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City | Decatur, Texas |
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WFAA | |
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First air date | September 15, 1993 |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 29 (UHF, 1993–2009) |
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Call sign meaning | Metroplex |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 73701 |
ERP | 1,000 kW |
HAAT | 544 m (1,785 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 32°35′20″N 96°58′5.9″W / 32.58889°N 96.968306°W |
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Website | www |
KMPX (channel 29) is a television station licensed to Decatur, Texas, United States, serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network Estrella TV. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Dallas-licensed ABC affiliate WFAA (channel 8). KMPX's offices are located on Gateway Drive in Irving, and its transmitter is located in Cedar Hill, Texas. Master control and most internal operations are based at the WFAA Communications Center Studios on Young Street in Downtown Dallas.
Channel 29 went on the air as KMPX in 1993 and was the original flagship station of the Daystar Television Network, a Christian ministry that operated from headquarters in the Dallas suburb of Colleyville and later Bedford. In 2003, Daystar acquired KDTN (channel 2) and sold KMPX to Liberman Broadcasting. Under Liberman, the station was a Spanish-language outlet, first as an independent station and later as the Dallas-area affiliate of Liberman's Estrella TV network. In 2020, KMPX was acquired by Tegna, giving it UHF spectrum to improve the reception of WFAA while continuing to broadcast Estrella TV as its primary subchannel. Tegna acquired the rights to telecast Dallas Mavericks basketball in 2024, with channel 29 airing most of the team's games, and will concurrently switch the primary subchannel to an English-language independent station under the new call sign KFAA-TV.