KFDX-TV/DT Channel 3 -- Wichita Falls TX USA
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N 33° 53.399 W 098° 33.524
14S E 540802 N 3750044
KFDX-TV signed on in 1953 as the third TV station in the area. It has been an NBC affiliate ever since.
Waymark Code: WMVF5A
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/10/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Chickilim
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The KFDX TV station's transmitter antenna is also NGS benchmark DO0791 WICHITA FALLS TV KFDX MAST. See: (visit link)

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KFDX, virtual channel 3 (UHF digital channel 28), is the NBC-affiliated television station located in Wichita Falls, Texas, United States, and also serves Lawton, Oklahoma. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, KFDX operates Fox affiliate KJTL (channel 18) and MyNetworkTV affiliate KJBO-LP (channel 35) through a shared services agreement with Mission Broadcasting. The two stations share studios and transmitter facilities located on Seymour Highway in Wichita Falls.

Its signal is relayed through four UHF translators: K27HM-D and K41HQ-D in Quanah, Texas, and K25JO-D and K43KS-D in Altus, Oklahoma. The station also operates a 24-hour weather channel that is carried on Time Warner Cable channel 17. The programming, selected by the on-duty meteorologist, switches between two different radar sources and a temperature and forecast display.

History

KFDX went on the air on April 12, 1953 as the third television station to serve the North Texas-Southern Oklahoma region. The station was originally owned by Wichitex Radio and Television under the direction of Darrold Cannan, Sr. and Howard Fry, which also owned KFDX Radio, an AM station with a frequency of 990 that went on the air in 1947. In addition to being a founder and general manager, Fry was best known by children in Texoma for his Uncle Howdy's House Party on both radio and television. In 1955, Wichitex sold the radio station, which continues to operate to this day, to concentrate on the television portion of the business until the firm sold KFDX to Clay Communications of Texas in 1971.

Clay sold some of its stations, including KFDX to Price Communications in 1987. In 1995, Price sold KFDX and two of its NBC affiliates KJAC-TV (now Fox affiliate KBTV-TV) in Port Arthur, Texas and KSNF in Joplin, Missouri to the U.S. Broadcast Group. Current owner Nexstar Broadcasting bought the station from the U.S. Broadcast Group in 1998.

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Digital television

Analog-to-digital conversion

KFDX-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 3, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital television under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 28. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 3."
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KFDX-TV/DT Channel 3


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