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KNVA
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| KNVA | |
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| Austin, Texas | |
| Branding | The CW Austin |
| Channels | 54 (UHF) analog, 49 (HDTV, UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | The CW (Primary)/ MyNetworkTV (Secondary) |
| Owner | 54 Broadcasting, under LMA with LIN Television |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Former callsigns | KCFP (1989-1994; never used on-air) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1994-95) The WB (1995-2006) |
| Website | www.TheCWAustin.com |
KNVA is the CW (primary) and MyNetworkTV (secondary) affiliate serving the city of Austin, Texas. It is currently owned by a company called 54 Broadcasting, and operates under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with LIN Television, which owns sister station KXAN-TV, and is broadcast from the same physical facility. KNVA's transmitter is located in Austin.
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KNVA is co-owned by Ron Oliveira, news anchor for competing station KEYE. According to an Austin American-Statesman article [1] and FCC records [2], 54 Broadcasting applied for the license to the channel in 1989 as KCFP but could not economically start up a channel until signing the LMA with LIN Television some five years later.
KNVA was launched in 1994 as a 24-hour feed of KXAN's Live WeatherNet and doppler radars. It became an independent station for a short time before affiliating with The WB the following year. During this time, the station was branded "KNVA 54" for years. It carries off-network sitcoms, dramas, and cartoons. In 2001, the station was rebranded "Austin's WB 54" before finally settling on "Austin's WB." It airs on Austin cable systems as cable channel 12. KNVA also airs hourly weather updates throughout the day produced by sister KXAN. The station also had a newscast at 5:30 p.m. at one time, also produced by KXAN, which has since been dropped. Today it airs the Orlando-based morning show The Daily Buzz.
KNVA is home of the San Antonio Spurs basketball games in the late-fall early spring season, but KXAN shares in on broadcasting half the games as well.
In January 2006, it was announced that UPN and The WB will be shut down, and a new network would be formed, called The CW. At first, this move put KNVA's future in doubt, as UPN affiliate KCWX was announced as the affiliate of the new network. KCWX, based for the San Antonio market, had also been supplying the Austin area with UPN programming since the demise of KVC some years earlier. Viewers were left speculating that KNVA's only options would be to take up My Network TV or revert to independent status. But in a surprise move on April 18, 2006, LIN announced that KNVA will join The CW. KCWX will no longer serve Austin with the exception of syndicated programming; as of October 1, 2006, CW programs through KCWX are blocked out by Time Warner Cable.
Over a week later, on April 26, it was announced that KNVA would also carry My Network TV as a secondary affiliation. [3] To date, KNVA is one of two stations in the country carrying both The CW and My Network TV (the other is KWKB in Iowa City, Iowa). KNVA airs My Network TV from 9-11 pm Central Time weeknights, immediately following CW programming.
On August 1, a video posted to the KNVA/KXAN partnership website revealed KNVA will be officially known as "The CW Austin," and the secondary affiliation will be known as "MyNetworkTV on The CW Austin."
KXAN controls a number of low-powered broadcast translator stations around Central Texas, including KHPZ-CA, KHPM-CA, and KHPB-CA. KXAN had been simulcasting its programming on the translators since their launch; however, with the launch of UPN, KXAN and KNVA opted to create a secondary simulcast feed of KNVA's programming, but replaced The WB's primetime schedule with that of UPN. The network of translators was referred to as HPN - the Hill Country Paramount Network and was in service from 1995 to 1998.
In 1998, Austin low-power station K13VC (operated by KTBC) picked up the UPN affiliation, in a move designed to give UPN greater cable coverage (at least in the city of Austin) as well as slightly stronger over-the-air reception than the translators provided for. Today, the translator network is used to simulcast the programming of KBVO-CA [4], a TeleFutura affiliate that is also owned and operated by LIN TV and KXAN.
908 W. Martin Luther King
Austin, TX 78701
 KNVA logo "Austin's WB 54" from 2001-2004. |
 Austin's WB logo, used officially until August 2006. |
 An example of The CW Austin's advertising as seen on KXAN.com |
| Broadcast television in the Austin market (Nielsen DMA #53) | ||
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KTBC 7 (Fox) - K09VR 9 (Ind/Bloomberg/Fuse) - KVAT-LP 17 (LAT TV) - KLRU 18 (PBS) - KADF-LP 20 (AZA) - KVUE 24 (ABC) - KGBS-CA 32 (Ind) - KXAN 36 / KXAM 14 (NBC) - KXLK-CA 40 (HSN) - KEYE 42 (CBS) - KBVO-CA 51 (TFU) - KNVA 54 (The CW/MNTV) - KAKW 62 / 31 (UNI) |
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| Local cable television channels | ||
| San Antonio stations licensed within the Austin market | ||
| Defunct Television Stations | ||
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KCWX 2 (Fredericksburg/San Antonio) - KFDM-DT 6.2 (Beaumont) - KAUZ-DT 6.2 (Wichita Falls) - KRIS-DT 6.2 (Corpus Christi) - KVIA-DT 7.2 (El Paso) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, Fox, MyNetwork TV, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Religious, Other English and Other Spanish stations in Texas | |
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XHRIO-TV 2 (Matamoros, TAM/Brownsville/McAllen) - KDBC-DT 4.2 (El Paso) - KOSA-DT 7.2 (Odessa) - KXII-DT 12.2 (Sherman) - KMYL-LP 14 (Lubbock) - KTXH 20 (Houston) - KTOV 21 (Corpus Christi) - KEBQ-LP 22 (Beaumont) - KDFI 27 (Dallas) - KCPN-LP 33 (Amarillo) - KJBO-LP 35 (Wichita Falls) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Religious, Other English and Other Spanish stations in Texas | |
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Corporate Staff: Gary R. Chapman (President & CEO) | Vincent L. Sadusky | Greg Schmidt | Scott Blumenthal | Edward L. Munson, Jr. | William S. Banowsky | Peter S. Brodsky | Royal W. Carson, III | Dr. William H. Cunningham | Randall S. Fojtasek | Wilma H. Jordan | Michael A. Pausic |
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CBS Network Affiliates: KRQE / KBIM / KREZ | WANE | WISH | WIVB | WLFI | WPRI | WTHI |
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Fox Network Affiliates: KASA | WALA | WLUK | WNAC4 | WUPW | WVBT |
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NBC Network Affiliates: KNSD1 | KXAN | KXAS1 | WAND3 | WAVY | WDTN | WOOD | WWLP |
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The CW Network Affiliates: KNIN2 | KNVA4 | KSCW2,7 | WBPG | WNLO | WWHO |
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My Network TV Affiliates: KNVA4 | WCTX | WNAC4 | WNDY | WXSP |
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Other stations: KBOP (Independent)1a | KBVO (TeleFutura) | WAPA / WTIN / WNJX (Independent)5 | WFXQ-CA6 | WIIH (Univision) | WJPX / WKPV / WIRS / WJWN (MTV)5 |
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1Co-owned with NBC Universal in a joint venture (76% owned by NBC, 24% owned by LIN). |
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1aOwned by Commercial Broadcasting Corp., and operated by the NBC / LIN joint ventutre (see note 1) |
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2Co-owned with Banks Broadcasting in a joint venture (50/50); however, LIN does not control these stations. |
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3Co-owned with Block Communications in a joint venture (33% owned by LIN, 67% owned by Block Communications), |
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4LIN operates these stations under a local marketing agreement. |
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5Acquisition by InterMedia Partners, LP is now awaiting FCC approval. |
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6Is currently a repeater for NBC affiliate WWLP. Future is uncertain at this time. |
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7Acquisition by Schurz Communications is now awaiting FCC approval. |
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Annual Revenue: $443.5 million USD | Employees: 2,414 (full time) | Stock Symbol: NYSE: TVL | Website: www.lintv.com |