KVTV
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Branding | KVTV CBS 13 |
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Affiliations | Defunct |
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First air date | December 28, 1973 |
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CBS(1973–2015) | |
Call signmeaning | disambiguation of former sister stationKZTV |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 33078 |
ERP | 3kW |
HAAT | 284 m (932 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 27°31′12″N99°31′19″W/ 27.52000°N 99.52194°W |
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KVTV(channel 13) was atelevision stationinLaredo, Texas,United States, affiliated withCBS.The station was owned byEagle Creek Broadcasting.
On July 1, 2015,Gray Television,owner of NBC affiliateKGNS-TV,bought the non-license assets of KVTV and establishedKYLX-LP,to which it moved all of KVTV's program streams. KVTV then ceased broadcasting after nearly 42 years.[2]The KVTV full-power license was surrendered on September 19, 2016.
History
[edit]One of several stations serving the Laredo–Nuevo Laredoborderplex, KVTV signed on December 28, 1973, as asatellite stationofKZTV,the CBS affiliate inCorpus Christi, Texas,owned byK-Six Television.Both stations were run on tight budgets, which meant that the lack of investment in the station's operations sometimes showed up on-air. In 2002,Alta Communicationsand Brian Brady acquired K-Six Television, renaming the company Eagle Creek Broadcasting of Texas.
KVTV operated newscasts during the 1980s and early 2000s under the nameNewswatch 13.At the peak of their news operations KVTV produced three daily 30-minute newscasts at noon, 6 p.m., and 10 p.m. After making significant strides in theNielsen ratingsagainst then powerhouseKGNS-TV'sPro 8 Newsin the mid 1990s, KVTV management decided in 1996 to move the 6 p.m. newscast to 6:30 to make way for the new entertainment showAccess Hollywood.Many KVTV alumni working at that time believe that decision proved to be the start of the demise ofNewswatch 13.
Soon after the new owners took over they made significant changes to KVTV. All newscasts the station produced were dropped, except for the noon show, which was said to help reduce the strain put upon the news and production departments. Later that year, the station made cosmetic and personnel changes on almost every level and renamed their operationsCBS 13 News.The midday newscast was retained for a year and a half and later dropped. Late night news was revived on the station on April 19, 2004, withCBS 13 News: Nightcast,a similar title to its Corpus Christi sister. For this, former KGNS anchorman Richard Noriega was hired out of semi-retirement to lead the newscast. Several months prior to the newscast, Noriega worked as a consultant and helped with the planning involved in revamping the station's news department.
Nightcastwas the station's only local newscast, and was seen weekdays from 10 to 10:35 p.m. Prior to this program, a taped five-minute news bulletin calledNewsNightaired.
The station decided to cancel the late newscast on January 3, 2006, and laid off the remaining staff of the news department that day. The move left KVTV as one of the few CBS affiliates to not have a local newscast; in its last decade on the air, the only news programming on the station came fromCBS News,including theCBS Evening News,CBS Morning News,andCBS This Morningwith national weather and additional news updates given by a CBS News anchor during the:25 and:55 local news breaks. From 2006 until the end of broadcasting in 2015, the station largely served as a pass-through for automated network, syndicated and localpaid programmingin bothEnglishandSpanish.
On July 23, 2008, Eagle Creek Broadcasting sold KVTV's Corpus Christi sister station, KZTV, toSagamoreHill Broadcasting.KVTV was not included in that deal, as SagamoreHill already owned KGNS-TV; thus, KVTV became the only television station remaining in the Eagle Creek group,[3]though co-owner Brian Brady also owns a number of other television stations, mostly throughNorthwest Broadcasting.[4]
Due to a part failure on its analog transmitter, KVTV ceased broadcasting in analog on November 29, 2008. The station initially broadcast only on digital channel 31, mapped tovirtual channel13. Digital broadcasts shifted to channel 13 on May 7, 2009.[5][6]
Gray Television, which over a year prior had purchased KGNS-TV from SagamoreHill, bought the non-license assets of KVTV in 2015. The sale closed on July 1, at which time KVTV signed off andKYLX-LPbegan broadcasting (inheriting its CBS affiliation from KVTV) with KVTV going off the air on that day.
The KVTV license was surrendered by Eagle Creek on September 19, 2016.[7]
Subchannels
[edit]The station's signal wasmultiplexed:
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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13.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KVTV-DT | CBS |
13.2 | 480i | 4:3 | KVTVDT2 |
On December 7, 2011, KVTV began broadcasting CBS programming inHDon channel 13.1, and carriedstandard definitionCBS programming on sub-channel 13.2.
References
[edit]- ^"Facility Technical Data for KVTV".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
- ^"Gray in 4 New Deals, Closes 3 Earlier Ones".TVNewsCheck.July 1, 2015.RetrievedJuly 1,2015.
- ^"Cross currents in Corpus Christi, Radio Business Report, August 1, 2008".Archived fromthe originalon July 16, 2011.RetrievedSeptember 14,2008.
- ^Jessell, Harry A. (June 2, 2013)."Brian Brady Buying NBC Affil in Yuma, AZ".TVNewsCheck.RetrievedJune 22,2013.
…Brian Brady, former head of the Fox affiliate board whose full-power TV holdings also include KVTV Laredo, Texas; KAYU Spokane, Wash.; KFFX Pendleton, Ore.; KMVU Medford, Ore.; and WICZ Binghamton, N.Y.
- ^Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA for channel 13
- ^"Local TV station begins digital-only broadcast early, Ray Gomez, KGNS-TV, Dec 12, 2008".Archived fromthe originalon July 15, 2011.RetrievedDecember 22,2008.
- ^Surrender of KVTV License