KFWD

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KFWD

Dallas, Texas/Fort Worth, Texas
Branding	KFWD TV 52
Slogan	Your Entertainment Getaway
Channels	52 (VHF) analog, 51 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Independent
Owner	HIC Broadcasting (Managed by Belo Corp.)
Founded	1988
Call letters meaning	Fort Worth-Dallas
Former affiliations	Telemundo (1988-2001)
Website	www.kfwd.tv

KFWD (channel 52) is an independent station in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Its transmitter is located in Cedar Hill, Texas. Owned by HIC Broadcasting, the station runs sitcoms, dramas, movies, talk shows, religious shows, broadcasts of WFAA-TV and a live sports talk show.

In 1988, the station signed on as a Telemundo affiliate. When NBC bought Telemundo and KXTX, they pulled the affiliation from KFWD. KFWD then picked up English programming dropped by both KXTX and KSTR. This station also picks up live Sporting Events (including FC Dallas Soccer) dropped from KLDT.

There were rumors that Belo Corp. would buy KFWD, and create a duopoly with ABC affiliate WFAA-TV. As of April 2006, that has not happened. However, Belo does provide advertising sales assistance, certain technical services and facilities to support the operations of KFWD. Belo also operates KFWD.tv, the station's website, in a visual format similar to all Belo stations.

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Broadcast television in the Dallas / Fort Worth market (Nielsen DMA #6)
KDTN 2 (DS) - KDFW 4 (Fox) - KXAS 5 (NBC) - WFAA 8 (ABC) - KTVT 11 (CBS) - KERA 13 (PBS) - KTXA 21 (Ind) - KNAV 22 (Genesis) - KUVN 23 (UNI) - K25FW 25 (HSN) - KODF 26 / KLEG 44 (AZA) - KDFI 27 (MNTV) - KHPK 28 (Genesis) - KMPX 29 (Ind) - K31GL 31 (Almavision) - KDAF 33 (The CW/The Tube on DT 2) - KJJM 34 (LAT TV) - KVFW 38 (Religious) - KXTX 39 (TEL) - KTAQ 47 (ShopNBC) - KSTR 49 (TFU) - KATA 50 (Multimedios) - KFWD 52 (Ind) - KLDT 55 (Ind) - KSEX 57 (Ind) - KDTX 58 (TBN) - KPXD 68 (i)

Independent Television Stations in the state of Texas

K09VR 9 (Austin) - KTXA 21 (Fort Worth) - KGBS 32 (Austin) - KZBZ 46 (Canyon / Amarillo) - KNWS 51 (Houston) - KFWD 52 (Fort Worth) - KLDT 55 (Lake Dallas) - KTBU 55 (Conroe) - KSEX 57 (Dallas)

See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetwork TV, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, i, Religious, Home Shopping and Other Spanish stations in Texas