please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . november 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message kxvo omaha nebraska united states branding cw 15 slogan omaha s cw channels digital 38 uhf virtual 15 psip affiliations the cw this tv dt2 grit dt3 owner mitts telecasting company mitts telecasting company llc operator sinclair broadcast group first air date june 10 1995 call letters meaning xv roman numeral 15 omaha sister station s kptm former channel number s analog 15 uhf 1995 2009 former affiliations the wb 1995 2006 transmitter power 490 kw height 475 m facility id 23277 transmitter coordinates 41 4 16 n 96 13 31 w 41.07111 n 96.22528 w 41.07111 ; 96.22528 website cw15kxvo.com kxvo virtual channel 15 uhf digital channel 38 is a cw affiliated television station located in omaha nebraska united states . the station is owned by mitts telecasting company ; sinclair broadcast group which owns fox affiliate kptm channel 42 operates kxvo under a local marketing agreement . the two stations share studios on farnam street in omaha kxvo s transmitter is located in gretna nebraska . contents 1 history 2 programming 2.1 newscasts 3 digital television 3.1 digital channels 3.2 analog to digital conversion 4 references 5 external links history edit kxvo signed on the air on june 10 1995 as an affiliate of the wb which debuted nationally almost five months earlier on january 11 of that year ; the station was originally owned by cocola broadcasting but was operated by pappas telecasting under a local marketing agreement . prior to kxvo s debut wb programming was only available on area cable and satellite providers through chicago based national superstation wgn . cocola would later sell the station to mitts telecasting company in 2000 which retained the lma with pappas . on january 24 2006 cbs corporation and time warner announced that the wb and upn would cease broadcasting that september and merge their programming to form a new fifth network called the cw . the letters represent the first initials of its corporate parents cbs the parent company of upn and the warner bros. entertainment unit of time warner . 1 2 in april 2006 kxvo announced an affiliation agreement with the cw which began airing on the station when the network launched on september 18 of that year . 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 . 3 the lma between kxvo and kptm continued after the deal was finalized . after kfxl tv in lincoln switched from the cw to fox in 2009 kxvo became that market s default cw affiliate on directv . since its inception kxvo has also been carried on cable in the eastern portion of the lincoln hastings kearney market ; cable providers in the western portion of the market carry the national cw plus feed . the station is also carried as the default cw affiliate for directv subscribers in the st. joseph market ; this continues even though news press & gazette company owner of the st. joseph news press launched low power fox affiliate knpn ld on june 2 2012 4 5 that also carries cw programming on its sister signal kbjo ld effectively an assumption of the suddenlink communications run cw plus cable channel wbjo after news press & gazette acquired the channel and a local cable news channel from suddenlink prior to knpn s sign on . dish network does not carry a local cw signal in the lincoln hastings kearney and st. joseph markets . titan tv broadcast group announced the sale of most of its stations including kptm and the lma with kxvo which will remain under mitts telecasting ownership after the sale to the sinclair broadcast group on june 3 2013 . 6 sinclair announced the closing of the sale on october 3 . 7 programming edit programming on kxvo includes the full cw schedule along with such syndicated programming as jerry springer maury bill cunningham family feud and celebrity name game as well as off network reruns of king of queens hot in cleveland and the middle . newscasts edit for a station whose original identity and tagline was all entertainment all the time news programming did not seem like a natural fit on kxvo . according to whom in the late 1990s and early 2000s kxvo aired 60 second news updates during the 6 pm hour that promoted stories from that night s newscast on sister station kptm . in 2001 kxvo station management made plans to produce a 5 30 pm newscast utilizing on air talent and production from kptm . after the terrorist attacks of september 11 2001 and the resulting economic downturn those plans were put on hold and eventually abandoned . in the days following the september 11 attacks though kxvo aired continuous news coverage from cnn headline news . in december 2005 the station debuted a half hour 10 p.m. newscast called the kxvo 15 10 o clock news which was produced by kptm ; that april former mtv vj and reality show host brian mcfayden was hired to anchor the program only to leave the show for current tv a few months later . in late august 2006 comedian and second city training center alumnus matt geiler was tapped to anchor the kxvo 15 10 o clock news which by that time would become a hybrid of news content provided by the kptm staff and sketch improv comedy . one prime example of this era occurred on the halloween 2006 edition when geiler for a pre taped end of show segment donned a black unitard and foam jack o lantern and danced in front of a green screen image of a cemetery . though the kxvo 15 10 o clock news was cancelled in april 2007 due to minuscule ratings clarification needed 8 the pumpkin dance has had a lasting life as a seasonal viral video and meme thanks to its uploading to youtube by a kxvo producer after its original airing and the video s subsequent discovery later in the decade by buzzfeed huffington post and other websites . 9 digital television edit digital channels edit the station s digital channel is multiplexed channel video aspect psip short name programming 10 15.1 1080i 16 9 kxvo dt main kxvo programming the cw 15.2 480i 4 3 kxvo d2 this tv 15.3 480i 4 3 kxvo d3 grit analog to digital conversion edit kxvo shut down its analog signal over uhf channel 15 on june 12 2009 as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television . 11 the station s digital signal remained on its pre transition uhf channel 38 using psip to display kxvo s virtual channel as 15 on digital television receivers . in october 2008 kazo lp dropped tuvision and returned to azteca am rica programming that was simulcast on kxvo 15.2 in omaha and kmeg 14.2 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 shut down permanently later in fall 2009 and was no longer listed on kxvo dt2 station ids . by spring 2010 kmeg dt2 had been spun off from kxvo dt2 to have its own local feed in the sioux city area . kxvo dt2 is carried on directv s local station package in the omaha area as kazo 57 . dish network and cox communications do not carry the station kxvo dt2 is the only digital subchannel in the omaha area not carried on cox though cox does provide the national azteca am rica feed on digital cable channel 407 . cox 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 switched back to azteca am rica in 2008 . until the addition of estrella tv on kptm dt3 in june 2010 azteca am rica was the only spanish language network available over the air in omaha . sometime in late 2013 or early 2014 azteca was dropped in favor of thistv ; kptm already carries that on a subchannel and the feed is only different because kptm also airs mynetworktv on that channel . references edit 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 . new world gets pappas tvs for 260m . tvnewsday . january 16 2008 . retrieved january 18 2008 . 11825 detail.html npg bringing fox station to st. joe st. joseph news press march 19 2012 . fox station to debut on june 2 st. joseph news press may 17 2012 . sinclair buys 6 titan television stations . tvnewscheck . june 3 2013 . retrieved june 4 2013 . http sbgi.net site mgr temp titan % 20close.pdf kxvo 10 00 news says goodbye tonight from city weekly media watch 4 12 2007 accessed 11 2 2014 the story behind the greatest halloween video ever in the history of the internet from studio360 10 30 2014 rabbitears tv query for kxvo list of digital full power stations external links edit official website query the fcc s tv station database for kxvo biafn s media web database information on kxvo tv v t e television stations serving omaha nebraska and council bluffs iowa omaha stations kmtv 3.1 cbs 3.2 laff 3.3 escape wowt 6.1 nbc 6.2 cozi tv 6.3 antenna tv ketv 7.1 abc 7.2 metv kxvo 15.1 cw 15.2 this tv kyne 26.1 pbs net 26.2 world 26.3 create kptm 42.1 fox 42.2 mntv this tv 42.3 comet koha ld 48.1 ds council bluffs stations kbin 32 khin 36 .1 pbs iptv .2 create pbs kids .3 world cable only stations cbtv cable 17 iowa western community college cti cable 22 minority public access metro23 cable 109 public access defunct stations koxo cox 2 upn kkaz ca 24 mntv k25mm d 25 3abn k53ey tbn k52gp 52 k54gl 54 tbn kazo 57 azteca kvss 67 ewtn atsc m h mobile dtv wowt 6.3 nbc 6.4 news see also lincoln tv sioux city tv des moines tv st. joseph tv topeka tv sioux falls tv kansas city tv v t e cw network affiliates in the state of nebraska kwpl 2 north platte kstf 10.3 scottsbluff kxvo 15 omaha see also abc cbs cw fox ion mynetworktv nbc pbs other stations in nebraska v t e sinclair broadcast group sorted by primary channel network affiliations abc katu katv kdnl tv khgi tv kwnb tv khgi cd komo tv ktul ktvo kvii tv kvih tv wbma ld wchs tv wear tv wgtu wgtq1 wham tv1 wicd wics wkef wjla tv wlos wpde tv wset tv wsyx wtvc wxlv tv cbs kbak tv kboi tv kdbc tv keye tv kfdm kgan kgbt tv khqa tv kima tv kepr tv klew tv kmeg1 krcg ktvl kutv kval tv kcby tv kpic wgfl1 wgme tv whp tv wkrc tv wpec wrgb wsbt tv wtvh1 wwmt the cw kfdm kfre tv kmys1 kocb kvcw kxvo1 kyuu ld wbui1 wbsf1 wcwf wcwn wfli tv1 wlfl wnab1 wnuv1 wstq lp wswb1 wtlf1 wtto wdbb wtvx wucw wvtv wwho1 wwmb1 fox kabb kbfx cd kbsi kbtv tv1 kdsm tv kfox tv kfxa1 kfxl tv kmph tv kokh tv kpth kptm krxi tv ksas tv kuqi wach wbff wdky tv wdsi tv1 wfxl wgxa wluk tv wmsn tv wolf tv1 wpfo2 wpgh tv wrgt tv1 wrlh tv wrsp tv wccu1 wsmh wtat tv1 wtgs