KNVO (TV)

KNVO is a television station licensed to McAllen, Texas, United States, serving the Lower Rio Grande Valley as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network Univision. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside Fox affiliate KFXV, channel 60, primary CW+ affiliate and secondary PBS member KCWT-CD, and Class A UniMás affiliate KTFV-CD. The stations share studios on North Jackson Road in McAllen; KNVO's transmitter is located on Farm to Market Road 493 near Donna, Texas.

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History

The Federal Communications Commission granted an original construction permit on October 9, 1983, to build a television station licensed in McAllen. Originally, the station was approved to broadcast on UHF channel 48 with 4,071 kW effective radiated power, but was later changed to 3,162 kW on April 16, 1992. The station made its debut on October 12, 1992. During the station's first years on the air, KNVO quickly became the highest-rated station in the market.
In 1996, LS Broadcasting, Ltd., Mundo Vision Broadcasting Company and Larry Safir sold KNVO to Entravision Communications for $24.8 million. The sale was completed on January 24, 1997.
On October 11, 2001, the Federal Communications Commission granted a permit to construct the station's digital facilities. The station completed construction of its full-power digital facilities in June 2006, and was granted a license on June 26, 2007.

News operation

KNVO's newscast debuted in 1999. The station presently broadcasts seven hours of locally produced newscasts each week. In September 2010, KNVO started broadcasting local news in high definition.
As of 2012, KNVO was the second highest-rated newscast in the market, behind ABC affiliate KRGV-TV.
In early December 2015, Entravision canceled the morning newscasts at all of its stations in the United States, including KNVO's Alegre Despertar.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
48.1	1080i	16:9	Univisn	Univision
48.2	480i	16:9	UniMas	UniMás
48.3	480i	16:9	LATV	LATV
48.4	480i	4:3	ION	Ion Television
48.5	480i	16:9	CourtTV	Court TV

Analog-to-digital conversion

KNVO shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 48, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 49, using virtual channel 48.