KVEO-TV
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| Brownsville/Harlingen/McAllen, Texas United States | |
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| City | Brownsville, Texas |
| Channels | Digital: 24 (UHF) Virtual: 23 |
| Branding | KVEO or NBC 23 (general) Local 23 News (newscasts) CBS 4 (on DT2) CBS 4 News (newscasts on DT2) |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | 23.1: NBC (since 1981) 23.2: CBS (since 2020)[1] |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Media Inc.) |
| KGBT-TV KTSM (El Paso) | |
| History | |
First air date | December 19, 1981 |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 23 (UHF, 1981–2009) |
Former affiliations | UPN (secondary, 1996–1999) DT2: NBC Weather Plus Estrella TV (until 2020) DT3: Court TV Mystery (until 2020) DT4: Grit (until 2020) |
Call sign meaning | KVEO = "que veo", Spanish for "what I am watching" |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 12523 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 445 m (1,460 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 26°6′2.3″N 97°50′21.5″W / 26.100639°N 97.839306°W |
| Links | |
Public license information | Profile LMS |
| Website | www |
KVEO-TV, virtual channel 23 (UHF digital channel 24), is a dual NBC/CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Brownsville, Texas, United States and serving the Lower Rio Grande Valley metropolitan area. Owned by Irving-based Nexstar Media Group, it is part of a duopoly with Harlingen-licensed Antenna TV owned-and-operated station KGBT-TV (channel 4). Both stations share studios on West Expressway (I-2/US 83) in Harlingen, while KVEO-TV's transmitter is located in Santa Maria, Texas.
History[]
KVEO-TV signed on the air on December 19, 1981. Before then, the area had been one of the few in the country without a full-time NBC affiliate; the area's original NBC affiliate, Weslaco's KRGV-TV (channel 5), had become a full-time ABC affiliate in 1976. The station was originally owned by a local group of investors called Tierra Del Broadcasting Corporation. In the interim, CBS affiliate KGBT-TV (channel 4) carried NBC programming on a secondary basis. The original owners sold the station to Valley Broadcasting in 1984, which in turn sold KVEO to Southwest Multimedia a year later. Southwest Multimedia would then sold it to Associated Broadcasters (later renamed Communications Corporation of America, founded by Thomas R. Galloway and D. Wayne Elmore) in 1990. KVEO-TV added a secondary affiliation with UPN in 1996, replacing previous secondary affiliate KRGV-TV;[2] in 1999, the station lost UPN to XHRIO-TV in Matamoros.[3][4]
On April 24, 2013, Communications Corporation of America announced the sale of its entire group (including KVEO-TV) to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group.[5] The sale was completed on January 1, 2015.[6]
On January 27, 2020, Sinclair Broadcast Group announced that it would sell the non-license assets of KGBT-TV (including its CBS affiliation and syndication contracts) to Nexstar as part of a settlement between the two companies over Sinclair's failed acquisition of Tribune Media, which was ultimately acquired by Nexstar.[7] KVEO-TV assumed the CBS affiliation on 23.2 the next day, thus bringing an end to KGBT-TV's affiliation with the network after 66 years; KGBT-TV's main 4.1 subchannel has since been inactive.[1] In addition, Nexstar also announced that it would move KVEO-TV's operations from Brownsville to KGBT-TV's facility on West Expressway 83 in Harlingen within a few months.[8]
Programming[]
Syndicated programming[]
Syndicated programming (as of September 2020) on KVEO-DT1 includes The Big Bang Theory, The Drew Barrymore Show, Daily Mail TV, Rachael Ray, and Dr. Phil. Syndicated programming on KVEO-DT2 includes Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, The Doctors, and Judge Judy, all of which are distributed by CBS Media Ventures.
Newscasts[]
At the station's inception, KVEO had a news operation branded as Total 23 News. However, it made almost no headway in the ratings against KGBT and KRGV. Within a few years, the news department was shut down. For the next quarter-century, KVEO was one of the few Big Three stations with no local newscasts.
Local news returned to the station on October 1, 2007, under the NewsCenter 23 branding. The newscasts are produced in high definition, making KVEO the first station in the Rio Grande Valley to do so.
In January 2010, ComCorp announced that it would close KVEO's news department, other than a few reporters. The locally produced newscast would now originate from a ComCorp-controlled station in El Paso, KTSM-TV, using its own staff, with the remaining reporters in Brownsville filing reports. The new newscast, which debuted January 18, 2010, was broadcast live from El Paso, and has continued with the acquisition of both stations by Nexstar.[9][10]
KVEO debuted its new news set for CBS 4 on July 16, 2020 and its new news set for NBC 23 on August 31, 2020. Brenda Medina and Robert Bettes did not sign new contracts with NBC 23. In addition, NBC 23 also debuted several new newscasts, including a morning newscast, a midday newscast, a 4 p.m. newscast, a 6:30 p.m. newscast and weekend newscasts. However, NBC 23's 5 p.m. newscast was dropped around the same time. [11][12]
Weather segment[]
Even before KVEO restarted its news operation, KVEO provided a weather segment at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. weekday evenings with meteorologist Jason McCleave of WeatherVision. KVEO also broadcasts local forecast segments during Today.
KVEO offered NBC Weather Plus on 23.2 prior to NBCUniversal's acquisition of The Weather Channel and subsequent termination of the Weather Plus service.
Technical information[]
Subchannels[]
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP short name | Programming[13] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KVEO-TV | Main KVEO-TV programming / NBC |
| 23.2 | CBS[1] |
See also[]
- Channel 4 branded TV stations in the United States
- Channel 23 virtual TV stations in the United States
- Channel 24 digital TV stations in the United States
- List of television stations in Texas
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "CBS 4 changing over-the-air signal to 23.2 midnight tonight". KVEO.com. Nexstar Media Group. January 27, 2020. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
- ^ Sittel, Matthew. "Listing of channel lineups in TV Guide South Texas Edition". matthewsittel.com. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
- ^ "UPN Affiliate Stations (Texas)". UPN.com. Archived from the original on May 8, 1999. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
- ^ "UPN Affiliate Stations (Texas)". UPN.com. Archived from the original on October 7, 1999. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
- ^ https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101552312&qnum=5040©num=1&exhcnum=1
- ^ "Consummation Notice". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
- ^ Eggerton, John. "Sinclair Pays Nexstar $60M, Some Assets, to Settle Tribune Suit". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
- ^ "KGBT-TV sold to Nexstar", Valley Morning Star, 28 January 2020, Retrieved 31 January 2020.
- ^ El Paso Times: "Ayoub and Bettes now in Brownsville ... sorta", January 14, 2010. Archived March 23, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/articles/kveo-107500-paso-most.html
- ^ https://www.valleycentral.com/meet-the-team/
- ^ https://mikemcguff.blogspot.com/2020/09/kveo-brownsville-Clara-Benitez-Sydney-Hernandez.html?m=1/
- ^ http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KVEO#station
External links[]
- NBC network affiliates
- CBS network affiliates
- Nexstar Media Group
- Television channels and stations established in 1981
- 1981 establishments in Texas
- Television stations in the Lower Rio Grande Valley