The three stations share studios on Richmond Road (at Loop 323) in Tyler; KETK-TV's transmitter is located near FM 855[broken anchor] in unincorporated northwestern Cherokee County.

[5] However, as other groups sought the NBC nod, it was held the entire time by another permittee: Thomas Robert Gilchrist, who won a construction permit in early 1985 for KTRG (using his initials).

[6] Gilchrist went bankrupt, and the construction permit and NBC affiliation agreement were sold to Texas American Broadcasting, in which two of the three partners were owners of KTEN in Ada, Oklahoma.

[8] Even before channel 56 was on the air, TAB was operating a low-power station providing NBC programming to the Jacksonville area.

[9] KETK was originally planned to start in February, but equipment delays and high winds led it to be pushed back.

[10] Even with the delays, a tragedy occurred in the final stretch of construction when a crew repairing damage to the studio-transmitter link tower at the studios in Jacksonville from cold weather suffered an equipment accident, causing one man's death.

[25] Max Media Properties acquired KETK and KLSB for $17.1 million in 1996, a transaction made by Lone Star Broadcasting in order to pay out the private capital funds that had invested in the company.

[26] The sale was completed in March 1997;[27] that December, Sinclair Broadcast Group acquired Max Media in a deal announced at the end of 1997,[28] but it opted to sell KETK–KLSB.

[32] Simultaneously, White Knight Broadcasting, a related company that owned KFXK, filed for bankruptcy protection; by that time, the stations represented a virtual duopoly.

KFXK and KTPN-LD were to be sold to Nexstar partner company Mission Broadcasting, primarily because an outright KETK–KFXK duopoly would not be legal.

[1] KETK's founding news director was Ruth Allen Ollison, who came from the closed newsroom at KDAF in Dallas and left for WTTG in Washington, D.C. after just six months.

In addition to a newscast for KFXK-TV, which debuted in tandem with White Knight's sale out of bankruptcy,[34] news programs seen on ComCorp's Fox affiliates in Waco and Baton Rouge and Shreveport, Louisiana, were presented from Tyler with stories sent from the local areas.