KXVO
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KXVO digital channel 38 (virtual channel 15) is the The CW
affiliated television station in Omaha, Nebraska
. The station is owned by Mitts Telecasting Company and operated by Titan TV Broadcast Group through a local marketing agreement
. KXVO shares operations and studios with another Titan-owned station, Fox
affiliate KPTM
. KXVO began broadcasting in 1995; its transmitter is located in Gretna, Nebraska
.
KXVO's schedule includes The CW, Toonzai and Weekend Marketplace
(Fox
) programs as well as reruns of The Simpsons
, That '70s Show
, Family Guy
, Malcolm in the Middle
, Smallville
, Stargate SG-1
, King of the Hill, House
and other shows.
On January 16, 2009, it was announced that several Pappas stations, including sister station KPTM, would be sold to New World TV Group, after the sale received United States bankruptcy court
approval. The LMA between KXVO and KPTM is expected to continue after the deal is finalized.
Since KFXL-TV in Lincoln
switched from The CW
to Fox
in 2009, KXVO has become that market's local CW affiliate on DirecTV
. Dish Network does not carry a local CW signal in the Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney market. Since its inception, KXVO has also been carried on cable in the eastern portion of the Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney market. Cable systems in the western portion of the market carry the national CW100+ feed.
In 2001, KXVO station management made plans to produce a 5:30 pm newscast, utilizing on-air talent and production from sister station KPTM
. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the resulting economic downturn, these plans were put on hold and eventually abandoned.
In the days following the 9/11 attacks, KXVO aired continuous news coverage from CNN Headline News.
Early in 2006, the station began airing a ten o'clock newscast, "The KXVO 15 10 O'Clock News," which was produced by KPTM
. The show debuted on January 28, 2006. In April of the same year former MTV
VJ and reality show host Brian McFayden
was hired to anchor the program. McFayden left the show to work for Al Gore's Current TV.
In late August 2006, comedian and Second City Training Center alumnus Matt Geiler was named the new anchor of "The KXVO 15 10 O'Clock News." By this time, the show had become some sort of sketch comedy program, with news content being handled by KPTM staff. Throughout its run, the show never registered a single ratings point, and was canceled in 2007.
carries Spanish language network Azteca America
, with local news, weather, entertainment, and advertising inserts. This Azteca America
subchannel is locally branded as "MXVO", a shortened combination of the call letters "KXVO" and "MX" for Mexico
(as Azteca America
is itself a US-targeted feed of Mexico's TV Azteca
). KXVO-DT2 programming was simulcast on KAZO-LP
, analog channel 57, until fall 2009 when that station left the air. Until 2009, KAZO-LP
was actually the primary Azteca America affiliate in Omaha; KXVO-DT2 and a number of analog low-power transmitters around eastern Nebraska (which have since left the air) rebroadcast the KAZO-LP signal.
Prior to July 1, 2007, KAZO-LP
, KXVO-DT2, and their repeaters in eastern Nebraska, were affiliated with the Azteca America
network. Prior to the Azteca affiliation (circa 2004?), KAZO-LP was a repeater for KXVO. Pappas Telecasting terminated its affiliation agreement with Azteca America on July 1, 2007; http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2007/04/02/daily19.html?from_rss=1 after that date, KAZO-LP, KXVO-DT2, and other former Azteca America channels operated by Pappas became a part of Pappas' fledgling independent Spanish language network, TuVision
. http://www.pappastv.com/pressdetail.php?id=101&prYr=2007
In October 2008, KAZO-LP dropped the TuVision
affiliation and returned to Azteca America
programming simulcast on KXVO-DT2 channel 15.2 (RF 38) in Omaha and KMEG-DT2
channel 14.2 (RF 39) in Sioux City, Iowa
. Around this time, analog transmissions on KAZO-LP temporarily ceased, though the analog channel 57 signal was again seen on the air in October 2009. KAZO-LP left the air for good later in fall 2009 and was no longer listed on KXVO-DT2 station ID screens. By spring 2010, KMEG-DT2
had been spun off from KXVO-DT2 to have its own local feed in the Sioux City, Iowa
area.
KXVO-DT2 is carried on DirecTV
's locals package in the Omaha area as KAZO 57. Dish Network
and Cox Cable do not carry the station, though Cox does provide the national Azteca America feed on digital cable channel 407. Cox Cable had previously carried KAZO-LP
on analog channel 68 but dropped it in 2007 when the station became a TuVision affiliate, and did not restore the local signal when it returned to Azteca America programming in 2008. Until the addition of Estrella TV
on KPTM-DT3 in June 2010, KXVO-DT2 was Omaha's only Spanish-language broadcast channel. KXVO-DT2 also has the distinction of being the only digital subchannel in the Omaha area not carried on the local Cox Communications
cable system.
The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
affiliated television station in Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles north of the mouth of the Platte River...
. The station is owned by Mitts Telecasting Company and operated by Titan TV Broadcast Group through a local marketing agreement
Local marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...
. KXVO shares operations and studios with another Titan-owned station, 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...
affiliate KPTM
KPTM
KPTM is the Fox-affiliated television station for Omaha, Nebraska. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 43 from a transmitter south of Gretna and I-80. The station can also be seen on Cox channel 10 and in high definition on digital channel 710...
. KXVO began broadcasting in 1995; its transmitter is located in Gretna, Nebraska
Gretna, Nebraska
Gretna is a city in Sarpy County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 2,355 at the 2000 census. In 2008, its population was estimated to be 6,572. Gretna has the fastest rate of growth of any Nebraska city since 2000.-History:...
.
KXVO's schedule includes The CW, Toonzai and Weekend Marketplace
Weekend Marketplace
Weekend Marketplace is a two hour Saturday morning block of paid programming airing on Fox that began airing on January 3, 2009, replacing the 4Kids TV Saturday morning cartoon block that aired using time leased by 4Kids from Fox from 2002 until the last Saturday of 2008...
(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...
) programs as well as reruns of The Simpsons
The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
, That '70s Show
That '70s Show
That '70s Show is an American television period sitcom that centers on the lives of a group of teenage friends living in the fictional suburban town of Point Place, Wisconsin, from May 17, 1976, to December 31, 1979...
, Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian...
, Malcolm in the Middle
Malcolm in the Middle
Malcolm in the Middle is an American television sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Network. The series was first broadcast on January 9, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons and 151 episodes...
, Smallville
Smallville (TV series)
Smallville is an American television series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar based on the DC Comics character Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The television series was initially broadcast by The WB Television Network , premiering on October...
, Stargate SG-1
Stargate SG-1
Stargate SG-1 is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 feature film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich...
, King of the Hill, House
House (TV series)
House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...
and other shows.
On January 16, 2009, it was announced that several Pappas stations, including sister station KPTM, would be sold to New World TV Group, after the sale received United States bankruptcy court
United States bankruptcy court
United States bankruptcy courts are courts created under Article I of the United States Constitution. They function as units of the district courts and have subject-matter jurisdiction over bankruptcy cases. The federal district courts have original and exclusive jurisdiction over all cases arising...
approval. The LMA between KXVO and KPTM is expected to continue after the deal is finalized.
Since KFXL-TV in Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
The City of Lincoln is the capital and the second-most populous city of the US state of Nebraska. Lincoln is also the county seat of Lancaster County and the home of the University of Nebraska. Lincoln's 2010 Census population was 258,379....
switched from The CW
The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
to 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...
in 2009, KXVO has become that market's local CW affiliate on DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
. Dish Network does not carry a local CW signal in the Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney market. Since its inception, KXVO has also been carried on cable in the eastern portion of the Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney market. Cable systems in the western portion of the market carry the national CW100+ feed.
News on KXVO
With KXVO's original identity and tagline of "All Entertainment, all the Time" in 1995, news did not seem like a natural fit. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, KXVO aired sixty-second "news updates" that promoted stories from that night's newscast on KPTM. These updates aired during the six-o-clock hour.In 2001, KXVO station management made plans to produce a 5:30 pm newscast, utilizing on-air talent and production from sister station KPTM
KPTM
KPTM is the Fox-affiliated television station for Omaha, Nebraska. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 43 from a transmitter south of Gretna and I-80. The station can also be seen on Cox channel 10 and in high definition on digital channel 710...
. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the resulting economic downturn, these plans were put on hold and eventually abandoned.
In the days following the 9/11 attacks, KXVO aired continuous news coverage from CNN Headline News.
Early in 2006, the station began airing a ten o'clock newscast, "The KXVO 15 10 O'Clock News," which was produced by KPTM
KPTM
KPTM is the Fox-affiliated television station for Omaha, Nebraska. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 43 from a transmitter south of Gretna and I-80. The station can also be seen on Cox channel 10 and in high definition on digital channel 710...
. The show debuted on January 28, 2006. In April of the same year former MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
VJ and reality show host Brian McFayden
Brian McFayden
Brian McFayden is an American television personality.- Biography :Brian McFayden is an American Television and Radio personality. He is famously known as a host for TRL, MTV VJ, and MTV News anchor. McFayden hosted Cupid on CBS and the host of the first season of The CW's Beauty and the Geek...
was hired to anchor the program. McFayden left the show to work for Al Gore's Current TV.
In late August 2006, comedian and Second City Training Center alumnus Matt Geiler was named the new anchor of "The KXVO 15 10 O'Clock News." By this time, the show had become some sort of sketch comedy program, with news content being handled by KPTM staff. Throughout its run, the show never registered a single ratings point, and was canceled in 2007.
KXVO-DT2
KXVO's DT2 digital subchannelDigital 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...
carries Spanish language network Azteca America
Azteca América
Azteca América is a broadcast television network marketed toward Spanish-speaking families residing in the United States. As a rapidly-growing Spanish language network, Azteca América now reaches 89% of the Hispanic households in the U.S., operating in sixty-two markets nationwide. Wholly owned by...
, with local news, weather, entertainment, and advertising inserts. This Azteca America
Azteca América
Azteca América is a broadcast television network marketed toward Spanish-speaking families residing in the United States. As a rapidly-growing Spanish language network, Azteca América now reaches 89% of the Hispanic households in the U.S., operating in sixty-two markets nationwide. Wholly owned by...
subchannel is locally branded as "MXVO", a shortened combination of the call letters "KXVO" and "MX" for Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
(as Azteca America
Azteca América
Azteca América is a broadcast television network marketed toward Spanish-speaking families residing in the United States. As a rapidly-growing Spanish language network, Azteca América now reaches 89% of the Hispanic households in the U.S., operating in sixty-two markets nationwide. Wholly owned by...
is itself a US-targeted feed of Mexico's TV Azteca
TV Azteca
Azteca, is the second largest Mexican television entertainment. It was established in 1983 as the state-owned Instituto Mexicano de la Televisión , a holding of the national TV networks channel 13 and 7 and was privatized under its current name in 1993 and now is part of Grupo Salinas...
). KXVO-DT2 programming was simulcast on KAZO-LP
KAZO-LP
KAZO-LP, UHF analog channel 57, was a Spanish-language low-power television station in Omaha, Nebraska affiliated with the Azteca America network, except for a brief affiliation with the TuVision Spanish language network in 2007 and 2008...
, analog channel 57, until fall 2009 when that station left the air. Until 2009, KAZO-LP
KAZO-LP
KAZO-LP, UHF analog channel 57, was a Spanish-language low-power television station in Omaha, Nebraska affiliated with the Azteca America network, except for a brief affiliation with the TuVision Spanish language network in 2007 and 2008...
was actually the primary Azteca America affiliate in Omaha; KXVO-DT2 and a number of analog low-power transmitters around eastern Nebraska (which have since left the air) rebroadcast the KAZO-LP signal.
Prior to July 1, 2007, KAZO-LP
KAZO-LP
KAZO-LP, UHF analog channel 57, was a Spanish-language low-power television station in Omaha, Nebraska affiliated with the Azteca America network, except for a brief affiliation with the TuVision Spanish language network in 2007 and 2008...
, KXVO-DT2, and their repeaters in eastern Nebraska, were affiliated with the Azteca America
Azteca América
Azteca América is a broadcast television network marketed toward Spanish-speaking families residing in the United States. As a rapidly-growing Spanish language network, Azteca América now reaches 89% of the Hispanic households in the U.S., operating in sixty-two markets nationwide. Wholly owned by...
network. Prior to the Azteca affiliation (circa 2004?), KAZO-LP was a repeater for KXVO. Pappas Telecasting terminated its affiliation agreement with Azteca America on July 1, 2007; http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2007/04/02/daily19.html?from_rss=1 after that date, KAZO-LP, KXVO-DT2, and other former Azteca America channels operated by Pappas became a part of Pappas' fledgling independent Spanish language network, TuVision
TuVisión
TuVisión was an American Spanish-language broadcasting network, which is owned by Pappas Telecasting. TuVisión is a portmanteau of tu and televisión . During the latter part of 2007, Pappas hired Moelis & Company to develop long-term objectives to identify which television assets it should retain...
. http://www.pappastv.com/pressdetail.php?id=101&prYr=2007
In October 2008, KAZO-LP dropped the TuVision
TuVisión
TuVisión was an American Spanish-language broadcasting network, which is owned by Pappas Telecasting. TuVisión is a portmanteau of tu and televisión . During the latter part of 2007, Pappas hired Moelis & Company to develop long-term objectives to identify which television assets it should retain...
affiliation and returned to Azteca America
Azteca América
Azteca América is a broadcast television network marketed toward Spanish-speaking families residing in the United States. As a rapidly-growing Spanish language network, Azteca América now reaches 89% of the Hispanic households in the U.S., operating in sixty-two markets nationwide. Wholly owned by...
programming simulcast on KXVO-DT2 channel 15.2 (RF 38) in Omaha and KMEG-DT2
KMEG
KMEG is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Southern Siouxland licensed to Sioux City, Iowa. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 39 from a transmitter in unincorporated Plymouth County, Iowa east of James and US 75 along the Woodbury county line...
channel 14.2 (RF 39) in Sioux City, Iowa
Sioux City, Iowa
Sioux City is a city in Plymouth and Woodbury counties in the western part of the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 82,684 in the 2010 census, a decline from 85,013 in the 2000 census, which makes it currently the fourth largest city in the state....
. Around this time, analog transmissions on KAZO-LP temporarily ceased, though the analog channel 57 signal was again seen on the air in October 2009. KAZO-LP left the air for good later in fall 2009 and was no longer listed on KXVO-DT2 station ID screens. By spring 2010, KMEG-DT2
KMEG
KMEG is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Southern Siouxland licensed to Sioux City, Iowa. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 39 from a transmitter in unincorporated Plymouth County, Iowa east of James and US 75 along the Woodbury county line...
had been spun off from KXVO-DT2 to have its own local feed in the Sioux City, Iowa
Sioux City, Iowa
Sioux City is a city in Plymouth and Woodbury counties in the western part of the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 82,684 in the 2010 census, a decline from 85,013 in the 2000 census, which makes it currently the fourth largest city in the state....
area.
KXVO-DT2 is carried on DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
's locals package in the Omaha area as KAZO 57. Dish Network
Dish Network
Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...
and Cox Cable do not carry the station, though Cox does provide the national Azteca America feed on digital cable channel 407. Cox Cable had previously carried KAZO-LP
KAZO-LP
KAZO-LP, UHF analog channel 57, was a Spanish-language low-power television station in Omaha, Nebraska affiliated with the Azteca America network, except for a brief affiliation with the TuVision Spanish language network in 2007 and 2008...
on analog channel 68 but dropped it in 2007 when the station became a TuVision affiliate, and did not restore the local signal when it returned to Azteca America programming in 2008. Until the addition of 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:...
on KPTM-DT3 in June 2010, KXVO-DT2 was Omaha's only Spanish-language broadcast channel. KXVO-DT2 also has the distinction of being the only digital subchannel in the Omaha area not carried on the local Cox Communications
Cox Communications
Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States...
cable system.