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{{Short description|Television station in Llano, Texas}}
{{For|the station that previously used the callsign|KEYE-TV}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2024}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = KBVO
| city                   = Llano, Texas
| logo                   = KBVO1451.png
| logo_size              = 200px
| branding               = KBVO
| digital                = 27 ([[UHF]])
| virtual                = 14
| subchannels            =
| translators            = KBVO-[[Class A television service|CD]] 31 (UHF) Austin
| affiliations           = {{ubl|'''14.1:''' [[MyNetworkTV]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| owner                  = [[Nexstar Media Group]]
| licensee               = Nexstar Media Inc.
| operator               = 
| location               = [[Llano, Texas|Llano]]–[[Austin, Texas]]
| country                = United States
| founded                = 
| airdate                = {{start date and age|1991|9|6|p=y}}
| last_airdate           = 
| callsign_meaning       = [[Bevo (mascot)|Bevo]] (name of [[UT Austin]] [[mascot]])
| sister_stations        = [[KXAN-TV]], [[KNVA]]
| former_callsigns       = {{ubl|KLNO (September–October 1991)|KXAM-TV (1991–2009)}}
| former_channel_numbers = '''Analog:''' 14 (UHF, 1991–2009)
| former_affiliations    = [[NBC]] (as [[semi-satellite]] of KXAN, 1991–2009)
| erp                    = 660 [[kW]]
| haat                   = {{convert|249|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class                  = 
| facility_id            = 35909
| coordinates            = {{coord|30|40|36|N|98|33|59|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KBVO}}
| licensing_authority    = [[FCC]]
| website                = {{url|https://www.kxan.com/kbvo}} 
}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = KBVO-CD
| atsc3                  = yes
| digital                = 31 (UHF)
| virtual                = 14
| affiliations           = ''see {{section link||KBVO-CD ATSC 3.0 lighthouse}}''
| location               = Austin, Texas
| airdate                = {{start date and age|1989|11|17|p=y}}
| former_callsigns       = {{ubl|K49CY (1989–1995)|KBVO-LP (1995–2002)|KBVO-CA (2002–2009)}}
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 49 (UHF, 1989–2002), 45 (UHF, 2002–2004), 51 (UHF, 2004–2009)|'''Virtual:''' 51 (2009–2019), 14 (2019–2020)}}
| former_affiliations    = {{ubl|NBC (as a KXAN repeater; 1989–1995)|[[UPN]] (1995–1998)|[[The WB]] (as a KNVA repeater; 1998–2002)|[[Telefutura]] (2002–January 2009)|[[The CW]] (as a KNVA repeater; January–October 2009)}}
| erp                    = 15 [[kW]]
| haat                   = {{convert|339.5|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class                  = [[Class A television service|CD]]
| facility_id            = 35918
| coordinates            = {{coord|30|19|34|N|97|47|59|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority    = FCC
| website                =  
}}

'''KBVO''' (channel 14) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Llano, Texas]], United States, serving the [[Austin, Texas|Austin]] area as an affiliate of [[MyNetworkTV]]. It is owned by [[Nexstar Media Group]] alongside [[NBC]] affiliate [[KXAN-TV]] (channel 36); Nexstar also provides certain services to [[KNVA]] (channel 54), a ''de facto'' [[owned-and-operated station]] of [[The CW]], under a [[local marketing agreement]] (LMA) with [[Vaughan Media]]. The three stations share studios on West [[Farm to Market Road 969|Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard]] and San Gabriel Street (between the [[Old West Austin]] section of Austin and the [[University of Texas at Austin]] campus); KBVO's transmitter is located near the intersection of [[TX 71]] and [[Llano County]] Road 307 in unincorporated Llano County ({{convert|8|mi|km|0}} southeast of Llano).

'''KBVO-CD''' (channel 31) in Austin operates as a [[low-power broadcasting#Television|low-power]], [[Class A television service|Class A]] [[ATSC 3.0]] lighthouse of KXAN-TV, KNVA, and [[KEYE-TV]]; this station's transmitter is located at the West Austin Antenna Farm on Mount Larson (near Loop 360 and Westlake Drive, north of [[West Lake Hills]]).

==History==

===As a semi-satellite of KXAN===
On November 5, 1985, the Llano Broadcasting Co. (owned by [[Round Mountain, Texas|Round Mountain]]–based judge A.W. Mousund and his wife, Mary Mousund, who later renamed the licensee Horseshoe Bay Centex Broadcasting Co.) filed an application with the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) for a [[broadcast license|license]] and [[Planning permission#Broadcasting|construction permit]] to operate a [[commercial broadcasting|commercial television station]] on [[UHF]] channel 14. On July 10, 1986, the Mousunds received approval to assign KLNO (in reference to its [[city of license]], [[Llano, Texas|Llano]]) for use as the television station's [[call letters]].<ref>{{cite web|title=For the Record|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/85-OCR/BC-1985-11-25-OCR-Page-0084.pdf|periodical=[[Broadcasting & Cable|Broadcasting]]|publisher=Broadcasting Publications, Inc.|via=American Radio History|page=84|date=November 25, 1985|access-date=February 13, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=For the Record|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/86-OCR/BC-1986-07-21-OCR-Page-0072.pdf|periodical=Broadcasting|publisher=Broadcasting Publications, Inc.|via=American Radio History|page=72|date=July 21, 1986|access-date=February 13, 2019}}</ref>

[[Image:Kxam-logo.png|165px|thumb|left|KXAM-TV logo used from 1991 to 2007; it was based on the logo used at the time by KXAN-TV.]]
Although KXAN-TV (then known as KTVV) increased its transmitting power in 1973, the station found it difficult to adequately compete against [[CBS]] affiliate [[KTBC-TV]] (channel 7, now a [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] [[owned-and-operated station]]), [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate [[KVUE]] (channel 24) and, later, [the original] KBVO-TV (channel 42, now CBS affiliate [[KEYE-TV]]) largely because of the difficulties that UHF television stations experienced with signal propagation in areas of rugged terrain. The station's analog signal on UHF channel 36 provided an inadequate over-the-air signal to the western part of the [[Hill Country]] and was marginal to basically unviewable in Llano, [[Fredericksburg, Texas|Fredericksburg]], [[Blanco, Texas|Blanco]] and surrounding areas, with some parts of the region only being able to receive a clear signal from channel 36 once [[cable television]] became established in the Austin market in the late 1970s.

To solve this coverage gap problem, in 1989, KXAN rolled out plans to launch a network of UHF repeater stations to serve areas that had fair to no reception of its main signal, which was to have included five [[low-power broadcasting#Television|low-power]] television stations serving Llano, Blanco, [[San Marcos, Texas|San Marcos]] and [[Burnet, Texas|Burnet]] as well as a fill-in translator in Austin. On May 9, 1989, [[LIN Broadcasting]] – through an indirect subsidiary, Kingstip Communications Inc., which LIN acquired as part of its 1979 purchase of channel 36 – filed an application to acquire the dormant KLNO license from Horseshoe Bay Centex Broadcasting Co. (which was unable to complete construction of the KLNO transmitter) for $100,000; LIN intended to launch KLNO as a [[semi-satellite]] of KXAN to reach viewers in the western Hill Country who could not adequately receive the channel 36 signal.<ref>{{cite web|title=For the Record|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/89-OCR/BC-1989-05-29-OCR-Page-0063.pdf|periodical=Broadcasting|publisher=Cahners Business Information|via=American Radio History|page=63|date=May 29, 1989|access-date=February 13, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Today's digest|newspaper=[[Austin American-Statesman]]|publisher=[[Cox Enterprises]]|page=B5|date=June 22, 1989}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Today's digest|newspaper=Austin American-Statesman|publisher=Cox Enterprises|page=B4|date=January 16, 1991}}</ref> On December 6, 1990, the FCC granted LIN/Kingstip's application to acquire the construction permit for KLNO, conditioned upon the payment to Horseshoe Centex Broadcasting not exceeding $100,000.<ref>{{cite web|title=For the Record|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/90-OCR/BC-1990-12-10-OCR-Page-0122.pdf|periodical=Broadcasting|publisher=Broadcasting Publications, Inc.|via=American Radio History|page=122|date=December 10, 1990|access-date=February 13, 2019}}</ref>

Channel 14 first signed on the air as a KXAN semi-satellite on September 6, 1991; it was the first (and only) full-power television station ever built and signed-on by the LIN TV Corporation (which operated at the time as the television broadcasting unit of original parent LIN Broadcasting). While the station was intended to improve KXAN's over-the-air reception in eleven Central Texas counties (especially in [[Llano County, Texas|Llano]], [[Burnet County, Texas|Burnet]], [[Blanco County, Texas|Blanco]], [[Gillespie County, Texas|Gillespie]], [[Mason County, Texas|Mason]], [[San Saba County, Texas|San Saba]] and [[Lampasas County, Texas|Lampasas]] counties), some viewers in this part of the Hill Country initially complained that the KLNO signal created [[RF interference|interference]] issues (including, among others, signal shadowing and double-imaging) with other Austin-area television stations. In an ''[[Austin American-Statesman]]'' report on these issues published three weeks after KLNO's sign-on, KXAN chief engineer Dave Daniel cited that signal amplifiers installed onto the home antennas of many Hill Country residents to enhance reception of other Austin-area stations had the side effect of strengthening the Channel 14 signal to levels that interfered with those stations; to remedy this problem, the KXAN engineering staff developed amplifier filters to be distributed to affected area residents.<ref>{{cite news|title=TV tower broadcasts trouble for viewers near Llano|author=David Matustik|newspaper=Austin American-Statesman|publisher=Cox Enterprises|page=B1|date=September 26, 1991}}</ref>

After only one month on the air, in order to match its parent station, LIN changed the Llano station's call letters to KXAM-TV on October 14, 1991. (For ratings purposes, [[Nielsen Media Research|Nielsen]] identified the two stations collectively as "KXAN+" in its local ratings tabulation diaries.)<ref>{{cite web|title=For the Record|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/92-OCR/BC-1992-01-20-OCR-Page-0058.pdf|periodical=Broadcasting & Cable|publisher=[[Reed Business Information|Cahners Business Information]]|via=American Radio History|page=58|date=January 20, 1992|access-date=February 13, 2019}}</ref> The station simulcast KXAN-TV's programming for most of the broadcast day, with the exception of breakaways for local news inserts produced from a bureau facility in Llano (which was equipped with a microwave truck and a live microwave link to a relay tower in Round Mountain) that were placed into channel 36's newscasts. KLNO/KXAM's existence was primarily acknowledged only in KXAN's legal station identifications, with a variant of channel 36's logo being utilized for disambiguation purposes in channel 14's own station IDs and periodically during KXAN's newscasts until February 2007. Along with other improvements to the station's news operations, the expanded signal coverage provided by Channel 14 helped boost KXAN's profile in the market, helping it vie for first place with KVUE (as KTBC's own news viewership declined following that station's July 1995 switch to Fox) in the late 1990s.

On January 14, 2002, KBVO-CA converted into a Spanish language station, when it became a charter affiliate of TeleFutura (now [[UniMás]]); in January 2009, that station converted into a full-time simulcast of primary [[The CW|CW]]/secondary [[MyNetworkTV]]-affiliated sister station [[KNVA]] (channel 54), after [[Univision Communications]] acquired the local affiliation rights to TeleFutura and migrated its programming to Class-A low-power station [[KTFO-CD|KTFO-CA]] (channel 31), which the company had previously operated as a repeater of [[Univision]] owned-and-operated station [[KAKW-TV]] (channel 62).

===As a separate entertainment-based station; MyNetworkTV affiliation===
On August 3, 2009, Channel 14's call letters were changed to KBVO, named after the [[University of Texas at Austin]]'s mascot, "[[Bevo (mascot)|Bevo]]". (Prior to being reassigned for use by Channel 14 repeater station KBVO-CA in 1995, the callsign had originally been used on UHF channel 42 from its December 1983 sign-on as an [[independent station]] until it became a CBS affiliate, accordingly adopting the KEYE-TV call letters, in July 1995.) Subsequently, on October 21, KBVO took over as the Austin-area affiliate of MyNetworkTV, assuming the programming rights from KNVA, which had carried it on a [[broadcast delay|tape delayed]] basis since the network-turned-programming service launched in September 2006 (initially airing from 9 to 11&nbsp;p.m. after CW prime time programming, before temporarily being shifted one hour later after KNVA debuted a KXAN-produced 9&nbsp;p.m. newscast on September 21, 2009). Until fellow charter MyNetworkTV affiliate [[WKTC]] in [[Columbia, South Carolina]], added a primary affiliation with The CW in August 2014, KNVA was one of two American television stations (not counting a handful of others that carry both networks on separate subchannels) that carried programming from both The CW and MyNetworkTV. (The other, [[KWKB]] in [[Iowa City, Iowa]], continued to carry the full schedules of both netlets/programming services for another two years until it also chose to disaffiliate from MyNetworkTV and become an exclusive CW affiliate in 2016.)<ref name="b&c-kbvomntv">{{cite web|title=LIN Launches MyNet Station on KBVO Austin|url=https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/lin-launches-mynet-station-kbvo-austin-41983|author=Michael Malone|periodical=Broadcasting & Cable|publisher=Reed Business Information|date=October 21, 2009|access-date=February 13, 2019}}</ref>

KBVO – which originally branded as "MyAustinTV" under the service's branding conventions, before identifying solely by its call letters in 2012 – also adopted a separate program schedule (consisting mainly of first-run syndicated [[talk show|talk]] and [[court show]]s, recent off-network [[sitcom]]s and drama series), with a partial emphasis on professional, high school and college sports events. LIN and KXAN management cited the conversion into a separate station as an effort to provide unique program offerings to differentiate KBVO amid a decrease in the number of Hill Country households that received KXAN over-the-air since Channel 14 signed on (declining from 60% in 1991 to less than 15% in 2009). Rather than offering a market-wide simulcast feed on a subchannel of either KXAN or KNVA, the full-power KBVO converted low-power station KBVO-CA into a translator to extend its reach into metropolitan Austin; however, its 75-[[watt]] signal barely covered Austin proper and did not cover surrounding towns such as San Marcos and [[Georgetown, Texas|Georgetown]]. As such, most viewers living in Austin and surrounding areas originally had to relay on cable or [[direct-broadcast satellite television|satellite]] in order to receive the station (in Austin, subscribers of [[Time Warner Cable]] [which ceded its local cable franchise rights to [[Charter Communications]] as a result of Time Warner Cable's 2016 merger with Charter] could only receive KBVO via its high-definition channel tier until July 2011, when it began carrying a standard definition feed of the station on channel 7).<ref name="b&c-kbvomntv"/><ref>{{cite web|title=TV You May Not See|url=http://newsmcnabb.blogspot.com/2009/10/tv-you-may-not-see.html|author=Jim McNabb|website=NewsMcNabb|date=October 26, 2009|access-date=February 13, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=KXAN launches 'MyAustinTV', sports programming|url=http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/tvblog/entries/2009/10/21/kxan_launches_myaustintv_sports_programming.html|newspaper=Austin American-Statesman|publisher=Cox Enterprises|date=October 21, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Simple music from singer-songwriter|author=Peter Mongillo|newspaper=Austin American-Statesman|publisher=Cox Enterprises|page=D02|date=July 21, 2011}}</ref>

On March 21, 2014, [[Richmond, Virginia]]-based [[Media General]] announced that it would purchase the LIN Media stations, including KXAN-TV, KBVO, and the LMA with KNVA, in a $1.6 billion merger. Despite the fact that KBVO no longer acted as a simulcast of KXAN, Media General filed to renew an existing satellite relay waiver to allow KBVO to continue under the same ownership as KXAN to comply with FCC rules in effect at the time that prohibited legal duopolies in media markets where there were fewer than eight independent owners of full-power television stations. The FCC approved the merger on December 12, 2014, with the deal being consummated on December 19.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nexstar-Media General: It's A Done Deal|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/91865/nexstarmedia-general-its-a-done-deal|website=TVNewsCheck|publisher=NewsCheck Media|date=December 19, 2016|access-date=January 27, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Acquisition by Media General Creates 2nd-Largest Local TV Owner|url=https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/media-general-to-buy-lin-media-creating-large-tv-broadcaster/|author=David Gelles|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 21, 2014|access-date=March 22, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=TV Station Mega Merger: Media General, LIN Set $1.6 Billion Deal|url=https://variety.com/2014/tv/news/tv-station-mega-merger-media-general-lin-set-1-6-billion-deal-1201141567/|periodical=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|publisher=Penske Media Corporation|date=March 21, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Media General acquiring LIN Media for $1.6 billion|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-lin-media-general-merge-20140321,0,5277028.story|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=March 21, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Media General to buy LIN Media for $1.6 billion|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-linmedia-offer-idUSBREA2K0S720140321|author=Sruthi Ramakrishnan|work=[[Reuters]]|date=March 21, 2014|access-date=March 21, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|title=Media General Completes Merger With LIN Media|url=http://www.mediageneral.com/press/2014/dec19_14_merger.html|publisher=[[Media General]]|access-date=December 19, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219194453/http://www.mediageneral.com/press/2014/dec19_14_merger.html|archive-date=December 19, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FCC Okays Media General/LIN Merger|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/local-tv/fcc-okays-media-generallin-merger/136356|author=John Eggerton|periodical=Broadcasting & Cable|publisher=NewBay Media|date=December 12, 2014}}</ref>

On March 9, 2015, the KBVO-CD translator – which concurrently moved from UHF channel 51 to UHF 31 – increased its [[effective radiated power]] (ERP) to the maximum 15,000 watts (15{{nbsp}}[[kW]]), which allowed it to cover the entirety of the Austin metropolitan area.<ref>{{cite news|title=TV station KBVO expands its coverage area|url=http://tvradio.blog.austin360.com/2015/03/10/tv-station-kbvo-expands-its-coverage-area/|author=Gary Dinges|newspaper=Austin American-Statesman|publisher=Cox Enterprises|date=March 10, 2015|access-date=March 17, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=KBVO's signal, reach grow|author=Gary Dinges|newspaper=Austin American-Statesman|publisher=Cox Enterprises|page=D1|date=March 30, 2015}}</ref> Furthermore, on September 23, 2016, the main KBVO signal increased its ERP from 75 watts to 15,000 watts, which expanded the station's signal contour to a {{convert|54.7|mi|km|adj=on}} radius that includes San Marcos and Georgetown, among other Central Texas cities.<ref>{{cite news|title=Dinges: Stronger KBVO signal extends TV station's reach|url=https://www.statesman.com/article/20160924/NEWS/309244826|author=Gary Dinges|newspaper=Austin American-Statesman|publisher=Cox Enterprises|date=September 24, 2016}}</ref>

On January 27, 2016, after terminating the planned $2.4-billion acquisition of the [[Des Moines, Iowa]]–based [[Meredith Corporation]] it announced the previous September, Media General announced it had signed an agreement to sell its assets to the [[Irving, Texas|Irving]]-based [[Nexstar Broadcasting Group]] – which had a previous $14.50-per-share offer for the group be rejected by Media General two months earlier – for an evaluation of $4.6 billion in cash and stock plus the assumption of $2.3 billion in Media General-held debt.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nexstar-Media General: It's A Done Deal|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/91865/nexstarmedia-general-its-a-done-deal|website=TVNewsCheck|publisher=NewsCheck Media|date=January 27, 2016|access-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Nexstar Clinches Deal to Acquire Media General|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/business/dealbook/nexstar-clinches-deal-to-acquire-media-general.html?_r=0|author=Leslie Picker|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 27, 2016|access-date=January 27, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|title=NEXSTAR BROADCASTING GROUP ENTERS INTO DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE MEDIA GENERAL FOR $4.6 BILLION IN ACCRETIVE CASH AND STOCK TRANSACTION|url=http://www.mediageneral.com/press/2016/jan27_2016nexs.html|website=Media General|date=January 27, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130083411/http://www.mediageneral.com/press/2016/jan27_2016nexs.html|archive-date=January 30, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Texas firm buys 3 Austin TV stations as part of $4.6B deal|url=http://tvradio.blog.austin360.com/2016/01/27/texas-firm-buys-3-austin-tv-stations-as-part-of-4-6b-deal/|author=Gary Dinges|newspaper=[[Austin360]]|publisher=Cox Enterprises|date=January 27, 2016|access-date=February 13, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Media General Rejects Nexstar's $1.9B Offer, But Agrees To Talk|url=https://deadline.com/2015/11/media-general-rejects-nexstar-1-9b-offer-1201625231/|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|publisher=Penske Media Corporation|date=November 16, 2015}}</ref> The transaction was approved by the FCC on January 11, 2017; the sale was completed six days later on January 17, at which point the existing Nexstar stations and the former Media General outlets that were not subject to divestiture to address ownership conflicts in certain overlapping markets became part of the renamed Nexstar Media Group. The deal marked Nexstar's re-entry into the Austin market, as the group had previously operated KEYE-TV under a [[local marketing agreement]] with [[Four Points Media Group]] from 2009 to 2011, concluding after [[Sinclair Broadcast Group]] acquired KEYE and the other Four Points stations; it also resulted in KBVO becoming the fourth Nexstar station to have originated as a part- or full-time satellite station prior to converting into an independently programmed outlet (along with NBC affiliate [[KNWA-TV]] in [[Fort Smith, Arkansas]], and MyNetworkTV affiliates [[WCIX]] in [[Champaign, Illinois]], and [[KYLE-TV]] in [[Bryan, Texas|Bryan]]).<ref>{{cite press release|title=Nexstar Broadcasting Group Completes Acquisition of Media General Creating Nexstar Media Group, The Nation's Second Largest Television Broadcaster|url=http://www.nexstar.tv/nexstar-broadcasting-group-completes-acquisition-of-media-general-creating-nexstar-media-group-the-nations-second-largest-television-broadcaster/|website=[[Nexstar Media Group]]|date=January 17, 2017|access-date=March 14, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FCC OKs $4.6B Nexstar-Media General Merger|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/100621/fcc-oks-46b-nexstarmedia-general-merger|author=Harry A. Jessell|website=TVNewsCheck|publisher=NewsCheck Media|date=January 11, 2017|access-date=March 14, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Nexstar Closes On Media General Purchase|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/100762/nexstar-closes-on-media-general-purchase|author=Harry A. Jessell|website=TVNewsCheck|publisher=NewsCheck Media|date=January 17, 2017|access-date=March 14, 2017}}</ref>

==Programming==
KBVO carries the entire nighttime-exclusive MyNetworkTV programming schedule; however, the station may timeshift the MyNetworkTV schedule to late evening and/or overnight timeslots to accommodate local or regional sporting events and fulfill advertising commitments for commercials sold for carriage during local ad breaks within the service's prime time lineup. In addition, KBVO may take on the responsibility of running NBC network programs in the event that sister station KXAN-TV is unable to carry them because of extended breaking news or [[severe weather]] coverage.

KBVO also serves as an alternate local carrier of the ''[[Xploration Station]]'' educational program block, offering certain programs preempted by Fox owned-and-operated station KTBC due to [[Fox Sports (United States)|Fox Sports]] programming commitments on Sunday mornings in lieu of those programs being tape-delayed to air in an open timeslot within that station's weekend daytime schedule.<ref name="titantv-kbvo">{{cite web|title=TitanTV Programming Guide -- What's on TV, Movies, Reality Shows and Local News: KBVO schedule|url=http://titantvguide.titantv.com/apg/ttv.aspx?siteid=49971|website=TitanTV|publisher=Broadcast Interactive Media, LLC|access-date=February 13, 2019}}</ref> From the station's conversion into a MyNetworkTV affiliate in 2009 until September 2014, KBVO aired a night-behind rebroadcast of sister station KXAN's 10&nbsp;p.m. newscast on Tuesday through Saturday mornings.

===Sports programming===
Since adopting a standalone programming schedule in October 2009, channel 14 has carried various local and syndicated sporting events.

====High school and college sports====
The station began carrying [[high school football]] "games-of-the-week" involving teams from Central Texas high schools on Thursday nights in the fall of 2009, which are selected based on the most competitive matchups scheduled to take each week during the season; KBVO aired 11 high school football games during the 2009 and 2010 seasons, increasing to 22 matchups (with eleven aired live on Thursday nights and eleven additional Friday games held that aired on a day-behind tape delay on Saturdays) beginning in 2011. The game schedule was relegated to encompass only the live Thursday games beginning with the 2015 fall academic sports season. (The website of parent station KXAN also provides live streams of the Thursday evening games and previously carried delayed streams of the Friday games each Saturday.)<ref name="KBVO Sports">{{cite news|title=KBVO-TV home to HS, SEC football games|url=http://www.kxan.com/news/kbvo-tv-home-to-hs-sec-football-games|website=KXAN-TV|publisher=Media General|date=August 21, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=KBVO plans to air 22 games in 2011|author=Gary Dinges|newspaper=Austin American-Statesman|publisher=Cox Enterprises|page=C03|date=August 12, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=TV stations expand local football offerings|author=Rick Cantu|newspaper=Austin American-Statesman|publisher=Cox Enterprises|page=C07|date=September 17, 2011}}</ref>

Since October 2009, KBVO has served as the official television partner of the [[Texas Longhorns]], holding rights to air various team-related programs during the regular season (including the weekly analysis program ''Longhorn Sports Center Weekly'' and postseason team reviews) as well as some [[Texas Longhorns men's basketball|men's]] and [[Texas Longhorns women's basketball|women's basketball]], [[Texas Longhorns baseball|baseball]] and [[Texas Longhorns softball|softball]] games that are not televised nationally on broadcast or cable television. (Outside of those carried by KBVO via the [[University of Texas]]' in-house syndication network, most Longhorns sporting events are carried locally by [[Fox Sports Southwest]].) From 2009 to 2014, channel 14 also aired [[college basketball]] games from the [[Big 12 Conference]] (of which the University of Texas is a member) that were syndicated by [[ESPN Events|ESPN Plus]]; KBVO aired between 10 and 12 regular season games each year as well as games from the first three rounds of the [[Big 12 men's basketball tournament]]. Most college basketball telecasts aired on the station on Saturday afternoons, although it also occasionally carried prime time games on weeknights, specifically during the Big 12 men's tournament. In addition, the station carries [[college football]] and basketball games from the [[Southland Conference]].<ref name="KBVO Sports"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Playing to Potential|author=Mark Rosner|newspaper=Austin American-Statesman|publisher=Cox Enterprises|page=C01|date=January 9, 2010}}</ref>

In 2009, KBVO assumed the local rights to the [[Southeastern Conference]] (SEC) syndication package distributed by the ESPN Plus-managed [[SEC TV]] service, carrying regular season college football and basketball games as well as the first three rounds of the [[SEC men's basketball tournament]]; these broadcasts continued to air until 2014, when the conference made its sports events pay TV-exclusive to the [[SEC Network]] venture between the SEC and ESPN.) The station also carried select college football and basketball games involving the [[Texas State Bobcats]] beginning with the 2009–10 academic season.

====Professional and semi-professional sports====
Since the [[2009–10 Dallas Mavericks season|2009–10]] season, KBVO has served as the local over-the-air television carrier of [[NBA]] games involving the [[San Antonio Spurs]] (via Fox Sports Southwest). Since the team's incorporation in 2010, the station has also carried [[American Hockey League]] (AHL) games involving the [[Cedar Park, Texas|Cedar Park]]-based [[Texas Stars]]. Since [[2010 Houston Texans season|2010]], KBVO has also held the local broadcast rights to [[NFL]] preseason games from the [[Houston Texans]] distributed by the team's regional syndication service; the station, which assumed the preseason telecast rights to the Texans from KNVA, carries roughly between three and five prime time game telecasts annually.

Since [[2010 Texas Rangers season|2010]], the station has held the local syndication rights to broadcast [[Major League Baseball]] (MLB) games involving the [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]] (which were distributed by the team's in-house regional syndication service). In 2011, KBVO obtained partial television rights to [[Minor League Baseball]] games involving the [[Round Rock Express]], carrying the [[Pacific Coast League]] team's Saturday home games as part of a package it shared with local cable news channel YNN Austin (now [[Spectrum News 1 Austin]]), which held rights to the Express's Friday home games as well as a weekly team analysis program. (Longtime KXAN sports director Roger Wallace handled play-by-play duties for the Express's KBVO game telecasts, alongside former MLB pitchers [[Kelly Wunsch]] and [[Kirk Dressendorfer]] as color commentators.)<ref>{{cite press release|title=Express announce TV package|url=https://www.milb.com/milb/news/gcs-18626352|website=[[Round Rock Express]]|publisher=[[Minor League Baseball]]|date=May 4, 2011}}</ref>

Beginning in [[2019 Austin Bold FC season|2019]], KBVO began carrying [[Austin Bold FC]] matches played at home.<ref>Kelly Lafargue, [https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/kbvo-tv-broadcasting-austin-bold-fc-soccer-matches/ "KBVO-TV broadcasting Austin Bold FC soccer matches"], ''kxan.com'', April 17, 2019</ref>

Beginning in 2021, KBVO became the over-the-air home of the [[Austin Gilgronis]] of [[Major League Rugby]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gilgronis.com/news/ag-announces-kxan-as-official-broadcast-partner-all-16-home-matches-to-be-broadcast-live/|title=AG Announces KXAN as Official Broadcast Partner: All 16 Home Matches to be Broadcast Live}}</ref> Also that year, KBVO began carrying select [[Austin FC]] matches.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.austinfc.com/post/2021/04/13/austin-fc-and-cw-austin-kxan-tv-and-kbvo-tv-announce-english-language-channel|title = Austin FC and the CW Austin, KXAN-TV, and KBVO-TV Announce English Language Channel Assignments &#124; Austin FC}}</ref>

==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KBVO<ref>{{cite web|title=RabbitEars TV Query for KBVO|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KBVO#station|website=[[RabbitEars]]|access-date=February 13, 2019}}</ref>
! [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! Short name
! Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 14.1 
| [[1080i]] || rowspan=4| [[16:9]] || KBVO || [[MyNetworkTV]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 14.2 
| rowspan=3|[[480i]] || Bounce || [[Bounce TV]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 14.3 
| Antenna || [[Antenna TV]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 14.4 
| Defy || [[Ion Plus]]
|}

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KBVO shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009, as part of the FCC-mandated [[Digital television transition in the United States|transition to digital television for full-power stations]].<ref name="Analog to Digital">{{cite web|title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|access-date=March 24, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf|archive-date=August 29, 2013}}</ref> The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 27, using [[virtual channel]] 14.

===KBVO-CD ATSC 3.0 lighthouse===
KBVO-CD (RF channel 31) transitioned to ATSC 3.0 on October 7, 2020, and is simulcasting KXAN, KEYE and KNVA programming.<ref>{{cite web|title=FCC Licensing for KBVO-CD|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076ff3744bb4d30174598f47261efd&id=25076ff3744bb4d30174598f47261efd&goBack=N|access-date=September 10, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=NextGen TV Comes to Austin|date=October 7, 2020|url=https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/nextgen-tv-comes-to-austin|access-date=October 7, 2020}}</ref> The main KBVO station continues with its existing ATSC 1.0 programming. The previous ATSC 1.0 programming moved to KXAN (RF channel 21), KEYE (RF channel 34) and KNVA (RF channel 23), but maintains the same virtual channels as follows:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Previous<br>RF channel
! Current RF<br>channel
! Virtual channel<br>(no change)
! ATSC 1.0 programming
! ATSC 1.0 host
|-
| 31.3 || 23.2 || 14.1 || [[MyNetworkTV]] || [[KNVA]]
|-
| 31.4 || 34.3 || 14.2 || [[Bounce TV]] || rowspan="2"|[[KEYE-TV]]
|-
| 31.5 || 34.4 || 14.3 || [[Antenna TV]]
|-
| 31.6 || 21.5 || 14.4 || [[Ion Plus]] || [[KXAN-TV]]
|}

The following ATSC 3.0 subchannels broadcast on RF channel 31:<ref>{{cite web|title=Rabbitears for KBVO-CD|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=kbvo-cd#station|access-date=October 14, 2020}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="background-color: #bdbdff" scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! style="background-color: #bdbdff" scope = "col" | Short name
! style="background-color: #bdbdff" scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 14.1 
| KBVO || [[MyNetworkTV]]
|-
! scope = "row" | [[KXAN-TV|36.1]] 
| style="background-color:#ffe8d0|KXAN || style="background-color:#ffe8d0|[[NBC]] ([[KXAN-TV]]) [[File:Action lock 2 - orange.svg|14px|alt=DRM|link=]]
|-
! scope = "row" | [[KEYE-TV|42.1]] 
| KEYE || [[CBS]] ([[KEYE-TV]])
|-
! scope = "row" | [[KNVA|54.1]] 
| KNVA || [[The CW]] ([[KNVA]])
|}
{{legend|#ffe8d0|Subchannel broadcast with [[digital rights management]]}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{URL|https://www.kxan.com/kbvo|Official website}}

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