KYVV-TV (channel 28) is a
television station
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the eart ...
in
Del Rio, Texas, United States, affiliated with the digital multicast network
Grit. The station is owned by Stryker Media, and maintains transmitter facilities on
US 277
U.S. Route 277 (US 277, US-277) is a north–south United States Highway that is a spur route of U.S. Route 77. It runs for 633 miles (1,019 km) across Oklahoma and Texas. US 277's northern terminus is in Newcastle, Oklahoma at I ...
southeast of Del Rio. Its signal is relayed in
widescreen
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standard definition
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on the third
digital subchannel of
Univision
Univision () is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the Latino public and includes ...
owned-and-operated station KWEX-DT
KWEX-DT (channel 41) is a television station in San Antonio, Texas, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision network. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Blanco-licensed UniMás outlet KNIC-DT (channel 17). ...
(channel 41.3) in
San Antonio
("Cradle of Freedom")
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History
On July 10, 1991, the
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdicti ...
(FCC) granted a construction permit to Republic Broadcasting Company for a new TV station on analog channel 10 in Del Rio. The company, headed by Thomas Robert Gilchrist, chose KTRG as call letters for the station. However, the station was not on air by December 1996, when the construction permit was sold to Ortiz Broadcasting Corporation. Under its ownership, channel 10 began broadcasting on September 1, 1997. On April 6, 1998, KTRG joined
UPN
The United Paramount Network (UPN) was an American broadcast television network that launched on January 16, 1995. It was originally owned by Chris-Craft Industries' United Television. Viacom (through its Paramount Television unit, which pr ...
. It also briefly aired a local newscast.
In May 1999, KTRG was switched to programming from the Faith Pleases God church owned by Ortiz (who also founded the
Fe-TV
Fe-TV is a Spanish-language broadcast television network providing Christian programming to the Hispanic community. Based in Harlingen, Texas, the network is an outreach of Faith Pleases God Church, a charismatic megachurch in Harlingen, alon ...
and
La Familia Network
La Familia Network (LFN) was a Spanish language, family-oriented television network based in Harlingen, Texas. It was available on Time Warner Cable until October 4, 2015.
History
La Familia Network was created by Clark Ortiz from Harlingen, T ...
channels). This continued until 2005, when Ortiz Broadcasting Corporation took the station silent for financial reasons, having gone into bankruptcy. It was then sold to SATV 10, LLC, in 2006; this company was owned by Barbara Laurence. SATV10 undertook the lengthy process of finding a suitable site to resume operations, as the tower site lease was not included in the assets of the bankrupt estate. This was accomplished, but SATV10 filed for bankruptcy protection itself in 2009, emerging the next year.
In 2010, KTRG and another Laurence-owned station,
KMCC in
Laughlin, affiliated with
VasalloVision
VasalloVision was a small Spanish-language television network in the United States that catered to the Mexican audience. Most of its schedule consisted of films, '' lucha libre'', and children's programming. The network was made up of four statio ...
, which they aired until August 13, 2012,
when KYVV-TV (having changed its call letters to reflect the VasalloVision programming) became an affiliate of MundoFox (later
MundoMax
MundoMax (; originally known as MundoFox from August 13, 2012 to July 28, 2015) was an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network that was owned by RCN Televisión. The network broadcast programs aimed at Hispanic and Latino Ameri ...
). The station went
silent on May 12, 2016.
FCC-filed Children's Television Programming Report for Q2 2016: "KYVV went silent as of May 12th, 2016. All broadcasting ceased at midnight"
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Stryker Media agreed to purchase KYVV-TV from SATV 10 for $450,000 on October 12, 2017.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed
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:
References
External links
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Television channels and stations established in 1997
1997 establishments in Texas
Television stations in Texas
Spanish-language television stations in Texas
Del Rio, Texas
Grit (TV network) affiliates
Buzzr affiliates
LATV affiliates