KXVO , virtual channel 15 (UHF 38 digital channel), is a CW-affiliated television station licensed to Omaha, Nebraska, USA and also serves Council Bluffs, Iowa. This station is owned by Mitts Telecasting Company; Sinclair Broadcast Group, which has a Fox KPTM affiliate (channel 42), operates KXVO under local marketing agreements. Both stations share a studio on Farnam Street in Omaha; The KXVO Transmitter is located in Gretna, Nebraska.
On cable, this station is available in Cox Communications 11 channels both in standard and high definition. It can also be seen in the Prism 15 (SD) and 1015 (HD) CenturyLink channels.
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Histori
KXVO was signed on the air on June 10, 1995 as an affiliate of The WB, which debuted nationwide almost five months earlier on January 11 of that year; the station was originally owned by Cocola Broadcasting, but operated by Pappas Telecasting under a local marketing agreement. Within six months of interim, Omaha has access to WB via cable and satellite providers through the Chicago-based WGN national testament. Cocola would then sell the station to Mitts Telecasting Company in 2000, which maintained the LMA with Pappas.
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that The WB and UPN would stop broadcasting that September and combine their program to form a new "fifth" network called The CW. These letters are the first initials of the parent company, CBS (parent company of UPN) and Warner Bros. unit. Entertainment from Time Warner. In April 2006, KXVO announced an affiliation agreement with The CW, which began airing on the station when the network was launched on September 18 that year.
On January 16, 2009, it was announced that several Pappas stations, including the KPTM twin stations, would be sold to the New World TV Group, after the sale received US bankruptcy approval. The LMA between KXVO and KPTM continues after the deal is finalized.
After KFXL-TV in Lincoln switched from The CW to Fox in 2009, KXVO became the CW's default affiliate market on DirecTV. From the beginning, KXVO has also been taken in cables in the eastern Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney market; cable providers in the western part of the market carry a national CW Plus feed. This station is also taken as the default CW affiliate for DirecTV customers in the St. Joseph, Missouri; this continues despite News-Press & amp; The Company's Sheet (owner of St. Joseph News-Press) launched the KNPN-LD low power affiliate Fox on June 2, 2012 which also brings CW programming on the LD2 sub-channel of its brother KNPG-LD signal (formerly KBJO- LD, effectively assuming the CW Plus communication channel run by Suddenlink, "WBJO", after News-Press & Gazette acquired local cable channels and news channels from Suddenlink before KNPN sign-on). Dish Network does not carry local CW signals in the Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney and St. Joseph.
Titan TV Broadcast Group announced the sale of most of its stations, including KPTM and LMA with KXVO (which will remain under Mitts Telecasting after sale), to Sinclair Broadcast Group on June 3, 2013. Sinclair announced the closing sale on October 3
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Programming
Programming at KXVO includes a full schedule of CW along with Syndicated programming such as Jerry Springer , Maury , The Robert Irvine Show < i> and Celebrity Name Games as well as network re-impressions from King of Queens , Hot in Cleveland and Central News List
The station was originally branded "All Entertainment, All the Time", and news is a low priority because KPTM is building a news department for their own stations. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, KXVO broadcast a 60-second "news update" from the KPTM during 6pm. hour that promotes the latest 9th news broadcast. In 2001, KXVO had begun planning to bring at 5:30 am. broadcast news from KPTM to compete with national news broadcast. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the resulting economic slowdown, the plans were postponed and eventually abandoned. In the days following the September 11 attacks, KXVO broadcast continuing news coverage from CNN Headline News.
In December 2005, the station debuted for half an hour at 10 pm. a news release called The KXVO 15 10 O'Clock News , produced by KPTM (this time competing with Big Three Omaha station); That April, former MTV VJ and reality show host Brian McFayden were hired to link the program, only to leave the show for TV Today a few months later. At the end of August 2006, comedian and alumnus of the Second City Training Center, Matt Geiler, were tapped to link The KXVO 15 10 O'Clock News , which at that time would be a hybrid of news content (provided by KPTM) staff) and sketch/improvisation comedy. One prime example of this era occurred in the 2006 Halloween edition, when Geiler, for the final segment of pre-recorded events, wore black unitard and jack-o'-lantern foam and danced in front of a green screen image of a cemetery. Although KXVO 15 10 O'Clock News was canceled in April 2007, "Pumpkin Dance" has had a lasting life as a viral video and seasonal meme thanks to its upload to YouTube by producer KXVO after its original broadcast and video discovery later this decade by BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, and other websites.
Digital television
Digital channels
Digital channel of this station multiplexing:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KXVO closed its analog signals, via channel UHF 15, on June 12, 2009, as part of a federal mandate transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remains on the pre-transition UHF channel 38, using PSIP to display the KXVO virtual channel as 15 on the digital television receiver.
In October 2008, KAZO-LP dropped TuVision and returned to the Azteca AmÃÆ' © rica program broadcasted on KXVO 15.2 in Omaha and KMEG 14.2 in Sioux City, Iowa. Around this time, analogue transmissions on the KAZO-LP temporarily stopped, although analog channel signals were again visible in the air in October 2009. KAZO-LP died permanently in fall 2009 and no longer listed on KXVO-DT2 station IDs. In spring 2010, KMEG-DT2 has been spun from KXVO-DT2 to have its own local feed in the Sioux City area. KXVO-DT2 is done on the local DirecTV station package in the Omaha area as KAZO 57. Dish Network does not carry the station. Cox had previously brought the KAZO-LP on an analog channel 68, but dropped it in 2007 when it became a TuVision affiliate, and did not return local signals when it switched back to Azteca Amà © rica in 2008. Until the addition of Estrella TV to KPTM-DT3 on June 2010, Azteca AmÃÆ'  © rica is the only Spanish-language network available in the air in Omaha. Sometime in late 2013 or early 2014, Azteca is removed from ThisTV.
By 2017, the KXVO sub-channel line has all changed. TBD Sinclair (TV network) replaces THIS on 15.2. Sinclair's action channel, Charge! (TV Network) replaces GRIT at 15.3. On September 6, 2017 15.4 began broadcasting, programing was Stadium (sports network).
References
External links
- Official website
- FCC TV station database request for KXVO
- BIAfn Media Web Database - Information at KXVO-TV
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