KXAS
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Fort Worth–Dallas, Texas United States |
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| City | Fort Worth, Texas |
| Branding | NBC 5 (general) NBC 5 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Texas Connects Us |
| Channels |
Digital: 41 (UHF) Virtual: 5 () |
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| Owner |
NBCUniversal (Station Venture Operations, LP) |
| First air date | September 29, 1948 |
| Call letters' meaning | TeXAS |
| Sister station(s) | KXTX-TV |
| Former callsigns | WBAP-TV (1948–1974) |
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| Former affiliations |
NBC Weather Plus (DT2, 2005-2008) |
| Transmitter power | 891 kW |
| Height | 506 meters (1,660 ft) |
| Facility ID | 49330 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°35′7″N 96°58′6″W / 32.58528°N 96.96833°WCoordinates: 32°35′7″N 96°58′6″W / 32.58528°N 96.96833°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KXAS-TV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 41), is an NBC owned-and-operated television station serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex that is licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, United States. The station is owned by the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal (itself a division of Comcast), and is part of a duopoly with Telemundo owned-and-operated station KXTX-TV (channel 39). The two stations share studio facilities located at The Studios at DFW at the CentrePort Business Park on Amon Carter Boulevard (near the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport) in Fort Worth; KXAS maintains transmitter facilities located south of Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill.
Amon G. Carter, Sr. – the founding publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram – first submitted an application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a license to build and operate a television station on VHF channel 5 in late October 1944, mere days after Karl Hoblitzelle, owner of Interstate Circuit Theatres, filed an application to operate a station on channel 8 on October 23, the first such license application for a television station in the Southern United States. When the FCC awarded the construction permit for Channel 5 to Carter on June 21, 1946, he originally requested to assign KCPN (for "Carter Publications News") as the station's call letters; three months before it signed on, however, Carter chose instead to assign the television station the calls that were used by the radio station that he also owned, WBAP (820 AM).
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