26-533: KDF may refer to: Entertainment [ edit ] K22JA-D , a TV station in Texas, US Kentucky Derby Festival , Louisville, US Klingon Defence Force, in Star Trek Organisations [ edit ] Kerala Dalit Federation , an Indian political party Kenya Defence Forces KDF Energy , Romania Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy),
52-434: A Board of Directors. The station's original equipment were donations from KVVV-TV of Galveston , an independent station that had ceased operations in 1969. The original transmitter location was on a site donated by a local rancher. The original broadcast facilities were in an abandoned school building in town, and the original programming was provided by San Antonio PBS station KLRN via telephone cables. KEDT signed on
78-540: A Nazi state leisure organization Kanzlei des Führers (Chancellory of the Führer), a Nazi office Sport [ edit ] Kunst des fechtens , the German school of fencing Technologies [ edit ] KDF9 , a British computer Key derivation function , in cryptography Kinetic degradation fluxion media , for water filtration See also [ edit ] KdF (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
104-456: A U.S. Navy MH 53 Sea Dragon helicopter crashed into KEDT's tower, killing three sailors, damaging the top 75 feet of the 1000-foot tower, including the beacon light and the antenna, and knocking the station off the air. KEDT resumed broadcasting the next day from auxiliary facilities at reduced power. KEDT carries programming similar to other PBS member stations. KEDT produced several original programs for broadcast nationally on PBS. Of note
130-503: A family-oriented program lineup that also included religious shows. The construction permit had been sold to the diocese by KEDT public television. In 1991, the diocese opted to place KDF under a commercial subsidiary, Paloma Broadcasting, because of concerns that its growing income could affect the diocese's tax status. KDF adopted an aggressive program acquisition strategy and snared the rights to major syndicated programs such as Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! , highly unusual for
156-429: A low-power station. However, these programs led to KDF obtaining something rare for stations of its type: near-universal cable carriage. In 1993, Paloma began a major expansion of its service. This included the creation of a new Telemundo station, K68DJ "KAJA", and the construction of translators for both KAJA and KDF at Bishop and between Beeville and Refugio . Another low-power station, K66EB , had previously been
182-617: A new channel as K22JA-D. In 2014, K22JA-D became the digital companion channel for K47DF as K47DF-D. KAJA can now be seen on K47DF-D 47.1 in 720p . In November 1993, KDF started a 9 p.m. local newscast, The Nine O'Clock News , which was hosted by former KRIS anchor Jay Ricci; originally 15 minutes in length, the program expanded to a full half-hour in January 1994. This moved to 10 p.m. later in 1994 and then ended in March 1995 for financial reasons. After KRIS acquired KDF and KAJA outright, it expanded
208-520: Is Lone Star , an eight-part series on the history of Texas, produced in honor of the Texas Sesquicentennial in 1986. It was hosted by Larry Hagman and continues to be requested by Texas schools for use in supplementing their Texas history courses. Another notable production was John Henry Faulk: The Man Who Beat the Blacklist , hosted by Bill Moyers and Studs Terkel . The documentary detailed
234-503: Is also located. K22JA-D offers two subchannels , one affiliated with Telemundo (also known as "KAJA" ) and the other programmed as an independent station and branded as "KDF" . The two services were once stations with separate licenses , combined in 2014. However, they have been commonly owned since the 1990s. On January 11, 1989, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Corpus Christi started K47DF "KDF", which initially broadcast
260-406: Is currently in its eighteenth season. The station's digital channel is multiplexed : KEDT-DT was granted an original construction permit on August 20, 2001, to transmit on UHF channel 23. As with many other DTV facilities, KEDT-DT has not been able to build the facilities as quickly as planned, and the station has had to request several extensions of the construction permit. On April 30, 2003,
286-630: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages K22JA-D K22JA-D (channel 47) is a low-power television station in Corpus Christi, Texas , United States. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside NBC affiliate KRIS-TV (channel 6); Scripps also provides certain services to CBS affiliate KZTV (channel 10) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with SagamoreHill Broadcasting . The three stations share studios on Artesian Street in downtown Corpus Christi, where K22JA-D's transmitter
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#1732847531015312-485: The Corpus Christi economy was heavily dependent on one industry that is subject to its fortunes and misfortunes. As the energy industry began to disappear in the mid- to late-1980s, so would the funding KEDT received in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Corporate and personal donations to the station all but vanished, and the locally produced programming did not generate enough revenue to meet the station's needs. Plans for
338-505: The FCC cancelled the station's license, citing operating on an out-of-core channel (52 to 69) and not having built a replacement facility after the December 31, 2011, deadline to cease broadcasting in that band. As a result of this notice, KAJA had ceased transmissions on K68DJ in January 2013; simultaneously, K47DF converted to digital as K47DF-D. It then moved to channel 22 in 2015 and went digital on
364-522: The TV station's transmitter is located near Petronila, Texas . KEDT was created by businessman Charles Butt to bring public television to south Texas. Butt, part of the family that founded the H-E-B supermarket chain, joined with Don Weber, another businessman, and the two approached the Corpus Christi business community with a proposal to start a local PBS television station. Others became interested, and soon formed
390-507: The Telemundo affiliate in Corpus Christi. The next year, KDF affiliated with Fox, which had only been available via either Foxnet or San Antonio 's KRRT on the cable systems in the Coastal Bend region. Paloma announced the sale of its stations in January 1997 to Miramar Broadcasting Company, in which one of the stockholders was KRIS owner T. Frank Smith. The venture was not profitable at
416-488: The Victoria repeater were scrapped in late 1984. By the end of the 1980s, KEDT was deeply in debt. The station began to recover in the 1990s through debt restructuring, aggressive cost-cutting, and revenue enhancement. KEDT outsourced many of its non-essential functions and began changing its programming. One such change was the addition of distance learning in conjunction with local educational establishments. The advent of
442-523: The air on October 16, 1972. The station moved into its current facilities the following year. KEDT was well received in the community; the station received additional funding from philanthropy. In 1980, South Texas Public Broadcasting System, the station's owner, applied for a low-power repeater station for Victoria that would have expanded KEDT's reach in South Texas. In addition, KEDT began to produce its own programming, supplementing PBS fare. However,
468-517: The competition in a single elimination tournament until there is only one team remaining. There is also a one-hour All Star Challenge! game, in which twelve top players from twelve different teams are selected to compete. Challenge! is funded by a number of local businesses and universities, and the top four teams and all competitors in the All-Star game receive scholarship money from Del Mar College and Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi . The show
494-475: The effects of McCarthyism on John Henry Faulk , a Texas radio broadcaster, and on the nation as a whole. Justice for My People: The Dr. Hector P. Garcia Story focused on Dr. Hector P. Garcia , a Mexican-born medical doctor from Corpus Christi, who was cherished by many thousands with whom he had contact. Other local programs included Liz Carpenter and the Good Old Boys and USS Lexington : Always Ready! ,
520-529: The existing KDF news product from 10 minutes to 30 in January 1999. Local news is also aired on the Telemundo subchannel at 5 and 10 p.m. The station's signal is multiplexed: The Telemundo channel is also available as subchannel 10.2 of KZTV . KEDT KEDT (channel 16) is a PBS member television station in Corpus Christi, Texas , United States. It is owned by South Texas Public Broadcasting alongside NPR member KEDT-FM (90.3). The two outlets share studios on South Staples Street in Corpus Christi;
546-524: The latter a documentary about the World War II aircraft carrier that compiled the longest service record in the history of the United States Navy . The second most watched show on KEDT (the most-watched being Antiques Roadshow ) is the locally produced quiz bowl program Challenge! , where teams from local high schools compete in an academic quiz show hosted by Eric Boyd. 24 high schools begin in
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#1732847531015572-415: The new century brought new opportunities and challenges to KEDT. Digital television (DTV) has brought new financial burdens to the station, but also allowed for modernization. As of 2003, the station was still using some of its original equipment and transmitter from 1972, so DTV presented an opportunity to modernize. In addition, DTV has allowed the station to air even more programming. On January 16, 2008,
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624-558: The station was granted Special Temporary Authority (STA) to broadcast at reduced power to conserve financial resources. The STA has been extended several times, and the station has requested to make its temporary operations permanent, as its DTV signal coverage matches its analog signal coverage, and compares favorably with the DTV signal coverage of a local commercial television station that has already maximized its DTV signal. KEDT shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 16, on June 12, 2009,
650-607: The time, but the diocese had been forced to cut subsidies to Paloma after Texas attorney general Dan Morales sued, charging that funds in another foundation were being improperly used by the diocese. Paloma, which owed some $ 56,000 in state and county taxes and also had major program syndicators as creditors, then filed for bankruptcy at the end of the month. Under Miramar, KDF added a secondary affiliation with UPN . The Miramar stations were then included in Smith's sale of KRIS to Cordillera Communications in 1998. On January 16, 2008, it
676-526: Was announced that KDF would lose its Fox affiliation in favor of new higher-powered KUQI , which began airing the network's programming starting on February 4, 2008, the day after Super Bowl XLII . At that time, KDF reverted to an independent. K68DJ had applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to move to UHF channel 43. As a low-power station, K68DJ was not required to broadcast digitally. On February 20, 2013,
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