By Jim Rossman. I read the Facebook lament of a friend who complained about losing digital channel Both readers said they had not changed their antenna placement and had previously received the channels without issue. But it was interesting that they both mentioned the same three channels. What threw me was that Channel 8 was on the list. This is kind of like the difference between AM and FM radio, which use different portions of the radio spectrum.
Our signal issues are due to work being done on the WFAA antenna. Kudos to KDFW for having this information displayed prominently on its home page. And I have to admit that my first inclination was to blame the antenna or an obstacle to clear reception. Tower maintenance was not high on my list of suspects for the lost channels, but it makes perfect sense.
Jim Rossman , Technology reviewer. He worked for 20 years at The Dallas Morning News and now freelances as a tech reviewer for the Business section. Become a business insider. The station is owned by Tegna Inc. WFAA maintains business offices and secondary studio facilities at the WFAA Communications Center Studios on Young Street in downtown Dallas next to the offices of its former sister newspaper under the ownership of former parent company Belo, The Dallas Morning News , and operates a primary studio facility, which is used for the production of WFAA's newscasts and also houses certain other business operations handled by the station, in the Victory Park neighborhood near Olive and Houston Streets, next to the American Airlines Center in central Dallas.
It is also one of only two television stations in the Dallas—Fort Worth market along with CW affiliate KDAF channel 33 , which is owned by Tribune Broadcasting that is not owned by the corporate parent of its affiliated network.
The initial application for the television station was filed on October 23, , when local businessman Karl Hoblitzelle, owner of movie theater chain Interstate Circuit Theatres, applied with the Federal Communications Commission FCC to obtain a construction permit and license to operate a television station on VHF channel 8; it was the first such license application for a television station in the Southern United States.
Hoblitzelle planned to operate the station out of the Republic Bank building in downtown Dallas, and even conducted a closed-circuit television broadcast of the opening of one of his properties, the Wilshire Theatre. Texas oil magnate Tom Potter filed a separate application for the Channel 8 license and was ultimately awarded the permit over Hoblitzelle.
The station first signed on the air at p. Potter founded and operated the station through the Lacy-Potter TV Broadcasting Company, which he partially controlled. The station originally operated from studio facilities located at Harry Hines Boulevard and Wolf Street, north of downtown Dallas. When the station commenced its full schedule on September 18, KBTV had broadcast for only four hours of programming per day.
It originally operated as a primary affiliate of the DuMont Television Network and a secondary affiliate of the short-lived Paramount Television Network; under the arrangement, through an agreement between Lacy-Potter and Paramount Pictures, the station agreed to air 4.
The A. Belo Corporation, owner of The Dallas Morning News, had attempted to launch a new television station in Dallas two years earlier, when it applied for a construction permit to build transmitter and broadcasting facilities for a proposed station that would have transmitted on VHF channel Complicating matters, the agency's moratorium on new license applications, which the FCC instituted to sort out the backlog of prospective applicants that already filed to build such operations, left Belo with the sole recourse of acquiring a television station that was already on the air if it wanted to own one in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The station was the first television property to be owned by the Dallas-based company, and also served as the flagship station of its broadcasting division until Belo merged with the Gannett Company in WFAA is one of a relatively limited number of broadcast television stations located west of the Mississippi River whose call letters begin with a "W"; the FCC normally assigns call signs prefixed with a "K" to television and radio stations with cities of license located west of the river and broadcast call signs prefixed with a "W" to stations located east of the river.
DuMont shut down in , amid various issues that arose from its relations with Paramount that hamstrung it from expansion. Although it had been apparent from the start that Dallas and Fort Worth which Arbitron originally designated as separate media markets were going to be collapsed into a single television market due to their close proximity, Fort Worth Star-Telegram owner Amon G.
After ownership of Carter Publications transferred to his familial heirs after Carter suffered a fatal heart attack two years before, in early , NBC threatened to strip WBAP-TV of its affiliation if it did not agree to move its transmitter eastward to reach the entire Dallas area. Belo had attempted to get an exclusive NBC affiliation first, and approached the network with an offer to make WFAA its exclusive affiliate for the entire market.
Carter's heirs—who initially did not want to move the transmitter closer to Dallas, in their aim to continue Carter's legacy of civic boosterism for Fort Worth—eventually agreed to NBC's demands that it move WBAP-TV's transmitter facilities to Cedar Hill, installing a transmitter antenna on a 1,foot m candelabra tower that was already shared by WFAA and KRLD-TV, and operate it at a higher effective radiated power strong enough to adequately cover Dallas.
Channel 8 became known for its heavy schedule of local programs during the period from the s through the s. The most popular was a show aimed at younger audiences; Jerry Haynes hosted a local children's program on the station on-and-off from to Originally debuting in March as Mr. Peppermint, Haynes who donned a red- and white-striped jacket and straw hat in his portrayal of the titular character, accompanied by a candy-striped cane starred alongside a variety of puppet characters performed by Vern Dailey and presented various segments from educational content to cartoon shorts; five years after ending its original nine-year run on WFAA in , the program was revived as the half-hour magazine-style educational series Peppermint Place in , running for 21 additional years—expanding into syndication for its final seven—until the program ended its collective year run in July In , WFAA became the first television station in the market to use a videotape recorder for broadcasting purposes; the station would gradually shift much of its locally produced programming from a live to a pre-recorded format, outside of newscasts, sports and special events, and eventually became one of the first television stations in the U.
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