KBVO

KBVO is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for Austin, Texas that is licensed to Llano. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 27 from a transmitter eight miles southeast of the city near the intersection of TX 71 and Llano County Road 307. KBVO can also be seen on a Class A repeater in Austin, KBVO-CD channel 51, from a transmitter in the West Austin Antenna Farm north of West Lake Hills. The station is offered on AT&T Uverse channels 7 (SD) and 1007 (HD), Time Warner Cable digital channel 1525, and DirecTV channel 51. Launches on Grande Communications analog channel 18 and digital channel 318 as well as Suddenlink are planned. Owned by the LIN TV Corporation, the station is sister to CW affiliate KNVA and NBC affiliate KXAN-TV.

Although master control and most operations of KBVO are based at studios on West Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard between the Clarksville section of Austin and the University of Texas at Austin campus, there is a bureau in Llano. Syndicated programming on this station includes: My Name Is Earl, America's Funniest Home Videos, Jerry Springer, and Deal or No Deal. They also show San Antonio Spurs basketball, Houston Texans pre-season football, Big 12 Conference college basketball, and University of Texas at Austin sports programming such as Longhorn Sports Center Weekly. Tuesday through Saturday mornings, it re-airs KXAN's 10 P.M. newscast from the previous night.

History

Although KXAN (then known as KTVV) increased their broadcasting power in 1973, the analog signal on UHF channel 36 was marginal in some parts of the Hill Country such as Fredericksburg. Those signals usually do not travel very far in rugged terrain. Therefore on September 6, 1991, LIN TV signed on KLNO as a semi-satellite to improve KXAN's reach. It aired an analog signal on UHF channel 14. The station changed its calls to KXAM-TV after about a month on-air and to the current KBVO in 2009. Those call letters, named after the University of Texas' mascot "Bevo", were formerly used on channel 42 (now KEYE-TV), and is shared with sister station and repeater KBVO-CA.

On October 21, 2009, KBVO became a separate station after picking up MyNetworkTV from KNVA. That station carried the network as a secondary affiliate, known on-air as "MyNetworkTV on The CW Austin", from its launch on September 5, 2006. Programming from MyNetworkTV aired on KNVA Monday through Saturday nights from 9 to 11. In mid-September 2009, that station moved the network to a 10 to midnight slot to make room for a nightly 9 o'clock newscast to compete with Fox affiliate KTBC. ^[1] To date, KNVA was one of two stations in the United States to carry The CW and MyNetworkTV (the other being KWKB in Iowa City, Iowa, which is now the only station which carries the full schedules of both netlets/programming services). ^[2]

References

1. ^ http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6328421.html?display=Breaking+News
2. ^ http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/tvblog/entries/2009/10/21/kxan_launches_myaustintv_sports_programming.html

External links

• KBVO "My Austin TV"
• KXAN-DT "NBC Austin News"
• KNVA "The CW Austin"
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KBVO

Categories: MyNetworkTV affiliates | LIN TV | Channel 27 digital TV stations in the United States | Television stations in Texas