KVEO-TV is the NBC

NBC

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 affiliate television station for Brownsville, Texas

Brownsville, Texas

Brownsville is a city in the southernmost tip of the state of Texas, in the United States. It is located on the northern bank of the Rio Grande, directly north and across the border from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Brownsville is the 16th largest city in the state of Texas with a population of...

, and serves the entire surrounding metropolitan area, known as the Rio Grande Valley

Rio Grande Valley

The Rio Grande Valley or the Lower Rio Grande Valley, informally called The Valley, is an area located in the southernmost tip of South Texas...

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It broadcasts with a digital signal on UHF channel 24. It airs on Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable

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 systems as cable 8 in standard definition and 860 in high definition. It is operated out of its studio in Brownsville, located on US Highway 77

U.S. Route 77

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. KVEO is also available on channel 23 in both standard definition and high definition on DirecTV

DirecTV

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 and Dish Network

Dish Network

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 .

History

KVEO signed on in December 1981. Before then, the area had been one of the few in the country without a full-time NBC affiliate; the area's original NBC affiliate, Weslaco's KRGV-TV

KRGV-TV

KRGV-TV is the local ABC affiliate television station for the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas . It is licensed to Weslaco, Texas, with studios in Weslaco and transmitter in Santa Maria, Texas...

, had become a full-time ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 affiliate in 1976. In the interim, CBS

CBS

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 affiliate KGBT-TV

KGBT-TV

KGBT-TV, virtual channel 4 , is a CBS affiliate located in Harlingen, Texas. Its market includes the greater Rio Grande Valley metropolitan area. KGBT is currently owned by Barrington Broadcasting Company. Its transmitter is located in Cameron County, Texas...

 carried NBC programming on a secondary basis.

Newscasts

At the station's inception, KVEO had a news operation branded as Total 23 News but in a year or two, local news programming was dropped in favor of entertainment programming due to very low news ratings against the other area stations.

Local news returned to the station on October 1, 2007, under the NewsCenter 23 branding. The newscasts are produced in high definition

High-definition television

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, making KVEO the first station in the Rio Grande Valley to do so.

In January 2010, ComCorp announced that it would close KVEO's news department, other than a few reporters. The locally-produced newscast would now originate from a ComCorp-controlled station in El Paso

El Paso, Texas

El Paso, is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, and lies in far West Texas. In the 2010 census, the city had a population of 649,121. It is the sixth largest city in Texas and the 19th largest city in the United States...

, KDBC-TV

KDBC-TV

KDBC-TV is the CBS affiliate in El Paso, Texas. The station is owned by the Titan TV Broadcast Group. It broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 18. Its new digital subchannel carries My Network TV...

, using its own staff, with the remaining reporters in Brownsville filing reports. The new newscast, which debuted January 18, 2010, is broadcast live from El Paso.

Weather segment

Even before KVEO restarted its news operation, KVEO provided a weather segment at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. weekday evenings with meteorologist Jason McCleave of WeatherVision

WeatherVision

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. (A similar segment continues to air at 10 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday nights, as KVEO does not air weekend newscasts.) KVEO also broadcasts local forecast segments during Today.

KVEO offered NBC Weather Plus

NBC Weather Plus

NBC Weather Plus was a 24-hour, commercially sponsored, weather-oriented broadcast/cable television network jointly owned by NBC Universal and the local affiliates of the NBC network. It debuted on November 15, 2004 and shut down on December 31, 2008...

 on 23-2 prior to NBC Universal

NBC Universal

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's acquisition of The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel is a US cable and satellite television network since May 2, 1982, that broadcasts weather forecasts and weather-related news, along with entertainment programming related to weather 24 hours a day...

 and subsequent termination of the Weather Plus service.

Current on-air staff

Anchor

• Adrienne Alvarez (from KDBC-TV
  KDBC-TV
  KDBC-TV is the CBS affiliate in El Paso, Texas. The station is owned by the Titan TV Broadcast Group. It broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 18. Its new digital subchannel carries My Network TV...
  
  )

Reporters

• Joangel Concepcion
• Matt Fernandez
• Na'tassia Finley
• Joshua Navarro
• Michelle Macias
• Erin Murray
• Matt Searcy

NewsCenter 23 Weather

• Robert Bettes - (from KDBC-TV)

(KVEO's current newscast has no sports segment.)

Station slogans

• 23's The Place (1982–1987)
• Come Home to the Best, Only on KVEO-TV 23 (1988–1990, localized version of NBC ad campaign. There was also a Spanish version of the campaign made for KVEO since the Rio Grande Valley has a huge Mexican audience.)
• Vuelva a casa al Mejor, Sólo en KVEO-TV 23 (1988–1990; Spanish version of NBC's 1988 campaign)
• The Valley's New Choice for News (2007–present)

Digital television

KVEO has been broadcasting a DTV signal since 2005.
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23.1	24.1	1080i 1080i 1080i is the shorthand name for a high-definition television mode. The i means interlaced video; 1080i differs from 1080p, in which the p stands for progressive scan. The term 1080i assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a frame size of 1920×1080 pixels...	16:9 16:9 16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ...	main KVEO programming / NBC HD
23.2	24.2	480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC...	4:3	Estrella TV Estrella TV Estrella TV is a Spanish-language television network owned by Liberman Broadcasting. The network launched September 14, 2009.-Affiliates:-Former Affiliates:-Controversy:...

Like many other HD channels on the local Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...

system, KVEO-DT can be picked up on basic cable by connecting the cable directly into an HDTV with a built-in QAM tuner, channel 98.1