KBOP-LD,
UHF digital channel 20, is a
low-powered television station
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licensed
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to
Dallas
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,
Texas
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,
United States
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and serving the Dallas–
Fort Worth Metroplex. The station is owned and operated by D.T.V., LLC. It is not available on
Charter Spectrum
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or
FiOS from Frontier at this time.
History
The station started out as a
Spanish
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independent
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in 1997 as K62CY on channel 62. Shortly, the station was moved to channel 31 as K31FA. This signal was overlapping KUVN-LP (before it moved to channel 47) reception, so in 2001, the station moved its broadcasts to channel 57 as K57IG where it picked up the
Mas Musica
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affiliate passed over from
K25FW and
KLEG-LP. After 2 years, the station dropped Mas Musica and changed its format to
paid programming
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as KSEX-LP. In 2009 the station went silent.
On January 5, 2011, KSEX swapped callsigns with San Diego TV station
KBOP and resumed broadcasting on channel 20 nine days later with a sub-channel mixture of religious programming and infomercials.
Digital television
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed
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:
Digital channels
References
External links
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Television channels and stations established in 1997
Low-power television stations in the United States