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| Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex | |
|---|---|
| City | DeSoto, Texas |
| Channels | Digital: 31 (UHF) |
| Subchannels | 31.1 Sonlife 31.3 Hot TV 31.4 RTV 31.5 Infomercials |
| Owner | HC2 Holdings (HC2 LPTV Holdings, Inc.) |
| Founded | 1980 on channel 65 in Mullin, Texas |
| Sister station(s) | KATA-CD, KHPK-LD, KJJM-LP, KODF-LD |
| Former callsigns | K31GL 2004–2008, K65BC 1980–2004 |
| Former affiliations | America's Store (2004–2006) Almavision (2006) Infomercials (2006–2008) TeleRitmo (2008-2009) TheCoolTV (2009) AMGTV (2009–2010) independent ("TV HOT") (2010) Genesis (Spanish, to 2011) |
| Transmitter power | 8 kW |
| Height | 391 m (calculated; 330 m above ground level) |
K31GL-D is a low-power digital TV station in the Dallas / Fort Worth area, licensed to serve DeSoto, Texas, owned and operated by HC2 Holdings. It is not available on either Charter Spectrum, or Verizon FiOS at this time, and covers the Dallas/Fort Worth DMA.
Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the 15th-largest city in the United States and fifth-largest city in Texas. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly 350 square miles (910 km2) into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. According to the 2017 census estimates, Fort Worth's population is 874,168. Fort Worth is the second-largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, which is the 4th most populous metropolitan area in the United States.
DeSoto is a city in Dallas County, Texas, in the United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 49,047.
HC2 Holdings Inc., formerly known as Primus Telecommunications Group, Inc. (Primus), is a public financial services company. The company was renamed HC2 Holdings, Inc in April 2014 after HRG Group Inc. acquired a 40.5% stake in the company, changing HC2's Stock Market ticker on the NYSE to HCHC. Since January 2014, HC2 has acquired a diverse array of operating subsidiaries, each with its own dedicated management team across a broad range of industries. This includes the acquisition of Schuff Steel, America's largest steel fabricator in the first half of 2014 and Global Marine Systems, a British company specializing in building subsea cable infrastructure in the 3rd quarter of 2014. The company divested all telecommunications interests with the exception of PTGi-ICS.
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This station initially began in 1980 (FCC file: BRTT-19800530IG) as K65BC of Mullin, Texas and was owned by Pompey Mountain Broadcasting, Incorporated of Corpus Christi, Texas. Marcos A. Rodriguez acquired the frequency in 1994 and ran Spanish music video programming on it 24 hours a day. KUVN-CA of Fort Worth operated on channel 31 until 2001 when KUVN-CA changed to channel 47 clearing the way for other use of channel 31. On January 6, 2004 the call sign of K65BC changed to K31GL with the change from channel 65 in Mullin to channel 31 in DeSoto. During the summer of 2006, the station picked up Almavision.
Mullin is a town in Mills County in Northwestern Central Texas. The population was 179 at the 2010 census.
Corpus Christi, colloquially Corpus, is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas. The county seat of Nueces County, it also extends into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio Counties. It is 130 miles southeast of San Antonio. Its political boundaries encompass Nueces Bay and Corpus Christi Bay. Its zoned boundaries include small land parcels or water inlets of three neighboring counties.
Marcos A. Rodriguez is a Cuban-American entrepreneur, movie producer, businessperson and investor. He is the founder and CEO of numerous American media outlets including KLTY, KUUR, an FM radio station serving the Carbondale, Colorado area and "TV Aspen" KCXP-LP, a television station in Aspen, Colorado. These radio and television stations represent the only locally owned stations in Aspen.
At one time in the late 1980s a non-profit organization secured a construction permit for a full-power station on non-commercial Channel 31 in Fort Worth that would have broadcast with the call KETE-TV. However, the organization never built the station and the CP was cancelled by the FCC.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. The FCC serves the public in the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public safety, and homeland security.
In late 2006, Almavision programming ceased on the station and it started airing an all-infomercial format, much like KBOP-LD's current format.
An infomercial is a form of television commercial, which generally includes a toll-free telephone number or website. Most often used as a form of direct response television (DRTV), long-form infomercials are typically 28:30 or 58:30 minutes in length. Infomercials are also known as paid programming. This phenomenon started in the United States, where infomercials were typically shown overnight, outside peak prime time hours for commercial broadcasters. Some television stations chose to air infomercials as an alternative to the former practice of signing off. Some channels air infomercials 24 hours. By 2009, most infomercial spending in the U.S. occurred during the early morning, daytime and evening hours, or in the afternoon. Stations in most countries around the world have instituted similar media structures. The infomercial industry is worth over $200 billion.
KBOP-LD is an independent television station serving the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex, licensed in Dallas, Texas, owned and operated by D.T.V., LLC. This station holds a construction permit for digital broadcasting on RF channel 20. It is not available on Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications, or Verizon Fios at this time.
When K31GL switched from analog to digital broadcasting in November 2008, the Genesis network moved from KHPK-LP and KNAV-LP to K31GL, and KHPK-LP began broadcasting K31GL's former infomercial format. In December, subchannel 31.3 began an all-infomercial format.
KHPK-LD is a television station serving the Dallas / Fort Worth area. It is owned and operated by HC2 Holdings. It is not available on either Charter Spectrum or Verizon FiOS at this time.
KNAV-LP channel 22, is a low-power TV station that serves the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex, operated by HC2 Holdings.
On March 12, 2009, subchannel 31.3 began broadcasting TheCoolTV, a music video channel owned by Cool Music Network. 31.3 ceased transmitting TheCoolTV in September 2009, to have been replaced later by a locally originated channel HOT TV—the "HOT" acronym meant "History of Television"; programming consisted of old movies and TV programs from the 1950s and 1960s. From November 9, 2010 to December 7, 2010, Hot TV became a temporary hub for This TV (previously from WFAA Channel 8.3) before it was moved to its permanent home on KDAF channel 33.3 and on KDTX channel 58.3.
TheCoolTV is a defunct digital broadcast television network and online music video "jukebox" streaming service owned by Cool Music Network, LLC of Lawrence, Kansas.
This TV is an American free-to-air television network that is owned by ThisTV, LLC, a joint venture between the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of Tribune Media, and the MGM Domestic Television Distribution subsidiary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The network maintains a large programming emphasis on films, but also airs other limited general entertainment content in the form of classic television series and children's programming.
WFAA, virtual and VHF digital channel 8, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States and serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. 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, 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 in central Dallas. The station's transmitter is located south of Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill.
On May 19, 2009, subchannel 31.4 began broadcasting AMGTV. Less than a year later on May 13, 2010, 31.4 switched to an affiliate of the Retro Television Network.
On January 7, 2011 31.5 was launched airing infomercials.
In June 2013, K31GL-D was slated to be sold to Landover 5 LLC as part of a larger deal involving 51 other low-power television stations; [1] the sale fell through in June 2016. [2] Mako Communications sold its stations, including K31GL-D, to HC2 Holdings in 2017. [3]
