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KBVO
kW
HAAT249 m (817 ft)
Transmitter coordinates30°40′36″N 98°33′59″W / 30.67667°N 98.56639°W / 30.67667; -98.56639 (KBVO)
Translator(s)KBVO-CD 31 (UHF) Austin
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Websitewww.kxan.com/kbvo
KBVO-CD
kW
HAAT339.5 m (1,114 ft)
Transmitter coordinates30°19′34″N 97°47′59″W / 30.32611°N 97.79972°W / 30.32611; -97.79972
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KBVO (channel 14) is a

Llano County
Road 307 in unincorporated Llano County (8 miles (13 km) southeast of Llano).

KBVO-CD (channel 31) in Austin operates as a

West Lake Hills
).

History

As a semi-satellite of KXAN

On November 5, 1985, the Llano Broadcasting Co. (owned by

call letters.[3][4]

KXAM-TV logo used from 1991 to 2007; it was based on the logo used at the time by KXAN-TV.

Although KXAN-TV (then known as KTVV) increased its transmitting power in 1973, the station found it difficult to adequately compete against

Hill Country and was marginal to basically unviewable in Llano, Fredericksburg, Blanco and surrounding areas, with some parts of the region only being able to receive a clear signal from channel 36 once cable television
became established in the Austin market in the late 1970s.

To solve this coverage gap problem, in 1989, KXAN rolled out plans to launch a network of UHF repeater stations to serve areas that had fair to no reception of its main signal, which was to have included five

semi-satellite of KXAN to reach viewers in the western Hill Country who could not adequately receive the channel 36 signal.[5][6][7] On December 6, 1990, the FCC granted LIN/Kingstip's application to acquire the construction permit for KLNO, conditioned upon the payment to Horseshoe Centex Broadcasting not exceeding $100,000.[8]

Channel 14 first signed on the air as a KXAN semi-satellite on September 6, 1991; it was the first (and only) full-power television station ever built and signed-on by the LIN TV Corporation (which operated at the time as the television broadcasting unit of original parent LIN Broadcasting). While the station was intended to improve KXAN's over-the-air reception in eleven Central Texas counties (especially in

interference issues (including, among others, signal shadowing and double-imaging) with other Austin-area television stations. In an Austin American-Statesman report on these issues published three weeks after KLNO's sign-on, KXAN chief engineer Dave Daniel cited that signal amplifiers installed onto the home antennas of many Hill Country residents to enhance reception of other Austin-area stations had the side effect of strengthening the Channel 14 signal to levels that interfered with those stations; to remedy this problem, the KXAN engineering staff developed amplifier filters to be distributed to affected area residents.[9]

After only one month on the air, in order to match its parent station, LIN changed the Llano station's call letters to KXAM-TV on October 14, 1991. (For ratings purposes, Nielsen identified the two stations collectively as "KXAN+" in its local ratings tabulation diaries.)[10] The station simulcast KXAN-TV's programming for most of the broadcast day, with the exception of breakaways for local news inserts produced from a bureau facility in Llano (which was equipped with a microwave truck and a live microwave link to a relay tower in Round Mountain) that were placed into channel 36's newscasts. KLNO/KXAM's existence was primarily acknowledged only in KXAN's legal station identifications, with a variant of channel 36's logo being utilized for disambiguation purposes in channel 14's own station IDs and periodically during KXAN's newscasts until February 2007. Along with other improvements to the station's news operations, the expanded signal coverage provided by Channel 14 helped boost KXAN's profile in the market, helping it vie for first place with KVUE (as KTBC's own news viewership declined following that station's July 1995 switch to Fox) in the late 1990s.

On January 14, 2002, KBVO-CA converted into a Spanish language station, when it became a charter affiliate of TeleFutura (now

KAKW-TV
(channel 62).

As a separate entertainment-based station; MyNetworkTV affiliation

On August 3, 2009, Channel 14's call letters were changed to KBVO, named after the University of Texas at Austin's mascot, "Bevo". (Prior to being reassigned for use by Channel 14 repeater station KBVO-CA in 1995, the callsign had originally been used on UHF channel 42 from its December 1983 sign-on as an independent station until it became a CBS affiliate, accordingly adopting the KEYE-TV call letters, in July 1995.) Subsequently, on October 21, KBVO took over as the Austin-area affiliate of MyNetworkTV, assuming the programming rights from KNVA, which had carried it on a tape delayed basis since the network-turned-programming service launched in September 2006 (initially airing from 9 to 11 p.m. after CW prime time programming, before temporarily being shifted one hour later after KNVA debuted a KXAN-produced 9 p.m. newscast on September 21, 2009). Until fellow charter MyNetworkTV affiliate WKTC in Columbia, South Carolina, added a primary affiliation with The CW in August 2014, KNVA was one of two American television stations (not counting a handful of others that carry both networks on separate subchannels) that carried programming from both The CW and MyNetworkTV. (The other, KWKB in Iowa City, Iowa, continued to carry the full schedules of both netlets/programming services for another two years until it also chose to disaffiliate from MyNetworkTV and become an exclusive CW affiliate in 2016.)[11]

KBVO – which originally branded as "MyAustinTV" under the service's branding conventions, before identifying solely by its call letters in 2012 – also adopted a separate program schedule (consisting mainly of first-run syndicated

satellite in order to receive the station (in Austin, subscribers of Time Warner Cable [which ceded its local cable franchise rights to Charter Communications as a result of Time Warner Cable's 2016 merger with Charter] could only receive KBVO via its high-definition channel tier until July 2011, when it began carrying a standard definition feed of the station on channel 7).[11][12][13][14]

On March 21, 2014, Richmond, Virginia-based Media General announced that it would purchase the LIN Media stations, including KXAN-TV, KBVO, and the LMA with KNVA, in a $1.6 billion merger. Despite the fact that KBVO no longer acted as a simulcast of KXAN, Media General filed to renew an existing satellite relay waiver to allow KBVO to continue under the same ownership as KXAN to comply with FCC rules in effect at the time that prohibited legal duopolies in media markets where there were fewer than eight independent owners of full-power television stations. The FCC approved the merger on December 12, 2014, with the deal being consummated on December 19.[15][16][17][18][19][20][21]

On March 9, 2015, the KBVO-CD translator – which concurrently moved from UHF channel 51 to UHF 31 – increased its

kW), which allowed it to cover the entirety of the Austin metropolitan area.[22][23] Furthermore, on September 23, 2016, the main KBVO signal increased its ERP from 75 watts to 15,000 watts, which expanded the station's signal contour to a 54.7-mile (88.0 km) radius that includes San Marcos and Georgetown, among other Central Texas cities.[24]

On January 27, 2016, after terminating the planned $2.4-billion acquisition of the

Nexstar Broadcasting Group – which had a previous $14.50-per-share offer for the group be rejected by Media General two months earlier – for an evaluation of $4.6 billion in cash and stock plus the assumption of $2.3 billion in Media General-held debt.[25][26][27][28][29] The transaction was approved by the FCC on January 11, 2017; the sale was completed six days later on January 17, at which point the existing Nexstar stations and the former Media General outlets that were not subject to divestiture to address ownership conflicts in certain overlapping markets became part of the renamed Nexstar Media Group. The deal marked Nexstar's re-entry into the Austin market, as the group had previously operated KEYE-TV under a local marketing agreement with Four Points Media Group from 2009 to 2011, concluding after Sinclair Broadcast Group acquired KEYE and the other Four Points stations; it also resulted in KBVO becoming the fourth Nexstar station to have originated as a part- or full-time satellite station prior to converting into an independently programmed outlet (along with NBC affiliate KNWA-TV in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and MyNetworkTV affiliates WCIX in Champaign, Illinois, and KYLE-TV in Bryan).[30][31][32]

Programming

KBVO carries the entire nighttime-exclusive MyNetworkTV programming schedule; however, the station may timeshift the MyNetworkTV schedule to late evening and/or overnight timeslots to accommodate local or regional sporting events and fulfill advertising commitments for commercials sold for carriage during local ad breaks within the service's prime time lineup. In addition, KBVO may take on the responsibility of running NBC network programs in the event that sister station KXAN-TV is unable to carry them because of extended breaking news or severe weather coverage.

KBVO also serves as an alternate local carrier of the Xploration Station educational program block, offering certain programs preempted by Fox owned-and-operated station KTBC due to Fox Sports programming commitments on Sunday mornings in lieu of those programs being tape-delayed to air in an open timeslot within that station's weekend daytime schedule.[33] From the station's conversion into a MyNetworkTV affiliate in 2009 until September 2014, KBVO aired a night-behind rebroadcast of sister station KXAN's 10 p.m. newscast on Tuesday through Saturday mornings.

Sports programming

Since adopting a standalone programming schedule in October 2009, channel 14 has carried various local and syndicated sporting events.

High school and college sports

The station began carrying high school football "games-of-the-week" involving teams from Central Texas high schools on Thursday nights in the fall of 2009, which are selected based on the most competitive matchups scheduled to take each week during the season; KBVO aired 11 high school football games during the 2009 and 2010 seasons, increasing to 22 matchups (with eleven aired live on Thursday nights and eleven additional Friday games held that aired on a day-behind tape delay on Saturdays) beginning in 2011. The game schedule was relegated to encompass only the live Thursday games beginning with the 2015 fall academic sports season. (The website of parent station KXAN also provides live streams of the Thursday evening games and previously carried delayed streams of the Friday games each Saturday.)[34][35][36]

Since October 2009, KBVO has served as the official television partner of the

Fox Sports Southwest.) From 2009 to 2014, channel 14 also aired college basketball games from the Big 12 Conference (of which the University of Texas is a member) that were syndicated by ESPN Plus; KBVO aired between 10 and 12 regular season games each year as well as games from the first three rounds of the Big 12 men's basketball tournament. Most college basketball telecasts aired on the station on Saturday afternoons, although it also occasionally carried prime time games on weeknights, specifically during the Big 12 men's tournament. In addition, the station carries college football and basketball games from the Southland Conference.[34][37]

In 2009, KBVO assumed the local rights to the Southeastern Conference (SEC) syndication package distributed by the ESPN Plus-managed SEC TV service, carrying regular season college football and basketball games as well as the first three rounds of the SEC men's basketball tournament; these broadcasts continued to air until 2014, when the conference made its sports events pay TV-exclusive to the SEC Network venture between the SEC and ESPN.) The station also carried select college football and basketball games involving the Texas State Bobcats beginning with the 2009–10 academic season.

Professional and semi-professional sports

Since the

NFL preseason games from the Houston Texans
distributed by the team's regional syndication service; the station, which assumed the preseason telecast rights to the Texans from KNVA, carries roughly between three and five prime time game telecasts annually.

Since 2010, the station has held the local syndication rights to broadcast Major League Baseball (MLB) games involving the Texas Rangers (which were distributed by the team's in-house regional syndication service). In 2011, KBVO obtained partial television rights to Minor League Baseball games involving the Round Rock Express, carrying the Pacific Coast League team's Saturday home games as part of a package it shared with local cable news channel YNN Austin (now Spectrum News 1 Austin), which held rights to the Express's Friday home games as well as a weekly team analysis program. (Longtime KXAN sports director Roger Wallace handled play-by-play duties for the Express's KBVO game telecasts, alongside former MLB pitchers Kelly Wunsch and Kirk Dressendorfer as color commentators.)[38]

Beginning in 2019, KBVO began carrying Austin Bold FC matches played at home.[39]

Beginning in 2021, KBVO became the over-the-air home of the Austin Gilgronis of Major League Rugby.[40] Also that year, KBVO began carrying select Austin FC matches.[41]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

multiplexed
:

Subchannels of KBVO[42][43]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
14.1 1080i
16:9
 KBVO Main KBVO programming / MyNetworkTV
14.2 480i Bounce Bounce TV
14.3 Antenna Antenna TV
14.4 Defy Defy TV

Analog-to-digital conversion

KBVO shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009, as part of the FCC-mandated transition to digital television for full-power stations.[44] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 27, using virtual channel 14.

KBVO-CD ATSC 3.0 lighthouse

KBVO-CD (RF channel 31) transitioned to ATSC 3.0 on October 7, 2020, and is simulcasting KXAN, KEYE and KNVA programming.[45][46] The main KBVO station continues with its existing ATSC 1.0 programming. The previous ATSC 1.0 programming moved to KXAN (RF channel 21), KEYE (RF channel 34) and KNVA (RF channel 23), but maintains the same virtual channels as follows:

Previous
RF channel 		Current RF
channel 		Virtual channel
(no change) 		ATSC 1.0 programming ATSC 1.0 host
31.3 23.2 14.1 Main KBVO programming / MyNetworkTV KNVA
31.4 34.3 14.2 Bounce TV KEYE-TV
31.5 34.4 14.3 Antenna TV
31.6 21.5 14.4 Defy TV KXAN-TV

The following ATSC 3.0 subchannels broadcast on RF channel 31:[47]

Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
14.1 1080p
16:9
| KBVO		 MyNetworkTV
36.1 KXAN NBC (KXAN-TV)
42.1 KEYE CBS (KEYE-TV)
54.1 KNVA The CW (KNVA)

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