KWKT-TV
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Waco/Killeen/Temple, Texas United States |
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| City | Waco, Texas |
| Branding | Fox 44 Central Texas (general) Fox 44 News Central Texas (news) |
| Slogan |
So Fox 44 (general) The Most Powerful Name in Local News (news) |
| Channels |
Digital: 44 (UHF) Virtual: 44 () |
| Subchannels | 44.1 Fox 44.2 MyNetworkTV 44.3 Estrella TV 44.4 Bounce TV |
| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | March 13, 1988 |
| Call letters' meaning | Waco-Killeen-Temple |
| Sister station(s) | KYLE-TV |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 44 (UHF, 1988–2009) Digital: 57 (UHF, 2006–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Both secondary: The WB (2003–2006) MyNetworkTV (2006–2015) |
| Transmitter power | 100 kW |
| Height | 557.6 m |
| Facility ID | 12522 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 31°18′53″N 97°19′36″W / 31.31472°N 97.32667°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Website | www |
KWKT-TV, virtual and UHF digital channel 44, is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Waco, Texas, United States. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, as part of a duopoly with Bryan-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate KYLE-TV (channel 28). The two stations maintain studio facilities located on Woodway Drive in Woodway, Texas (using a Waco address), and its transmitter is located near Moody, Texas.
The station first signed on the air on March 13, 1988, and has been affiliated with Fox since the station's launch. Beginning with the launch of the block in 1990, KWKT aired Fox Kids programming one hour earlier than many affiliates on weekday afternoons from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. until the weekday block was discontinued by the network in December 2001, in addition to carrying its successor Saturday morning children's blocks known as Fox Box and later 4KidsTV until the latter block ended nationally in December 2008, when 4Kids Entertainment and Fox parted ways due to a contract dispute.
The station was purchased by Lafayette, Louisiana-based Communications Corporation of America in 1990. KWKT-TV's signal was unable to reach across central Texas because of interference issues experienced by UHF stations operating in rugged terrain; as a result, KWKT signed on KYLE-TV (channel 28) in Bryan as a satellite station on October 31, 1994, in order to provide Fox programming to the entire market. Comcorp would later purchase KYLE outright in 1996, after it was granted a satellite waiver by the Federal Communications Commission.
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