KTXS-TV
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Sweetwater/Abilene, Texas United States |
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| Branding | KTXS (general) KTXS News (newscasts) (pronounced "K-Texas") |
| Slogan | Getting the Facts Right, Alerting You to Weather Danger |
| Channels |
Digital: 20 (UHF) Virtual: 12 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 12.1 ABC 12.2 CW+ 12.3 MeTV |
| Translators | KTXE-LD 38 San Angelo |
| Affiliations | ABC (secondary until 1979) |
| Owner |
Bonten Media Group, LLC (sale to Sinclair Broadcast Group pending) (BlueStone License Holdings Inc.) |
| First air date | January 30, 1956 |
| Call letters' meaning | TeXaS |
| Former callsigns | KPAR-TV (1956–1966) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 12 (VHF, 1956–2009) |
| Former affiliations | CBS (1956–1979) |
| Transmitter power | 530 kW |
| Height | 351 metres (1,152 feet) |
| Facility ID | 308 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°24′49.5″N 100°6′24.9″W / 32.413750°N 100.106917°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.ktxs.com |
KTXS-TV is the ABC television affiliate for the Abilene/Sweetwater/Brownwood market. The station is licensed to Sweetwater, and broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 20 (Suddenlink cable 4 in Abilene) from a broadcasting tower near Trent, Texas. The station is owned by Bonten Media Group. KTXS maintains studios located on North Clack Street in Abilene. Syndicated programming broadcast on KTXS includes: The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Dr. Oz Show, Dr. Phil, Extra and Texas Country Reporter.
KTXS also has a low powered station, KTXE-LD channel 38 in San Angelo, Texas.
The station signed on the air on January 30, 1956 as KPAR-TV. It was part of the West Texas Television Network, based at KDUB-TV (now KLBK-TV, channel 13) in Lubbock, and was a primary CBS affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. The station's first studio was built on the eastern edge of Sweetwater; broadcasts from this location included a 6pm newscast.
Grayson Enterprises bought the West Texas Television Network stations in 1961. Grayson opened a satellite studio in Abilene in the early 1960s, and soon moved most of KPAR's operations there. This resulted in the first of many fines from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for violating "main studio" regulations. In 1966, the station moved most of its operations to a new studio in north Abilene and the call letters were changed to KTXS.
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