KGBT-TV

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KGBT-TV

Harlingen–McAllen–Brownsville, Texas United States
City	Harlingen, Texas
Channels	Digital: 18 (UHF) Virtual: 4
Branding	The Valley's MyTV[1]
Programming
Affiliations	4.1: Antenna TV/MyTV for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Nexstar Media Group (Tribune Broadcasting Company II, LLC)
Sister stations	KVEO-TV
History
First air date	October 4, 1953 (71 years ago) (1953-10-04)
Former call signs	KGBS-TV (September–December 1953)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 4 (VHF, 1953–2009) Digital: 31 (UHF, 2003–2020)
Former affiliations	CBS (1953–2020) ABC (secondary, 1953–1976) NBC (secondary, 1976–1981)
Call sign meaning	Genevieve Beryl Tichenor, wife of founding owner McHenry Tichenor
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	34457
ERP	860 kW
HAAT	397.2 m (1,303 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	26°8′56.8″N 97°49′19.2″W / 26.149111°N 97.822000°W / 26.149111; -97.822000 (KGBT-TV)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS

KGBT-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Harlingen, Texas, United States, serving the Lower Rio Grande Valley as a primary Antenna TV owned-and-operated station and a secondary MyNetworkTV affiliate. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Brownsville-licensed dual NBC/CBS affiliate KVEO-TV (channel 23). The two stations share studios on West Expressway (I-2/US 83) in Harlingen; KGBT-TV's transmitter is located in La Feria, Texas.

KGBT-TV was the first television station established on the American side of the Rio Grande Valley and is the oldest still in operation. Long the CBS affiliate for the area, this changed when Nexstar acquired KGBT's non-license assets from Sinclair Broadcast Group and moved the CBS programming to a subchannel of KVEO in 2020. Nexstar later acquired the KGBT-TV license itself.