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KFDX, virtual channel 3 (UHF digital channel 28), is the NBC-affiliated television station located in Wichita Falls, Texas, United States, and also serves Lawton, Oklahoma. The station is owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, KFDX operates Fox affiliate KJTL (channel 18) and MyNetworkTV affiliate KJBO-LP (channel 35) through a shared services agreement with Mission Broadcasting. The two stations share studios and transmitter facilities located on Seymour Highway in Wichita Falls. Its signal is relayed through four UHF translators: K27HM-D and K41HQ-D in Quanah, Texas, and K25JO-D and K43KS-D in Altus, Oklahoma. The station also operates a 24-hour weather channel that is carried on Time Warner Cable channel 17. The programming, selected by the on-duty meteorologist, switches between two different radar sources and a temperature and forecast display. ==History== KFDX went on the air on April 12, 1953 as the third television station to serve the North Texas-Southern Oklahoma region. The station was originally owned by Wichitex Radio and Television under the direction of Darrold Cannan, Sr. and Howard Fry, which also owned KFDX Radio, an AM station with a frequency of 990 that went on the air in 1947. In addition to being a founder and general manager, Fry was best known by children in Texoma for his ''Uncle Howdy's House Party'' on both radio and television. In 1955, Wichitex sold the radio station, which continues to operate to this day, to concentrate on the television portion of the business until the firm sold KFDX to Clay Communications of Texas in 1971. Clay sold some of its stations, including KFDX to Price Communications in 1987. In 1995, Price sold KFDX and two of its NBC affiliates KJAC-TV (now KBTV-TV) in Port Arthur, Texas and KSNF in Joplin, Missouri to the U.S. Broadcast Group. Current owner Nexstar Broadcasting bought the station from the U.S. Broadcast Group in 1998. Don Alexander, leader of rock-and-roll band Alexander and the Greats, and composer of the 1964 hit single "Hot Dang Mustang", came to KFDX in the late 1950s. For several years, he hosted an afternoon children's program called ''Stage Coach Three''. As "Pinto Bean", he donned cowboy garb to host afternoon western and horror movies. Alexander later served as anchorman and occasional news director at KFDX from 1963 to 1980. Nat Fleming, a local country and western band leader, hosted his own afternoon variety program ''The Nat Fleming Show'' on channel 3 from its inception in 1953 until the early 1960s. Fleming was also the longtime owner of a Wichita Falls western wear store, The Cow Lot, which closed its doors in 2006. In his store's television commercials, Fleming was most popular for the tagline "You can tell by looking if it came from the Cow Lot." The Channel 3 logo prior to the current one had been in use since the mid 1990s, both with and without the NBC Peacock. Several other Channel 3 logos have been used by KFDX throughout the station's history, most notably a Roman numeral 3 or "III" from 1967 to 1978 which was spelled out with the call sign KFDX capitalized and the letters "TV" in small lettering ahead of the numerals as "KFDX-tv III". During the Roman numeral era, Channel 3 programs were spelled out according to that logo including ''TV-III News'', ''RFD-III'', ''Matinee III'', ''TV-III Golden Movies'', ''News III'' and ''Newscenter III'' (became ''Newscenter 3'' with 1978 logo change). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KFDX-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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