then in the temporary cancellation of the football program, at which time KTXA exited the contract, noting that many sponsors had shied away from any association with SMU athletics. The Taft stations purchase left TVX highly leveraged and highly vulnerable. TVX's bankers, Salomon Brothers, provided the financing for the acquisition and in return held more than 60 percent of the company. The company was to pay Salomon Brothers $200 million on January 1, 1988, and missed the first payment deadline, having been unable to lure investors to its junk bonds even before Black Monday. While TVX recapitalized by the end of 1988, Salomon Brothers reached an agreement in principle in January 1989 for Paramount Pictures to acquire options to purchase the investment firm's majority stake. This deal was replaced in September with an outright purchase of 79 percent of TVX for $110 million. Paramount ownership and UPN affiliation In 1991, Paramount acquired the remainder of TVX. The deal gave Paramount a strategic entrance into the television stations market. Two years later, due to work related to the construction of The Ballpark at Arlington, KTXA moved out of the Arlington studio and to a facility in Dallas's West End Historic District, a former Interstate Trinity warehouse that had been used as the headquarters for Dallas Area Rapid Transit; with its ceilings in the former DART boardroom, it was suitable for television use. The "IT" sign atop the building was replaced with a Paramount sign the next year. Also in 1993, KTXA aired NYPD Blue after WFAA-TV, the ABC affiliate, rejected airing the show on content grounds, and it became the television home of the NHL's Dallas Stars when the team moved to Texas that year, airing a package of 20 road games as part of 50 televised contests between regional sports network HSE, KTVT, and KTXA. The Stars remained for two years on KTXA, moving to KDFI in 1995. The station became an outlet of the new United Paramount Network, UPN, upon its launch in January 1995. In 2000, Viacom, the parent company of Paramount, purchased CBS. This created a duopoly, as CBS had spent $485 million the year before to buy KTVT, which switched from an independent station to a CBS affiliate in 1995. The deal closed in October 2000, and KTXA moved into KTVT's Fort Worth studios in 2001. That same year, the Mavericks returned to KTVT and KTXA