KDTX

KDTX-TV, virtual channel 58 (UHF digital channel 21), is a independent format television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States, and serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. The station is owned by the Texas Star Broadcasting. KDTX's studios are located at Texas Star Broadcasting Studios on West Irving Boulevard (SH 356, between it and SH 183) in Irving, and its transmitter is located south of Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill.

Until 2020, It was a TBN Owned and Operated Station and became the largest TBN station in DFW area. It move to KTBD-TV(Channel 57) and became the TBN owned and operated station.

Syndicated programming included Dateline among others.

KDTX is the largest well known general independent in 2020

History[edit]
The UHF channel 58 allocation in the Dallas–Fort Worth market was initially applied for broadcasting use by the Metroplex Broadcasting Company (owned by Adam Clayton Powell III (son of civil rights activist and congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.) and former KDFW (channel 4) anchor/reporter Barbara Harrison) for a television station under the call letters KDIA (a Spanish translation for the word "day"). The station was founded on January 15, 1985, however it is not known if it ever signed on.

KDTX-TV first signed on the air on February 9, 1987 (the call letters had previously been used by a radio station on 102.9 FM, now KDMX); it was built and signed on by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. In recent years, KDTX has been considered TBN's second-most important television station (after its flagship station, KTBN-TV in Santa Ana, California), particularly as the Dallas–Fort Worth market has a large religious base. TBN has since moved several of its operations, including some production facilities, to the Metroplex. Starting with 2020, TBN will move to KTBD-TV(formally another CW station) and will have a Independent Format and Religous Format