WBAP-TV officially commenced regular programming two days later on September 29, , with two minute specials at p. Carter owned the television and radio properties through the Star-Telegram's corporate parent, Carter Publications. It was the first television station to sign on in the state of Texas; the second to be located between Los Angeles, St. When the station made its formal debut, its first night of regular broadcasts did not go smoothly.
On the date of its sign-on, the station's studio facilities were in the latter stages of construction; at one point, Amon Carter accidentally stepped into an unmarked hole in the studio floor that led to the building's basement, narrowly saved from enduring potential injury by Star-Telegram cartoonist Johnny Hay.
Angry viewers subsequently called into the station, blaming engineers for an outage that was beyond their control; after the power problems were fixed, another viewer calling into the station complained to a receptionist about not being able to receive WBAP-TV's signal, not realizing that the television station could not be picked up through their radio receiver.
Even still, Fort Worth Press reporter Jack Gordon wrote regarding the station's first night of programming that "part of Fort Worth's inaugural television show [ But a good deal more of it was excellent — enough so to convince the stubbornest critic that television is here to stay. Channel 5 originally operated from studio facilities located at Barnett Street in eastern Fort Worth. The building—located in an area known as Broadcast Hill—was the first studio facility in the United States that was designed specifically for television broadcasting; the foot m tower that transmitted its signal supporting microwave and remote antennas was also based on the studio grounds.
The station originally broadcast for four hours each evening on Wednesday through Saturdays, with test patterns airing during the late morning and late afternoon Monday through Saturdays; the station expanded its programming schedule to all seven days each week within six months, airing a cumulative total of between 35 and 40 hours of programming per week. Morning After , a 10 a. A half dozen-person content team has been hired. Spectators were not permitted, but all could watch on CBS.
Saunders said the residents set Dallas-Fort Worth apart. The initiative launched in as "Empty the Shelter Day," with the stations talking up the event on the air. Thirty-eight shelters took part. Clear the Shelters expanded further, to include NBC and Telemundo affiliates outside the owned group. Fully 1, shelters took part last year, across all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Guam.
Some , animals have been adopted through the program. A local newscast, the first for Texas and the Southwest, rounded out the evening's programming. The Texas News soon became the watch word for viewers throughout North Texas. The station went on to win this award six more times. The same first weekend, TV cameras brought sports to viewers directly from the yard line.
Within six months, the television schedule had increased from 15 hours each week to between 35 and 40 hours a week, with seven days a week of programming.
By the time the station celebrated its first birthday, there were an estimated 16, television sets in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. With the continuing foresight that grew to be the hallmark of the station, WBAP-TV optimistically placed an order in the fall of for RCA color television equipment, to be delivered when ready.
The new equipment had the ability to record a minute segment of programming and play it back in less than five minutes. Unlike a film production, the videotape segment could be recorded in its entirety. If there was an error, the tape was simply rewound and the scene re-shot.
The new flexibility allowed for an interview or a commercial to be recorded and then broadcast at a later time. Plans were immediately made to record more color commercials and special shows in both color and black and white. Television sets themselves had smaller cabinets and larger screens, and many families had more than one television set. By , over 18 hours of programming were broadcast each day, providing a full scope of entertainment, information, news and weather coverage for Channel 5 viewers.
The station was Texas' first television station when the station made its debut on September 28, Its transmitter is located in Cedar Hill. NBC Weather Plus was previously offered on digital subchannel 5. Programming on digital channel 5. At Noon that day, their analog signal transmitted a brief test pattern , followed by instructional programming about how to receive digital TV until June 26, , [ 7 ] but the -DT suffix was replaced by a -TV suffix formerly on its analog singal when KXAS-TV's analog signal ended nightlight programming.
It was owned by Amon G. Even though it was obvious that Dallas and Fort Worth would be a single television market, Carter didn't care whether people in Dallas could see channel 5; he had long been a booster for the Fort Worth area. It was the first time a murder had been witnessed live on network television in the United States. The station was owned by the Carter family trusts until , when the Federal Communications Commission FCC barred common ownership of newspapers and TV stations in all but a few cases.
Accordingly, the Carters decided to break up their media empire. On January 25, during live coverage on KXAS of a standoff at an area 7-Eleven store, Thomas Stephens, who had been served divorce papers from his wife the day before, shot and killed himself with. Stephens, believed they encouraged her to seek the divorce, shot his wife's two co-workers, killing one and wounding another. His wife, Patricia, slipped away while he was talking to police over the phone.
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