KPEJ-TV

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KPEJ-TV
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HAAT333 m (1,093 ft)
Transmitter coordinates32°5′51.4″N 102°17′22.5″W / 32.097611°N 102.289583°W / 32.097611; -102.289583
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Websitewww.yourbasin.com

KPEJ-TV (channel 24) is a

Andrews County
.

History

The station first signed on the air on June 16, 1986; it originally operated as an independent station and was owned by Southwest Multimedia. In September 1987, KPEJ became the Midland–Odessa market's Fox affiliate. Southwest Multimedia sold the station to Associated Broadcasters of Layfette (later renamed Communications Corporation of America) in 1990. In 1998, the station began carrying programming from the United Paramount Network (UPN) as a secondary affiliation; UPN programming moved to CBS affiliate KOSA-TV (channel 7) in 2003, when that station launched a second digital subchannel (later affiliated with MyNetworkTV and now with The CW Plus as a satellite of KCWO-TV (channel 4)). In August 2007, KPEJ changed its on-air branding from "Fox 24" to "Fox West Texas"; the following year, it reverted to the "Fox 24" brand, but continued to use the "Fox West Texas" brand for its website and other special promotions.

On April 24, 2013, the

Nexstar Broadcasting Group, owner of ABC affiliate KMID (channel 2). Since the Odessa–Midland market has only eight full-power stations, Nexstar could not legally purchase KPEJ (Federal Communications Commission rules require a market to have eight remaining unique station owners after a duopoly is formed). In addition, KMID and KPEJ are two of the four highest-rated stations in the market in monthly total-day viewership, respectively ranking at third and fourth place. As a result, Nexstar planned to sell KPEJ's license assets to Mission Broadcasting, with Nexstar assuming the station's operation under a shared services agreement, which would have formed a virtual duopoly with KMID.[2]

However, on June 6, 2014, Nexstar announced that it would instead sell KPEJ-TV, along with two other Fox affiliates—sister station

Grant Broadcasting; Marshall plans to launch news operations and provide sports and minority-oriented public affairs programming to KMSS and the other two stations, with Nexstar providing sales and certain non-programming services (including engineering, master control and other administrative functions).[3] The sale was completed on January 1, 2015.[4]

On December 3, 2019, Marshall Broadcasting Group filed for

Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.[5] Mission Broadcasting, another company associated with Nexstar Media Group, agreed to purchase Marshall Broadcasting's stations for $49 million on March 30, 2020.[6] The transaction was completed on September 1, 2020.[7]

Programming

After

NFL's National Football Conference in 1994, KPEJ has carried preseason football games from the Dallas Cowboys, along with team owner Jerry Jones' weekly game discussion program. In 2010, KPEJ also acquired the rights to Houston Texans preseason games, which aired on tape delay if the game started while a Cowboys pre-game broadcast or preseason game telecast was ongoing. KPEJ lost the Dallas Cowboys preseason games to NBC affiliate KWES-TV in 2011, resulting in KPEJ broadcasting Texans preseason games live. In 2014
, KMID acquired the rights to the Dallas Cowboys preseason games. When conflicts exist that won't allow KMID to air the games, KPEJ has been given the rights to air the Dallas Cowboys preseason games. When Dallas plays Houston in the preseason, KMID airs the Dallas broadcast while KPEJ airs the Texans broadcast.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

multiplexed
:

Subchannels of KPEJ-TV[8]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
24.1 720p
16:9
 KPEJ-TV Main KPEJ-TV programming / Fox
24.2 480i KPEJ-SD Estrella TV
24.3 Rewind Rewind TV
24.4
4:3
 Antenna Antenna TV

Analog-to-digital conversion

KPEJ-TV shut down its analog signal, over

UHF channel 24, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 23,[9] using virtual channel
24.

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KPEJ-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101552312&qnum=5040&copynum=1&exhcnum=1 [bare URL]
  3. ^ Nexstar Selling 3 Fox Affils For $58.5 Million, TVNewsCheck, June 6, 2014.
  4. ^ Consummation Notice, CDBS Public Access, Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved January 6, 2015.
  5. ^ "The week in bankruptcies: 7 companies file for bankruptcy protection in Houston". Houston Business Journal. December 26, 2019. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
  6. S&P Global Market Intelligence. S&P Global
    . Retrieved April 9, 2020.
  7. ^ "Consummation Notice", CDBS Public Access, Federal Communications Commission, September 7, 2020, Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  8. ^ "RabbitEars.Info". www.rabbitears.info. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
  9. ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.

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