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KVEO-TV

January 10, 2024

KVEO-TV (channel 23) is a television station licensed to Brownsville, Texas, United States, serving the Lower Rio Grande Valley as an affiliate of NBC and CBS. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Harlingen-licensed primary Antenna TV owned-and-operated station and secondary MyNetworkTV affiliate 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.

KVEO-TV
CityBrownsville, Texas
Channels
BrandingNBC 23; CBS 4
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KGBT-TV
History
First air date
December 19, 1981 (42 years ago) (1981-12-19)
Former call signs
KVEO (1981–2009)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 23 (UHF, 1981–2009)
UPN (secondary, 1997–1999)
Call sign meaning
KVEO = "que veo", Spanish for "what I am watching"
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID12523
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT445 m (1,460 ft)
Transmitter coordinates26°6′2.3″N 97°50′21.5″W / 26.100639°N 97.839306°W / 26.100639; -97.839306
Links
Public license information
  • Public file
  • LMS
Websitewww.valleycentral.com

KVEO-TV was the third major commercial station to start in the Rio Grande Valley, beginning broadcasting on December 19, 1981. It immediately became the full-time NBC affiliate in the market. Its original ownership was rocked by financial problems and connections to a failed bank; it emerged from bankruptcy in 1984. Two attempts at local newscasts (1981–1982 and 1985–1986) were short-lived. The station was sold to what became Communications Corporation of America (ComCorp) in 1990. ComCorp began airing local news programming on the station again in 2007, though beginning in 2010 this was produced out-of-market at another station in the company.

Nexstar acquired KVEO-TV in 2013. In 2020, it acquired from Sinclair Broadcast Group all of the non-license assets of KGBT-TV, which had been the CBS affiliate, and its facilities. KGBT-TV's programming became the CBS subchannel of KVEO-TV, and news programming was realigned on both channels.

History edit

The first construction permit for channel 23 at Brownsville was awarded to Pan American Broadcasting Corporation in 1974; officials intended to build the station as the missing network affiliate for the market, then ABC.[2] The station got as far as receiving call letters,[3] but no building activity occurred. In 1978, the FCC review board granted an extension of time, noting that Pan American had attempted to merge with another proposed UHF station at McAllen; that merger fell through, and the group was allowed to try and transfer the permit.[4]

Tierra del Sol ownership edit

The Pan American permit never materialized, and the channel was empty when Tierra del Sol Broadcasting Corporation applied on October 21, 1979, for channel 23.[5] It immediately sought NBC affiliation; at the time, the city had a dual NBC–CBS affiliate, KGBT-TV, that had to try and provide the best programs from both networks and manage conflicts in such areas as sports.[6]

Even before going on air, there were issues. One stemmed from the station's move to change electricity providers for its studio facility. The station's studios, the former The Godfather nightclub in Brownsville,[7] was originally to be served by the city-owned Public Utility Board (PUB). However, it had a poor reputation for reliability, and brownouts were frequent on the system. The station desired to be served by Corpus Christi-based Central Power & Light (CP&L) and used a 1975 Texas decision allowing it to do so because of its proximity to a CP&L line; when the PUB refused to disconnect its service, KVEO did so itself with CP&L's permission, an action that the PUB then appealed to Texas utility regulators in addition to charging the station with criminal mischief.[8][7][a] KGBT-TV ceased airing NBC programming on July 1, 1981, at which time KVEO ran newspaper advertising promising it would be on the air in less than 60 days with the NBC programs that would temporarily go unseen in the Valley.[10] However, tower construction delays kept the station off the air.[11]

KVEO began broadcasting on December 19, 1981. It struggled to find an audience, particularly for its Total 23 News programming, with viewers already tuned to KGBT-TV and KRGV-TV. The station's early evening newscasts were canceled in July 1982,[12] followed by the late news that September.[13] Worse yet, the Mexican peso slumped beginning in February 1982, just two months after the station signed on. That provoked a sharp decline in business activity on the American side of the Rio Grande and created further issues for a station that was already burdened with debt.[14]

In order to raise cash for operating expenses, Peter Dean—one of the partners in Tierra del Sol—sold the station's uncollected advertising accounts to a company known as Central Texas Factors. Dean had helped to organize the company with Lawrence Ludka, his law partner; involved in the firm were several principals of the Ranchlander National Bank, a financial institution in the small town of Melvin. In October 1982, after Tierra del Sol sued Dean and Ludka for splitting the revenues derived from this business,[15] Dean moved to force KVEO into bankruptcy, claiming it owed him more than $600,000. Another owner of Tierra del Sol, Darrell Davis—who had anchored the station's newscasts prior to their cancellation—called Dean's actions malicious. Davis told The Brownsville Herald, "Mr. Dean has done us and the Valley wrong, and he is in for the most interesting time of his life."[13] The last two months of 1982 would bear Davis out. Dean's issues were magnified when the Ranchlander National Bank failed on November 19, its de facto owner having been revealed to be a former felon convicted for bank embezzlement.[16][17] The probe into bank fraud and related broadcasting activity broadened shortly before Christmas as investigators looked into Central Texas Factors.[15] On December 21, 1982, Peter Dean was found dead on a ranch owned by his father-in-law in Comal County.[18] The medical examiner determined that he had died from drinking cola laced with cyanide, though there was also a hose attached to the vehicle's exhaust.[19]

KVEO's financial picture continued to be precarious as legal proceedings continued into 1983. In April, a deal was reached with Guadalupe South Texas Communications, a commercial subsidiary of the De Rance Foundation of Milwaukee, to purchase KVEO.[20] However, the buyer and seller could not agree on the value of the assets.[14] New urgency was put on the matter in October 1983 when Hundred East Credit Corporation—which held rights to the station's transmitting equipment—accused station officials of fraud, believing they were diverting money to a production company they co-owned even though KVEO's assets had been frozen. Guadalupe South Texas concurred, believing the station would be unable to pay any of its $9.5 million in debts unless a trustee were appointed.[21] In November, Tierra del Sol agreed on an amended purchase arrangement with Guadalupe South Texas, with some of the proceeds being used to pay creditors.[22]

Valley Broadcasting/SouthWest MultiMedia ownership edit

However, that sale failed to materialize. Instead, Valley Broadcasting purchased the station for $7.6 million in late 1984.[23] The new ownership restored local news to KVEO in the form of NewsWatch 23 newscasts that began in April 1985. The anchor was Ron Oliveira, who had been working in the Austin market at KVUE; he left to become KVEO's assistant general manager because he wanted management experience en route to someday owning his own station.[24][25] The newscasts were short-lived; facing poor ratings and a depressed economy, and apparently carrying a promise that discontinuing local news programming would not place its NBC affiliation in jeopardy, the last newscast aired in September 1986.[26]

Oliveira's ambition to own a new television station eventually put the possibility of another change of ownership on the horizon. In 1986, Billy Goldberg—the majority owner of Valley Broadcasting, by then renamed SouthWest MultiMedia—and Oliveira were given an initial grant for a new television station on channel 54 in Austin, and Goldberg pledged to divest himself of KVEO prior to that station going on air.[27] That station was eventually significantly delayed by appeals to the comparative hearing process, but Oliveira had already sold his house in Brownsville and returned to KVUE in Austin.[28]

ComCorp ownership edit

In 1990, SouthWest MultiMedia sold its three television stations—KVEO, KWKT-TV in Waco, and KPEJ-TV in Odessa—for $30.4 million to Associated Broadcasters, Inc., a company owned by Thomas R. Galloway of Lafayette, Louisiana. While Galloway had previously owned interests in other stations, the transaction represented Associated's first television holdings alongside three Louisiana radio stations.[29] Galloway's broadcast holdings were known as Communications Corporation of America (ComCorp) by the mid-1990s.[30]

Under ComCorp, the station settled down, though it eschewed local news and called itself "The Valley's Entertainment Leader".[7] After UPN first established a secondary affiliation with KRGV-TV, which only carried Star Trek: Voyager,[31] the network's programming had moved to KVEO by 1997.[32] In 1999, the station lost UPN to XHRIO-TV in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, when that station lost Telemundo.[33] The station also began broadcasting in digital in June 2005, adding high-definition programming in February 2006.[34]

KVEO's lack of local news did not change until October 1, 2007, when KVEO began producing evening newscasts again under the name NewsCenter 23.[35] As a cost-cutting measure, however, ComCorp opted to discontinue the production of newscasts from Brownsville in January 2010. Instead, the news programs would be presented by on-air personalities of KTSM-TV, ComCorp's station in El Paso, with local reporters filing stories that were edited and prepared in El Paso.[36]

Nexstar ownership; acquisition of KGBT-TV edit

On April 24, 2013, ComCorp announced the sale of its television stations, including KVEO-TV, to Nexstar Broadcasting Group. The ComCorp sale was completed on January 1, 2015.[37]

Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcast Group settled a breach of contract lawsuit stemming from Sinclair's failed acquisition of Tribune Media, which was ultimately acquired by Nexstar, in January 2020. Sinclair paid Nexstar $60 million and transferred to it WDKY-TV serving Lexington, Kentucky, and all of the non-license assets related to KGBT-TV, the CBS affiliate in the market, including the affiliation, programming, and physical plant.[38] At midnight on January 28, 2020, the CBS subchannel of KGBT-TV became the CBS subchannel of KVEO-TV and moved from channel 4.1 to channel 23.2.[39] In addition, Nexstar announced that it would merge KVEO and KGBT-TV's operations at the latter's facility in Harlingen.[40] KGBT-TV itself was acquired by Mission Broadcasting, an affiliated company; Nexstar then exercised its option to purchase it outright in July 2021.[41]

Technical information edit

Subchannels edit

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KVEO-TV
Channel Video Aspect Short name Programming[42]
23.1 1080i 16:9 KVEO-TV KVEO–NBC
23.2 KVEO–CBS

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ In February 1982, PUB and CP&L settled the dispute; CP&L was allowed to keep servicing channel 23 but agreed not to connect other PUB customers.[9]

References edit

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KVEO-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ "Permit Is Granted For UHF Television Channel Here". The Brownsville Herald. April 28, 1974. p. 14-A. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Who What Where". Valley Morning Star. June 15, 1975. p. C8. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Decision (65 FCC 2d 684)". Federal Communications Commission Reports. May 23, 1977. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  5. ^ "FCC History Cards for KVEO-TV". Federal Communications Commission. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  6. ^ Zamora, Ronnie (January 11, 1981). "'Inconvenience' To End In Summer: Channel 23 Expected To Be NBC Affiliate". p. 1D.
  7. ^ a b c Guajardo, Marcial (September 18, 1998). "KVEO-TV 23: Saga of a Station". The Brownsville Herald. pp. B1, B6. from the original on April 11, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via NewspaperArchive.
  8. ^ Stoler, Susan (May 3, 1981). "Brown(out)sville taking a dim view". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Fort Worth, Texas. Associated Press. p. 41A. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Fieg, Greg (February 24, 1982). "PUB to get share of dam power". The Brownsville Herald. p. 1A.
  10. ^ "Johnny and Tom Will Be Right Back!". The Monitor. McAllen, Texas. June 28, 1981. p. 11A. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "New TV Station To Be on Air In Few Weeks". The Monitor. October 23, 1981. p. 8C. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ Zamora, Ronnie (July 8, 1982). "Channel 23 to drop 5:30, 6:30 newscasts". The Brownsville Herald. p. 1B.
  13. ^ a b Fieg, Greg (October 29, 1982). "Dean wants Channel 23 forced into bankruptcy". The Brownsville Herald. p. 1B.
  14. ^ a b Abrams, Michael (October 30, 1983). "KVEO-TV is sued for $6.2 million". Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Corpus Christi, Texas. p. 2D. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ a b McSwain, Ross; Orwig, Tim (December 19, 1982). "Bank fraud probe case broadens". San Angelo Standard-Times. San Angelo, Texas. p. 1A, 4A. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ McSwain, Ross (November 19, 1982). "Melvin bank closed". San Angelo Times. San Angelo, Texas. p. 1A, 4A. from the original on April 11, 2022. Retrieved April 11, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ Cochran, Mike (May 1, 1983). "FBI says good-life devotee little bit crooked". The Paris News. Paris, Texas. Associated Press. p. 5C. from the original on April 11, 2022. Retrieved April 11, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ McSwain, Ross (December 22, 1982). "Principal in bank closing found dead". San Angelo Standard-Times. San Angelo, Texas. p. 1A, 4A. from the original on April 11, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ Fry, Dyanne (December 24, 1982). "Poison drink caused attorney's death". New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung. New Braunfels, Texas. p. 1. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Changing Hands" (PDF). Broadcasting. June 27, 1983. p. 88. ProQuest 963236505. (PDF) from the original on January 31, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  21. ^ Urban, Jerry (October 20, 1983). "Company files fraud lawsuit against KVEO". The Brownsville Herald. p. 1B.
  22. ^ "Group seeking to buy KVEO". The Monitor. McAllen, Texas. November 20, 1983. p. 1C. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ "KVEO sale approved". The Brownsville Herald. September 14, 1984. p. 1B.
  24. ^ "Premiering Monday April 29th at 6 & 10: KVEO NewsWatch 23". The Monitor. McAllen, Texas. April 19, 1985. p. 5C. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ^ Holloway, Diane (February 7, 1985). "Channel 24 anchorman Oliveira resigns". Austin American-Statesman. Austin, Texas. p. B1. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ^ Sabo, Roberta (September 5, 1986). "Brownsville TV station to discontinue news programs". The Monitor. McAllen, Texas. p. 13A, 24A. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  27. ^ Sabo, Roberta (September 15, 1986). "Valley TV station could face third ownership change". The Monitor. McAllen, Texas. p. 10A. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  28. ^ Holloway, Diane (February 18, 1988). "Ron Oliveira returns to Channel 24". Austin American-Statesman. p. B8. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  29. ^ Murray, Dan (September 12, 1990). "KVEO-TV sale announced". The Monitor. p. 16A. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  30. ^ Bounds, Jeff; Pizarro, Fernando (May 12, 1995). "Firms tune in to market: Changes in ownership planned at KSLA, KWLB". The Times. p. 8B. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  31. ^ Lozano, Phillip (January 15, 1995). "Trekkers read this". The Monitor. p. 1E. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  32. ^ "WB and UPN, Station by Station" (PDF). Broadcasting & Cable. p. 6. ProQuest 1016966835. (PDF) from the original on January 11, 2021. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  33. ^ Maldonado, Vilma (April 21, 1999). "Switching channels: Telemundo is moving". The Monitor. p. 1C, 3C. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  34. ^ Castellanos, Angela (July 10, 2006). "Most definitely high definition: Customers hungry for HDTV". The Monitor. p. 1B, 8B. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  35. ^ Nelsen, Aaron (October 5, 2007). "Fox 2, NBC 23 aim to capture their share of viewers: New newscasts hit Valley airwaves". The Monitor. The Brownsville Herald. p. 1D, 4D. from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  36. ^ Reveles, Gustavo (January 14, 2010). . El Paso Times. Archived from the original on March 23, 2010.
  37. ^ "Consummation Notice". Consolidated Database System. Federal Communications Commission. from the original on January 6, 2015. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
  38. ^ Eggerton, John (January 27, 2020). "Sinclair Pays Nexstar $60M, Some Assets, to Settle Tribune Suit". Broadcasting & Cable. from the original on January 28, 2020. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
  39. ^ "CBS 4 changing over-the-air signal to 23.2 midnight tonight". KVEO.com. Nexstar Media Group. January 27, 2020. from the original on January 28, 2020. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
  40. ^ del Valle, Fernando (January 28, 2020). . Valley Morning Star. Archived from the original on January 31, 2020. Retrieved January 31, 2020.
  41. ^ "Station Trading Roundup: 11 Deals, At Least $106.7M". TVNewsCheck. July 21, 2021. from the original on August 6, 2021. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  42. ^ "Listing for KVEO-TV". RabbitEars. from the original on January 5, 2019. Retrieved March 19, 2023.

External links edit

  • Official website

January 10, 2024
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KVEO TV channel 23 is a television station licensed to Brownsville Texas United States serving the Lower Rio Grande Valley as an affiliate of NBC and CBS It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Harlingen licensed primary Antenna TV owned and operated station and secondary MyNetworkTV affiliate 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 KVEO TVBrownsville Harlingen McAllen TexasUnited StatesCityBrownsville TexasChannelsDigital 24 UHF Virtual 23BrandingNBC 23 CBS 4ProgrammingAffiliations23 1 NBC23 2 CBSOwnershipOwnerNexstar Media Group Nexstar Media Inc Sister stationsKGBT TVHistoryFirst air dateDecember 19 1981 42 years ago 1981 12 19 Former call signsKVEO 1981 2009 Former channel number s Analog 23 UHF 1981 2009 Former affiliationsUPN secondary 1997 1999 Call sign meaningKVEO que veo Spanish for what I am watching Technical information 1 Licensing authorityFCCFacility ID12523ERP1 000 kWHAAT445 m 1 460 ft Transmitter coordinates26 6 2 3 N 97 50 21 5 W 26 100639 N 97 839306 W 26 100639 97 839306LinksPublic license informationPublic fileLMSWebsitewww wbr valleycentral wbr comKVEO TV was the third major commercial station to start in the Rio Grande Valley beginning broadcasting on December 19 1981 It immediately became the full time NBC affiliate in the market Its original ownership was rocked by financial problems and connections to a failed bank it emerged from bankruptcy in 1984 Two attempts at local newscasts 1981 1982 and 1985 1986 were short lived The station was sold to what became Communications Corporation of America ComCorp in 1990 ComCorp began airing local news programming on the station again in 2007 though beginning in 2010 this was produced out of market at another station in the company Nexstar acquired KVEO TV in 2013 In 2020 it acquired from Sinclair Broadcast Group all of the non license assets of KGBT TV which had been the CBS affiliate and its facilities KGBT TV s programming became the CBS subchannel of KVEO TV and news programming was realigned on both channels Contents 1 History 1 1 Tierra del Sol ownership 1 2 Valley Broadcasting SouthWest MultiMedia ownership 1 3 ComCorp ownership 1 4 Nexstar ownership acquisition of KGBT TV 2 Technical information 2 1 Subchannels 3 See also 4 Notes 5 References 6 External linksHistory editThe first construction permit for channel 23 at Brownsville was awarded to Pan American Broadcasting Corporation in 1974 officials intended to build the station as the missing network affiliate for the market then ABC 2 The station got as far as receiving call letters 3 but no building activity occurred In 1978 the FCC review board granted an extension of time noting that Pan American had attempted to merge with another proposed UHF station at McAllen that merger fell through and the group was allowed to try and transfer the permit 4 Tierra del Sol ownership edit The Pan American permit never materialized and the channel was empty when Tierra del Sol Broadcasting Corporation applied on October 21 1979 for channel 23 5 It immediately sought NBC affiliation at the time the city had a dual NBC CBS affiliate KGBT TV that had to try and provide the best programs from both networks and manage conflicts in such areas as sports 6 Even before going on air there were issues One stemmed from the station s move to change electricity providers for its studio facility The station s studios the former The Godfather nightclub in Brownsville 7 was originally to be served by the city owned Public Utility Board PUB However it had a poor reputation for reliability and brownouts were frequent on the system The station desired to be served by Corpus Christi based Central Power amp Light CP amp L and used a 1975 Texas decision allowing it to do so because of its proximity to a CP amp L line when the PUB refused to disconnect its service KVEO did so itself with CP amp L s permission an action that the PUB then appealed to Texas utility regulators in addition to charging the station with criminal mischief 8 7 a KGBT TV ceased airing NBC programming on July 1 1981 at which time KVEO ran newspaper advertising promising it would be on the air in less than 60 days with the NBC programs that would temporarily go unseen in the Valley 10 However tower construction delays kept the station off the air 11 KVEO began broadcasting on December 19 1981 It struggled to find an audience particularly for its Total 23 News programming with viewers already tuned to KGBT TV and KRGV TV The station s early evening newscasts were canceled in July 1982 12 followed by the late news that September 13 Worse yet the Mexican peso slumped beginning in February 1982 just two months after the station signed on That provoked a sharp decline in business activity on the American side of the Rio Grande and created further issues for a station that was already burdened with debt 14 In order to raise cash for operating expenses Peter Dean one of the partners in Tierra del Sol sold the station s uncollected advertising accounts to a company known as Central Texas Factors Dean had helped to organize the company with Lawrence Ludka his law partner involved in the firm were several principals of the Ranchlander National Bank a financial institution in the small town of Melvin In October 1982 after Tierra del Sol sued Dean and Ludka for splitting the revenues derived from this business 15 Dean moved to force KVEO into bankruptcy claiming it owed him more than 600 000 Another owner of Tierra del Sol Darrell Davis who had anchored the station s newscasts prior to their cancellation called Dean s actions malicious Davis told The Brownsville Herald Mr Dean has done us and the Valley wrong and he is in for the most interesting time of his life 13 The last two months of 1982 would bear Davis out Dean s issues were magnified when the Ranchlander National Bank failed on November 19 its de facto owner having been revealed to be a former felon convicted for bank embezzlement 16 17 The probe into bank fraud and related broadcasting activity broadened shortly before Christmas as investigators looked into Central Texas Factors 15 On December 21 1982 Peter Dean was found dead on a ranch owned by his father in law in Comal County 18 The medical examiner determined that he had died from drinking cola laced with cyanide though there was also a hose attached to the vehicle s exhaust 19 KVEO s financial picture continued to be precarious as legal proceedings continued into 1983 In April a deal was reached with Guadalupe South Texas Communications a commercial subsidiary of the De Rance Foundation of Milwaukee to purchase KVEO 20 However the buyer and seller could not agree on the value of the assets 14 New urgency was put on the matter in October 1983 when Hundred East Credit Corporation which held rights to the station s transmitting equipment accused station officials of fraud believing they were diverting money to a production company they co owned even though KVEO s assets had been frozen Guadalupe South Texas concurred believing the station would be unable to pay any of its 9 5 million in debts unless a trustee were appointed 21 In November Tierra del Sol agreed on an amended purchase arrangement with Guadalupe South Texas with some of the proceeds being used to pay creditors 22 Valley Broadcasting SouthWest MultiMedia ownership edit However that sale failed to materialize Instead Valley Broadcasting purchased the station for 7 6 million in late 1984 23 The new ownership restored local news to KVEO in the form of NewsWatch 23 newscasts that began in April 1985 The anchor was Ron Oliveira who had been working in the Austin market at KVUE he left to become KVEO s assistant general manager because he wanted management experience en route to someday owning his own station 24 25 The newscasts were short lived facing poor ratings and a depressed economy and apparently carrying a promise that discontinuing local news programming would not place its NBC affiliation in jeopardy the last newscast aired in September 1986 26 Oliveira s ambition to own a new television station eventually put the possibility of another change of ownership on the horizon In 1986 Billy Goldberg the majority owner of Valley Broadcasting by then renamed SouthWest MultiMedia and Oliveira were given an initial grant for a new television station on channel 54 in Austin and Goldberg pledged to divest himself of KVEO prior to that station going on air 27 That station was eventually significantly delayed by appeals to the comparative hearing process but Oliveira had already sold his house in Brownsville and returned to KVUE in Austin 28 ComCorp ownership edit In 1990 SouthWest MultiMedia sold its three television stations KVEO KWKT TV in Waco and KPEJ TV in Odessa for 30 4 million to Associated Broadcasters Inc a company owned by Thomas R Galloway of Lafayette Louisiana While Galloway had previously owned interests in other stations the transaction represented Associated s first television holdings alongside three Louisiana radio stations 29 Galloway s broadcast holdings were known as Communications Corporation of America ComCorp by the mid 1990s 30 Under ComCorp the station settled down though it eschewed local news and called itself The Valley s Entertainment Leader 7 After UPN first established a secondary affiliation with KRGV TV which only carried Star Trek Voyager 31 the network s programming had moved to KVEO by 1997 32 In 1999 the station lost UPN to XHRIO TV in Matamoros Tamaulipas when that station lost Telemundo 33 The station also began broadcasting in digital in June 2005 adding high definition programming in February 2006 34 KVEO s lack of local news did not change until October 1 2007 when KVEO began producing evening newscasts again under the name NewsCenter 23 35 As a cost cutting measure however ComCorp opted to discontinue the production of newscasts from Brownsville in January 2010 Instead the news programs would be presented by on air personalities of KTSM TV ComCorp s station in El Paso with local reporters filing stories that were edited and prepared in El Paso 36 Nexstar ownership acquisition of KGBT TV edit On April 24 2013 ComCorp announced the sale of its television stations including KVEO TV to Nexstar Broadcasting Group The ComCorp sale was completed on January 1 2015 37 Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcast Group settled a breach of contract lawsuit stemming from Sinclair s failed acquisition of Tribune Media which was ultimately acquired by Nexstar in January 2020 Sinclair paid Nexstar 60 million and transferred to it WDKY TV serving Lexington Kentucky and all of the non license assets related to KGBT TV the CBS affiliate in the market including the affiliation programming and physical plant 38 At midnight on January 28 2020 the CBS subchannel of KGBT TV became the CBS subchannel of KVEO TV and moved from channel 4 1 to channel 23 2 39 In addition Nexstar announced that it would merge KVEO and KGBT TV s operations at the latter s facility in Harlingen 40 KGBT TV itself was acquired by Mission Broadcasting an affiliated company Nexstar then exercised its option to purchase it outright in July 2021 41 Technical information editSubchannels edit The station s digital signal is multiplexed Subchannels of KVEO TV Channel Video Aspect Short name Programming 42 23 1 1080i 16 9 KVEO TV KVEO NBC23 2 KVEO CBSSee also editChannel 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 TexasNotes edit In February 1982 PUB and CP amp L settled the dispute CP amp L was allowed to keep servicing channel 23 but agreed not to connect other PUB customers 9 References edit Facility Technical Data for KVEO TV Licensing and Management System Federal Communications Commission Permit Is Granted For UHF Television Channel Here The Brownsville Herald April 28 1974 p 14 A Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com Who What Where Valley Morning Star June 15 1975 p C8 Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com Decision 65 FCC 2d 684 Federal Communications Commission Reports May 23 1977 Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 FCC History Cards for KVEO TV Federal Communications Commission Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 Zamora Ronnie January 11 1981 Inconvenience To End In Summer Channel 23 Expected To Be NBC Affiliate p 1D a b c Guajardo Marcial September 18 1998 KVEO TV 23 Saga of a Station The Brownsville Herald pp B1 B6 Archived from the original on April 11 2022 Retrieved March 19 2023 via NewspaperArchive Stoler Susan May 3 1981 Brown out sville taking a dim view Fort Worth Star Telegram Fort Worth Texas Associated Press p 41A Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com Fieg Greg February 24 1982 PUB to get share of dam power The Brownsville Herald p 1A Johnny and Tom Will Be Right Back The Monitor McAllen Texas June 28 1981 p 11A Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com New TV Station To Be on Air In Few Weeks The Monitor October 23 1981 p 8C Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com Zamora Ronnie July 8 1982 Channel 23 to drop 5 30 6 30 newscasts The Brownsville Herald p 1B a b Fieg Greg October 29 1982 Dean wants Channel 23 forced into bankruptcy The Brownsville Herald p 1B a b Abrams Michael October 30 1983 KVEO TV is sued for 6 2 million Corpus Christi Caller Times Corpus Christi Texas p 2D Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com a b McSwain Ross Orwig Tim December 19 1982 Bank fraud probe case broadens San Angelo Standard Times San Angelo Texas p 1A 4A Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com McSwain Ross November 19 1982 Melvin bank closed San Angelo Times San Angelo Texas p 1A 4A Archived from the original on April 11 2022 Retrieved April 11 2022 via Newspapers com Cochran Mike May 1 1983 FBI says good life devotee little bit crooked The Paris News Paris Texas Associated Press p 5C Archived from the original on April 11 2022 Retrieved April 11 2022 via Newspapers com McSwain Ross December 22 1982 Principal in bank closing found dead San Angelo Standard Times San Angelo Texas p 1A 4A Archived from the original on April 11 2022 Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com Fry Dyanne December 24 1982 Poison drink caused attorney s death New Braunfels Herald Zeitung New Braunfels Texas p 1 Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com Changing Hands PDF Broadcasting June 27 1983 p 88 ProQuest 963236505 Archived PDF from the original on January 31 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 Urban Jerry October 20 1983 Company files fraud lawsuit against KVEO The Brownsville Herald p 1B Group seeking to buy KVEO The Monitor McAllen Texas November 20 1983 p 1C Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com KVEO sale approved The Brownsville Herald September 14 1984 p 1B Premiering Monday April 29th at 6 amp 10 KVEO NewsWatch 23 The Monitor McAllen Texas April 19 1985 p 5C Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com Holloway Diane February 7 1985 Channel 24 anchorman Oliveira resigns Austin American Statesman Austin Texas p B1 Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com Sabo Roberta September 5 1986 Brownsville TV station to discontinue news programs The Monitor McAllen Texas p 13A 24A Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com Sabo Roberta September 15 1986 Valley TV station could face third ownership change The Monitor McAllen Texas p 10A Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com Holloway Diane February 18 1988 Ron Oliveira returns to Channel 24 Austin American Statesman p B8 Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com Murray Dan September 12 1990 KVEO TV sale announced The Monitor p 16A Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com Bounds Jeff Pizarro Fernando May 12 1995 Firms tune in to market Changes in ownership planned at KSLA KWLB The Times p 8B Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com Lozano Phillip January 15 1995 Trekkers read this The Monitor p 1E Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com WB and UPN Station by Station PDF Broadcasting amp Cable p 6 ProQuest 1016966835 Archived PDF from the original on January 11 2021 Retrieved March 19 2023 Maldonado Vilma April 21 1999 Switching channels Telemundo is moving The Monitor p 1C 3C Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com Castellanos Angela July 10 2006 Most definitely high definition Customers hungry for HDTV The Monitor p 1B 8B Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com Nelsen Aaron October 5 2007 Fox 2 NBC 23 aim to capture their share of viewers New newscasts hit Valley airwaves The Monitor The Brownsville Herald p 1D 4D Archived from the original on March 19 2023 Retrieved March 19 2023 via Newspapers com Reveles Gustavo January 14 2010 Ayoub and Bettes now in Brownsville sorta El Paso Times Archived from the original on March 23 2010 Consummation Notice Consolidated Database System Federal Communications Commission Archived from the original on January 6 2015 Retrieved January 6 2015 Eggerton John January 27 2020 Sinclair Pays Nexstar 60M Some Assets to Settle Tribune Suit Broadcasting amp Cable Archived from the original on January 28 2020 Retrieved January 28 2020 CBS 4 changing over the air signal to 23 2 midnight tonight KVEO com Nexstar Media Group January 27 2020 Archived from the original on January 28 2020 Retrieved January 28 2020 del Valle Fernando January 28 2020 KGBT TV sold to Nexstar Valley Morning Star Archived from the original on January 31 2020 Retrieved January 31 2020 Station Trading Roundup 11 Deals At Least 106 7M TVNewsCheck July 21 2021 Archived from the original on August 6 2021 Retrieved March 19 2023 Listing for KVEO TV RabbitEars Archived from the original on January 5 2019 Retrieved March 19 2023 External links editOfficial website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title KVEO TV amp oldid 1190396297, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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