KXXV

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KXXV
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HAAT561.4 m (1,842 ft)
Transmitter coordinates31°20′17″N 97°18′37″W / 31.33806°N 97.31028°W / 31.33806; -97.31028
Translator(s)KRHD-CD 15 Bryan–College Station
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.kxxv.com

KXXV (channel 25) is a

semi-satellite of KXXV with separate local news programming for the Brazos Valley
.

Waco was the largest market in the United States without three network-affiliated TV stations until KXXV began broadcasting on March 22, 1985, under the local ownership of Central Texas Broadcasting Company. Briefly the

Shamrock Broadcasting, Drewry Communications, Raycom Media
, and Scripps. It has typically been a third-place station in local news coverage to its more established competitors.

History

Within weeks of each other in 1977, Central Texas Broadcasting Company, formed by Waco businessman Robert A. Mann, and Business Communications Inc. of

Fort Worth applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for Waco's channel 25.[2][3] Mann had been approached to be part of the Fort Worth-based group but found he would not own as much of the proposed station as he wished, so he mounted his own application.[4] A third company, Heart O' Texas Broadcasting Company, applied in September,[5] and on December 27, they were joined by Blake-Potash Corporation.[6] The four applications were placed into comparative hearing status by the FCC on December 4, 1979,[7] and hearings concluded a year later.[8]

In November 1981, FCC administrative law judge Edward Kuhlmann issued an initial decision favoring Blake-Potash. However, the other three applicants lodged appeals with the commission's review board. Kuhlmann found all four applicants to be flawed in some form due to improprieties in their business dealings.

Securities and Exchange Commission; Mann denied the claims.[11][12]

With the last appeals by Blake-Potash and Heart O' Texas still pending, Central Texas Broadcasting pressed forward. In July 1984, the firm announced that its proposed station would be known as KWVT; it would locate its studios at New Road and Bagby and its transmitter at

Roman numeral for 25.[14] NBC programs were unavailable in the Waco area for months while construction took place on the new station, delayed by weather.[15] Bad weather delayed the launch of the new station,[15] but KXXV debuted on March 22, 1985.[16]

Six months after channel 25 signed on the air, NBC announced it would return to KCEN-TV, which had been its longtime affiliate in the market.[17] At the time, NBC was ascendant in the national rankings, and it sought to improve its standing in much the same way ABC had in the late 1970s and early 1980s; KCEN-TV was among the first stations to switch to the network.[18][19] Though channel 25's affiliation agreement with NBC ran through August 1986,[17] KXXV came to an affiliation agreement with ABC and agreed with KCEN-TV to move the affiliation switch forward by eight months to December 30, 1985.[20]

In 1987, Central Texas Broadcasting filed to sell KXXV to

Shamrock Broadcasting for $12.5 million; the FCC granted approval of the transaction over an appeal from shareholders of Heart O' Texas, by now defunct,[21][22][23] but the sale was not completed until the first week of 1988.[24]

Shamrock announced in 1990 that it intended to sell KXXV, KTAB-TV in Abilene, and three radio stations,[25] but KXXV was not sold until 1994, when it was purchased by Drewry Communications of Lawton, Oklahoma; Drewry had previously expressed interest in buying channel 25. While Shamrock was selling in order to focus on larger-market broadcast properties, Drewry owned network affiliates in Texas and Oklahoma.[26] Drewry took over on December 1, 1994, but it did not continue employing five of the station's senior executives, including the general manager.[27] In 1998, Drewry acquired K22DP, a low-power station in Bryan, and relaunched it as KRHD-LP, a version of KXXV with local advertising and the ability to insert local programming.[28]

KXXV/KRHD added a secondary affiliation with

KYLE (channel 28), which would air the network's prime time programming in an earlier time slot but did not pick up Kids' WB.[31] At the same time as channel 25 picked up The WB, it also became the local affiliate of Telemundo, taking over the local channel on the Time Warner Cable system and adding local news briefs and advertising.[30]

In 2004, a

Fort Hood clipped guy wires supporting the KXXV tower near Moody; the helicopter then crashed, killing all seven aboard. The lights on the tower were not functioning as a result of recent storms; the station had duly warned the Federal Aviation Administration about the light failure.[32]

Drewry had planned to sell its stations to London Broadcasting in 2008;[33] however, by January 2009, the deal fell through,[34] and London instead bought KCEN-TV. It was another six years before Drewry sold its broadcasting portfolio to Raycom Media for $160 million in 2015.[35] The sale was completed on December 1.[36]

Raycom announced a $3.6 billion merger[37] into Atlanta-based Gray Television on June 25, 2018.[38][39] Gray opted to retain KWTX-TV and KBTX-TV in Bryan[40] and sold KXXV–KRHD, as well as WTXL-TV in Tallahassee, Florida, to the E. W. Scripps Company for $55 million.[41] The sale was completed on January 2, 2019.[42] One consequence of the sale was that KXXV lost the Telemundo affiliation to KWTX.[43]

News operation

KXXV debuted 5 and 10 p.m. local newscasts at its launch in March 1985, originally titled Eyewitness News.

Arbitron survey saw KXXV edge ahead of KCEN for second for the first time in station history,[46] but it slipped back to third in 1990[47] and was still there by the time Shamrock sold channel 25 to Drewry.[26]

Drewry made major changes in the station's newscasts after taking over. It refused to rehire the news director, and it fired Ric Streed, who had been the lead male anchor for the station since it began broadcasting.

Doppler weather radar, and started a weather channel on the local cable system.[51][52] In spite of these improvements, the station was still in third place in 2003.[53]

The station maintains a news bureau in

Fort Hood, and relaunched a Bryan–College Station bureau for KRHD in 2020.[54]

Notable alumni

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

multiplexed
:

Subchannels of KXXV[57]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
25.1 720p
16:9
 KXXV-TV Main KXXV programming / ABC
25.2 480i
4:3
 Grit Grit
25.3 16:9 CourtTV Court TV
25.4 720p ION Ion Television
25.5 480i Scripps Scripps News
25.6 4:3 QVC QVC

KXXV began broadcasting a digital signal by January 2004. It initially decided not to broadcast ABC in high-definition, instead offering Telemundo and its weather channel as subchannels.

UHF channel 25, on February 17, 2009, the original target date for full-power TV stations to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009).[59] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 26, using virtual channel 25.[60]

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