KVEO-TV


KVEO-TV, virtual channel 23, is a dual NBC/CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Brownsville, Texas, United States and serving the Rio Grande Valley metropolitan area. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group. KVEO-TV's transmitter is located in Santa Maria, Texas; its studios are located on West Expressway in Harlingen. On cable, KVEO-DT1 is available on Charter Spectrum channel 8, while KVEO-DT2 is carried on Spectrum channel 4.

History

KVEO-TV signed on in December 1981. Before then, the area had been one of the few in the country without a full-time NBC affiliate; the area's original NBC affiliate, Weslaco's KRGV-TV, had become a full-time ABC affiliate in 1976. In the interim, CBS affiliate KGBT-TV carried NBC programming on a secondary basis. KVEO-TV added a secondary affiliation with UPN in 1996, replacing previous secondary affiliate KRGV-TV; in 1999, the station lost UPN to XHRIO-TV in Matamoros.
On April 24, 2013, Communications Corporation of America announced the sale of its entire group to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group. The sale was completed on January 1, 2015.
On January 27, 2020, Sinclair Broadcast Group announced that it would sell the non-license assets of KGBT-TV to Nexstar as part of a settlement between the two companies over Sinclair's failed acquisition of Tribune Media, which was ultimately acquired by Nexstar. KVEO-TV assumed the CBS affiliation on 23.2 the next day, thus bringing an end to KGBT-TV's affiliation with the network after 66 years; KGBT-TV's main 4.1 subchannel has since been inactive. In addition, Nexstar also announced that it would move KVEO-TV's operations from Brownsville to KGBT-TV's facility on West Expressway 83 in Harlingen within a few months.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
ChannelVideoAspectPSIP short nameProgramming
23.11080iKVEO-TVMain KVEO-TV programming / NBC
23.21080iKVEO-TVCBS

Programming

programming on KVEO-DT1 includes The Big Bang Theory, The Mel Robbins Show, Daily Mail TV, Rachael Ray, The Doctors and Dr. Phil. Syndicated programming on KVEO-DT2 includes Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, and Judge Judy, all of which are distributed by CBS Television Distribution.

Newscasts

At the station's inception, KVEO had a news operation branded as Total 23 News. However, it made almost no headway in the ratings against KGBT and KRGV. Within a few years, the news department was shut down. For the next quarter-century, KVEO was one of the few Big Three stations with no local newscasts.
Local news returned to the station on October 1, 2007, under the NewsCenter 23 branding. The newscasts are produced in high definition, making KVEO the first station in the Rio Grande Valley to do so.
In January 2010, ComCorp announced that it would close KVEO's news department, other than a few reporters. The locally produced newscast would now originate from a ComCorp-controlled station in El Paso, KTSM-TV, using its own staff, with the remaining reporters in Brownsville filing reports. The new newscast, which debuted January 18, 2010, is broadcast live from El Paso, and has continued with the acqusition of both stations by Nexstar.
With the acquisition of the former KGBT-DT1 intellectual unit and future move to their facility, it is unknown if a combined news operation no longer utilizing KTSM anchor staff will be launched.

Weather segment

Even before KVEO restarted its news operation, KVEO provided a weather segment at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. weekday evenings with meteorologist Jason McCleave of WeatherVision. KVEO also broadcasts local forecast segments during Today.
KVEO offered NBC Weather Plus on 23.2 prior to NBCUniversal's acquisition of The Weather Channel and subsequent termination of the Weather Plus service.