which formerly held the call sign kvtv from 1953 to 1965 see kcau tv . kvtv laredo texas united states city laredo branding kvtv cbs 13 channels digital 13 vhf affiliations silent owner eagle creek broadcasting of texas eagle creek broadcasting of laredo llc first air date december 28 1973 last air date july 1 2015 former channel number s analog 13 vhf 1973 2009 digital 31 uhf former affiliations cbs 1973 2015 transmitter power 3 kw height 284 m facility id 33078 transmitter coordinates 27 31 12 n 99 31 19 w 27.52000 n 99.52194 w 27.52000 ; 99.52194 kvtv licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website www.kvtv13laredo.com kvtv was the cbs television affiliate in laredo texas usa . on july 1 2015 gray television owner of nbc affiliate kgns tv bought the non license assets of kvtv and established kylx lp to which it moved all of kvtv s program streams . kvtv then ceased broadcasting after nearly 42 years . 1 the kvtv full power license was surrendered on september 19 2016 . contents 1 history 2 digital services 3 external links 4 references history edit one of several stations serving the laredo nuevo laredo borderplex kvtv began in 1973 as a satellite station of kztv the cbs affiliate in corpus christi texas . like kztv it had been derided in the past for having notoriously low production values thanks in part to the owner k six television . in 2002 alta communications and brian brady acquired k six television renaming the company eagle creek broadcasting of texas . soon after taking over the new owners made significant changes to kvtv . all newscasts the station produced were dropped except for the 12pm show which was said to help reduce the strain put upon the news and production departments . later that year the station made cosmetic and personnel changes on almost every level and renamed their operations cbs 13 news . the midday newscast was retained for a year and a half and later dropped . late night news was revived on the station on april 19 2004 with cbs 13 news nightcast a similar title to its corpus christi sister . for this former kgns tv anchorman richard noriega was hired out of semi retirement to lead the newscast . several months prior to the newscast noriega worked as a consultant and helped with the planning involved in revamping the station s news department . nightcast was the station s only local newscast and was seen weekdays from 10 10 35 pm . prior to this program a taped 5 minute news bulletin called newsnight aired . the station decided to cancel the late newscast on january 3 2006 and laid off the remaining staff of the news department that day . the move left kvtv as one of the few affiliates of cbs to not have a local newscast ; in its last decade on the air the only news programming on the station came from cbs news including the cbs evening news cbs morning news and cbs this morning with national weather and additional news updates given by a cbs news anchor during the 25 and 55 local news breaks . since then the stations has largely served as a pass through for automated network syndicated and local paid commercial programming in both english and spanish . on july 23 2008 eagle creek broadcasting sold kvtv s corpus christi sister station kztv to sagamorehill broadcasting . kvtv was not included in that deal as sagamorehill already owned kgns tv ; thus kvtv became the only television station remaining in the eagle creek group 2 though co owner brian brady also owns a number of other television stations mostly through northwest broadcasting . 3 due to a part failure on its analog transmitter kvtv ceased broadcasting in analog on november 29 2008 . the station initially broadcast only on digital channel 31 tuned into channel 13 via psip . digital broadcasts shifted to channel 13 on may 7 2009 . 4 5 gray television which several years earlier had purchased kgns tv from sagamorehill bought the non license assets of kvtv in 2015 . the sale closed on july 1 at which time kvtv signed off and kylx lp began broadcasting . the kvtv license was surrendered by eagle creek on september 19 2016 . 6 digital services edit on december 7 2011 kvtv began broadcasting cbs programming in hd on channel 13.1 and carries standard definition cbs programming on sub channel 13.2 . channel call sign network video dimensions aspect ratio video bitrate audio bitrate 13.1 kvtv dt cbs hd 1080i 1920x1080 16 9 15mbit s dd2 .0 192kbit s 13.2 kvtv dt2 cbs sd 480i 704x480 4 3 2.85 mbit s dd2 .0 192kbit s external links edit official website query the fcc s tv station database for kvtv biafn s media web database information on kvtv tv references edit gray in 4 new deals closes 3 earlier ones . tvnewscheck . 2015 07 01 . retrieved 2015 07 01 . cross currents in corpus christi radio business report august 1 2008 jessell harry a. june 2 2013 . brian brady buying nbc affil in yuma az . tvnewscheck . retrieved june 22 2013 . brian brady former head of the fox affiliate board whose full power tv holdings also include kvtv laredo texas ; kayu spokane wash. ; kffx pendleton ore. ; kmvu medford ore. ; and wicz binghamton n.y. notification of suspension of operations request for silent sta for channel 13 local tv station begins digital only broadcast early ray gomez kgns tv dec 12 2008 surrender of kvtv license coordinates 27 31 13 n 99 31 19 w 27.5204 n 99.5219 w 27.5204 ; 99.5219 v t e broadcast television in the laredo borderplex laredo nuevo laredo american stations kgns 8.1 nbc 8.2 abc 8.3 tmd k10qk d 10.1 cp kylx ld 13.1 cbs 13.2 cw klmv ld 15.1 ind. 15.2 info 15.3 vida vision 15.4 test kldo 27.1 uni 27.2 latv ketf cd 31.1 unim s 31.2 fox mntv kxof cd 39.1 fox mntv 39.2 mundomax k40nu d 40.1 cp mexican stations xefe 2.1 televisa local xhbr 11.1 canal de las estrellas xhlna 21.1 azteca 13 21.2 proyecto 40 xhlat 33.1 azteca 7 13.20 blank xhnat 45.1 multimedios 45.2 milenio tv 45.3 teleritmo xhlar 57.1 televisa regional xhnan tvnl ciudad an huac n.l. currently off air out of market channels klrn 9 pbs the cw plus defunct stations kvtv 13.1 cbs texas broadcast television areas by city abilene sweetwater amarillo texas panhandle austin hill country beaumont port arthur corpus christi dallas fort worth north texas ciudad acu a del rio eagle pass el paso west texas houston laredo lubbock south plains midland odessa permian basin rio grande valley san angelo san antonio sherman ada ok texarkana shreveport la tyler longview east texas victoria waco bryan brazos valley wichita falls lawton ok tamaulipas broadcast television areas by city matamoros reynosa nuevo laredo tampico retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kvtv & oldid 740364275 categories defunct terrestrial television stations in the united statestelevision channels and stations established in 1973television channels and stations disestablished in 2015television stations in laredo texastelevision stations in nuevo laredohidden categories coordinates on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa ol edit links this page was last modified on 20 september 2016 at 16 09 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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