18 Facts About KTVT

KTVT is a television station licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, United States, broadcasting CBS programming to the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

In July 1966, KTVT began broadcasting its programming in color, after the station acquired camera, projection and slide equipment to broadcast local and acquired programming in the format; KTVT inaugurated its color telecasts with the station's broadcast of the Miss Texas Pageant, its first local program to be produced in the format.

KTVT gained its first major competitor in February 1968, when Doubleday Broadcasting signed on KMEC, which featured a broad mix of general entertainment and sports programs.

KTVT's popularity spread outside of the Metroplex beginning in the late 1970s, when the station began making its signal available to cable television providers throughout Texas and in surrounding states.

KTVT remained the Dallas–Fort Worth market's leading independent station into the 1980s, even as it gained three additional UHF independent competitors launched over the course of six months in the early 1980s.

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Around that time, KTVT further cemented this status by referencing the station in continuity as "Channel 11, The Super Ones".

KTVT was one of the few long-tenured major market independents that did not align with the fledgling Fox Broadcasting Company in the run-up to the network's launch in October 1986.

However, even without the presence of KDAF, KTVT would have likely passed on the Fox affiliation in any event.

In late 1985, the station relocated its operations to its current facility at 5233 Bridge Street, as a construction project that would widen the West Freeway into a four-lane highway forced KTVT to move from its original studios, which were torn down to make way for the additional freeway lanes.

At the time it signed the contract with CBS, KTVT began airing The Price Is Right and The Bold and the Beautiful within its daytime schedule, after KDFW chose to preempt them in favor of Donahue and the short-lived syndicated court show Juvenile Justice, respectively, in the respective slots of the two CBS Daytime programs as part of its transition to Fox; Channel 11 cleared select CBS prime time programs that KDFW-TV preempted in order to run locally produced specials.

Much of the syndicated sitcoms, drama series and cartoons that KTVT was forced to divest because of CBS' network-dominated programming schedule were acquired by KDAF and KTXA .

Also in 1999, KTVT relocated its primary operations from its Stemmons Freeway facility into an existing office facility on North Central Expressway that had remained under Gaylord ownership.

Since it joined the network in July 1995, KTVT has carried the entire CBS schedule, and as a CBS owned-and-operated station, it broadcasts the majority of its programs—other than those featured within its prime time lineup and network-televised sporting events—in pattern.

Since it joined the network, KTVT has aired CBS' children's program blocks over both Saturdays and Sundays .

In 1985, KTVT obtained the broadcast rights to the Texas Rangers under a ten-year agreement.

KTVT aired an average of 95 Rangers games per season over the first ten years of the contract, which consisted entirely of away games up through the 1989 season; a limited schedule of home games was added in 1990, selected on the basis of whether the games were projected to have high ticket sales and attendance.

KTVT formerly served as the television flagship for the Dallas Mavericks from 1982 to 1998; it initially shared the rights to the NBA team's game broadcasts with WFAA, with KTVT running about 30 Dallas Mavericks games per season.

Since September 1998, KTVT has served as the official television partner of the Dallas Cowboys, holding rights to air various team-related programs during the regular season as well as preseason games that are not televised nationally on broadcast or cable television.