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KRGV-TV

KRGV-TV is the local ABC affiliate television station for the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas (Brownsville, Harlingen, McAllen and South Padre Island). It is licensed to Weslaco, with studios in Weslaco and transmitter in Santa Maria, Texas. It is owned by the Manship family of Baton Rouge, Louisiana through Mobile Video Tapes, Inc, which often does business as KRGV-TV Corporation. KRGV is available as digital channel 5 and high definition channel 875 on Time Warner Cable. KRGV is also available on channel 5 in both standard definition and high definition on DirecTV and Dish Network

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Station history

KRGV signed on in 1954 as a primary NBC affiliate, sharing ABC programming with KGBT-TV. The current owners, the Manship family, acquired the station in 1964. It became a sole ABC affiliate in 1976; NBC didn't return to the Rio Grande full-time until KVEO signed on in 1981. KRGV was the first station in the Rio Grande Valley to transmit an HD signal on VHF channel 13 although they are not the first to provide local programming in HD. KRGV is scheduled to begin producing newscasts in High Definition, the 2nd in the Rio Grande Vally after KVEO. On September 9, 2009 Newschannel5 began broadcasting in HD. Also with the switch was a new branding "Channel 5 News".

Programming

KRGV logo from 2002 to 2009

KRGV carries the complete ABC schedule, in 720p HDTV format when available. Daytime syndicated programming includes The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil and Live with Regis and Kelly. Other syndicated programming includes Entertainment Tonight, Married... with Children, King of the Hill, Scrubs, Seinfeld and Boston Legal.

Preemptions

For many years, KRGV has chosen to air a mixture of syndicated programing and network programing during the weeknight late night programming blocks following their 10 P.M. newscast. Married... with Children has consistently aired at 10:30 following the newscast since it first began airing in syndication, while the rest of the late night schedule has shifted around through the years causing the ABC program Nightline to air as late as an hour and a half after its network slot and Jimmy Kimmel Live! as many as two hours after its network slot in some years. Currently, Nightline and Jimmy Kimmel Live! air back to back as they do across many affiliates, but are preempted 30 minutes in favor of a newly created Channel 5 News at 10:30 broadcast. Because of this preemption, both Nightline and Kimmel were broadcast in standard definition because KRGV did not yet have the capability to record the 2 programs in HD for later rebroadcast.

As of Summer 2009, KRGV now has the capability to record HD Progamming. Both Nightline and Kimmel are now broadcasting in HD.

10:30pm newscast

On August 24, 2009, KRGV began a 10:30 newscast. This made the station one of the few in the nation to have a 10:30 newscast. One other example is KOAT-TV, the ABC affiliate in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Digital television

The station's digital channel, VHF 13, is multiplexed:

Digital channels

Virtual Channel Video Aspect Programming
5.1 720i 16:9 main KRGV programming HD/ ABC HD
5.2 480i 4:3 LATV programming
5.3 480i 4:3 RTV programming
5.4 480i 4:3 First Warn Doppler Radar HD

Like many other HD channels on the local Time Warner Cable system, KRGV-DT can be picked up on basic cable by connecting the cable directly into an HDTV with a built-in QAM tuner, channel 100.1.

On June 12, 2009, KRGV-TV left channel 5 and moved to channel 13 when the analog to digital conversion was completed.[1]

On September 9, 2009, KRGV-TV started broadcasting in HD. All standard definition video is upconverted into HD. Allowing KRGV to broadcast with out "Black Bars". (See KRGV HD)

KRGV HD

On September 9, 2009 NewsChannel 5 KRGV switched to HD. Along with the switch was a new HD set, graphics from Giant Octopus, and name change. NewsChannel 5 is now known as Channel 5 News. KRGV had been running promotions on the change to HD. KRGV also changed its logo now showing just "5" on a blue background instead of the NewsChannel 5 logo it previously had.

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

Station slogans

News team

Current on-air staff

Anchors

Reporters

Weather

Sports

Former on-air staff

See also

References

  1. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-138A2.pdf
  2. ^ USPTO trademark database, serial numbers 76480781 and 76480782

External links

v • d • Broadcast television in the Rio Grande Valley (Brownsville / Matamoros - McAllen / Reynosa)
English stations

XHRIO 2 (Fox/MNTV/MTV3) • KGBT 4 (CBS) • KRGV 5 (ABC) • KVEO 23 (NBC) • KJST-LP 28 (IND) • KMBH 38 (PBS) • KLUJ 44 (TBN) • KSFE-LP 67 (CW)
Spanish stations

XHAB 7 (Televisa local) • XERV 9 (Televisa XEW) • XHMTA 11 (TV Azteca 13) • XHREY 12 (TV Azteca 13) • XHOR 14 (TV Azteca 7) • XHTAM 17 (Televisa XEW) • KVTF-CA 20 (TFU) • KTLM 40 (TEL) • XHRBT 42 (P40) • KNVO 48 (UNI, 48.2 TFU, 48.3 FOX/MNTV/MTV3, 48.4 CW) • XHVTV 54 (Multimedios) • KBDF-LP 64 (AZA)
Defunct stations

XELD 7 (Ind) • XHEW 13 (Once TV) • KMHB (The WB, cable)
Texas Broadcast television areas by city:

Abilene/Sweetwater • Amarillo (Texas Panhandle) • Austin • Beaumont/Port Arthur • Corpus Christi • Dallas-Fort Worth • Del Rio, TX • El Paso • Houston • Laredo • Lubbock • Midland-Odessa (Permian Basin) • Rio Grande Valley • San Angelo • San Antonio • Sherman/Ada, OK • Texarkana/Shreveport, LA • Tyler/Longview (East Texas) • Victoria • Waco/Bryan (Brazos Valley) • Wichita Falls/Lawton, OK
v • d • ABC Network Affiliates in the state of Texas

KMID 2 (Midland) - KIII 3 (Corpus Christi) - KRGV 5 (Weslaco) - KLTV 7 / KTRE 9 (Tyler / Lufkin) - KVIA 7 (El Paso) - KVII 7 (Amarillo) - WFAA 8 (Dallas) - KBMT 12 (Beaumont) - KSAT 12 (San Antonio) - KTXS 12 / KTXE 38 (Sweetwater / San Angelo) - KTRK 13 (Houston) - KVUE 24 (Austin) - KAVU 25 (Victoria) - KXXV 25 / KRHD 40 (Waco / Bryan) - ABC Texoma 26.3 (Sherman) - KAMC 28 (Lubbock)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Texas
v LATV stations
LATV

KWBA-TV 58.2 (Sierra Vista, AZ) • KTVU 2.2 (San Jose, CA) • KSEE 24.3 (Fresno, CA) • KTXL 40.2 (Sacramento, CA) • KJLA 57.1/57.2 (Los Angeles, CA)1 • WUVN 18.4 (Hartford, CT) • WFTX 36.2 (Fort Myers/Cape Coral, FL) • WJXT 4.3 (Jacksonville, FL) • WPLG 10.2 (Miami, FL) • WKMG-TV 6.2 (Orlando, FL) • WVEA-TV 62.2 (Venice, FL) • WOCK-CD 13.3 (Chicago, IL) • WANE-TV 15.2 (Fort Wayne, IN) • WUNI-TV 27.2 (Boston, MA) • KLAS-TV 8.2 (Las Vegas, NV) • KLUZ-TV 41.2 (Albuquerque, NM) • WPIX 11.2 (New York City, NY) • WSJP-LP 30 (Aguadilla, PR) • KFDA-TV 10.4 (Amarillo, TX) • KVIA-TV 7.4 (El Paso, TX) • KRGV-TV 5.2 (Weslaco, TX) • KPRC-TV 2.3 (Houston, TX) • KSAT-TV 12.2 (San Antonio, TX) • KDAF 32.2 (Dallas, TX) • KLDO-TV 27.3/27.4 (Laredo, TX) • KXOF-CA 39/KLDO-TV 27.3 (Laredo, TX)2 • KWES-TV 9.2 (Odessa, TX) • KWAB-TV 33.2 (Big Spring, TX)3 • KORO 28.3 (Corpus Christi, TX)
1flagship station 2 shared affiliation between KLDO-TV and KXOF-CA, airs overnight on KXOF-CA 3KWAB is a full-power repeater of KWES-TV

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