austin general kxan news during kxan produced newscast channels digital 49 uhf virtual 54 psip subchannels 54.1 the cw 54.2 grit 1 54.3 laff 2 affiliations the cw since 2006 owner vaughan media 54 broadcasting inc. operator media general first air date august 31 1994 sister station s kxan tv kbvo kbvo cd former channel number s analog 54 uhf 1994 2009 former affiliations primary independent 1994 1995 the wb 1995 2006 secondary upn 1995 1998 mynetworktv 2006 2009 transmitter power 500 kw height 396 m facility id 144 transmitter coordinates 30 19 31 n 97 48 0.7 w 30.32528 n 97.800194 w 30.32528 ; 97.800194 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website http thecwaustin.com knva virtual channel 54 uhf digital channel 49 is a cw affiliated television station located in austin texas united states . the station is owned by vaughan media ; media general which owns nbc affiliate kxan tv channel 36 and mynetworktv affiliate kbvo channel 14 operates knva under a local marketing agreement . all three stations share studios on west martin luther king jr. boulevard between the clarksville section of austin and the university of texas at austin campus knva s transmitter is located at the west austin antenna farm north of west lake hills . syndicated programming seen on knva includes the jerry springer show the doctors everybody loves raymond and the middle . contents 1 history 1.1 hill country paramount network 2 digital television 2.1 digital channels 2.2 analog to digital conversion 3 newscasts 4 references 5 external links history edit according to an austin american statesman article and federal communications commission fcc records 54 broadcasting applied for the license for the station in 1989 ; it was to have been assigned the call letters kcfp but it could not economically start up the station until signing a local marketing agreement with lin tv five years later in 1994 . 3 4 knva first signed on the air on august 31 1994 as a 24 hour feed of kxan s live weather network and doppler weather radar . it became an independent station for a short time before affiliating with the wb as a charter station the following year on january 11 1995 . during this time the station was branded as knva 54 and carried off network sitcoms drama series and cartoons . in 2001 the station was rebranded austin s wb 54 before finally settling on austin s wb . on january 24 2006 the warner bros. unit of time warner and cbs corporation announced that the two companies would shut down the wb and upn and combine the networks respective programming to create a new fifth network called the cw . 5 6 one month later on february 22 2006 news corporation announced the launch of a new sixth network called mynetworktv which would be operated by fox television stations and its syndication division twentieth television to give upn and wb stations that were left out from the cw s affiliate roster another option besides converting to independent stations . 7 8 at first those moves put knva s future in doubt as upn affiliate kcwx channel 2 now a mynetworktv affiliate was announced as the affiliate of the cw . however that station is considered part of the san antonio market although it had been supplying the austin area with upn programming . viewers were left speculating that knva s only options would be to join mynetworktv or revert to being an independent station . but in a surprise move on april 18 lin tv announced that knva would join the cw . kcwx now no longer serves austin and cw programming on that station began to be blocked out by time warner cable effective october 1 2006 . kcwx s syndicated programming continued to be shown on time warner cable until april 3 2007 when the provider officially dropped the station from its austin systems . over a week later on april 26 2006 it was announced that knva would also carry mynetworktv as a secondary affiliation . 9 to date knva was one of two stations in the country carrying both the cw and mynetworktv the other being kwkb in iowa city iowa which would also drop mynetworktv and become a sole cw affiliate in september 2011 . until 2014 columbia south carolina s existing mynetworktv affiliate wktc added a primary cw affiliation while retaining mynetworktv as a secondary affiliation on its main channel making it currently the only station in the united states to carry both networks . on august 1 a video posted to the knva kxan shared website revealed the station would be officially branded as the cw austin with mynetworktv programming branded as mynetworktv on the cw austin . on october 21 2009 sister station kbvo picked up the mynetworktv affiliation for the austin market leaving knva solely with the cw . that station had been serving as a semi satellite of kxan . 10 vaughan media acquired a majority stake in 54 broadcasting inc. on july 27 2009 from an ownership group that included now former keye tv news anchor ron oliveira who sold off his share of the station as part of the deal . lin tv continues to hold a small 4.5 percent stake in the station . on march 21 2014 media general announced that it would purchase lin media and its stations including kxan tv kbvo and the lma and 4.5 percent stake in knva in a 1.6 billion merger . 11 12 the merger was completed on december 19 . 13 hill country paramount network edit kxan controls a number of low powered broadcast translator stations around central texas . it had been simulcasting its programming on the translators since its launch . however with the launch of upn kxan and knva opted to create a secondary simulcast feed for knva s programming . it ended up replacing the wb s prime time schedule with that of upn . the network of translators was referred to as the hill country paramount network or hpn and was in service from 1995 to 1998 . that year austin low power station k13vc operated by ktbc picked up the upn affiliation in a move designed to give the network greater cable coverage at least in the city of austin as well as slightly stronger over the air reception than the translators provided . from around 2002 to 2008 the translator network was used to simulcast the programming of telefutura affiliate kbvo ca which is also owned by lin tv . in the fall of 2008 kbvo ca disaffiliated from telefutura with it and the repeaters becoming rebroadcasters of knva . 14 this lasted until october 21 2009 when the mynetworktv affiliation moved to kbvo a former semi satellite of kxan tv which then became a separate station . at this point kbvo ca became a rebroadcaster of full power kbvo ; kbvo ca most recently flash cut to digital and replaced its ca suffix with a cd suffix which reflects its current status as a class a digital station . digital television edit digital channels edit channel video aspect psip short name programming 15 54.1 1080i 16 9 knva dt main knva programming the cw 54.2 480i 4 3 grit grit 1 54.3 laff laff 2 knva began airing thecooltv in september 2010 after parent lin reached an affiliation deal to add the network to the company s stations in 11 of its then 17 markets . 16 thecooltv was dropped from knva s second digital subchannel on february 28 2013 . grit and laff were added on january 29 2016 . analog to digital conversion edit knva shut down its analog signal on june 12 2009 as part of the fcc mandated transition to digital television for full power stations . 17 the station s digital signal remained on its pre transition uhf channel 49 using psip to display knva s virtual channel as 54 on digital television receivers which was among the high band uhf channels 52 69 that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition . newscasts edit knva airs hourly weather updates throughout the day that are produced by kxan . at one point when it also aired a weeknight newscast at 5 30 p.m. that was also produced by kxan however this program was eventually dropped . on september 28 2009 that station began producing a nightly news broadcast at 9 p.m. on knva to compete with ktbc s longer established hour long primetime newscast . 18 on september 3 2013 kxan began producing a two hour extension of its weekday morning newscast for knva . known as kxan news today on the cw austin the expanded broadcast runs from 7 00 9 00 a.m. and competes against ktbc s long dominant morning newscast good day austin and the national morning newscasts on the market s other major network affiliates . 19 references edit a b gary dinges november 16 2015 . austin viewers get 2 new over the air tv networks . austin american statesman . a b laff page on rabbitears.info . december 30 2015 . http austintvnews.com switch3.html http svartifoss2.fcc.gov cgi bin ws.exe prod cdbs pubacc prod call hist.pl facility id 144 & callsign knva gilmore girls meet smackdown ; cw network to combine wb upn in cbs warner venture beginning in september cnnmoney.com january 24 2006 . upn and wb to combine forming new tv network the new york times january 24 2006 . news corp. to launch new mini network for upn stations . usa today . february 22 2006 . retrieved january 21 2013 . news corp. unveils mynetworktv broadcasting & cable february 22 2006 . my lin tv 4 more for new fox net broadcasting & cable april 26 2006 . lin launches mynet station on kbvo austin broadcasting & cable october 21 2009 . reid blackwell john march 21 2014 . mg will combine with lin tv chain . richmond times dispatch . retrieved march 22 2014 . swiatecki chad march 21 2014 . kxan other tv stations join media general in 1.6 billion deal . austin business journal . retrieved march 22 2014 . media general completes merger with lin media press release media general retrieved 19 december 2014 radioinfo.com kbvo ca goes to knva rabbitears tv query for knva lin stations get cooltv broadcasting & cable september 28 2010 . list of digital full power stations kxan launches 9pm newscast on the cw austin american statesman august 27 2009 . kxan expanding its morning newscast kxan.com august 16 2013 . external links edit thecwaustin.com official website query the fcc s tv station database for knva query tv fool s coverage map for knva biafn s media web database information on knva tv v t e broadcast television in the austin hill country region over the air stations kcwx fredericksburg 2.1 mntv 2.2 this tv ktbc austin 7.1 fox 7.2 movies 7.3 buzzr 7.4 metv kqux lp 11 austin tmd kbvo llano 14.1 mntv kbvo cd austin 14.1 mntv khpz cd round rock 15.1 nbc 15.2 cozi tv 15.3 ion kadt ld austin 16.1 daystar kvat ld austin 17.1 micasa 17.2 latv 17.3 sonlife 17.5 retro tv 17.6 rev n klru austin 18.1 pbs 18.2 create 18.3 klru q 18.4 v me kgbs cd austin 19.1 infomercials 19.2 evine live 19.3 sonlife 19.4 infomercials kadf ld austin 20.1 aza 20.2 bold tv kxlk cd austin 23.1 ind kvue austin 24.1 abc 24.2 estrella tv 24.3 justice network khpx cd georgetown 28.1 nbc 28.2 cozi tv 28.3 ion k29hw d austin 29.1 ind bloomberg fuse ktfo cd austin 31.1 unim s 31.2 uni kakw dt 31.3 gettv 31.4 escape k34fm d austin 34.1 tbn 34.2 hillsong channel 34.3 juce tv smile 34.4 enlace 34.5 salsa kxan tv austin 36.1 nbc 36.2 cozi tv 36.3 ion khpl cd la grange 40.1 nbc