KDTN

KDTN, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 43), is the flagship station of the Daystar Television Network serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex and licensed to Denton, Texas, United States, owned by its subsidiary Word of God Fellowship. KDTN's studio facility is part of the Daystar headquarters located off SH 121 in nearby Bedford, and its transmitter is located south of Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill.

History

In 1948, Variety Broadcasting (controlled by Lee Segall), owner of KIXL radio (1040 AM, now KGGR and 104.5 FM, now KKDA-FM), applied to the Federal Communications Commission for a license to operate a television station on VHF channel 2, to have been given the callsign KIXL-TV. However, the station ultimately never launched. By the time the FCC lifted its freeze on new television station license applications in 1952, the channel 2 allocation had been reassigned to Denton and as a non-commercial educational channel. This did not stop Harwell V. Shepard, the owner of KDNT radio (1440 AM, now KTNO and 106.1 FM, now KHKS), from applying for a commercial license for the station; the application was declined, as other applicants insisted to the FCC that the VHF channel 2 allocation be designated an educational station.