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Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas United States |
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| City | Dallas, Texas |
| Branding | CW33 (general) EyeOpener (morning newscasts) NewsFix (evening newscasts) |
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Express Yourself (general) A Different Kind of Morning Show (morning newscasts) News in a New Way (evening newscasts) Putting Our Community First (public service) |
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Digital: 32 (UHF) Virtual: 33 () |
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Tribune Broadcasting (KDAF, LLC) |
| First air date | September 1980 |
| Call letters' meaning | Dallas And Fort Worth |
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| Transmitter power | 780 kW |
| Height | 537 m |
| Facility ID | 22201 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°32′35.4″N 96°57′32.9″W / 32.543167°N 96.959139°WCoordinates: 32°32′35.4″N 96°57′32.9″W / 32.543167°N 96.959139°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
| Website | cw33 |
KDAF, virtual channel 33 (UHF digital channel 32), is a CW-affiliated television station serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex that is licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States. The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of Tribune Media. KDAF maintains studio facilities located off the John W. Carpenter Freeway (State Highway 183) in northwest Dallas, and its transmitter is located south of Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill.
The UHF channel 33 allocation in Dallas-Fort Worth has been licensed to and operated by several companies over five decades of operation. The first television station to occupy the channel was KMEC, an independent station that signed on the air on October 1, 1967; it was the second UHF television station to sign on in the market, after KFWT-TV (channel 21, allocation now occupied by independent station KTXA), which debuted two weeks earlier on September 19. Founded by Maxwell Electronics Corporation (owned by Carroll Maxwell, who also served as its general manager), the station aired a mix of syndicated and locally produced programming, among which included the public affairs program Dallas Speaks (hosted by Jim Underwood, who previously worked at CBS affiliate KRLD-TV (channel 4, now KDFW) as a reporter), and children's programs Bozo's Big Top (a localized version of the Bozo the Clown franchise, which would eventually become synonymous with the version aired by KDAF's present-day Chicago sister station WGN-TV from 1966 to 2001 after it became a national superstation) and Colonel Pembroke's Funtime. Due to financial losses incurred on the venture, the station ceased operations on October 25, 1968.
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