KDTX-TV,
virtual channel
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58 (
UHF
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digital
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channel 21), is a
Trinity Broadcasting Network
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(TBN)
owned-and-operated television station
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licensed
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to
Dallas, Texas
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, United States, and serving the
Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
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. The station's studios are located at TBN's International Production Center in
Irving, and its transmitter is located in
Cedar Hill, Texas
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.
History
The UHF channel 58 allocation in the Dallas–
Fort Worth
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market was initially applied for broadcasting use by the Metroplex Broadcasting Company (owned by Adam Clayton Powell III (son of civil rights activist and congressman
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
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) and former
KDFW (channel 4) anchor/reporter Barbara Harrison) for a television station under the call letters KDIA (a
Spanish
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translation for the word "day"). The station was founded on January 15, 1985, however it is not known if it ever signed on.
KDTX-TV first signed on the air on February 9, 1987 (the call letters had previously been used by a radio station on 102.9 FM, now
KDMX); it was built and signed on by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. In recent years, KDTX has been considered TBN's second-most important television station (after its
flagship station
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,
KTBN-TV
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in
Santa Ana, California
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), particularly as the Dallas–Fort Worth market has a large religious base. TBN has since moved several of its operations, including some production facilities, to the Metroplex.
Subchannels
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Television channels and stations established in 1987
1987 establishments in Texas
Trinity Broadcasting Network affiliates
Television stations in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex