KMPX
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Decatur/Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas United States |
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| City | Decatur, Texas |
| Branding | Estrella TV KMPX 29 |
| Channels |
Digital: 30 (UHF) Virtual: 29 () |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | Estrella TV |
| Owner |
Liberman Broadcasting (Liberman Television of Dallas License LLC) |
| First air date | September 15, 1993 |
| Call letters' meaning | MetroPleX |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 29 (UHF, 1993–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Daystar (1993–2004) Spanish Independent (2004–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW ERP |
| Height | 544.1 m |
| Facility ID | 73701 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°35′19.5″N 96°58′5.9″W / 32.588750°N 96.968306°WCoordinates: 32°35′19.5″N 96°58′5.9″W / 32.588750°N 96.968306°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | estrellatv.com |
KMPX, virtual channel 29 (UHF digital channel 30), is an Estrella TV owned-and-operated television station serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex that is licensed to Decatur, Texas, United States. The station is owned by Liberman Broadcasting. KMPX maintains offices located on Gateway Drive in Irving, and its transmitter is located south of Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill.
The UHF channel 29 allocation in the Dallas-Fort Worth market was originally planned to be used to sign on KLIF-TV (which was to have stood for "Oak Cliff"); on January 15, 1953, the Federal Communications Commission granted a construction permit for that station to legendary radio broadcaster Gordon McLendon.
Had KLIF-TV signed on, it would have been a sister station to radio station KLIF (570 AM). KLIF-TV was intended to operate from the Cliff Towers Hotel in Dallas, which formerly served as the studios of radio station KLIF (570 AM) and would later house KGKO (1480 AM, now KBXD) and KKSN (730 AM, now KKDA). The broadcast license was issued that year, but the station never went on the air; the KLIF-TV license was cancelled in 1955. Since television sets were not required to include UHF tuners until the All-Channel Receiver Act went into effect in 1964, McLendon apparently had second thoughts about developing a station that might not have any viewers (another unrelated television station using the KLIF-TV call letters was later planned to sign on 1967, but also never launched).
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