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KTXD-TV, virtual channel 47 (UHF digital channel 47-1), is an independent television station serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex that is licensed to Greenville, Texas, United States. It serves as the flagship station of the London Broadcasting Company. KTXD maintains studio facilities and offices located on Dallas Parkway (west of the Dallas North Tollway) in Addison, and its transmitter is located south of Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill. On cable, the station is available on Time Warner Cable channel 24 and in high definition on HD channels 24 and 1289, Charter Communications channel 22 and Verizon FiOS channels 18 and 518. ==History== This station first signed on the air on April 1, 1994 as KTAQ. During its early years, the station carried programming from shopping networks such as The Jewelry Network and Shop at Home. In 2000, the station affiliated with the America's Collectibles Network, though most of the shopping programming was relegated to the nighttime hours. In 2004, the station switched to ShopNBC. In late 2006, KTAQ switched to a 24-hour religious programming format as the flagship station of the Promiseland Television Network after being acquired by Promiseland founder Mike Simons (through Simons Broadcasting, LP). It was reported in February 2007 that KTAQ was fined $10,000 for failing to place its 2005 Biennial Ownership Report, all required TV issues/programs lists, and Children’s Television Programming Reports in the station’s public inspection file. The station admitted in its license renewal application that during the previous term, it had failed to timely place all of the documentation required by Section 73.3526 of the rules in its public inspection file.〔(FCC fines KTAQ-TV for public file violations ) - ''TABulletin'' (accessed December 16, 2010)〕 In November 2008, Simons Broadcasting, LP filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Texas in Waco, Simons Broadcasting, LP debtor-in-possession sold the station to Platinum Equity, LLC in mid-2010. In early November 2010, KTAQ switched to an infomercial format. Platinum Equity later sold the station to the Addison-based London Broadcasting Company, which changed the station's call sign to KTXD-TV. London Broadcasting retained Continental Television to act as "national and local () sales" for the station, which suggested that KTXD would adopt a general entertainment format rather than a brokered, or foreign language format. The purchase was completed on January 19, 2012.〔(London Broadcasting Completes Dallas Buy )〕 On March 16, 2012, KTXD (under the verbal ''K-Tex'' branding at the time) became an affiliate of Me-TV (a digital broadcast network specializing in classic television series, which is nominally carried as a multicast channel in most markets, but is optionally carried as a main channel affiliation in a few cities), carrying its programming part-time on its main channel and Me-TV's complete schedule on digital subchannel 47.4. Under London, the station also began to place an emphasis on locally-produced lifestyle and entertainment programs. On October 31, 2013, KTXD declined to renew its affiliation contract with Me-TV and dropped the network's programming, which by association, resulted in the 47.4 subchannel going dark.〔(KTXD Dallas Splits With Me-TV )〕 Channel 47 converted to a general entertainment independent station, effectively competing with KTXA (channel 21), featuring local programs as well as a mix of recent and classic television series (including some that have been carried in recent years on Me-TV and one of its chief rivals, Antenna TV). The station also acquired the local rights to a Dallas Cowboys regular season road game against the Chicago Bears on December 9, which is part of the ESPN Monday Night Football package. Me-TV would return to the Dallas-Fort Worth area on KTXA in December 2013 over a new second digital subchannel.〔(Me-TV Adds New Dallas Affiliate, KTXA ), ''TVNewsCheck''.〕 On May 14, 2014, the Gannett Company announced the purchase of six of London Broadcasting's Texas television stations for $215 million. London exempted KTXD and Longview sister station KCEB from the deal; in the case of KTXD, the company's retention of KTXD was decided by management; Gannett's existing ownership of ABC affiliate WFAA (channel 8; which was acquired in 2013 as part of the company's merger with Belo), however, did not play a factor as the Dallas-Fort Worth market has enough full-power television stations to allow a fourth duopoly and neither did the FCC's newspaper-television crossownership restrictions as the company does not own a newspaper within the market.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/76329/gannett-buys-6-london-broadcasting-stations )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KTXD-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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