KPXD-TV
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Arlington/Fort Worth/Dallas, Texas United States |
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| City | Arlington, Texas |
| Branding | Ion Television |
| Slogan | Positively Entertaining |
| Channels |
Digital: 42 (UHF) Virtual: 68 () |
| Subchannels | 68.1 - Ion HD (720p) 68.2 - qubo (480i) 68.3 - Ion Life (480i) 68.4 - Ion Shop (480i) 68.5 - QVC 68.6 - HSN |
| Affiliations | Ion Television |
| Owner |
Ion Media Networks (Ion Media Dallas License, Inc.) |
| First air date | December 21, 1996 |
| Call letters' meaning | PaX TV Dallas |
| Former callsigns | KINZ (1996–1998) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 68 (UHF, 1996–2009) |
| Former affiliations | inTV (1996–1998) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 368 m |
| Facility ID | 68834 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°35′25″N 96°58′23.8″W / 32.59028°N 96.973278°WCoordinates: 32°35′25″N 96°58′23.8″W / 32.59028°N 96.973278°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.iontelevision.com |
KPXD-TV, virtual channel 68 (UHF channel 42), is a Ion Television owned-and-operated television station serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex that is licensed to Arlington, Texas. The station is owned by Ion Media Networks. KPXD maintains offices located on Six Flags Drive in Arlington, and its transmitter is located south of Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill.
The station first signed on the air on December 21, 1996 as KINZ-TV (in reference to is original affiliation with the Infomail TV Network (InTV), the predecessor-of-sorts of Ion Television), carrying infomercials for much of its schedule and programming from religious broadcaster The Worship Network during the overnight hours. The station was to have originally given the call letters KAQV in its construction permit to operate the station, which were changed prior to its sign-on. In early 1998, Paxson Communications (the forerunner to Ion Media Networks) bought the station, and changed its call letters to KPXD-TV on January 13; the station became a charter owned-and-operated station of Paxson's new family-oriented broadcast network Pax TV (now Ion Television) when the network launched on August 31, 1998.
As part of a wide-ranging deal that gave NBC partial ownership of Pax, the former network's owned-and-operated stations as well as many of its affiliates provided sales and marketing assistance for Pax TV stations in several markets, with KPXD entering into a joint sales agreement with KXAS-TV (channel 5; which NBC had owned 76% interest in at the time, it is now owned by the network outright).
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