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KSTR-TV

KSTR-DT
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Irving/Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
United States
City Irving, Texas
Branding UniMás 49
Channels Digital: 48 (UHF)
Virtual: 49 ()
Affiliations
Owner Univision Communications
(UniMas Dallas LLC)
First air date April 17, 1984; 32 years ago (1984-04-17)
Call letters' meaning Lone STaR State
(reference to the official state nickname of Texas)
K-STaR (station's former branding)
Sister station(s) TV: KUVN-DT
Radio: KFZO, KESS-FM, KFLC, KDXX, KLNO
Former callsigns
  • KLTJ (1984–1987)
  • KHSX (1987–1992)
  • KHSX-TV (1992–1999)
  • KSTR-TV (1999–2009)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 49 (UHF, 1984–2009)
Former affiliations
Transmitter power 225 kW
Height 535 m
Facility ID 60534
Transmitter coordinates 32°32′35.4″N 96°57′32.9″W / 32.543167°N 96.959139°W / 32.543167; -96.959139Coordinates: 32°32′35.4″N 96°57′32.9″W / 32.543167°N 96.959139°W / 32.543167; -96.959139
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website TeleFutura

KSTR-DT, virtual channel 49 (UHF digital channel 48), is a UniMás owned-and-operated television station serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex that is licensed to Irving, Texas, United States. The station is owned by Univision Communications, as part of a duopoly with Univision owned-and-operated station KUVN-DT (channel 23). The two stations share studio facilities located on Bryan Street (near I-345/Route 75) in downtown Dallas; KSTR maintains transmitter facilities located south of Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill.

The station first signed on the air on April 17, 1984 as KLTJ-TV (the call letters stood for "Keep Looking To Jesus"). Founded by Eldred Thomas, owner of radio station KVTT-FM (91.7, now KKXT), it originally maintained a religious programming format as an affiliate of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). In early 1986, Thomas sold the station to Silver King Broadcasting, the broadcasting arm of the Home Shopping Network (HSN). As a result of the sale, the station became an affiliate of HSN in September of that year; this left TBN without an outlet in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex for the next five months, until it launched owned-and-operated station KDTX-TV (channel 58) in February 1987. On June 1, 1987, the station changed its call letters to KHSX (standing for "Home Shopping in Texas").


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