KAWA

KAWA is an independent station serving Dallas, Texas, and the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX area. Broadcasting on channel 4, KAWA was owned and operated by Adelphia Communications. Before Adelphia purchased the station in 2015, KAWA struggled in the market, finding themselves at the bottom of the market, even being behind fellow independent station KWWJ. Adelphia wanted to get into one of the top markets in the country, and they saw a golden opportunity with KAWA. After purchasing the station, Adelphia started to make serious upgrades to the station, including being the only indepdent station in Dallas to have their own newscast. Later on, KAWA purchased the rights to air Dallas Cowboys preseason games, as well as selected games for the Dallas Stars (NHL), Dallas Mavericks (NBA), and Dallas Wings (WNBA). All the games were produced by Victory Sports Southwest. To coincide with Adelphia adopting the "Hello News" promos from Gari Media Group), KAWA's slogan is "Hello, Dallas." On July 8, 2016, KAWA became a part of a duopoly when Adelphia purchased MyNetworkTV affiliate KIWD from FOX Television Stations in exchange for WAWA (MyNetworkTV, Milwaukee). After the purchase, changes were made for both KIWD and KAWA. Although KAWA would keep their newscast, all their sports programming would be moving to KIWD in the fall. To complete the deal to acquire WIOQ (MyTV affiliate in Chicago, IL), Adelphia traded away KAWA to Berfield/Willis Broadcast Corporation. On July 2, 2017, Channel 4.1 move Seven Network to 4.3 for a general Independent Entertainment Format on 4.2 under News 4.2 Texas. Since 2017, sports programming rises to KAWA as NBA G League Texas Legends decide to do Regular Season Games, Texas Stars from AHL, sharing Texas Rangers rights with TXA 21 and RRAC games under Red River Sports Network(also on KSHV, KAUT, KJBO, KCPN, KXII-DT2, KTPX).