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A BRIEF HISTORY...
The first television experiment in North Texas was conducted by station W5AGO. It was assembled by engineer Truett Kimzey (who later started Greenville, TX radio station KGVL,) and, in March, 1934, the $1,500 worth of TV equipment was put on display for viewing at the Fort Worth Stock Show (a video signal was sent there from Kimzey's TV studios at Downtown Fort Worth's Commercial Standard Building.) Unfortunately, the crude equipment was soon outdated, as the FCC was still hammering out industry standards for technology that wouldn't be in wide use for another 20 years...and the Southwest wouldn't see television again until the late 1940s.

September 29, 1948 brought regular television broadcasting to the airwaves of the Metroplex when Fort Worth's WBAP-TV signed on. The very next day, the FCC froze all TV applications until they could sort out standards and procedures for the quickly-evolving medium. Applicants who had already received construction permits (CPs) could go ahead and build, however, or one could purchase an existing station to get into the TV business (as did Belo with Channel 8.) Although the freeze was lifted on 4/14/1952, the DFW area did not see a new station established until KFJZ-Channel 11 in 1955.

During the past 50 years, North Texas has seen television evolve from its humble beginnings with three channels and lots of local programming, to six local channels in the 1960s, to the introduction of cable TV to the masses in the 1980s, to watching the advent of HDTV and digital unfold in the 2000s.

RETURNING TO THE SITE SOON!
"DFW Television Memories"

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