KDFW-TV
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Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas United States |
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| City | Dallas, Texas |
| Branding | Fox 4 (general) Fox 4 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
We Are Fox 4 (general) The News Leader (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 35 (UHF) Virtual: 4 () |
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| Owner |
Fox Television Stations (NW Communications of Texas, Inc.) |
| First air date | December 3, 1949 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Dallas-Fort Worth (also the ICAO code for Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, which it predates by 25 years) |
| Sister station(s) |
Broadcast: KDFI Cable: Fox Sports Southwest |
| Former callsigns | KRLD-TV (1949–1970) |
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| Former affiliations | CBS (1949–1995) |
| Transmitter power | 857 kW |
| Height | 510 m (1,670 ft) |
| Facility ID | 33770 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°35′6″N 96°58′41″W / 32.58500°N 96.97806°WCoordinates: 32°35′6″N 96°58′41″W / 32.58500°N 96.97806°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KDFW, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 35), is a Fox owned-and-operated television station serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex that is licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of 21st Century Fox, as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station KDFI (channel 27). The two stations share studio facilities located at 400 North Griffin Street in downtown Dallas; KDFW maintains transmitter facilities located south of Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill.
The station first signed on the air at 12:30 p.m. on December 3, 1949 as KRLD-TV; it was founded by the Dallas Times Herald newspaper (now defunct), which also owned KRLD radio (1080 AM, and 92.5 FM, now KZPS). Channel 4 originally operated as a CBS affiliate – having inherited the affiliation through the CBS Radio Network's longtime relationship with KRLD (AM), which became the first radio station in Texas to affiliate with the television network's radio predecessor in 1927. The first program ever broadcast on KRLD-TV on that afternoon was the CBS game show It Pays to Be Ignorant; the first local program aired on the station that day was a college football game in which the Notre Dame Fighting Irish defeated the Southern Methodist Mustangs, 27-20.
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