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KFXK-TV, virtual channel 51 (UHF digital channel 31), is a Fox-affiliated television station serving Tyler, Texas, United States that is licensed to Longview. The station is owned by White Knight Broadcasting, and is a sister station to MyNetworkTV affiliate KTPN-LD (channel 48); the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, which owns NBC affiliate KETK-TV (channel 56), operates KFXK under a local marketing agreement. All three stations share studio facilities located on Richmond Road (near Texas Loop 323) in Tyler; KFXK maintains transmitter facilities located near FM 125 in rural northwestern Rusk County (northwest of New London). Syndicated programs broadcast by KFXK-TV include ''How I Met Your Mother'', ''The Office'', ''Steve Harvey'', ''Divorce Court'', ''Modern Family'', ''The Big Bang Theory'' and ''Two and a Half Men''. On cable, the station is available on Suddenlink channel 12 and Longview Cable Television channel 8. There is a high definition feed offered on Suddenlink digital channel 705 and Longview Cable Television digital channel 235. Although KFXK operates a full-power signal, the broadcasting radius does not reach much of the southern part of the market. Therefore, the station's signal is relayed on low-power translator station KFXL-LD (channel 29) in Lufkin. ==History== The station first signed on the air on September 9, 1984 as KLMG-TV; the station originally operated as a CBS affiliate, making it the first full-time affiliate of the network in the Tyler-Longview market since KTVE (channel 32) – the first television station to sign on in the market – shut down in 1955; that station was hampered by low viewership as only a small percentage of East Texas area television sets were capable of receiving UHF stations since set manufacturers were not required to equip televisions with UHF tuners until the Federal Communications Commission passed the All-Channel Receiver Act in 1961, with UHF tuners not being included on all newer sets until 1964. Until channel 51 signed on, CBS programming was relegated to joint primary status on KLTV (channel 7), which also juggled programming with NBC and ABC (the latter of which is now that station's sole affiliation) for many years. KLMG-TV made national news as its founding owner, Clara McLaughlin, was the first African American woman ever to own a television station in the United States.〔()〕 McLaughlin bought a vacant school building located near Interstate 20 in Longview and had it renovated into a studio facility for the station. KLMG was intended to be part of a network of stations serving East Texas that would be known as the "East Texas Television Network." To this end, McLaughlin also held construction permits for KLNL on channel 19 in Nacogdoches, KLPH-TV on channel 42 in Paris, and KLDS on channel 20 in Denison. However, this plan did not come to fruition and none of the other stations ever signed on the air. KLMG wound up filing for bankruptcy just a few years later, and shut down its news department. In April 1991, the station changed its call letters to KFXK; it also became the market's Fox affiliate; prior to the switch, viewers in the Tyler-Longview market were only able to receive Fox programming via either the network's Dallas owned-and-operated station KDAF (now a CW affiliate) or Shreveport affiliate KMSS-TV. Conversely, the switch left the market without a CBS affiliate for the next thirteen years; Max Media would later purchase KLSB (channel 19), a satellite of NBC affiliate KETK-TV (channel 56), and converted it into CBS affiliate KYTX (KETK later signed on a low-power station on UHF channel 53, which assumed the KLSB call letters (which were later changed to KETK-LP) to serve as its repeater until it shut down in 2012). By 1998, KFXK had signed on KFXL as a translator serving the Lufkin-Nacogdoches area. In January 2013, KFXL-LD migrated its operations to KETK and KFXK's studio facility in Tyler. On April 24, 2013, the Communications Corporation of America announced the sale of its television stations, including KETK-TV, to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group. KFXK and KTPN was planned be sold to Nexstar partner company Mission Broadcasting; in the case of KFXK, that station is being sold to Mission to comply with FCC duopoly rules. But on August 5, 2014, Mission withdrew its application to acquire KFXK.〔(Application Info ), ''CDBS Public Access'', Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 6 December 2014.〕 Nexstar will continue to operate KFXK and KLPN under a shared services agreement with sister station KETK.〔https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101552312&qnum=5040©num=1&exhcnum=1〕 The sale was completed on January 1, 2015.〔(Consummation Notice ), ''CDBS Public Access'', Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 6 January 2015.〕 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「KFXK-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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