KVFW-LD,

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38 ( VHF digital channel 38), was a low-powered

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–Fort Worth Metroplex. The station was owned by CMMB America. It was not available on either

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, as there is no legal requirement for a cable or satellite provider to carry a low-power station or station with an insignificant numbers of viewers.

History

KVFW-LD signed on in 1998 as a TBN Enlace affiliate on channel 65 with calls K65HA; the KVFW-LP call letters were issued in late 1999. In 2003, the station moved to channel 38 for better market coverage. Channel 65, the original channel assignment, was made a repeater without FCC authorization. After a complaint to the FCC, channel 65 was shut down. That same year, the TBN Enlace USA affiliation was moved to

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as one of its digital subchannels. From 2004 to 2009, it was the flagship station for Reino Unido Network, a Spanish religious network operated by Templo Jesucristo Rey de Gloria. The slogan was "Venga tu Reino y Hágase tu Voluntad ''(a section of the

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in Spanish)''". In June 2009, Reino Unido Network moved its

affiliation to KATA-CD2. On September 21, 2009, KVFW-LP began testing its digital signal, before going full-time digital on October 14. On June 29, 2010, the station changed its call sign to KVFW-LD, reflecting the transition to digital broadcasting. Beginning in May 2010, KVFW-LD affiliated with the

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network, making the network's third return to the Dallas/Fort Worth market. However, in September 2010, KVFW returned to its previous independent

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programming. In early 2014, Gerald Benavides (the station's original owner) sold KVFW-LD to CMMB America, with New York Spectrum Holding Company, LLC as its licensee. That same year, KVFW-LD switched its programming to

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. On January 15, 2019, KVFW-LD shut down its channel 38 digital transmitter as a part of the broadcast frequency repacking process following the 2016-2017 FCC incentive auction. The station remained silent while it constructed its post-repack facility on assigned displacement channel 7. The

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cancelled KVFW-LD's license on July 15, 2022 due to its lengthy silence and failure to construct its new facilities.

Digital channels

The station's signal was

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References

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