KBBV-CD, virtual and

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channel 19, is a low-power, Class A

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- affiliated

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, United States. The station is owned by Jaco Communications, LLC.

History

KBBV-CD was previously leased by Valley Public Television and was used to rebroadcast

KVPT KVPT (channel 18) is a PBS member television station in Fresno, California, United States, owned by Valley Public Television, Inc. Its studios are located on Van Ness Avenue and Calaveras Street in downtown Fresno, and its transmitter is located o ...

to the Bakersfield area on channel 65. The station later carried

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, and announced an affiliation with

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in March 2010.

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sold the station to Jaco Communications in 2011.Bakersfield Class A TV changed hands
rbr.com, 11 July 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2014. The station changed affiliations to

in 2017; the station was flipped to Azteca América in July 2019.

References

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