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KDFW ('''''"FOX4 - The News Station"''''') is the Fox Broadcasting Company Owned And Operated Television Station in the Dallas, Texas / Fort Worth, Texas Designated Market Area . Its transmitter is located in Cedar Hill . It is co-owned with KDFI-TV channel 27 as well as Fox Sports-Southwest. KDFW is an atypical Fox station with 44 hours a week of news along with syndicated first run talk/court/reality shows, off-network dramas, Fox primetime network programming and sports. HISTORY The station signed on as CBS affiliate KRLD-TV on December 3 , 1949 (the third television station in the Metroplex), and was owned by the now-defunct '' Dallas Times Herald '' newspaper; the two were located next to each other. KRLD served as the headquarters of the CBS network's coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy , led by Dan Rather , on November 22 , 1963 . The ''Times Herald'' and the station remained neighbors until the paper shut down in December 1991. KRLD's transmission tower in Cedar Hill , which was 586 feet tall and was considered the highest television transmission tower in the world, was hit by a military helicopter doing training exercises in 1968. The two passengers survived, but the tower had to be reconstructed. The station changed its call letters to KDFW on July 2 , 1970 , now broadcasting on its new transmission tower. That year, the Times-Mirror Company acquired KDFW through its purchase of the ''Times Herald''. FCC rules at the time prevented common ownership of a newspaper, radio and television station in the same market and KRLD-AM was divested by Times-Mirror. The newspaper was sold off in 1986, and was shut down five years later. In 1993, KDFW and the other Times-Mirror stations were sold to Argyle in a group deal. Early in 1994, KDFW began managing a struggling station, KDFI, which was rebroadcasting KDFW's newscasts in different time slots. In late 1993, when Fox gained the contract from CBS to carry the NFC package of the National Football League , New World Communications reached an agreement to make for its stations to make the big switch to the network. Afterwards, New World bought out Argyle, which owned KDFW along with sister stations KTVI in St Louis , WVTM in Birmingham, Alabama , and KTBC in Austin . When that buyout was final, KDFW, along with KTBC and KTVI switched affiliations to Fox on July 1 , 1995 -- while WVTM remained affiliated with NBC because former ABC affiliate WBRC in the same market was sold directly to Fox (WVTM was subsequently sold to NBC Universal before being purchased by current owner Media General ). Upon the network switch, the Cowboys football games moved back to KDFW after a one year absence; KDFW as a CBS affiliate carried the Cowboys through 1993, after which the NFC package moved from CBS to Fox. The CBS affiliation moved to KTVT , and former Fox O&O station KDAF (which Fox sold to Renaissance, later Tribune Company ) took The WB affiliation from KXTX . News Corporation purchased KDFW and its LMA with KDFI in a group deal in early 1997. Like most New World-owned stations, KDFW did not pick up Fox Kids; it stayed with KDAF until 1997 when Fox Kids moved to KDFI. (Fox/NewsCorp eventually bought KDFI outright in 2000.) KDFW broadcasts close to 50 hours of local news a week along with prime time Fox programming, sports, syndicated talk, court and reality shows. By the very late 1990s, the station also began to broadcast a few off-network sitcoms. When the station switched networks in 1995, it was known as FOX4 TEXAS. It is now known as '''FOX4: The News Station'''. Under Fox ownership, KDFW is the alternate flagship of Texas Rangers baseball as KDFI is the official flagship; Fox Sports Net also broadcasts some games as well. Also, KDFW and KDFI are the only network-owned stations (be it the same network) based in Dallas; NBC-owned KXAS and CBS-owned KTVT and KTXA (an independent) are based in Fort Worth. DIGITAL TELEVISION The station's digital channel is multiplexed: FOX 4 will leave channel 4 and move to channel 35 in 2009 when the analog to digital conversion is complete. http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf NEWS OPERATIONS KDFW, WITI in Milwaukee , WFLD in Chicago , WDAF in Kansas City , WBRC in Birmingham , KSAZ in Phoenix , and KTVI in St. Louis . are the only Fox stations to have a 10 p.m. newscast in either the Central and Mountain Time Zone s. Sister stations WTVT in Tampa-St. Petersburg and WTTG Washington, D.C. have recently added 11 p.m. newscasts. Beginning September 24, 2007, sister station WJBK in Detroit will also have an 11 p.m newscast. Fox may have all the O&O's add an 11 p.m. newscast should this become a success. So that means more of the Fox O&Os in the Central and Mountain Time Zones could add a 10 p.m. newscast as well ( KTBC in Austin had a 10 p.m. newscast for years after switching to Fox, which has since been scaled back to 9 p.m.). The Fox stations are all revamping their sets and graphics to be more closely aligned with Fox News Channel . They have new FOX News standardized logos, have the myfox(city).com templated websites and many have started to promote themselves as "The Most Powerful Name In Local News". KDFW debuted the new logo, set and graphics on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 on their 9pm show. It was the biggest change in the station's look since it flipped to Fox in 1995. At one time KDFW had an Eyewitness News format. Local counterpart WFAA also used this format as well. NOTABLE PERSONALITIES Current On-Air Talent FOX 4 Anchors
FOX 4 Reporters
Investigative
''Team Traffic'' (Weekday Mornings)
4Warn Weather
Sports Team
KDFW Alumni
NEWS/STATION PRESENTATION Newscast Titles
Station Slogans
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