KFDF-CD
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Fort Smith, Arkansas United States |
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| Channels |
Digital: 44 (UHF) Virtual: 44 (PSIP) |
| Translators | KFFS-CD 36 (UHF) Fayetteville AR |
| Affiliations | MeTV (2015–present) |
| Owner | Pinnacle Media, LLC (sale to Ellis-Wilson, LLC pending) |
| First air date | January 15, 1988 |
| Sister station(s) | KMYA-DT, KLRA-CD, KWNL-CD, KXUN-LD |
| Former callsigns | K46BZ KPBI-LP KFDF-LP KFDF-LD (2006–2012) |
| Former affiliations |
Fox (1988–1995) UPN (1995–2006) RTN (2006–2009) Independent (1988–1995, 2009) MundoFox/MundoMax (2012–2016) |
| Transmitter power | 3 kW |
| Class | Class A |
| Facility ID | 52418 |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
KFDF-CD is a Class A low power television station in Fort Smith, Arkansas, broadcasting digitally on UHF channel 44 as an affiliate of Me-TV. The station is owned by Pinnacle Media, and has a digital translator in Fayetteville, KFFS-CD, on UHF channel 36. It is a sister station to Univision affiliates KWNL-CD and KXUN-LD.
The station began as K46BZ when the FCC issued an original construction permit to Family Media of Ft. Smith to build a low-power television station on UHF channel 46. In October 1988, Family Media transferred the construction permit to Pharis Broadcasting, who brought the station on the air and obtained its initial license on March 30, 1990. Early programming is unknown.
In the mid-1990s, the FCC began to allow low-power stations to have four-letter callsigns, and in September 1995, the station took the call letters KPBI-LP, for Pharis Broadcasting Inc. Pharis also affiliated the station with the new network UPN. In June 1998, claiming displacement, Pharis Broadcasting requested to move the station to VHF channel 10; the FCC granted the request in October 1998. Before finishing the move, Pharis sold KPBI-LP to Equity Broadcasting in a deal finalized in June 2001, along with several other stations [2]. One of those stations was KFDF-LP, at the time operating on channel 32. In September 2001, Equity requested Special Temporary Authority to move KFDF-LP to channel 46, being vacated by KPBI-LP. Then, in October 2001, Equity switched the two stations' call letters - KPBI-LP channel 46 became KFDF-CA channel 10, having upgraded its license to Class A on August 27, 2001, and KFDF-LP channel 32 became KPBI-CA channel 46.
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