KVFD-TV

Infobox Broadcast
call_letters = KVFD
location = Fort Dodge, Iowa
analog = 21 (UHF)
later 50 (UHF)
affiliations = NBC
owner = Edward J. Breen
airdate = November 23, 1953
sister_stations =
former_callsigns = KQTV

KQTV, later renamed KVFD-TV, was a television station in Fort Dodge, Iowa, which operated from November 23, 1953 to at least 1977.

Edward J. Breen, a Fort Dodge attorney, owned KVFD radio and bought KQTV Channel 21 in 1953. [Papers of Edward J. Breen, University of Iowa Library] It was an NBC affiliate, [TV Guide, Iowa Edition, 1963-1977, http://www.mcsittel.com/html/tvg-ia.htm] and local programming included a "Barndance" program [The Humboldt Independent, 9/2/2004, "Dee Coleman to be inducted into Hall of Fame"] and "Uncle Dick's Fun House". [Hi There, Boys and Girls!: America's Local Children's TV Shows By Tim Hollis]

The station changed its callsign to KVFD-TV in 1966. [ [http://ekimmell2.tripod.com/old.html Old Tv Newscast Titles ] ] It moved to channel 50 in the mid 1970s [TV Guide, Iowa Edition, 12/14/74 and 4/23/77, http://www.mcsittel.com/html/tvg-ia.htm] before leaving the air completely a few years later. The station's callsign was deleted by the FCC in 1981. [FCC Callsign History, DKVFD-TV]

Channel 21 is now occupied by Iowa Public Television station KTIN in Fort Dodge, which signed on in 1977. [IPTV History, http://www.iptv.org/about_company_history1970s.cfm]

The KQTV callsign has been used by a TV station in St. Joseph, Missouri since 1969.

Fort Dodge does not have any other commercial TV stations, and receives commercial TV from Des Moines.

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