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| City | Brownsville, Texas |
| Channels | |
| Branding | NBC 23; CBS 4 |
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| KGBT-TV | |
| History | |
First air date | December 19, 1981 |
Former call signs | KVEO (1981–2009) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 23 (UHF, 1981–2009) |
| UPN (secondary, 1997–1999) | |
Call sign meaning | KVEO = "que veo", Spanish for "what I am watching" |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 12523 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 445 m (1,460 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 26°6′2.3″N 97°50′21.5″W / 26.100639°N 97.839306°W |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
KVEO-TV (channel 23) is a television station licensed to Brownsville, Texas, United States, serving the Lower Rio Grande Valley as an affiliate of NBC and CBS. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Harlingen-licensed KGBT-TV (channel 4), which airs Antenna TV and MyNetworkTV. The two stations share studios on West Expressway (I-2/US 83) in Harlingen; KVEO-TV's transmitter is located in Santa Maria, Texas.
KVEO-TV was the third major commercial station to start in the Rio Grande Valley, beginning broadcasting on December 19, 1981. It immediately became the full-time NBC affiliate in the market. Its original ownership was rocked by financial problems and connections to a failed bank; it emerged from bankruptcy in 1984. Two attempts at local newscasts (1981–1982 and 1985–1986) were short-lived. The station was sold to what became Communications Corporation of America (ComCorp) in 1990. ComCorp began airing local news programming on the station again in 2007, though beginning in 2010 this was produced out-of-market at another station in the company.
Nexstar acquired KVEO-TV in 2013. In 2020, it acquired from Sinclair Broadcast Group all of the non-license assets of KGBT-TV, which had been the CBS affiliate, and its facilities. KGBT-TV's programming became the CBS subchannel of KVEO-TV, and news programming was realigned on both channels.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KVEO-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.