KJTL
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Wichita Falls, Texas/Lawton, Oklahoma United States |
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| Branding | Texoma's Fox (general) Texoma's Fox News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Texoma's Only Primetime News |
| Channels |
Digital: 15 (UHF) Virtual: 18 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 18.1 Fox 18.2 Grit 18.3 Bounce TV 18.4 Escape |
| Affiliations | Fox (1986–present) |
| Owner |
Mission Broadcasting (Mission Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| Operator | Nexstar Media Group |
| First air date | May 14, 1985 |
| Call letters' meaning | named for "Janet T. Lee" early majority shareholder (not as supposed as a variable of Lubbock Fox affiliate KJTV-TV) |
| Sister station(s) | KFDX-TV |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 18 (UHF, 1985–2009) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1985–1986) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 263 m |
| Facility ID | 7675 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°12′5″N 98°43′45″W / 34.20139°N 98.72917°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.texomashomepage.com |
KJTL, virtual channel 18, is the Fox affiliate located in Wichita Falls, Texas also serving Lawton, Oklahoma owned by Mission Broadcasting, and its operated by Nexstar Media Group, in a virtual duopoly with NBC affiliate KFDX channel 3. KJTL's transmitter is located near Grandfield, Oklahoma.
The station originally signed on the air on May 14, 1985 as an Independent station owned by Wichita Falls Television airing movies, sitcoms, cartoons, dramas, and westerns. It originally operated from studios located on Call Field Road in Wichita Falls. In 1986, KJTL became one of the early affiliates of Fox. Wichita Falls Television then sold the station to BSP Broadcasting in 1989. BSP sold both KJTL and KCIT in Amarillo to Epic Broadcasting Corporation in 1991. Epic then sold KJTL and KCIT to Wicks Broadcast Group in 1995. Wicks Broadcast Group sold the station to current owner Mission Broadcasting in 1999.
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
On June 15, 2016, Nexstar announced that it has entered into an affiliation agreement with Katz Broadcasting for the Escape, Laff, Grit, and Bounce TV networks (the last one of which is owned by Bounce Media LLC, whose COO Jonathan Katz is president/CEO of Katz Broadcasting), bringing one or more of the four networks to 81 stations owned and/or operated by Nexstar, including KJTL and KFDX-TV.
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