KVEO

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KVEO
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = NBC 23 (general)
News Center 23 (news)
analog = 23 (UHF)
digital = 24 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = NBC
NBC Weather Plus (DT2)
network =
founded =
airdate = December 1981 [The "Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook" says December 19, while the "Television and Cable Factbook" says December 18.]
location = Brownsville/Harlingen/McAllen, Texas
callsign_meaning = KVEO comes from "que veo", Spanish for "what I'm watching"
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Communications Corporation of America
licensee = Comcorp of Texas License Corporation
sister_stations =
former_affiliations =
effective_radiated_power = 2570 kW (analog)
1000 kW (digital)
HAAT = 445 m (both)
class =
facility_id = 12523
coordinates = coord|26|6|2.7|N|97|50|19.4|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.kveo.com/ www.kveo.com]

KVEO is the NBC affiliate for Brownsville, Texas, and serves the entire surrounding metropolitan area, known as the Rio Grande Valley.

It broadcasts with an analog signal on UHF channel 23 and with a digital signal on UHF channel 24. It airs on Time Warner Cable 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. The station also offers NBC Weather Plus on a digital subchannel.

History

KVEO signed on as the Rio Grande Valley's NBC affiliate in 1981. Before then, the area had been one of the few in the country without an NBC affiliate; the area's original NBC affiliate, Weslaco's KRGV-TV, had become a full-time ABC affiliate in 1976. Between 1976-1981 KGBT-TV was a secondary NBC affiliate which carried some NBC Programming since they were a primary CBS affiliate.

News Center 23

During the early days of KVEO did have a news department, under the moniker News Center 23. The newscasts were canceled and news department was folded back in the mid-1980s after KVEO had been on the air for a few years. On October 1, 2007, News Center 23 relaunched in High Definition at 5 p.m.. Currently, News Center 23 is the only local news in the Rio Grande Valley in HD.

*News Center 23 at 5 - Monday through Friday at 5 p.m.
*News Center 23 at 6 - Monday through Friday at 6 p.m.
*News Center 23 at 10 - Monday through Friday at 10 p.m.

News Center 23 News Team

Anchors

*Cyndi Garcia

Reporters

*Matt Fernandez
*Michelle Macias
*Kenny Lopez

torm Center 23 Weather

*Caitilin Espinosa

ports

*Jason Notoras

Weather segment

Even before KVEO restarted its news operation, KVEO provided a weather segment at 6PM and 10PM weekday evenings with meteorologist Jason McCleave of WeatherVision. KVEO also broadcasts the local forecast sponsored by Ford during the "Today Show", following Al Roker's national weather segment. A similar weather segment airs Saturday and Sunday nights during the 10PM time slot since NewsCenter 23 has no weekend telecasts.

KVEO now offers NBC Weather Plus on 23-2.

Time Warner Cable recently added KVEO's Weather Plus on channel 861 just after KVEO HD on channel 860.

Digital television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

KVEO's News Center 23 is broadcast in 1080i.

Like many other HD channels on the local Time Warner Cable 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 129.1

External links

* [http://www.kveo.com/ KVEO web site]
*TVQ|KVEO
*BIA|KVEO|TV|TV

References