KIDZ-LD
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Abilene, Texas United States |
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| Branding | My Abilene |
| Channels | Digital: 42 (UHF) |
| Translators | KXVA 15.2 See Translators section |
| Affiliations | MyNetworkTV (2006–present) |
| Owner |
Tegna Media (LSB Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| Founded | October 30, 1991 |
| First air date | 1992 |
| Call letters' meaning | Derived from KIDY, sister station in San Angelo |
| Sister station(s) | KXVA |
| Former callsigns | K54DT (1991–1996) KIDZ-LP (1996–2011) KIDZ-CD (2011–2012) |
| Former affiliations |
Fox (1992–2001) UPN (1995–2006, secondary until 2001) PAX (secondary, 2001–2006) |
| Transmitter power | 12 kW |
| Height | 111 m |
| Class | Low-power |
| Facility ID | 58561 |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
KIDZ-LD is a low-power television station in Abilene, Texas, broadcasting locally in digital on UHF channel 42 as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. Founded October 30, 1991, the station is owned by Tegna, Inc. and is part of a duopoly in Abilene with Fox affiliate KXVA. KIDZ-LD is carried on local cable TV television systems and can be seen over-the-air in neighboring cities through a network of low-power stations, and in a full power form over KXVA's 15.2 digital subchannel. (See Translators section.)
On October 30, 1991, the FCC granted an original construction permit to former owner Sage Broadcasting Corporation to build low-power television station K54DT, to serve Abilene, Texas on UHF channel 54. The station was quickly built and came on air in May or June 1992 as Abilene's first full-time Fox affiliate. When UPN launched in 1995, K54DT began carrying select programs from that network also, including Star Trek: Voyager. In June 1996, after the FCC began to allow low-power stations to use four-letter callsigns, the station took call letters KIDZ-LP. KIDZ-LP served as primary Fox and secondary UPN affiliates until January 2001, when former owner Sage Broadcasting launched KXVA as a full-service Fox affiliate. KIDZ-LP then became a primary UPN affiliate, with PAX as a secondary affiliation. The station received permission to move to UHF channel 42 in December 2001, and as part of the move, upgraded their license to Class A on February 27, 2002. They completed the move to the new channel in late 2004, and licensed the new facilities on December 22, 2004.
In January 2006, UPN and The WB announced that each network would cease operations in September 2006 and that in its place would be a new network, later named The CW. A month later, unable to secure CW affiliation for their largest-market stations, News Corporation, the parent company of Fox, announced that it would form its own network, called MyNetworkTV, and stations that had been affiliated with UPN or The WB needed to decide which of the two networks to affiliate with, or to go independent. On April 18, 2006, KIDZ-LP announced that it would affiliate with MyNetworkTV [1]. The choice seemed natural, as the station's former owner, Sage Broadcasting Corporation, had had a working relationship with Fox in Abilene for nearly 15 years. On September 5, 2006, MyNetworkTV launched, and KIDZ-LP became a MyNetworkTV affiliate.
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