KFDF-CD (channel 44) is a low-power, Class A television station in Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Estrella TV network. It is owned by Pinnacle Media alongside Court TV affiliate KQRY-LD (channel 36) and Univision affiliate KXUN-LD (channel 48). KFDF-CD's transmitter is located on Pernot Road in Van Buren, Arkansas.
KPBI-CD (channel 31) in Winslow operates as a translator of KFDF-CD; this station's transmitter is located on South 56th Street in Springdale.
History
The station began as K46BZ when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued an original construction permit to Family Media of Ft. Smith to build a low-power television station on UHF channel 46. In October 1988, Family Media transferred the construction permit to Pharis Broadcasting, who brought the station on the air as a Fox affiliate and obtained its initial license on March 30, 1990.
In the mid-1990s, the FCC began to allow low-power stations to have four-letter callsigns, and in September 1995, the station took the call letters KPBI-LP, for Pharis Broadcasting Inc. In June 1998, claiming displacement, Pharis Broadcasting requested to move the station to