KRHD-CD (channel 40) is a
low-power,
Class A television station
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in
Bryan, Texas
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, United States, serving the
Brazos Valley
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as an affiliate of
ABC
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. The station is owned by the
E. W. Scripps Company
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, and maintains a
news bureau
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and advertising sales office on Briarcrest Road in Bryan; its transmitter is located on
US 190
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northwest of the city in
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Robertson County.
Although identifying as a separate station in its own right, KRHD-CD is considered a
semi-satellite
A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or tran ...
of
KXXV
KXXV (channel 25) is a television station in Waco, Texas, United States, serving Central Texas as an affiliate of ABC. Owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, the station maintains studios on South New Road in Waco, and its transmitter is located nea ...
(channel 25) in
Waco
Waco ( ) is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is situated along the Brazos River and I-35, halfway between Dallas and Austin. The city had a 2020 population of 138,486, making it the 22nd-most populous city in the st ...
. As such, it
simulcast
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s all network and
syndicated programming as provided through its parent station but airs separate local newscasts, commercial inserts and
legal identifications, and has a different subchannel lineup. KRHD-CD serves the eastern half of the Waco–
Temple
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–Bryan
market
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*Market economy
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while KXXV serves the western portion. The two stations are counted as a single unit for
ratings purposes.
Master control
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and some internal operations are based at KXXV's studios on South New Road in Waco.
History
KRHD signed on for the first time on June 15, 1990, as K22DP, a
translator
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of KXXV. It changed its call sign to KRHD-LP in 1997.
KXXV/KRHD added a secondary affiliation with
The WB
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on January 11, 2002, following the sale of the market's previous WB affiliate,
KAKW
KAKW-DT (channel 62) is a television station licensed to Killeen, Texas, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision network to the Austin area. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside low-power, Class A UniMás ...
(channel 62), to
Univision
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. KXXV/KRHD aired The WB's prime time lineup after ABC's late night programming, as well as two hours of
Kids' WB
Kids' WB (stylized as Kids' WB!) was an American children's programming service and brand of The WB that aired on the network from September 9, 1995, to September 16, 2006. The block moved to The CW (a result of the merger of Time Warner's The WB ...
programming on Sunday mornings.
In July 2002, KXXV/KRHD ceded the secondary WB affiliation to
Fox
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affiliate
KWKT
KWKT-TV (channel 44) is a television station in Waco, Texas, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for Central Texas. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Bryan-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate KYLE-TV (channel 28). Both stations sha ...
(channel 44) and its Brazos Valley satellite
KYLE
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Places
Canada
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Ireland
* Kyle, County Laois
* Kyle, County Wexford
Scotland
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(channel 28).
A planned late 2008 sale of the Drewry stations to London Broadcasting fell through due to the
late 2000s credit crisis; London Broadcasting subsequently purchased KCEN-TV. On August 10, 2015,
Raycom Media
Raycom Media, Inc. was an American television broadcasting company based in Montgomery, Alabama. Raycom owned and/or provided services for 65 television stations and two radio stations across 44 markets in 20 states. Raycom, through its Commun ...
announced that it would purchase Drewry Communications for $160 million.
The sale was completed on December 1.
Sale to Gray Television and resale to Scripps
On June 25, 2018,
Atlanta
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-based
Gray Television
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, owner of
KWTX-TV
KWTX-TV (channel 10) is a television station in Waco, Texas, United States, serving Central Texas as an affiliate of CBS. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Belton-licensed CW affiliate KNCT (channel 46). Both stations share studios on ...
and its semi-satellite
KBTX-TV
KBTX-TV (channel 3) is a television station licensed in Bryan, Texas, United States, serving the Brazos Valley as an affiliate of CBS. Owned by Gray Television, the station maintains studios on East 29th Street in Bryan, and its transmitter is ...
, announced it had reached an agreement with Raycom to merge their respective broadcasting assets (consisting of Raycom's 63 existing owned-and/or-operated television stations, including KXXV and KRHD, and Gray's 93 television stations) under Gray's corporate umbrella. The cash-and-stock merger transaction valued at $3.6 billion—in which Gray shareholders would acquire preferred stock currently held by Raycom—required divestment of either KXXV/KRHD or KWTX due to FCC ownership regulations prohibiting common ownership of two of the four highest-rated stations in a single market (as well as more than two stations in any market). Gray announced it would retain KWTX and KBTX, and sell KXXV and KRHD to an unrelated third party.
On August 20, it was announced that the
E. W. Scripps Company
The E. W. Scripps Company is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps. It was also formerly a media conglomerate. The company is he ...
would buy KXXV/KRHD and sister station
WTXL-TV
WTXL-TV (channel 27) is a television station in Tallahassee, Florida, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. The station's studios are located on Commerce Boulevard in Midway, Florida, and its transmitter is ...
in
Tallahassee, Florida
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, for $55 million.
The sale was completed on January 2, 2019.
News operation
KRHD maintains a fully staffed bureau of reporters and photographers stationed in Bryan.
KXXV
simulcast
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s its morning newscast, ''Good Morning Texas'' and its 11 a.m. newscast, ''The Texas Report Midday'' on KRHD. Both programs feature stories from the main focus area of Waco–Temple–
Killeen but also include some stories from Bryan–
College Station and the Brazos Valley.
Until January 5, 2015, KXXV produced a taped 30-minute newscast for KRHD, called ''The ABC40 Nightbeat'', that aired at 10 p.m. weekdays. The newscast incorporated stories produced by reporters stationed at the Bryan bureau.
KXXV relaunched KRHD as an independent news operation in the Brazos Valley on September 1, 2020, and added 10 more hours of news with newscasts airing during its 11:30 a.m. midday time slot, and 30-minute newscasts at 5 and 10 p.m., and a 60-minute program, ''25 News at 6'', airing at 6 p.m. The station brings Brazos Valley viewers stories focused more on community impact and special interest content, breaking away from a traditional newscast format.
KRHD launched ''Good Morning Texas'' on January 11, 2021, with morning newscasts airing at 5 and 6 a.m.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed
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:
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Bryan, Texas