KPXD-TV (channel 68) is atelevision station licensed toArlington, Texas, United States, serving as theIon Television outlet for theDallas–Fort Worth metroplex.Owned and operated by theIon Media subsidiary of theE. W. Scripps Company, the station has offices onSix Flags Drive in Arlington, and its transmitter is located inCedar Hill, Texas.

The station first signed on the air on December 21, 1996, as KINZ-TV (in reference to its original affiliation with the Infomall TV Network (InTV), the predecessor-of-sorts of Ion Television), carryinginfomercials for much of its schedule and programming fromreligious broadcasterThe Worship Network during the overnight hours. The station was to have originally given the call letters KAQV in itsconstruction permit to operate the station, which were changed prior to its sign-on. In early 1998, Paxson Communications (the forerunner to Ion Media) bought the station, and changed its call letters to KPXD-TV on January 13; the station became a charter owned-and-operated station of Paxson's new family-oriented broadcast network Pax TV (now Ion Television) when the network launched on August 31, 1998.

As part of a wide-ranging deal that gaveNBC partial ownership of Pax, the former network's owned-and-operated stations as well as many of its affiliates provided sales and marketing assistance for Pax TV stations in several markets, with KPXD entering into ajoint sales agreement withKXAS-TV (channel 5; which NBC had owned 76% interest in at the time, it is now owned by the network outright).

In 2003, Pax TV decided to scale back its programming due to financial losses, resulting in much of the afternoon time slots on its stations' schedules being filled with infomercials. After Pax was rebranded as i: Independent Television on June 30, 2005, Worship Network programming moved to one of KPXD'sdigital subchannels (originally its third subchannel, then to its fourth subchannel after Ion Life (laterIon Plus) andQubo launched, before Worship was dropped on January 31, 2010).

In September 2020, Ion Media was sold to the E. W. Scripps Company, marking the latter company's first entry into the Dallas–Fort Worth market. On February 27, 2021, shortly after the sale closed, Ion Plus and Qubo ceased broadcasting, and KPXD-DT2 and DT3 switched toCourt TV andGrit, sharing the affiliations withKDAF (channel 33) andKSTR-DT (channel 49) respectively. The next day, KPXD-DT4 switched from Ion Shop toLaff, sharing the affiliation withKUVN-DT (channel 23). On June 28, 2021, Court TV was removed from KPXD-DT2, and replaced withBounce TV, sharing the affiliation with KUVN-DT. On that same day, QVC and HSN were removed from KPXD-DT5 and KPXD-DT6 respectively, and began showing previews of Scripps-ownedReality TV networks Defy TV and TrueReal respectively. Both networks launched on July 1, 2021. On October 1, 2021,Newsy was added to channel KPXD-DT7.

In September 2001, as part of the JSA with that station, KPXD began airingtape delayed rebroadcasts of NBC station KXAS-TV's 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts each Monday through Friday evening at 6:30 and 10:30 p.m. (the latter beginning shortly before that program's live broadcast ended on KXAS). The news rebroadcasts ended in 2003, two years before most of the network's other news share agreements with Pax TV stations were terminated upon the network's rebranding as i: Independent Television, as a result of the network's financial troubles.

The station's signal ismultiplexed:

KPXD-TV shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 68, on June 12, 2009, as part of thefederally mandated transition from analog to digital television.^[3] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 42, usingvirtual channel 68.

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