History of Television (Dallas)
| Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex | |
|---|---|
| City | DeSoto, Texas |
| Channels | Digital: 31 (UHF) |
| Subchannels | 31.1 Sonlife 31.3 Hot TV 31.4 RTV 31.5 Infomercials |
| Owner |
HC2 Holdings (HC2 LPTV Holdings, Inc.) |
| Founded | 1980 on channel 65 in Mullin, Texas |
| Sister station(s) | KATA-CD, KHPK-LD, KJJM-LP, KODF-LD |
| Former callsigns | K31GL 2004–2008, K65BC 1980–2004 |
| Former affiliations |
America's Store (2004–2006) Almavision (2006) Infomercials (2006–2008) TeleRitmo (2008-2009) TheCoolTV (2009) AMGTV (2009–2010) independent ("TV HOT") (2010) Genesis (Spanish, to 2011) |
| Transmitter power | 8 kW |
| Height | 391 m (calculated; 330 m above ground level) |
K31GL-D is a low-power digital TV station in the Dallas / Fort Worth area, licensed to serve DeSoto, Texas, owned and operated by HC2 Holdings. It is not available on either Charter Spectrum, or Verizon FiOS at this time, and covers the Dallas/Fort Worth DMA.
This station initially began in 1980 (FCC file: BRTT-19800530IG) as K65BC of Mullin, Texas and was owned by Pompey Mountain Broadcasting, Incorporated of Corpus Christi, Texas. Marcos A. Rodriguez acquired the frequency in 1994 and ran Spanish music video programming on it 24 hours a day. KUVN-CA of Fort Worth operated on channel 31 until 2001 when KUVN-CA changed to channel 47 clearing the way for other use of channel 31. On January 6, 2004 the call sign of K65BC changed to K31GL with the change from channel 65 in Mullin to channel 31 in DeSoto. During the summer of 2006, the station picked up Almavision.
At one time in the late 1980s a non-profit organization secured a construction permit for a full-power station on non-commercial Channel 31 in Fort Worth that would have broadcast with the call KETE-TV. However, the organization never built the station and the CP was cancelled by the FCC.
In late 2006, Almavision programming ceased on the station and it started airing an all-infomercial format, much like KBOP-LD's current format.
When K31GL switched from analog to digital broadcasting in November 2008, the Genesis network moved from KHPK-LP and KNAV-LP to K31GL, and KHPK-LP began broadcasting K31GL's former infomercial format. In December, subchannel 31.3 began an all-infomercial format.
On March 12, 2009, subchannel 31.3 began broadcasting TheCoolTV, a music video channel owned by Cool Music Network. 31.3 ceased transmitting TheCoolTV in September 2009, to have been replaced later by a locally originated channel HOT TV—the "HOT" acronym meant "History of Television"; programming consisted of old movies and TV programs from the 1950s and 1960s. From November 9, 2010 to December 7, 2010, Hot TV became a temporary hub for This TV (previously from WFAA Channel 8.3) before it was moved to its permanent home on KDAF channel 33.3 and on KDTX channel 58.3.
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