CBS 11

CBS 11 may refer to one of the following television stations in the United States:

KTVT

KTVT, virtual channel 11 (UHF digital channel 19), is a CBS owned-and-operated television station serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex that is licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, as part of a duopoly with independent station KTXA (channel 21). The two stations share primary studio facilities located on Bridge Street (off I-30), east of downtown Fort Worth; KTVT operates a secondary studio (which also handles advertising sale departments for both stations) at the CBS Tower on North Central Expressway (north of NorthPark Center) in Dallas; KTVT maintains transmitter facilities located south of Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill.

History

As an independent station

The station first signed on the air on September 11, 1955 as KFJZ-TV; it was the first independent station to sign on in Texas. The station was founded by the Roosevelt family, owners of the Texas State Network, and was sister station to KFJZ radio (1270 AM, now KFLC; unrelated to the present-day KFJZ at 870 AM). In 1959, it gained a sister FM station, KFJZ-FM (97.1, now KEGL). During the late 1950s, the station was briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. The station originally operated from facilities located on West Freeway (in the present-day location of I-30) in Fort Worth. Channel 11 originally signed on daily at 2:30 p.m. and signed off at midnight. In 1960, the Texas State Network sold channel 11 to NAFI Telecasting Corporation (which also owned Chris-Craft Industries at the time); the station's call letters were then changed to KTVT on September 1. In July 1966, KTVT began broadcasting its programming in color, which was inaugurated with the broadcast of the Miss Texas Pageant.