KBVO
KBVO (channel 14) is a television station licensed to Llano, Texas, United States, serving the Austin area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside NBC affiliate KXAN-TV (channel 36); Nexstar also provides certain services to KNVA (channel 54), a de facto owned-and-operated station of The CW, under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Vaughan Media. The stations share studios on West Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and San Gabriel Street (between the Old West Austin section of Austin and the University of Texas at Austin campus), while KBVO's transmitter is located near the intersection of TX 71 and Llano County Road 307 in unincorporated Llano County (8 miles (13 km) southeast of Llano).
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City | Llano, Texas |
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Branding | KBVO |
Programming | |
Affiliations | 14.1: MyNetworkTV 14.2: Bounce TV 14.3: Antenna TV 14.4: Defy TV |
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KXAN-TV KNVA | |
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First air date | September 6, 1991 |
Former call signs | KLNO (September–October 1991) KXAM-TV (1991–2009) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 14 (UHF, 1991–2009) |
NBC (as semi-satellite of KXAN, 1991–2009) | |
Call sign meaning | Bevo (name of UT Austin mascot) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 35909 |
ERP | 660 kW |
HAAT | 249 m (817 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 30°40′36″N 98°33′59″W |
Translator(s) | KBVO-CD 31 (UHF) Austin |
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Public license information | |
Website | www |
ATSC 3.0 station | |
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Channels | |
Branding | see KBVO infobox |
Programming | |
Affiliations | 14.1: KBVO-CD 36.1: KXAN-CD 42.1: KEYE-CD 54.1: KNVA-CD |
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see KBVO infobox | |
History | |
First air date | November 17, 1989 |
Former call signs | K49CY (1989–1995) KBVO-LP (1995–2002) KBVO-CA (2002–2009) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 49 (UHF, 1989–2002) 45 (UHF, 2002–2004) 51 (UHF, 2004–2009) Digital ATSC 1.0: 51 (PSIP, 2009–2019) 14 (PSIP, 2019–2020) |
NBC (as a KXAN repeater; 1989–1995) UPN (1995–1998) The WB (as a KNVA repeater; 1998–2002) Telefutura (2002–January 2009) The CW (as a KNVA repeater; January–October 2009) | |
Call sign meaning | see KBVO infobox |
Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 35918 |
Class | Class A |
ERP | 15 kW |
HAAT | 339.5 m (1,114 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 30°19′34″N 97°47′59″W |
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Public license information |
KBVO-CD (channel 31) in Austin operates as a low-power, Class A ATSC 3.0 lighthouse of KXAN-TV, KNVA, and KEYE-TV; this station's transmitter is located at the West Austin Antenna Farm on Mount Larson (near Loop 360 and Westlake Drive, north of West Lake Hills).