KXVA
Encyclopedia
KXVA FOX Abilene is a full-service television station
in Abilene, Texas
, broadcasting locally in digital
on UHF
channel 15 as an affiliate of the Fox
network. Founded June 15, 2000, the station is owned by Bayou City Broadcasting. Master control operations for KXVA take place at Bayou City Broadcasting's San Angelo facilities.
(FCC) granted an original construction permit to former owner Sage Broadcasting Company to build a full-service station to serve the Abilene
/Sweetwater
/Brownwood
television market. It would be the market's fourth full-service station. The station was built quickly, with a planned launch in September or October 2000, but inclement weather caused delays in constructing the tower http://www.texnews.com/1998/2001/local/fox0106.html. On January 9, 2001, several months later than expected, KXVA began broadcasting Fox programming under Program Test Authority. The station obtained its initial broadcast license on February 13, 2002, more than one year after applying for the license.
Sometime in 2011, KIDZ-LP
was added to KXVA as digital subchannel
15.2, providing their sister station in a digital form.
and repeaters. Its schedule is a mix of network and syndicated programming. As the Fox affiliate, KXVA is Abilene's television home for the Dallas Cowboys
National Football League
football team, airing up to 14 of the team's 16 regular season games.
(channel 29); the newscast airs every night at 9 p.m., except in the case of live television programming run-over; the newscast is rebroadcast nightly at 10 p.m. on a one-hour tape delay on sister station KIDZ-LP. The following year in October 2010, the station began simulcasting KABB's four-hour morning newscast, Fox News First; the newscast airs weekday mornings from 5 to 9 a.m.
In addition to local news headline updates airing during Fox News at Nine and Fox News First, KXVA provides an hourly local news updates weekdays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., with headlines and news information provided by the Abilene Reporter News newspaper.
Fox News First
(weekday mornings 5-9 a.m.)
Fox News at Nine (9 to 10 p.m.)
Weeknights
Weekends
after the FCC finalized the digital television
allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station
. Instead, on or before February 17, 2009, which is the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KXVA was required to turn off its analog signal
and turn on its digital signal
(called a "flash-cut
").
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
in Abilene, Texas
Abilene, Texas
Abilene is a city in Taylor and Jones counties in west central Texas. The population was 117,063 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Abilene Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2006 estimated population of 158,063. It is the county seat of Taylor County...
, broadcasting locally in digital
ATSC
ATSC standards are a set of standards developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee for digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable, and satellite networks....
on UHF
Ultra high frequency
Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres...
channel 15 as an affiliate of the Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
network. Founded June 15, 2000, the station is owned by Bayou City Broadcasting. Master control operations for KXVA take place at Bayou City Broadcasting's San Angelo facilities.
History
On June 15, 2000, the Federal Communications CommissionFederal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) granted an original construction permit to former owner Sage Broadcasting Company to build a full-service station to serve the Abilene
Abilene, Texas
Abilene is a city in Taylor and Jones counties in west central Texas. The population was 117,063 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Abilene Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2006 estimated population of 158,063. It is the county seat of Taylor County...
/Sweetwater
Sweetwater, Texas
Sweetwater is the county seat of Nolan County, Texas, United States. The population was 11,415 at the 2000 census.-History:Sweetwater received a U.S. post office in 1879. The Texas and Pacific Railway started service in 1881, with the first train arriving on March 12 of that year, beginning...
/Brownwood
Brownwood, Texas
Brownwood is a city in and the county seat of Brown County, Texas, United States. The population was 18,813 at the 2000 census.-History:The original site of the Brown County seat of Brownwood was on the east of Pecan Bayou. A dispute arose over land and water rights, and the settlers were forced...
television market. It would be the market's fourth full-service station. The station was built quickly, with a planned launch in September or October 2000, but inclement weather caused delays in constructing the tower http://www.texnews.com/1998/2001/local/fox0106.html. On January 9, 2001, several months later than expected, KXVA began broadcasting Fox programming under Program Test Authority. The station obtained its initial broadcast license on February 13, 2002, more than one year after applying for the license.
Sometime in 2011, KIDZ-LP
KIDZ-LP
KIDZ-LP is a low-power Class A television station in Abilene, Texas, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 42 as an affiliate of My Network TV. Founded October 30, 1991, the station is owned by Bayou City Broadcasting and is part of a duopoly in Abilene with Fox affiliate KXVA...
was added to KXVA as digital subchannel
Digital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual...
15.2, providing their sister station in a digital form.
Programming
KXVA has been a Fox station since sign-on, taking over the affiliation from former owner Sage Broadcasting's KIDZ-LPKIDZ-LP
KIDZ-LP is a low-power Class A television station in Abilene, Texas, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 42 as an affiliate of My Network TV. Founded October 30, 1991, the station is owned by Bayou City Broadcasting and is part of a duopoly in Abilene with Fox affiliate KXVA...
and repeaters. Its schedule is a mix of network and syndicated programming. As the Fox affiliate, KXVA is Abilene's television home for the Dallas Cowboys
Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football franchise which plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League . They are headquartered in Valley Ranch in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas...
National Football League
National Football League
The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
football team, airing up to 14 of the team's 16 regular season games.
Newscasts
KXVA does not produce a local newscast for the Abilene television market. In 2009, KXVA began airing a simulcast of Fox News at Nine, an one-hour newscast from San Antonio Fox affiliate KABBKABB
KABB is the Fox Network affiliate television station in San Antonio, Texas. It is co-owned with The CW Television Network affiliate KMYS by the Sinclair Broadcast Group...
(channel 29); the newscast airs every night at 9 p.m., except in the case of live television programming run-over; the newscast is rebroadcast nightly at 10 p.m. on a one-hour tape delay on sister station KIDZ-LP. The following year in October 2010, the station began simulcasting KABB's four-hour morning newscast, Fox News First; the newscast airs weekday mornings from 5 to 9 a.m.
In addition to local news headline updates airing during Fox News at Nine and Fox News First, KXVA provides an hourly local news updates weekdays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., with headlines and news information provided by the Abilene Reporter News newspaper.
Fox News First
(weekday mornings 5-9 a.m.)
- Anchors:
- Monica Taylor
- Ernie Zuniga
- Weather:
- Shaun Stevens
- Traffic:
- Miriam Zamorano
Fox News at Nine (9 to 10 p.m.)
Weeknights
- Anchors:
- Karen Martinez
- Michael Valdes
- Weather:
- Alex Garcia
- Sports:
- Darren Haynes (Mondays)
- Chuck Miketinac (Tuesday-Fridays)
Weekends
- Anchor:
- Ted Garcia
- Mileka Lincoln
- Weather:
- TBD
- Sports:
- Hector Ledesma
Digital television
Because it was granted an original construction permitConstruction permit
A construction permit or building permit is a permit required in most jurisdictions for new construction, or adding on to pre-existing structures, and in some cases for major renovations. Generally, the new construction must be inspected during construction and after completion to ensure compliance...
after the FCC finalized the digital television
Digital television
Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...
allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
. Instead, on or before February 17, 2009, which is the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KXVA was required to turn off its analog signal
Analog signal
An analog or analogue signal is any continuous signal for which the time varying feature of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity, i.e., analogous to another time varying signal. It differs from a digital signal in terms of small fluctuations in the signal which are...
and turn on its digital signal
Digital signal
A digital signal is a physical signal that is a representation of a sequence of discrete values , for example of an arbitrary bit stream, or of a digitized analog signal...
(called a "flash-cut
Flash-cut
A flash-cut, also called flash-cutover, is an immediate change in a complex system, with no phase-in period.Some telephone area codes were split immediately, rather than being phased in with a permissive dialing period. An example is telephone area code 213, which was split into 213 and 714 all at...
").