KTXD-TV

KTXD-TV (channel 47) is a television station licensed to Greenville, Texas, United States, serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

The station admitted in its license renewal application that during the previous term, it had failed to timely place all of the documentation required by Section 73.3526 of the rules in its public inspection file.

On October 31, 2013, KTXD declined to renew its affiliation contract with MeTV and dropped the network's programming, which by association, resulted in the 47.4 subchannel going dark.

The station also acquired the local rights to a Dallas Cowboys regular season road game against the Chicago Bears on December 9, which was part of the ESPN Monday Night Football package.

[8] On May 14, 2014, the Gannett Company announced the purchase of KTXD's sister stations KCEN, KYTX, KIII, KBMT, KXVA, and KIDY for $215 million.

In the case of KTXD, the company's retention of KTXD was decided by management; Gannett's existing ownership of ABC affiliate WFAA (channel 8), which was acquired in 2013 as part of the company's merger with Belo),[9][10] did not play a factor as the Dallas–Fort Worth market has enough full-power television stations to allow a fourth duopoly, and neither did the FCC's newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership restrictions as Gannett did not own a newspaper within the market.

[13] Sinclair, which at the time was seeking to acquire KDAF (channel 33) as part of its merger with Tribune Media (which was abandoned on August 9, 2018), indicated that it intended to use KTXD as a lighthouse station during the transition to the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard.

[16] On October 30, 2023, Sinclair converted Stadium's over-the-air service into The Nest, a network that currently features reruns of home improvement, true crime, reality and celebrity-driven shows.

KTXD-TV, however, switched affiliations to TBD, bringing the diginet to the station's main signal from its 47.4 subchannel, swapping The Nest to that particular spot.

Upon adopting an entertainment-based schedule, the station began carrying MeTV programming on its main channel from 9 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. weekdays, and from 1 p.m. to midnight on weekends.

From the time MeTV programming was dropped until March 7, 2018, classic television series were added to the schedule, alongside some more recent and barter syndicated programs, giving the station a format mildly similar to KFWD (channel 52, now a SonLife Broadcasting Network affiliate)'s format during its years as an English language independent station.