KXTS-LD (channel 41) is a low-power television station in

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, United States, affiliated with

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. It is owned by

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alongside

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affiliate

KAVU-TV KAVU-TV (channel 25) is a television station in Victoria, Texas, United States, affiliated with ABC. Owned by Morgan Murphy Media, it is the largest station in the Victoria Television Group, which also includes the low-power affiliates of NBC ( ...

(channel 25) and four other low-power stations:

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affiliate

KMOL-LD KMOL-LD (channel 17) is a low-power television station in Victoria, Texas, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Morgan Murphy Media alongside ABC affiliate KAVU-TV (channel 25) and four other low-power stations: Univision affili ...

(channel 17),

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affiliate

KUNU-LD KUNU-LD (channel 21) is a low-power television station in Victoria, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Univision network. It is owned by Morgan Murphy Media alongside ABC affiliate KAVU-TV (channel 25) and four other low ...

(channel 21),

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affiliate KQZY-LD (channel 33), and

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affiliate

KVTX-LD KVTX-LD (channel 45) is a low-power television station in Victoria, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Telemundo network. It is owned by Morgan Murphy Media alongside ABC affiliate KAVU-TV (channel 25) and four other low- ...

(channel 45). Morgan Murphy Media also provides certain services to

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affiliate

KVCT KVCT (channel 19) is a television station in Victoria, Texas, United States, affiliated with Fox and The CW Plus. It is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Morgan Murphy Media, owner of AB ...

(channel 19) under a

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(LMA) with

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. All of the stations share studios on North Navarro Street in Victoria and transmitter facilities on Farm to Market Road 236 west of the city.

History

KXTS-LP signed on in 1994 as an NBC affiliate and later flipped to

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. It then broadcast

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from September 2006 until September 2011 after the UPN and WB merger into

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. On September 12, 2011, KXTS-LP dropped MyNetworkTV completely (after it became a programming service in 2009 instead of a full TV network) and became the first CBS affiliate in the Victoria area. KXTS converted to digital operations on January 5, 2012, and the

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was changed to KXTS-LD. The station also added a second digital subchannel to carry classic programming from

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. KXTS is also carried along with two sister stations as a digital subchannel of KAVU-TV.myvictoriaonline.com/HDTV#subchannel
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Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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References

External links

Official website
* Morgan Murphy Media stations XTS-LD Low-power television stations in the United States CBS network affiliates Antenna TV affiliates {{Texas-tv-station-stub