KVEO-TV (channel 23) 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 ea ...
licensed to
Brownsville, Texas, United States, serving the
Lower Rio Grande Valley as a dual affiliate of
NBC and
CBS. It is owned by
Nexstar Media Group
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. is an American publicly traded media company with headquarter offices in Irving, Texas; Midtown Manhattan; and Chicago, Illinois. The company is the largest television station owner in the United States, owning 197 te ...
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
Santa Maria is a census-designated place (CDP) in Cameron County, Texas, United States. The population was 733 at the 2010 census, down from 846 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Brownsville– Harlingen Metropolitan Statistical Area.
...
.
History
KVEO signed on the air on December 19, 1981. Before then, the area had been one of the few in the country without a full-time NBC affiliate; the area's original NBC affiliate,
Weslaco's
KRGV-TV (channel 5), had become a full-time
ABC affiliate in 1976. The station was originally owned by a local group of investors called Tierra Del Broadcasting Corporation. In the interim, CBS affiliate
KGBT-TV (channel 4) carried NBC programming on a secondary basis. Tierra Del sold the station to Valley Broadcasting in 1984, which in turn sold KVEO to Southwest Multimedia a year later. Southwest Multimedia would then sold it to Associated Broadcasters (later renamed
Communications Corporation of America, founded by Thomas R. Galloway and D. Wayne Elmore) in 1990. KVEO added a secondary affiliation with
UPN in 1996, replacing previous secondary affiliate KRGV-TV;
in 1999, the station lost UPN to
XHRIO-TV in
Matamoros.
On April 24, 2013, Communications Corporation of America announced the sale of its entire group (including KVEO-TV) to the
Nexstar Broadcasting Group. The sale was completed on January 1, 2015.
On January 27, 2020,
Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (SBG) is a publicly traded American telecommunications conglomerate that is controlled by the descendants of company founder Julian Sinclair Smith. Headquartered in the Baltimore suburb of Cockeysville, Maryland, ...
announced that it would sell the non-license assets of KGBT-TV (including its CBS affiliation and syndication contracts) to Nexstar as part of a settlement between the two companies over
Sinclair's failed acquisition of Tribune Media
Tribune Media Company, also known as Tribune Company, was an American multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Through Tribune Broadcasting, Tribune Media was one of the largest television broadcasting companies, owning 39 ...
, which was ultimately acquired by Nexstar.
KGBT-TV's CBS affiliation, news department, and syndicated programming moved to KVEO's second subchannel the next day, thus bringing an end to KGBT-TV's affiliation with the network after 66 years. KGBT-TV's main 4.1 subchannel went dark
(it has since been resurrected as a
MyNetworkTV/
Antenna TV affiliate). On-air operations mostly remained unchanged, though viewers were asked to rescan their sets in order to continue watching CBS. However, few viewers actually lost access to CBS programming due to the high penetration of cable and satellite in the market.
In addition, Nexstar also announced that it would merge KVEO and KGBT-TV's operations at KGBT-TV's facility in Harlingen within a few months.
Programming
Syndicated programming
Syndicated programming (as of September 2020) on KVEO-DT1 includes ''
The Big Bang Theory
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'', ''
The Drew Barrymore Show'', ''
Daily Mail TV'', ''
Rachael Ray'', ''
Dr. Phil
Phillip Calvin McGraw (born September 1, 1950), better known as Dr. Phil, is an American television personality and author best known for hosting the talk show '' Dr. Phil''. He holds a doctorate in clinical psychology, though he ceased rene ...
'', and ''
Jeopardy!
''Jeopardy!'' is an American game show created by Merv Griffin. The show is a quiz competition that reverses the traditional question-and-answer format of many quiz shows. Rather than being given questions, contestants are instead given genera ...
''. Syndicated programming on KVEO-DT2 includes ''
Wheel of Fortune The Wheel of Fortune or '' Rota Fortunae'' has been a concept and metaphor since ancient times referring to the capricious nature of Fate. Wheel of Fortune may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Art
* ''The Wheel of Fortune'' (Burne-J ...
'', ''
The Doctors'', ''
Judge Judy'', and reruns of ''Jeopardy!''.
Newscasts
At the station's inception, KVEO had a news operation branded as ''Total 23 News.'' However, it made almost no headway in the
ratings against KGBT and KRGV. Within a few years, the news department was shut down. For the next quarter-century, KVEO was one of the few
Big Three stations with no local newscasts.
Local news returned to the station on October 1, 2007, under the ''NewsCenter 23'' branding. The newscasts are produced in
high definition, making KVEO the first station in the Rio Grande Valley to do so.
In January 2010, ComCorp announced that it would close KVEO's news department, other than a few reporters. The locally produced newscast would now originate from a ComCorp-controlled station in
El Paso,
KTSM-TV, using its own staff, with the remaining reporters in Brownsville filing reports. The new newscast, which debuted January 18, 2010, was broadcast live from El Paso, and has continued with the acquisition of both stations by Nexstar.
KVEO debuted its new news set for CBS 4 on July 16, 2020 and its new news set for NBC 23 on August 31, 2020. Brenda Medina and Robert Bettes did not sign new contracts with NBC 23. In addition, NBC 23 also debuted several new newscasts, including a morning newscast, a midday newscast, a 4 p.m. newscast, a 6:30 p.m. newscast and weekend newscasts. However, NBC 23's 5 p.m. newscast was dropped around the same time.
Weather segment
Even before KVEO restarted its news operation, KVEO provided a weather segment at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. weekday evenings with meteorologist Jason McCleave of
WeatherVision. KVEO also broadcasts local forecast segments during ''
Today''.
KVEO offered
NBC Weather Plus on 23.2 prior to
NBCUniversal
NBCUniversal Media, LLC is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate corporation owned by Comcast and headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States.
NBCUniversal is primar ...
's acquisition of
The Weather Channel and subsequent termination of the Weather Plus service.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed:
See also
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Channel 4 branded TV stations in the United States
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Channel 23 virtual TV stations in the United States
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Channel 24 digital TV stations in the United States
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List of television stations in Texas
References
External links
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CBS network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1981
1981 establishments in Texas
Television stations in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
Nexstar Media Group