KSTR-TV
Encyclopedia
KSTR-DT, digital channel 48 (virtual channel
49), is a Spanish-language general entertainment television station
in Irving, Texas
, serving the Dallas
/Fort Worth
Metroplex
. It is currently owned by Univision
, and broadcasts as a TeleFutura
owned-and-operated station
.
The station's digital channel is multiplexed.>
Channel
Video
Aspect
Programming
49.1
1080i
16:9
Main KSTR programming / TeleFutura
49.2
480i
4:3
). Its analog channel (channel 49) remained on the air for two weeks, displaying only a static panel with a message in Spanish. Translated to English, the message stated "we have stopped broadcasting our analog signal. From January 12, only a digital signal is being broadcast."
from March 1984 to September 1986. The station was then sold to the Home Shopping Network
and switched to Shop at Home programs from HSN as KHSX (Home Shopping in Texas).
Silver King owned the HSN stations, and USA Broadcasting
bought them by 1996. Two years later, they've added daily 1 hour newscasts from Bloomberg TV
at 6AM and then added classic children's programming on Sunday mornings. In late 1999, USA Broadcasting relegated shopping programming to late night hours and switched the station to a general entertainment format under the call sign KSTR-TV (Meaning "K-Star") airing primarily children's programming (syndicated from BKN
), reality shows (America's Funniest Home Videos
; Real TV
), sitcoms (Sister, Sister
; The Three Stooges; The Andy Griffith Show
; NewsRadio
), dramas (Knight Rider; The A-Team
), talk shows, and movies as well as USA's original shows (Tens {rebroadcast from its Miami, FL
sister station WAMI-TV} and Strip Poker), plus newscasts from The News of Texas
. During this period, it was the official Dallas/Fort Worth station for Dallas Mavericks
Basketball
. This station uses the "City Vision" (Your City is Our Studio) bumper cards throughout its run.
Due to financial problems in late 2000, USA and KSTR eliminated its programming by half and readded HSN as a part-time offering on weekday mornings from 8AM to Noon. That same year, they planned to sell KSTR to Disney
/ABC
which would've created a partnership for Belo
-owned ABC affiliate WFAA-TV, but Univision
outbid its competition in a close race. During the September 11 attacks, KSTR simulcasted live coverage from its now-sister station
KUVN
before resuming what's left of their regular lineup a week later. During the last weeks of KSTR's English programming, they were airing daily marathons of The Andy Griffith Show and movies until January 2002, when USA Broadcasting pulled the plug on KSTR's independent format in preparation of becoming a TeleFutura affiliate. KSTR's meager programming inventory though would move to former Telemundo
affiliate KFWD
. All Dallas Mavericks games were relocated to KTXA
.
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
49), is a Spanish-language general entertainment television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
in Irving, Texas
Irving, Texas
Irving is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city population was 216,290. Irving is within the Dallas–Plano–Irving metropolitan division of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, designated...
, serving the Dallas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
/Fort Worth
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...
Metroplex
Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
The Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington Metropolitan Statistical Area, a title designated by the U.S. Census as of 2003, encompasses 12 counties within the U.S. state of Texas. The area is divided into two metropolitan divisions: Dallas–Plano–Irving and Fort Worth–Arlington. Residents of the area...
. It is currently owned by Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
, and broadcasts as a TeleFutura
TeleFutura
TeleFutura is a U.S. Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida.-Overview:TeleFutura Is America’s #2 Spanish-Language Network in prime time...
owned-and-operated station
Owned-and-operated station
In the broadcasting industry , an owned-and-operated station usually refers to a television station or radio station that is owned by the network with which it is associated...
.
Digital programming
Display resolution
The display resolution of a digital television or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is controlled by all different factors in cathode ray tube , flat panel or projection...
Aspect ratio
The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements,...
1080i
1080i is the shorthand name for a high-definition television mode. The i means interlaced video; 1080i differs from 1080p, in which the p stands for progressive scan. The term 1080i assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a frame size of 1920×1080 pixels...
16:9
16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ...
TeleFutura
TeleFutura is a U.S. Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida.-Overview:TeleFutura Is America’s #2 Spanish-Language Network in prime time...
480i
480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC...
Analog-to-digital transition
KSTR chose to operate exclusively on digital television starting January 12, 2009, prior to the original mandatory DTV transition date of February 17, 2009 (see DTV transition in the United StatesDTV transition in the United States
The DTV transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of free over-the-air television programming...
). Its analog channel (channel 49) remained on the air for two weeks, displaying only a static panel with a message in Spanish. Translated to English, the message stated "we have stopped broadcasting our analog signal. From January 12, only a digital signal is being broadcast."
History
As KLTJ-TV (Keep Looking To Jesus), the station ran Christian teaching programming from Trinity Broadcasting NetworkTrinity Broadcasting Network
The Trinity Broadcasting Network is a major American Christian television network. TBN is based in Costa Mesa, California, with auxiliary studio facilities in Irving, Texas; Hendersonville, Tennessee; Gadsden, Alabama; Decatur, Georgia; Miami, Florida; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Orlando, Florida; and New...
from March 1984 to September 1986. The station was then sold to the Home Shopping Network
Home Shopping Network
Home Shopping Network or HSN began in 1977 as a 24-hour/7 day a week home shopping television network televised via cable, satellite, and some terrestrial channels in the Philippines. HSN can also be shopped online at hsn.com...
and switched to Shop at Home programs from HSN as KHSX (Home Shopping in Texas).
Silver King owned the HSN stations, and USA Broadcasting
USA Broadcasting
USA Broadcasting was an American media company owned by veteran entertainment industry executive Barry Diller. This network was the over-the-air broadcasting arm of USA Network....
bought them by 1996. Two years later, they've added daily 1 hour newscasts from Bloomberg TV
Bloomberg Television
Bloomberg Television is a 24-hour global network broadcasting business and financial news. It is distributed globally, reaching over 200 million homes worldwide. It is owned and operated by Bloomberg L.P...
at 6AM and then added classic children's programming on Sunday mornings. In late 1999, USA Broadcasting relegated shopping programming to late night hours and switched the station to a general entertainment format under the call sign KSTR-TV (Meaning "K-Star") airing primarily children's programming (syndicated from BKN
BKN
Bohbot Kids Network was a syndicated animation block created and distributed by Bohbot Entertainment, an animation production company founded by Allen J...
), reality shows (America's Funniest Home Videos
America's Funniest Home Videos
America's Funniest Home Videos is an American reality television program on ABC in which viewers are able to send in humorous homemade videotapes. The most common videos usually feature slapstick physical comedy arising from incidents, accidents and mishaps...
; Real TV
Real TV
Real TV is a reality television program that ran in syndication from September 9, 1996 to September 7, 2001. It aired footage of extraordinary events that were not usually covered in mainstream news. It was often played on Spike TV and the Fox Reality Channel.-The Idea:Real TV usually showed home...
), sitcoms (Sister, Sister
Sister, Sister (TV series)
Sister, Sister is an American television sitcom about identical twin girls Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell , who were separated and adopted at birth, when one day they come face-to-face after 14 years apart....
; The Three Stooges; The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised by CBS between October 3, 1960, and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays a widowed sheriff in the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina...
; NewsRadio
NewsRadio
NewsRadio is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from 1995 to 1999. The series was created by executive producer Paul Simms, and was filmed in front of a studio audience at CBS Studio Center and Sunset Gower Studios...
), dramas (Knight Rider; The A-Team
The A-Team
The A-Team is an American action adventure television series about a fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel who work as soldiers of fortune, while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit". The A-Team was created by...
), talk shows, and movies as well as USA's original shows (Tens {rebroadcast from its Miami, FL
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
sister station WAMI-TV} and Strip Poker), plus newscasts from The News of Texas
News of Texas
The News of Texas was a statewide newscast in Texas. It was syndicated to 27 affiliate stations in the state by the San Antonio-based Texas Network between 1999 and 2000.-History:...
. During this period, it was the official Dallas/Fort Worth station for Dallas Mavericks
Dallas Mavericks
The Dallas Mavericks are a professional basketball team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association , and the reigning NBA champions, having defeated the Miami Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals.According to a 2011...
Basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
. This station uses the "City Vision" (Your City is Our Studio) bumper cards throughout its run.
Due to financial problems in late 2000, USA and KSTR eliminated its programming by half and readded HSN as a part-time offering on weekday mornings from 8AM to Noon. That same year, they planned to sell KSTR to Disney
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
/ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
which would've created a partnership for Belo
Belo
Belo Corp. is a Dallas-based media company that owns 20 commercial broadcasting television stations and two regional 24-hour cable news television channels. The company was previously known as A.H. Belo Corp. after one of the early owners of the company, Alfred Horatio Belo, now the name of the...
-owned ABC affiliate WFAA-TV, but Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
outbid its competition in a close race. During the September 11 attacks, KSTR simulcasted live coverage from its now-sister station
Sister station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio and/or television stations operated by the same ownership....
KUVN
KUVN-DT
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...
before resuming what's left of their regular lineup a week later. During the last weeks of KSTR's English programming, they were airing daily marathons of The Andy Griffith Show and movies until January 2002, when USA Broadcasting pulled the plug on KSTR's independent format in preparation of becoming a TeleFutura affiliate. KSTR's meager programming inventory though would move to former Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
affiliate KFWD
KFWD
KFWD, virtual channel 52.1 , is an independent television station in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, broadcasting from a transmitter in Cedar Hill, Texas...
. All Dallas Mavericks games were relocated to KTXA
KTXA
KTXA, virtual channel 21 , is an independent television station based in Fort Worth, Texas, and serving the Dallas/Fort Worth designated market area. With its transmitter in Cedar Hill, KTXA is owned by CBS Corporation and is the sister station of CBS outlet KTVT .KTXA was originally an...
.