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| Affiliations | ABC (1993–present; dual primary 1990–1993) |
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| KMOL-LD, KVCT, KUNU-LD, KQZY-LD, KXTS-LD, KVTX-LD | |
| History | |
First air date | July 21, 1982 |
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| NBC (1982–1993) | |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 73101 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 312 m (1,024 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 28°50′43.4″N 97°7′34″W / 28.845389°N 97.12611°W |
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| Website | www |
KAVU-TV (channel 25) is a television station in Victoria, Texas, United States, affiliated with ABC. Owned by Morgan Murphy Media, it is the largest station in the Victoria Television Group, which also includes the low-power affiliates of NBC (KMOL-LD channel 17), CBS (KXTS-LD channel 41), Univision (KUNU-LD channel 21), Telemundo (KVTX-LD channel 45), and Cozi TV (KQZY-LD channel 33); additionally, Morgan Murphy provides certain services to Fox affiliate KVCT (channel 19) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with SagamoreHill Broadcasting. The Victoria Television Group studios are located on North Navarro Street, with transmitter facilities on Farm to Market Road 236 west of the city.
KAVU-TV was established in 1982 as the second full-service TV station in Victoria. In 1989, a bank that came to have financial interests in KAVU and its primary competitor, KVCT, consolidated the two stations' assets into KAVU-TV and spun off the other station. In the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, KAVU-TV's owners expanded with additional low-power TV stations, creating the Victoria Television Group, which provides all major over-the-air television service to the city in a seven-station cluster that is the only known combination of the five major English and two Spanish networks in the United States, and also houses the area's only TV news department.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KAVU-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.