KRGV-TV

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KRGV-TV
KRGV logo 2012.png
City Weslaco, Texas
Channels
Branding
  • KRGV Channel 5; Channel 5 News
  • Novelisima 5.2; Noticias RGV (on DT2)
  • Somos El Valle (on DT3)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
  • Manship family
  • (Mobile Video Tapes, Inc. (d/b/a KRGV-TV Corporation))
WBRZ-TV
History
First air date
April 10, 1954(69 years ago) (1954-04-10)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 5 (VHF, 1954-2009)
  • NBC (1954–1976)
  • UPN (secondary, 1995–1996)
Call sign meaning
Rio Grande Valley
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 43328
ERP 57 kW
HAAT 445 m (1,460 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 26°6′2.3″N97°50′21.5″W / 26.100639°N 97.839306°W / 26.100639; -97.839306
Links
Public license information
Website www.krgv.com/home/

KRGV-TV (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Weslaco, Texas, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Lower Rio Grande Valley. The station is owned by the Manship family of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, through Mobile Video Tapes, Inc., which often does business as KRGV-TV Corporation. KRGV-TV's studios are located on East Expressway (I-2/US 83) in Weslaco, and its transmitter is located in Santa Maria, Texas.

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History

KRGV logo used from 2009 to 2012. KRGV2009.jpg
KRGV logo used from 2009 to 2012.

KRGV joined as a primary NBC affiliate in 1954, sharing ABC programming with KGBT-TV. The original owner of the station was O. L. Taylor, who, in 1956, sold half of the station's interest to future President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson's Texas Broadcasting Company. The Johnsons owned the station until 1961, until they sold it to Kenco Enterprises. Mobile Video Tapes, which was formed by the Manship family, purchased the station from Kenco three years later. On April 12, 1976, KRGV became the first NBC affiliate to switch to ABC during a push by the network to attract new, stronger affiliates. One year later, sister station WBRZ in Baton Rouge followed suit. From 1976 to 1981, CBS affiliate KGBT-TV would carry NBC programming on a secondary basis. NBC would not return full time to the Rio Grande Valley until KVEO-TV signed on in 1981.

In 1995, KRGV added a secondary affiliation with UPN. The following year, UPN programming moved to KVEO. [2] [3]

On August 24, 2009, KRGV extended its 10 p.m. newscast by 30 minutes. KRGV was one of six ABC affiliates to have hour-long 10 p.m. newscasts, along with KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, KITV in Honolulu, WISN-TV in Milwaukee, WEAR-TV in Pensacola, Florida, and KSTP-TV in Minneapolis–Saint Paul.[ citation needed ]

On September 9, 2009, KRGV began broadcasting in HD, and that same year, the channel rebranded itself to Channel 5 News.[ citation needed ]

In September 2010, KRGV began expanded Channel 5 News This Morning by a half hour, pushing the start time to 4:30 a.m.

In April 2011, KRGV expanded their morning newscast to Saturdays at 8 a.m. and Sundays at 9 a.m.

In October 2012, KRGV redesigned its website and logo, eliminating the "KRGV" ribbon underneath the logo, and integrating the ABC logo in its full form.

In 2017, KRGV ended with the weather Channel 5.4 First Warn Doppler Radar.

On November 2, 2020, KRGV's set was redesigned with new graphics and music. [4]

Preemptions and delays

For many years, KRGV aired syndicated programming leading back into ABC's late night block and tape delayed the latter to accommodate whatever syndicated programming aired at that time. Married... with Children consistently aired at 10:30 p.m. following the newscast since it first began airing in syndication, while the rest of the late night schedule shifted around through the years. This caused 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. By the 2010s, both Nightline and Jimmy Kimmel Live! air back to back as they do across many affiliates, but were tape-delayed 30 minutes in favor of an extension of the 10 p.m. news known as Channel 5 News at 10:30. Because of the delay, both Nightline and Kimmel were broadcast in standard definition. KRGV did not yet have the capability to record the two programs in HD for later rebroadcast. This all changed in 2009, when KRGV began recording network and syndicated programming in HD, enabling both Nightline and Kimmel to be seen in HD.

In November 2004, KRGV, along with many other ABC affiliates, opted not to air the movie Saving Private Ryan when the network broadcast it uncut on Veterans Day. [5]

In January 2018, KRGV's contract with Tribune Broadcasting's Antenna TV ended, and the station moved its 10:30 p.m. newscast as part of its newly launched and locally programmed independent station known as "Somos El Valle", which includes a mix of Spanish and English content. [6] This allowed the station to air Kimmel and Nightline at their regular time slots as scheduled by the network.

Because of the station's midday newscast which airs at noon, KRGV has aired GMA3: What You Need To Know (previously The Chew and All My Children ) on a day-behind basis at 11 a.m.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KRGV-TV [7]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
5.1 720p 16:9 KRGV HDMain KRGV-TV programming / ABC
5.2NRGV Novelisima
5.3Somos Independent

Analog-to-digital conversion

KRGV's broadcasts became digital-only, effective June 12, 2009. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KRGV-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ Flint, Joe (June 26, 1995). "UPN extends affil reach". Variety . Retrieved January 1, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Listing of channel lineups in TV Guide South Texas Edition". matthewsittel.com. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
  4. ↑ KRGV [@krgv] (November 2, 2020). "Join us NOW for CHANNEL 5 NEWS at 5 to see our new look! Share your pictures with us, tag us and we'll share them. #KRGV #rgv #TheValleysNewsChannel" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. ↑ "ABC affiliate pulls 'Private Ryan' on indecency concerns - Nov. 11, 2004". money.cnn.com. Retrieved November 25, 2021.
  6. ↑ "KRGV rebrands its digital subchannel". KRGV.com. Archived from the original on December 11, 2018. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  7. ↑ "RabbitEars TV Query for KRGV". RabbitEars.info.
  8. ↑ Federal Communications Commission Archived October 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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