KMBH (TV)

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KMBH
(Full-power translator of
KFXV-LD, McAllen, Texas)
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Harlingen, Texas
United States
BrandingFox South Texas (general)
Fox News South Texas(newscasts)
SloganLive, Local, Latebreaking
Channels Digital: 16 (UHF)
Virtual: 60 (PSIP)
Affiliations 60.1: Fox
Owner Entravision Communications [1] [2]
LicenseeEntravision Holdings, LLC
First air dateMay 5, 1982(38 years ago) (1982-05-05)
Call sign meaning KMcAllen Brownsville Harlingen
Sister station(s) TV: KNVO, KCWT-CD, KFXV-LD, KXFX-CD, KTFV-CD, XHRIO-TDT
Radio: KFRQ, KKPS, KNVO-FM, KVLY
Former call signs KZLN (1982–1984)
KEDV (June–October 1984)
Former channel number(s)Analog:
60 (UHF, 1985–2009)
Digital:
38 (UHF, 2003–2020)
Virtual:
38 (PSIP, 2003–2020)
Former affiliations
  • Analog/DT1:
  • PBS (1985–2016)
  • Cozi TV (2016–2017)
  • Independent/Teleritmo (2017–2020)
  • DT2:
  • V-me (until 2016)
  • PBS (2016–2020)
  • DT3:
  • EWTN (until 2016)
Transmitter power 618 kW
Height 345.5 m (1,134 ft)
Facility ID 56079
Transmitter coordinates 26°7′15″N97°49′19″W / 26.12083°N 97.82194°W / 26.12083; -97.82194 (KMBH)
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information
( Full-power translator of
KFXV-LD, McAllen, Texas) Profile

( Full-power translator of
KFXV-LD, McAllen, Texas) CDBS
Website Fox News South Texas

KMBH, virtual channel 60 (UHF digital channel 16), is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Harlingen, Texas, United States and serving the Rio Grande Valley metropolitan area. It is a full-power translator of McAllen-licensed low-power station KFXV-LD (channel 67) which is owned by Entravision Communications. KMBH is part of a duopoly with McAllen-licensed Univision affiliate KNVO (channel 48) and is also sister to KFXV-LD and its Brownsville-licensed Class A translator KXFX-CD, Class A primary CW+ affiliate and secondary PBS member KCWT-CD (channel 21), and Class A UniMás affiliate KTFV-CD (channel 32). Entravision also operates Mexican station (and also a CW Plus affiliate) XHRIO-TDT. The stations share studios on North Jackson Road in McAllen; KMBH's transmitter is located near La Feria, Texas.

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Prior to being a Fox affiliate, the station had been the PBS member station for the Rio Grande Valley as KZLN-TV from 1982 to 1983 and KMBH between 1985 and 2014. It operated as a commercial station between 2014 and 2018.

History

KZLN

On April 20, 1977, the Texas Consumer Education and Communications Development Committee, related to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville, filed an application to build a new television station on noncommercially reserved channel 44 in Harlingen; however, in October, TCECDC modified its application to specify channel 60—thus becoming a noncommercial station operating on a non-reserved commercial channel. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted the committee a construction permit on January 24, 1979. [3] The call letters KZLN were assigned in June for the new educational television outlet. Original plans called for the station to be on the air by December with a bilingual program schedule; however, opposition from Harlingen officials halted their original grant plans. [4]

KZLN would also be beset by several years of delays in tower construction and facilities. (The transmitter tower was shared with another 1982 sign-on, KVEO-TV, whose owner contributed $96,000. [5] ) By the time KZLN began telecasting on May 5, 1982, [6] the climate was poor for PBS due to major cutbacks by the Reagan administration that affected funding for public broadcasting. [5] For cable viewers in the Valley, KZLN replaced KEDT of Corpus Christi.

As had been feared at launch, KZLN's road was rocky. In September, more than $150,000 of equipment was stolen and taken to Mexico, from where it was dispersed to Arkansas, California and elsewhere; the thieves would be arrested in Cancún in 1983, and some of the equipment was recovered. [7] By December, the station's fundraising appeals warned, "Without your help, KZLN will not be able to continue to operate". [8] In February 1983, the station managed to stay on the air thanks to a reprieve from the Central Power and Light Co., the local electric utility; at the time, channel 60 owed CPL more than $19,000, had just avoided a full staff walkout, [9] and had its telephone service disconnected for nonpayment. [10] The station made it to its first birthday, in large part under interim leadership and with station driving force Francisco Briones having resigned. [11]

Poor support, however, prevented KZLN from continuing much further. With only 400 memberships and no local programming, [12] the station ceased operating July 13, 1983. [13]

Becoming KMBH

When KZLN folded, the diocese, by way of RGV Educational Broadcasting, Inc. stepped in to acquire the channel 60 license in a transaction approved by the FCC in December 1983. [13] The diocese assumed a $36,000 tax liability and $15,000 in outstanding wages and forgave $356,000 in debt. [14]

RGV Educational Broadcasting changed the call letters to KEDV; in August, the diocese announced a $1.2 million pledge to cover the start-up expenses for a new facility, to be located on diocesan land south of the Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen, as well as a new tower at La Feria. [15] At the time, a May 1985 start-up date was projected, though KEDV—which soon would take on its present KMBH call letters after receiving a request from KEDT [16] —got off to a slow start in fundraising. [17] Channel 60 returned to the air, this time as KMBH, on October 8, 1985. [18]

In November 2007, the management of KMBH demanded that Bruce Lee Smith, a reporter for Harlingen's Valley Morning Star and a former volunteer for KMBH in the 1990s, reveal his confidential sources, in exchange for the station's financial records that he requested. The station would later file a police report, citing that Smith was abusive to its secretary when he requested the records, a charge that Smith denied. KMBH would soon run hourly announcements on its radio and TV stations, questioning Smith's ethics. [19]

In August 2008, Reymundo Peña, the Bishop of Brownsville, removed three of the seven KMBH board members, without comment; in the licensee's incorporation papers, it listed Peña as the sole member of RGV Educational Broadcasting, allowing him sole discretion to appoint or dismiss board members. [19]

KMBH was one of at least two PBS members run by a religious organization (KBYU-TV in Provo, Utah, left PBS in 2018), and was formerly one of at least three PBS members owned at least in part by a Catholic-related organization (along with WXEL-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida, which was sold to a community group in 2012, and WLAE-TV in New Orleans, which left PBS in 2013). Because of the Catholic-based ownership, KMBH occasionally refused to show programming that is contrary to the Catholic faith—one example was a 2007 Frontline documentary, "Hand of God", which dealt with sex abuse by clergymen; [20] the station only aired it the next day as part of PBS' automated overnight schedule at 1 a.m., drawing complaints from viewers in support of the program. [19]

Conversion to commercial operation

On January 14, 2014, the Diocese announced its intention to file with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to convert KMBH's license to a commercial license, with the intention to sign a local marketing agreement with, and sell the station to, MBTV Texas Valley LLC; the Diocese cited the expenses of running the station. Though KZLN/KMBH had always operated as noncommercial, public television stations, the 1979 decision to file for channel 60 instead of 44 meant that it operated on a non-reserved channel—unusual among PBS stations—allowing KMBH to be converted. The move raised questions about KMBH's continued operation as a PBS member, though it was stated that efforts would be made to keep PBS programming available in the Rio Grande Valley; [21] [22] KEDT in Corpus Christi also sought a potential purchase of the station. [23] The proceeds from the sale were used to repay nearly $800,000 in grants to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Sister station KMBH-FM, since re-called KJJF, was not affected by the sale of KMBH television; [21] [22] the diocese later withdrew the station from National Public Radio and sold it to the Relevant Radio Catholic network. As of February 21, 2014, the facility status went from non-commercial educational to commercial. [24]

In March 2014, the $8.5 million sale to MB Revolution LLC (like MBTV Texas Valley, a subsidiary of R Communications) was officially announced and filed with the FCC. [25] [26] The new owners then took control of KMBH through a local marketing agreement; though MB intended to program the station commercially, it remained a PBS station. [25] [27] Programming from the Diocese will continue to be produced from the KMBH studios and aired on a digital subchannel for eight hours each month. MB's owner, Robert Martínez-McCarter, already owns six radio stations in the Rio Grande Valley. [25] On May 20, 2015, MB Revolution received FCC approval to buy the station. [28]

By the start of 2016, PBS programming would move to the second subchannel, with .1 replaced with Cozi TV, the classic television network owned by NBCUniversal, and .3 replaced with "RTV-Música", a locally programmed Spanish-language music channel. By 2018, "RTV-Música" was simulcast on both the .1 and .3 subchannels, with Cozi TV programming airing on a subchannel of KTLM. RTV Música later began airing programming from Teleritmo, a grupera music video channel owned by Multimedios Televisión. [29]

On January 25, 2018, local utility work resulted in a power surge that damaged the KMBH transmitter. The station returned to air at reduced power in late July; however, efforts to ramp up to full power operation damaged the transmitter again, forcing KMBH off the air on February 11, 2019. [30]

Sale to Entravision Communications

In August 2019, Entravision Communications, owners of full-power KNVO (channel 48) as well as low-power stations KFXV-LD/KXFX-CD and KCWT-CD in the Valley, announced it would acquire KMBH for $2.9 million. For attribution reasons related to its minority ownership by Univision and certain rights held by the company relating to its Univision affiliates, Entravision declared that KMBH would not air any Univision-owned network. [31] With KMBH still off the air, Entravision added a PBS feed to the 21.4 subchannel of its low-power KCWT-CD.

KMBH briefly returned to air in January 2020 at reduced power with temporary facilities as it awaits being repacked to channel 16 in phase 8. [32] The facility was reactivated on May 5, simulcasting KFXV-LD/KXFX-CD.

Digital television

Digital channel

Channel Video Aspect PSIP short nameProgramming [33]
60.1 720p 16:9 KMBH DTFull-power simulcast of KFXV-LD / Fox

KMBH used its former physical channel 38 as its virtual channel for most of its history telecasting in digital, opting not to remap to virtual channel 60. Under Entravision, KMBH began using virtual channel 60.

Prior to 2016, PBS was seen in the .1 position, with V-me (a Spanish-language public television network) seen on .2, and the Valley Catholic Network, the diocese's Catholic channel affiliated with EWTN, seen at .3.

Programming

KMBH-DT2 carried general PBS fare, as well as some programming pertaining to the Catholic faith, including Sunday Mass, a Spanish-language Bible study program, and a Catholic family issues program. KMBH was one of at least two PBS members run by a religious organization (KBYU-TV in Provo, Utah was the other, which left PBS in 2018), and was formerly one of at least three PBS members owned at least in part by a Catholic-related organization (along with WXEL-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida, which was sold to a community group in 2012, and WLAE-TV in New Orleans, which left PBS in 2013). Because of the Catholic-based ownership, KMBH occasionally refuses to show programming that is contrary to the Catholic faith—one example is a 2007 Frontline documentary, "Hand of God", which dealt with sex abuse by clergymen; [34] the station only aired it the next day as part of PBS' automated overnight schedule at 1 a.m., drawing complaints from viewers in support of the program. [19]

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