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KXVA

KXVA is a full-service television station in Abilene, Texas, broadcasting locally in digital on UHF channel 15 as an affiliate of the Fox network. Founded June 15, 2000, the station is owned by Sage Broadcasting Corporation of San Angelo, Texas. Master control operations for KXVA are ran in San Angelo.

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History

On June 15, 2000, the FCC granted an original construction permit to Sage Broadcasting Company to build a full-service station to serve the Abilene/Sweetwater/Brownwood television market. It would be the market's fourth full-service station. The station was built quickly, with a planned launch in September or October 2000, but inclement weather caused delays in constructing the tower [1]. On January 9, 2001, several months later than expected, KXVA began broadcasting Fox programming under Program Test Authority. The station obtained its initial broadcast license on February 13, 2002, more than one year after applying for the license.

Programming

KXVA has been a Fox station since sign-on, taking over the affiliation from Sage Broadcasting's KIDZ-LP and repeaters. Its schedule is a mix of network and syndicated programming. As the Fox affiliate, KXVA is Abilene's television home for the Dallas Cowboys NFL football team, airing up to 14 of the team's 16 regular season games. The station airs no local or network news, opting instead for a block of syndicated programming after network prime time programming ends.

Newscasts

KXVA does not produce a local newscast for the Abilene television market. In 2009 KXVA and sister station KIDZ-LP began simulcasting the 9:00 newscast produced nightly by San Antonio, Texas FOX affiliate KABB-TV. The newscast is shown recorded an hour later at 10:00 on KIDZ-LP. This newscast covers no local news content for the Abilene television market.

Digital television

Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997 [2], the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, on or before February 17, 2009, which is the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KXVA was required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash-cut").

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v • d • Television stations serving Abilene and Sweetwater, Texas
Local stations:

KVNL-LP 4 (INSP) • K07UF 7 (unknown) • KRBC (9.1 NBC) • KTXS 12 (ABC, 12.2 The CW) • KXVA (15.1 FOX) • KPCB 17 / KPTA 63 (GLC) • KTAB (32.1 CBS) • KTES 40 (TMD) • KIDZ-LP 42 (MNTV) • K51CK 51 (silent)
Distant stations:

KERA 13 (PBS, Dallas-Fort Worth)
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 • Fox Network Affiliates in the state of Texas

XHRIO 2 (Matamoros / Brownsville)* - KBTV 4 (Beaumont) - KDFW 4 (Dallas) - KIDY 6 (San Angelo) - KTBC 7 (Austin) - KCIT 14 (Amarillo) - KFOX 14 (El Paso) - KXVA 15 (Abilene) - KJTL 18 (Wichita Falls) - KVCT 19 (Victoria) - KPEJ 24 (Odessa) - KRIV 26 (Houston) - KABB 29 (San Antonio) - KJTV 34 / 32 (Lubbock) - KUQI 38 (Corpus Christi) - KXOF-CA 39 (Laredo) - KWKT 44 / KYLE 28 (Waco / Bryan) - KFXK 51 (Tyler / Longview) *XHRIO is licensed in Matamoros, Mexico, but primarily serves viewers on the US side of the Rio Grande.
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Texas

Categories: Fox network affiliates | Channel 15 digital TV stations in the United States | Television channels and stations established in 2001 | Television stations in Texas

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