KRET-TV was an instructional television station in Richardson, Texas

Richardson, Texas

Richardson is a city in Dallas and Collin Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 99,223. In 2011 the population was estimated to be 107,684. Richardson is an affluent inner suburb of Dallas and home of the Telecom Corridor with a high...

 on channel 23, which was on the air from 1960 to 1970. The station was owned by the Richardson Independent School District

Richardson Independent School District

Richardson Independent School District is a school district based in Richardson, Texas .RISD covers and includes most of the city of Richardson, TX and portions of the cities of Dallas, TX and Garland, TX . RISD operates 55 campuses that serve more than 34,000 students...

. The station was the first broadcast TV station in the nation to be wholly owned by a school district. The call letters "RET" stood for "Richardson Educational Television".

KRET began broadcasting February 29, 1960 with a broadcast range of about 20 miles; it broadcast only on weekdays eventually matching school hours, and not during the summer. It was actually the first education television station in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, signing on about 6 months before KERA-TV

KERA-TV

KERA-TV, virtual channel 13 , is the PBS member station in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Licensed to Dallas, it broadcasts from a transmitter located in Cedar Hill. However, it also serves as the default PBS station for the Abilene, San Angelo and Tyler/Longview/Lufkin/Nacogdoches markets, as...

.

The studio was first located at Richardson Junior High School from 1960-1963, then at Richardson High School

Richardson High School

Richardson High School is a High school in Richardson, Texas, United States with a 2006 enrollment of approximately 2500 and a student/teacher ratio of 12.8.-Background:...

 from 1963-1970. The station was converted on August 31, 1970 into a closed-circuit network

Instructional Television Fixed Service

The Educational Broadband Service was formerly known as the Instructional Television Fixed Service . ITFS was a band of twenty microwave channels available to be licensed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to local credit granting educational institutions...

 named "TAGER".

The tower stood on the campus of Richardson High School before being taken down in the mid-2000s, to make room for expansion of the school building.

Channel 23 was later re-allocated to nearby Garland

Garland, Texas

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. The frequency remained dark until 1985 when religious broadcaster KIAB-TV signed on the air. The station was later sold and became KUVN-TV

KUVN-TV

KUVN-DT, channel 23, is the Univision owned-and-operated station in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Designated Market Area. It transmits from Cedar Hill...

 a Univision

Univision

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affiliate.

Station Personnel

The 1969-1970 Television Factbook/Stations volume listed the following station personnel for KRET-TV:

• Lloyd J. Collins, Station Manager

• Richard F. Hays, Director Of Programming

• Bob Ramsey, Chief Engineer

• Jay Garrett (Marcom) Audio Tech