 51 52 the Lamco portfolio was sold to BlueStone Television a company led by Sandy DiPasquale in 2004 53 54 The CW was added on a subchannel in 2006 55 The BlueStone stations were sold in 2007 to Bonten Media Group led by former Emmis Communications station group president Randy Bongarten for 230 million 56 Bonten discontinued the Telemundo feed and replaced it with This TV in 2010 in response to low ratings especially compared to The CW 55 Sinclair Broadcast Group acquired the Bonten portfolio in 2017 for 240 million 57 58 News operation editKTXS TV was traditionally the last place news outlet in Abilene even when the market only had two local stations KRBC TV commanded viewer loyalty with ratings shares as high as 80 percent After KTAB TV signed on in 1979 it supplanted KRBC as the number one station but KTXS remained a distant third with its evening newscasts drawing 12 to 15 of the Abilene market audience 59 Successive owners of channel 12 attempted with little success to improve the ratings by making changes to the newscasts 60 When Prima acquired KTXS its vice president assessed that KTXS has not been doing what it should have been doing in news and the new news director called the existing news product a joke 61 A short upturn in ratings began in 1985 during Catclaw Communications ownership with increases of 20 to 40 in news audience and a growing viewership among adults 18 49 even as ABC s prime time ratings slumped 62 Catclaw had hired Len Johnson a longtime radio newsman for KRBC because owner S M Moore wanted to remedy the news image of having inexperienced reporters and anchor and bring in someone with gray around the temples 63 He was replaced as main anchor in early 1985 with Pat Brown under whom the ratings increases began 64 62 The momentum was soon lost and KTXS fell further back of KRBC 65 During the 1990s and 2000s the station s ratings for news increased By 1995 KTXS had pulled ahead of KRBC at 6 and 10 p m 66 and in February 1999 it swept the ratings knocking KTAB TV out of first place 67 KTAB quickly retook first place in those time periods but KTXS had increased its margin on KRBC 68 its newscasts continued to reach a younger audience desired by advertisers and it led in the 6 a m and 5 p m slots 69 As of 2023 update the station produces 19 1 2 hours a week of local news and a weekly sports show KTXS Sports Sunday 70 Technical information editSubchannels edit The stations signals are multiplexed Subchannels of KTXS TV 71 Channel Res Aspect Short name Programming 12 1 720p 16 9 KTXS ABC 12 2 CW The CW Plus 12 3 480i TBD TBD KTES LD 40 1 Simulcast of subchannels of another station Subchannels of KTXE LD 72 Channel Res Aspect Short name Programming 12 1 720p 16 9 KTXE ABC 12 2 CW The CW Plus Analog to digital conversion edit KTXS TV began providing a digital signal in September 2002 making it the first Big Country television station to broadcast in digital 73 It shut down its analog signal over VHF channel 12 on June 12 2009 the official date on which full power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate The station s digital signal remained on its pre transition UHF channel 20 using virtual channel 12 74 References edit Facility Technical Data for KTXS TV Licensing and Management System Federal Communications Commission Facility Technical Data for KTXE LD Licensing and Management System Federal Communications Commission a b History Cards for KTXS TV Federal Communications Commission Archived from the original on December 9 2022 Retrieved February 18 2024 2 Texas TV Requests Fort Worth Star Telegram Fort Worth Texas Associated Press July 8 1953 p 11 Archived from the original on February 18 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com Sweetwater Gets Relay TV Station Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas August 29 1953 p 1B Archived from the original on February 18 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com S water Due TV Station Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas September 2 1955 p 1B Archived from the original on February 18 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com Sweetwater TV Tower Going Up Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas January 9 1956 p 3 B Archived from the original on February 18 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com Hobgood Martha January 31 1956 Sweetwater TV Station Takes Air Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 1A Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com 104 Sign Up For NTA Film Network Due to Begin Operations on Oct 15 PDF Broadcasting September 17 1956 pp 56 58 ProQuest 1285731096 Archived PDF from the original on July 18 2023 Retrieved February 18 2024 Reed Jerry April 19 1981 TV a 28 Year West Texas Marvel Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p Centennial 59 Archived from the original on December 9 2023 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com Carpenter Leslie October 12 1960 Abilenians Seeks KPAR TV Lease Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas pp 1 A 4 A Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com KPAR Wants Tower Moved Near Trent Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas April 11 1961 p 1 A Archived from the original on February 18 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com Carpenter Leslie June 30 1961 For TV Interests 4 Million Plus Paid Dub Rogers Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 9 B Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com KPAR Goes to Full Power With New Tower at Trent Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas February 1 1962 p 1 B Archived from the original on February 18 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com Transfer of Trial Between TV Firms Rejected by Judge Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas September 5 1964 p 14 A Archived from the original on February 18 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com Lubbock Station Buys KPAR TV Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas January 11 1966 p 1 A Archived from the original on February 18 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com 625 000 Turns KPAR Into KTXS Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas June 24 1966 p 3 A Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com Call Letters Change Today K Texas TV New Sound For Channel 12 Station Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas July 1 1966 p 12 C Archived from the original on February 18 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com Brownwood Application Passes FCC The Austin American Austin Texas Associated Press November 23 1969 p B2 Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com UHF Television Slated For Angelo San Angelo Standard Times San Angelo Texas July 16 1971 p 12A Archived from the original on February 18 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com For San Angelo School System Educational TV a possibility San Angelo Standard Times San Angelo Texas April 21 1971 p 13A Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com Fines befall two Broadcasting June 7 1971 p 9 ProQuest 1016854446 Fulton Loretta August 11 1977 FCC Hearing Set Involving KTXS Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas pp 1A 8A Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com Kever Jeannie May 16 1978 West Texas TV Hearings Slated San Angelo Standard Times San Angelo Texas pp 1A 12A Archived from the original on February 18 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com Distress sale of WAEO TV first approved by FCC The Hollywood Reporter April 25 1979 p 8 ProQuest 2471833446 Hearing deferred on challenge to cable television The Odessa American Odessa Texas November 1 1978 p 5D Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com KTXS transmitting tower falls Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas January 2 1979 p 1A Archived from the original on February 18 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com Minutaglio Bill January 5 1979 Repair of Towers Makes KTXS Play Wait See Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas pp 1A 8A Archived from the original on February 18 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com KTXS returned to air for NFC title clash Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas January 8 1979 p 10 A Archived from the original on February 18 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com KTXS TV Says Thank You Big Country For Your Patience And Understanding Abilene Reporter News Advertisement Abilene Texas January 13 1980 p 13 A Archived from the original on February 18 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com TV station to start in fall Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas March 28 1979 pp 1A 10A Archived from the original on December 9 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com Wienandt Chris September 23 1979 Federal Murphy s Laws Slow New TV Station Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 7 B Archived from the original on December 9 2023 Retrieved December 9 2023 via Newspapers com a b Whitaker William May 2 1979 3 of KTXS Owners In Town to Discuss Ideas Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 8A Archived from the original on February 18 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com Whitaker William July 11 1979 KTXS May Be in Prima Hands Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 10A Archived from the original on February 18 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com a b KTXS being bought by Abilenians Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas March 8 1983 p 1A Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com DuPont Michael July 13 1979 Austin Group Trying to Halt KTXS Sale Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 9 D Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com KTXS Other Stations May Face Foreclosure Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas February 27 1980 pp 1A 14A Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Monahans TV station included in distress sale of 12 others The Odessa American Odessa Texas Associated Press March 29 1980 p 3C Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com FCC Upholds KTXS Distress Sale to Prima Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas Associated Press April 11 1980 p 8A Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com KTXS Owners Get OK Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas July 18 1980 p 2 D Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Whitaker William April 17 1980 KTXS firm moving HQ to Abilene Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas pp 1A 14A Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Former KTXS TV owners file 1 18 million lawsuit Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas July 8 1982 p 7 A Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Jones Roy A II March 12 1983 Suit Filed Against KTXS Owner Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 3 A Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Sale of TV station approved Fort Worth Star Telegram Fort Worth Texas August 26 1983 p 13A Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Houston firm to buy KTXS Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas September 13 1985 pp 1A 18A Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Bargainer Judy October 14 1986 KTXS sold to Pennsylvania firm Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 5A Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Lapham Bob September 13 1990 Fox gains foothold no Emmy show Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas pp 1D 3D Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Lapham Bob February 14 1991 Fox finally shows up Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 3D Archived from the original on February 18 2024 Retrieved February 18 2024 via Newspapers com Miles Laureen May 8 1995 Freedom rings for ABC Mediaweek p 28 ProQuest 213632575 KTES to broadcast local news in Spanish Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas August 16 2000 pp 1AA 2AA Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com DeJesus Thaddeus July 17 2003 TV stations KTXS KTES to be sold Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 1E Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Murphy Brien September 6 2003 KTXS KTES sale off Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 1B Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Murphy Brien January 16 2004 BlueStone buys area TV stations Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 1D Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Murphy Brien June 17 2004 BlueStone Television cleared to buy KTXS Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 1E Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com a b Adame Jaime August 27 2010 Telemundo giving way to This TV in Abilene Abilene Reporter News Archived from the original on August 29 2010 Retrieved September 5 2010 Levith Will November 20 2006 Bongarten Diamond Buy Bluestone TV Mediaweek p 18 Sinclair Buying Bonten Stations For 240M TVNewsCheck April 21 2017 Archived from the original on August 9 2018 Retrieved April 21 2017 Eggerton John June 30 2017 FCC Approves Sinclair Bonten Deal Broadcasting amp Cable Archived from the original on January 2 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 Rux Connie February 21 1984 The Ratings Game Stations Rely on Programming While Courting Advertisers Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 1B Archived from the original on December 9 2023 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Pratt Andrew June 2 1985 Vying for Viewers Ratings game is played for keeps Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas pp 1D 4D Archived from the original on December 9 2023 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Lerner Preston December 10 1980 Corpus Newsman To Replace Izzard Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 14 A Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com a b Williamson Doug September 14 1985 Proposed sale of KTXS TV comes as ratings climbing Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 3 A Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com KTXS Names New Anchorman Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas August 26 1983 p 2 A Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Johnson to become managing editor of KTXS Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas January 25 1985 p 3 A Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Lapham Bob April 6 1988 The sweeps KTAB still is No 1 but KRBC moves up Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas pp 1B 2B Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Lapham Bob April 2 1995 KTAB does well in ratings KTXS reaps media awards Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 2C Archived from the original on December 9 2023 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Lapham Bob April 1 1999 KTXS leads way as local news viewership increases Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 2B Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Murphy Brien January 8 2003 Ratings race ABC KTXS edge KTAB in Nielsens Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas pp 1E 4E Archived from the original on December 9 2023 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Wellborn Dub May 4 2003 What we watched on TV Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 2E Archived from the original on December 9 2023 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com Fourth Quarter 2023 Public Issues and Programs Lists PDF Public Inspection File Federal Communications Commission January 8 2024 Archived PDF from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 TV Query for KTXS RabbitEars Archived from the original on November 9 2018 Retrieved February 19 2024 TV Query for KTXE LD RabbitEars Archived from the original on November 9 2018 Retrieved February 19 2024 Murphy Brien September 28 2002 KTXS TV first area station to go digital Abilene Reporter News Abilene Texas p 1D Archived from the original on February 19 2024 Retrieved February 19 2024 via Newspapers com DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds PDF Federal Communications Commission May 23 2006 Archived from the original PDF on August 29 2013 Retrieved August 29 2021 External links editOfficial website Facility details for Facility ID 64972 KTES LD in the FCC Licensing and Management System Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title KTXS TV amp oldid 1220925320, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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