KXTX-TV

KXTX-TV, virtual channel 39 (UHF digital channel 40), is a Telemundo owned-and-operated television station serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex that is licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States. The station is owned by the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal, as part of a duopoly with NBC owned-and-operated station KXAS-TV (channel 5). 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; KXTX maintains transmitter facilities located south of Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill.

History

Early history

The station first signed on the air on February 5, 1968, as KDTV; it originally operated as a general entertainment independent station, but also carried some business news programming during the daytime hours on weekdays as well as Japanese cartoons dubbed into English including Speed Racer and Johnny Cypher in Dimension Zero. The station also held broadcast rights to games from the Dallas Blackhawks and Fort Worth Wings, Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs baseball, Dallas Tornado soccer and Dallas Chaparrals basketball teams. It operated from studio facilities on 3900 Harry Hines Boulevard in Dallas. KDTV's Cedar Hill transmitter tower collapsed due to high winds during a severe thunderstorm on May 7, 1969, knocking the station off the air for twelve days, before improvising a temporary transmitter; the station later constructed a new tower at a cost of $450,000, resuming full-power transmissions on October 30, 1969.