KFWT

KFWT is a DuMont affiliate serving Dallas, Texas, as well as the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex in Texas. Broadcasting on channel 21, KFWT is owned and operated by Journal Media Group, and joined DuMont after Journal Media bought the station in 1970. KFWT is the first station that Journal Media owns outside of Milwaukee, WI.

History
KFWT signed on the air on September 19, 1967; the station was owned by W. C. Windson, owner of radio stations KJIM (870 AM, now KFJZ) and KFWT-FM (102.1, now KDGE). KFWT (102.1 FM) featured an Easy Listening format. It was the first UHF television station to sign on in the Dallas-Fort Worth market. Broadcasting nightly from 6:00 to 10:00, the station's programming consisted mostly of public domain movies. KFWT operated from studios located on Broadcast Hill at 3900 Barnett Street in Fort Worth.

KFWT’s call letters stood for Fort Worth, Texas. Some of the television station’s programming included “The Oscar Argumedo Show”, “TV 21 - Country Style” and “Green Valley Raceway”. Notables included Oscar Argumedo, Durline Dunham, Don Shook, Jim “Shootin’ Newton, Bob Hart (GM) and Bob Weatherford (later GM). Cameramen and production staff included Harold Hardgrave, Tony Mieczynski and Ed Hullum. With the station’s quiet, remote location and rolling hills for dune buggy sponsor, Sandman Sales, programs were occasionally shot outdoors with the distant D/FW Turnpike and Ft. Worth skyline as a scenic backdrop. Ironically, on his way home from the station in May 1969, Program Director, Gary Windsor, died shortly after his vehicle was struck in a head-on collision by a drunk driver who was driving on the Turnpike in the wrong direction.

The station was in financial trouble by 1969, Windson then sought a buyer for KFWT. In August of that year, the station went dark for one week due to a power failure. Windson asked the Federal Communications Commission's permission to sign off for three months, a request that the Commission initially denied. Windson was about to close down the station when Journal Media, 9 years after starting WMJT in Milwaukee, WI, decided to take a gamble and by the station from Winston. In 1970, KFWT became an affiliate of DuMont.