KTXA-TV

**KTXA**, virtual channel 21 (UHF digital channel 18), is an independent television station licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, United States and serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. The station is owned by the Dallas Media Group(formally owned by ViacomCBS). Until 2020, it is a general independent format television station. Now it a News Programming/Bloomberg(Saturday)/Independent programming station owned by a locally owned company. The branding is TXA 21. Now it duopoly of Dallas Media Group flagship KDMG and cable independent format Dallas.TV.

## Newscasts

On September 18, 2006, KTVT began producing a nightly primetime newscast for KTXA, titled *TXA 21 News: First In Prime*, running for two hours from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Similar to the format of Los Angeles sister station KCAL-TV's primetime newscasts, the newscasts were originally structured to feature different types of news stories partitioned within the block: the 7:00 p.m. half-hour focused mainly on local news headlines, the 7:30 half-hour focused on state and national news, and the 8:00 p.m. hour focused on general news stories. As the newscast aired during the first two hours of primetime, KTXA did not have any direct competition; but to an extent, the program could have been considered a competitor to the 9:00 p.m. newscasts on KDFW and KDAF. On September 24, 2007, KTVT began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition; the KTXA newscasts were included in the upgrade.

Until September 2011, KTXA also carried the syndicated morning news program *The Daily Buzz* on weekdays (which later moved to KFWD, then on KDFI before it canceled). KTXA formerly produced local cut-ins featuring local news, weather and entertainment stories that appeared during the program, branded as *Buzzed into DFW* and anchored by Christina McLarty (later a correspondent with *omg! Insider*).

On September 12, 2011, KTXA reduced the newscast to an hour-long block consisting of a half-hour local newscast at 7:00 p.m. and a half-hour sports program at 7:30 p.m. (syndicated reruns of *America's Funniest Home Videos* replaced the 8:00 p.m. hour of the newscast). The evening newscast was cancelled outright on October 31, 2011, while its sports program was expanded and renamed *The Fan Sports Show*, which continued to be hosted by then-sports director Gina Miller. That would only last for three years with the final broadcast on Thursday, June 5, 2014. On Monday, June 9, *Inside Edition* would move into the 6:30 p.m. timeslot, with the Classic Western Hour (starting with reruns of *Gunsmoke* and *Bonanza* filling in the 7:00-8:00 p.m. hour, and eventually, other programs would fill the 7:00-9:00 p.m. timeslots, including *Law & Order: SVU*). Because of this, KTXA is the only CBS-owned independent station without a news/sportscast but still owning rights to air the Texas Rangers, Dallas Stars, and Dallas Mavericks games along with high school and college football coverages. However starting in 2020 with the station branded back as TXA 21, it announced that it will produced a nightly primetime newscast for two hours known as TXA 21 News plus adding a 7:00, 8:00, 9:00 and 10:00 newscast putting all of TXA 21 shows toward other stations most notable, KIRV and The Plus, KJRT-TV. There are few hours of syndicated programming due to the newscast expansion.

TXA 21 News

* TXA 21 News at 12:00pm
* TXA 21 News at 3:00pm
* TXA 21 News at 5:00pm
* TXA 21 News at 6:00pm
* TXA 21 News: First In Prime at 7:00
* TXA 21 News: First In Prime at 8:00
* TXA 21 News at 9:00
* TXA 21 News at 10:00
* The Fan Sports Show at 10:30
* TXA 21: Dallas Morning News(6:00, 7:00, 8:00)
* DFW Morning Style(9:00)

Also it also home to TXA 21 Sports, where it aired all Dallas Cowboys, Mavericks, Rangers games under TXA 21 Sports.

## The CW Dallas

All programming are from the CW, although for the paid programming side, TXA 21 sitcoms, New Girl can fit in. The Doctors rerun can be at 12:00 spot. The second run of Kings of Queen from Dallas.TV can help fit the overnight paid programming into a sitcom night known as The CW Dallas Fun Hours.