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| City | Dallas, Texas |
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First air date | February 9, 1987 (1987-02-09) |
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Call sign meaning | Dallas, Texas |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 67910 |
| ERP | 735kW |
| HAAT | 494 m (1,621 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°32′36″N96°57′32″W / 32.54333°N 96.95889°W /32.54333; -96.95889 |
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| Website | www |
KDTX-TV (channel 58) is areligious television station licensed toDallas, Texas, United States, serving theDallas–Fort Worth metroplex as anowned-and-operated station of theTrinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's studios are located at TBN's International Production Center inIrving, and its transmitter is located inCedar Hill, Texas.
The UHF channel 58 allocation in the Dallas–Fort Worth market was initially applied for broadcasting use by the Metroplex Broadcasting Company (owned byAdam Clayton Powell III (son of civil rights activist and congressmanAdam Clayton Powell Jr.) and formerKDFW (channel 4) anchor/reporter Barbara Harrison) for a television station under the call letters KDIA-TV; the call sign was assigned on January 15, 1985, and was changed to KDTX-TV on July 1.
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, nowKDMX); 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 itsflagship station,KTBN-TV inSanta Ana, California), 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.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 58.1 | 720p | 16:9 | TBN HD | TBN |
| 58.2 | Merit | Merit TV | ||
| 58.3 | 480i | Inspire | TBN Inspire | |
| 58.4 | 4:3 | ONTV4U | OnTV4U (infomercials) | |
| 58.5 | 16:9 | POSITIV | Positiv |
TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.[2]