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4 unusual facts about KXLT-TV


KXLT

KXLT-TV, a television station (digital channel 46) licensed to Rochester, Minnesota, United States

KXLT-TV

Its programming consisted mostly of low-budget syndicated fare and cartoons, though for a time it also aired Minnesota North Stars hockey.

Licensed to Rochester, Minnesota, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 46 (virtual channel 47.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Frankford Township, Minnesota.

In 1997, Paxson decided to sell KXLT to raise money to launch the Pax network (today's Ion Television).


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KPXM-TV

KXLI was also simulcast on KXLT-TV channel 47 in Rochester, and by the late 1980s, Minnesota North Stars hockey broadcasts would also air on the stations.

A financial crisis led KXLI and KXLT to go off the air at the end of 1988 (KTMA also teetered financially for a time while KVNJ became Fox affiliate KVRR).

In the late 1980s, KXLI attempted to create the Minnesota Independent Network (MIN) along with Twin Cities station KTMA (now WUCW), KVNJ-TV (now KVRR) in Fargo, North Dakota and KXLT-TV in Rochester.

KXLT

KXLT-FM, a radio station (107.9 FM) licensed to Eagle, Idaho, United States


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