KTAQ is a commercial television station

Television station

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 in Greenville, Texas

Greenville, Texas

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, USA, broadcasting a digital signal in the Dallas area on channel 47. The station is available on channel 24 and channel 428 through Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable

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, Channel 22 through Charter Communications

Charter Communications

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 and channel 18 through Verizon FiOS

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History

This station signed on April 1, 1994. KTAQ was not only affiliated with PTN, but also with other shopping networks. From 2000 to 2004, it was affiliated with America's Collectibles Network, though most of the shopping programming was relegated to nighttime hours. And from 2004-2006, they've changed shopping affiliates, to ShopNBC

ShopNBC

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. After late 2006, KTAQ went to 24-hour religious programming.

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.

Until early November 2010 it was the flagship station

Flagship station

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 of the Promiseland Television Network

Promiseland Television Network

The Promiseland Television Network is a religious television network based in Dallas, Texas. It is owned and operated by Pastor Mike Simons.Promiseland Television Network is available in USA, Canada, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean on Glorystar Christian Satellite on Channel 102...

, also until mid-2010 the station was owned & operated by Mike Simons (through Simons Broadcasting, LP), who also founded Promiseland Television Network.

The station was owned & operated by Mike Simons (through Simons Broadcasting, LP). In November of 2008, Simons Broadcasting, LP, then owner of KTAQ-DT, filed for Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Texas in Waco, the station was sold by Simons Broadcasting, LP debtor-in-possession to Platinum Equity, LLC

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 in mid-2010.

Format Change?

London Broadcasting, the station's new owners, have reserved the call sign KTXD, pending FCC approval to take over the station. The new owners have retained Continental Television to act as "national and local AD sales" for the station, which suggests that the new KTXD may have a general independent format rather than a brokered, or foreign language format.

Digital TV

KTAQ's analog signal from the Greenville area on channel 47 has shut down, and KTAQ continues its digital only transmissions on channel 46 from the Dallas area. Because the digital transmitter site is over 63 miles from the Greenville site many viewers in that area no longer receive KTAQ.

There may be confusion caused by the existence of a Low Power TV station (KUVN-CA) on channel 47 in Fort Worthhttp://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?state=TX&call=KUVN&arn=&city=Fort+Worth&chan=&cha2=69&serv=&type=3&facid=&list=0&dist=&dlat2=&mlat2=&slat2=&dlon2=&mlon2=&slon2=&size=9 and the "virtual" channel 47 KTAQ.

In June 2011, KTAQ began multiplexing their signal:

Channel	Programming
47.1	Independent Network
47.2	Universal Access Network
47.3	Mexicanal Mexicanal Mexicanal Network is a Mexican based television Network launched in 2005 by and and serves Mexicans living and working in the United States, Canada and Mexico....

Contact Info

KTAQ-TV 47
Offices

KTAQ-TV47
2909 San Jacinto Street
Dallas, TX 75204

972-884-5170 - O
972-884-5171 - F

Sales Manager - Everett Strong
Director of Operations - Mike Gwartney
Traffic Coordinator - Margo Ramos

External links

• http://www.ktaqtv.com/