McKinnon Broadcasting

McKinnon Broadcasting
Trade name	Texas Television, Inc.
Type	Private
Industry	Broadcast television
Founded	1962
Founder	Clinton D. McKinnon
Headquarters	San Diego, California
Area served	United States, Mexico
Key people	Michael D. McKinnon, president/CEO
Products	Broadcast television

McKinnon Broadcasting Company (doing business as Texas Television, Inc.) is a privately owned television broadcasting company based in San Diego, California. Michael Dean McKinnon Sr. is the company's majority owner, president, chief executive officer (CEO), and chairman of the board.^[1]

Stations[]

Current[]

City of license/Market	Station	Channel TV (RF)	Owned since	Affiliation
San Diego	KUSI-TV ¹	51 (18)	1982	Independent

Former[]

Notes:

(**) – indicates a station built and signed on by McKinnon.

City of license/Market	Station	Channel TV (RF)	Years owned	Current ownership status
Beaumont - Port Arthur, Texas	KBMT	12 (12)	1977–2009	ABC affiliate owned by Tegna Inc.
Corpus Christi, Texas	KIII **	3 (8)	1964–2010	ABC affiliate owned by Tegna Inc.
Victoria, Texas	KXIX **	19 (11)	1969–1976	Fox affiliate KVCT owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting (Operated through a LMA by Morgan Murphy Media)

This list does not include KBVO-TV (now KEYE-TV) in Austin. KBVO-TV (unrelated to the present-day station that serves Austin, but is licensed to Llano) was owned by the Austin Television Company from 1983 to 1995. Michael McKinnon was among the group of local investors who were part of the Austin Television Company.^[2]^[3]

Other notes:

¹ McKinnon provided technical support and was a minority owner of KUSI-TV at launch; it acquired the license outright from United States International University in 1990.

Magazines[]

Former[]

San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles^[4]

References[]

^ "San Diego 500: Michael D. McKinnon," San Diego Business Journal, 23 January 2018, https://www.sdbj.com/news/2018/jan/23/sd-500-michael-d-mckinnon/
^ Holloway, Diane (December 4, 1983). "KBVO-TV debuts tonight". Austin American-Statesman. p. Show World 2. Retrieved July 30, 2021.
^ "Nice Guy Of The Year". The San Diego Nice Guys. 2016. Retrieved July 30, 2021.
^ Stone, Ken (2020-03-27). "San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles Magazine Closes — Latest Culture Casualty". Times of San Diego. Retrieved 2020-08-26.

[1] "San Diego 500: Michael D. McKinnon," San Diego Business Journal, 23 January 2018, https://www.sdbj.com/news/2018/jan/23/sd-500-michael-d-mckinnon/

[2] Holloway, Diane (December 4, 1983). "KBVO-TV debuts tonight". Austin American-Statesman. p. Show World 2. Retrieved July 30, 2021.

[3] "Nice Guy Of The Year". The San Diego Nice Guys. 2016. Retrieved July 30, 2021.

[4] Stone, Ken (2020-03-27). "San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles Magazine Closes — Latest Culture Casualty". Times of San Diego. Retrieved 2020-08-26.

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