K25FW-D
K25FW-D is a low-power television station licensed in Corsicana, Texas, serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The station is owned and operated by Ventana Television, the holding company for Home Shopping Network's low-power television stations. Before going silent, the station served as the market's HSN affiliate.
| Corsicana, Texas | |
|---|---|
| Channels | Digital: 7 (VHF) (soon) |
| Affiliations | HSN |
| Owner | Ventana Television Inc. |
| Founded | October 2, 1997 |
| Former call signs | K25FW (1997-2011) |
| Former affiliations | Mas Musica (1998-2001) HSN (2001-2014, 2016-2019) HSN2 (2014-2016) |
| Website | hsn.com |
History
The station, previously owned by Caballero Television (in turn, owned by Eduardo Caballero), signed on as a Mas Musica affiliate for almost 3 years, showing Spanish music videos. In August 2001, the station was acquired by Ventana Television and dropped Mas Musica in favor of HSN.
K25FW-D was one of the last remaining low-powered analog stations in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, having switched to digital on January 24, 2011.
KPXD-TV (as well as all other Ion Television-owned & operated stations) acquired HSN on channel 68.6 sometime in late 2013 / early 2014. At that time, K25FW-D began broadcasting "HSN2". Two years later, after Ion Media Networks lost the rights to HSN, the network returned to K25FW-D.
On April 12, 2019, K25FW-D shut down its channel 25 digital transmitter as a part of the broadcast frequency repacking process following the 2016-2017 FCC incentive auction.[1] The station remains silent while it constructs its post-repack facility on assigned displacement channel 7.[2]