KXII-DT2 - History

History

KXII-DT2 launced in the summer of 2006 as an affiliate of the UPN network, known on-air as "UPN Texoma". Prior to KXII-DT2's launch, the Sherman-Ada market did not have a UPN affiliate for the first ten years of the network's existence as the market consists of only two commercial stations (besides KXII, NBC affiliate KTEN (channel 10) was the only other commercial stations on the air at the time of UPN's 1995 debut). That network had previously only been available through cable via either Oklahoma City's KAUT-TV or Dallas-Fort Worth's KTXA (both now independent stations). In addition to network and syndicated programming, the station had ran programming from The Sportsman Channel during the overnight hours from the subchannel's launch until 2009.

By the time the subchannel launched, UPN and The WB had already announced the two networks would end broadcasting and merge into The CW. On February 22, News Corporation announced it would start up another new network called MyNetworkTV. This new service, which would be a sister to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. In September 2006, KTEN launched a second digital subchannel affiliated with The CW via The CW Plus (a similar operation to The WB 100+ Station Group). KXII digital subchannel 12.2 remained with UPN until it ceased operations on September 12, 2006; the subchannel became the area's MyNetworkTV affiliate three days later on September 15, 2006, under the branding "My Texoma".