RELIGIOUS STATIONS THAT ALSO CARRIED MANY REGULAR PROGRAMS

[anotherguy]

CTS, the so-called religious network in Southern Ontario and Alberta (CITS Hamilton/London/Ottawa, CKCS Calgary, and CKES Edmonton), has a lot of non-religious programming. Last time I watched it, they were airing reruns of Happy Days and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. They also run some public affairs programming, although some of it is of a religious-leaning nature.

Isn't FamilyNet the same thing? Last time I checked, they had some religious shows along with regular programs mixed in.

INSP and GMC would count now as well.

[Ultimajock]

...KXTX/39 Dallas, under CBN/Pat Robertson ownership, carried dozens of off-network reruns as well as being the production center for the syndicated version of Fritz Von Erich's World Class Championship Wrestling (the version of WCCW that was seen on KTVT/11 Fort Worth was a largely local affair). And I'm fairly sure that, in the mid-1980s, WVCY-TV/30 Milwaukee wasn't the only religious-based station to run half hours of CNN Headline News...

[jfrancispastirchak]

I'm fairly sure that, in the mid-1980s, WVCY-TV/30 Milwaukee wasn't the only religious-based station to run half hours of CNN Headline News...

And you're fairly right-- I don't remember which religious-oriented affilliate carried it, but CNN Headline News ran, seemingly as filler, on the Cable outfit servicing Roswell NM in the '80s. 

[Marckd]

KXTX 39 Dallas was mostly a general entertainment station under Pat Robertson's CBN. It signed on Channel 33 in early 1973 with religious shows about 6 hours a day and secular low budget shows 2 hours a day. Channel 39 where KXTX is still located in some way shape and form began as a conventional low budget entertainment station owned by DOubleday. They were on about 8 hours a day. Doubleday decided after 5 years of losing money to go dark but they donated the Channel 39 license to CBN along with its programming inventory.

CBN then turned off Channel 33, put it up for sale excluding programming, moved the KXTX intellectual unit to Channel 39, combined programming assets and made a strong indepenent station broadcasting about 15 hours a day and eventually by 1974 the full broadcast day.

They were not as strong as KTVT but close behind and on most cable systems in Texas along with KTVT. KXTX remained a strong station until the 1980's. When Grant Broadcasting signed on part time indie 21 KTXA, Channel 39 began to weaken slightly. By 1983, KTXA surpassed KXTX by getting strong shows that fell off network affiliates that no longer had room for them. Also as KTVT did not renew some older shows, KTXA picked them up. In 1984, 33 KNBN (which went back on the air as a business news channel by day and Spanish by night in the mid 70's) was sold to metromedia and also became a general interest station with mostly gane shows and drama shows. By 1986 that station too got stronger sitcoms and cartoons and KXTX began to move away from sitcoms and cartoons. By 1990 another player KDFI came around and by then CBN lost interest in running KXTX, which resorted to paid programming, westerns, dramas, and religious shows.