The UHF channel 29 allocation in the Dallas-Fort Worth market was originally planned to be used to sign onKLIF-TV ; on January 15, 1953, the Federal Communications Commission granted a construction permit for that station to legendary radio broadcasterGordon McLendon. Had KLIF-TV signed on, it would have been a sister station to radio station KLIF. KLIF-TV was intended to operate from the Cliff Towers Hotel in Dallas, which formerly served as the studios of KLIF radio and would later house KGKO and KKSN. The broadcast license was issued that year, but the station never went on the air; the KLIF-TV license was cancelled in 1955. Since television sets were not required to include UHF tuners until the All-Channel Receiver Act went into effect in 1964, McLendon apparently had second thoughts about developing a station that might not have any viewers. Channel 29 signed on the air in June, 1964 from downtown Dallas as KAEI-TV, which was owned by Automated Electric Incorporated and ran a format of automated stock quotes for eight hours a day. However, poor reception reportedly led to that station's demise later that same year. In 1966, three applicants tried to take over channel 29—Grandview Broadcasting, Overmyer Communications and Maxwell Electronics. In a successful bid to give both applicants a channel, Overmyer proposed changing out channel 29 for channels 27 and 33 at Dallas; Overmyer never built its station, and Maxwell signed on KMEC-TV on channel 33 in October 1967. Channel 29 was later restored to the market. In 1985, three applicants vied for a license to operate a television station on channel 29, including the Wise County Messenger newspaper, owned by former WBAP-TV anchor Roy Eaton.
KMPX station history
After years of debating, KMPX first signed on the air on September 15, 1993 as the flagship station of the religious broadcast networkDaystar. It was founded by Daystar founders Marcus and Joni Lamb, under the licensee Community Television Educators of DFW Inc. From that point until 1999, its slogan was "The Heart of Texas". In 2003, Daystar acquired Denton-licensed PBSmember stationKDTN from North Texas Public Broadcasting. KMPX was then sold to Liberman Broadcasting, a sale that was finalized on January 13, 2004; after Liberman took over on that date, the station was converted into a Spanish-languageindependent station featuring programming distributed by the company. On September 14, 2009, KMPX became a charter owned-and-operated station of Liberman's Estrella TV network, which carries some programming seen during the station's tenure as an independent.
