51-557: (Redirected from Keye ) KEYE or Keye may refer to: KEYE-TV , a television station (channel 34, virtual 42) licensed to Austin, Texas, United States KEYE (AM) , a radio station (1400 AM) licensed to Perryton, Texas KEYE-FM , a radio station (93.7 FM) licensed to Perryton, Texas Eagle Creek Airpark (ICAO code:KEYE), an airport in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States Keye, an alternate name for Kévé , Togo Topics referred to by
102-464: A 5 p.m. newscast. The We Are Austin name was revived in 2014 when the station reintroduced it for a 9 a.m. lifestyle show; simultaneously, KEYE extended its morning news to start at 4:30 a.m., giving it a weekday news output of five hours. During this time, the station had a short-lived improvement in its ratings; in the May 2012 sweeps, it had the highest-rated 10 p.m. newscast in the market. In 2017,
153-669: A consortium of three groups that sought the license, it was Austin's first new commercial TV station since 1971 and its first local independent station . Originally emphasizing movies in its schedule, the station affiliated with the new Fox network at its launch in October 1986. In 1994, Fox announced it would move its local affiliation to KTBC , the previous CBS affiliate, in July 1995. Austin Television, by this point owned by Darrell Cannan of Wichita Falls and KBVO-TV general manager Steve Beard, sold
204-452: A contract dispute with Suddenlink Communications , which serves portions of the Austin market, such as Pflugerville and Georgetown . The dispute centered around KXAN's failure to grant retransmission consent to Suddenlink. The station was removed from Suddenlink after the previous contract expired on December 31, 2007. KXAN claimed that it was seeking "fair value" for its programming. However,
255-427: A news operation, station management hoped that the locally high ratings for CBS network news on KTBC would transfer to channel 42. This was not the case, and technical miscues in the weeks after opening alienated viewers. Early on, the station rated fourth of the four major TV news operations in town, but it soon surpassed KTBC, whose news ratings severely slumped after the switch. Its news programs were faster-paced than
306-543: A nightly 9 p.m. newscast to compete with KTBC's established prime time newscast. To date, KNVA was one of two stations in the United States to carry The CW and MyNetworkTV (the other being KWKB in Iowa City, Iowa , which until 2011 was the only station that carried the full schedules of both netlets/programming services). KXAN's current tower was activated in 1996, replacing an older structure that had been built in 1964. Of
357-496: A press release from Suddenlink management indicated that the dispute included consideration for other stations owned by LIN TV outside of Texas. On January 3, 2008, Suddenlink began transmitting the signal of Temple -based NBC affiliate KCEN-TV to restore the network's programming to the affected areas. This is allowed under FCC rules because KCEN is a "significantly viewed" station in Williamson County even though that county
408-497: A program schedule highly dependent on movies, with an estimated 25 feature films a week. Occasional sports telecasts, syndicated shows, and religious and children's programs rounded out its offerings. The Spanish International Network moved to channel 30. From its studios on Metric Boulevard, KBVO-TV (named for Bevo , the live longhorn steer mascot of the University of Texas ' sports teams) began broadcasting on December 4, 1983. It
459-520: A re-entry into Austin for Nexstar, which had managed CBS affiliate KEYE-TV under a groupwide agreement with the Four Points Media Group before that company's stations were sold to Sinclair at the beginning of 2012. The deal was finalized on January 17, 2017. KXAN-TV presently broadcasts 31 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with five hours each weekday and three hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). For most of its first 30 years on
510-464: A separate station after picking up the MyNetworkTV affiliation from KNVA. That station carried the network as a secondary affiliation (airing on KNVA on Monday through Saturday nights from 9 to 11 p.m.), known on-air as "MyNetworkTV on The CW Austin", from its launch on September 5, 2006. In mid-September 2009, that station moved MyNetworkTV programs an hour later from 10 p.m. to midnight to make room for
561-568: A settlement agreement—announced in June 1982 but not approved until March 1983 by which Television Corporation of Central Texas would be a consultant to a merger of Austin Telecasting, Mountain Laurel, and Texas Television, known as Austin Television. Steven Beard was hired as the general manager and led a search for studio space that delayed channel 42's launch. For the new independent station , he formulated
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#1733093108941612-481: A shock to Beard, a member of Fox's board of governors. He told the Austin American-Statesman that he would seriously consider pursuing the soon-to-be vacant CBS affiliation for KBVO. In October 1994, Austin Television reached a deal to sell KBVO-TV for $ 54 million to Granite Broadcasting Corporation , which would affiliate KBVO-TV with CBS once the network was bumped from KTBC. For Cannan and Beard,
663-632: A year after that deal was completed, on January 27, 2016, Media General announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Nexstar Broadcasting Group (which is based in Irving and already owns many other stations in Texas), in a deal valued at $ 17.14 per-share, valuing the company at $ 4.6 billion plus the assumption of $ 2.3 billion debt. The combined company would be known as Nexstar Media Group, and own 171 stations (including KXAN-TV), serving an estimated 39% of households. The merger also marked
714-603: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages KEYE-TV KEYE-TV (channel 42) is a television station in Austin, Texas , United States, affiliated with CBS and Telemundo . Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group , the station maintains studios on Metric Boulevard in North Austin and a transmitter on Waymaker Way on the city's west side. Channel 42 began broadcasting on December 4, 1983, as KBVO-TV. Owned by Austin Television,
765-408: Is located in the Austin market. On March 24, Suddenlink and KXAN's dispute was settled and the station was restored to Suddenlink's systems the following day. The terms of the settlement were not announced though it is widely believed that KXAN had lost thousands of viewers. Despite its cable carriage problems, the station surprised many observers by placing first in the 5–7 a.m. weekday time slot during
816-524: Is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Llano -licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate KBVO (channel 14); 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 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in the Old West Austin section, just west of
867-491: The University of Texas at Austin campus and just north of downtown ; the studios and offices consist of a setup which includes the main studio and newsroom, and an unconnected auxiliary office building across the street. KXAN-TV's transmitter is located at the West Austin Antenna Farm north of West Lake Hills . The station first signed on the air on February 12, 1965, as KHFI-TV, broadcasting on UHF channel 42. It
918-549: The national morning programs on the market's other major network affiliates. The station's signal is multiplexed : On August 7, 2009, KXAN began offering Mobile TV service through BlackBerry . KXAN-TV shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009, as part of the FCC-mandated transition to digital television for full-power stations . The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 21, using virtual channel 36. KXAN and LIN TV were locked into
969-570: The FCC to run the channel. Austin Telecasting was led by Darrold Cannan Jr., a Wichita Falls businessman and owner of KAMR-TV in Amarillo . Mountain Laurel Broadcasting was owned by Timothy R. Brown. The other two had interests in stations elsewhere: Pappas Telecasting of Visalia, California , and Television Corporation of Central Texas. Pappas dropped out, and the four other applicants reached
1020-606: The May 2008 sweeps period. KXAN and LIN TV were locked in another contract dispute with Time Warner Cable , which serves a very large majority of the Austin metropolitan area. LIN dropped its stations from Time Warner Cable systems nationwide at Midnight CDT on October 3, 2008. Over-the-air stations such as KXAN have long allowed cable companies to carry their signals for free. Cable networks are paid as much as ten cents per day per subscriber for their content and LIN TV wanted Time Warner to pay them less than one cent per subscriber per day. KXAN general manager Eric Lassberg stated that
1071-522: The air, KHFI/KTVV/KXAN was a distant runner-up to KTBC. Despite efforts to produce a newscast of major market quality (early newscasts deliberately copied the look of NBC's flagship owned-and-operated station WNBC in New York City ), it was usually unable to make a dent in KTBC's ratings dominance. Another setback was as a UHF station, KTVV/KXAN had a hard time maintaining a local share as an NBC affiliate due to
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#17330931089411122-497: The cable company "does not have to pass that cost along to the viewers unless they want to". On October 3, Time Warner replaced KXAN with a continuous loop of instructions on how to hook up a television to a computer on Time Warner Cable. Some days later this was replaced by the premium channel Starz Kids and Family . KXAN returned to the Time Warner lineup during the early morning hours of October 29, 2008. No details were released on
1173-654: The channel change came a new set of call letters, KTVV. The station also boosted its transmitter power to five million watts , which more than doubled its coverage area, and for a time billed itself as the most powerful TV station in the Southwest with these changes. What was then known as LIN Broadcasting purchased the station in 1979. The call letters were changed to the current KXAN-TV on October 15, 1987, in reference to then-sister station and fellow NBC affiliate (now owned-and-operated station ) KXAS-TV in Fort Worth . Even with
1224-474: The competition with a higher-than-average reliance on props and unconventional methods of storytelling. Spelce retired in 2002, becoming "anchor emeritus" and a commentator with occasional contributions to KEYE's newscasts. By that time, the station was struggling in the ratings, with sitcom reruns occasionally drawing more viewers than channel 42's newscasts; it canceled its noon newscast as a result. It fired three anchors—including Cile Spelce, Neal's daughter—at
1275-646: The end of 2002 and hired Judy Maggio from KVUE several months later. CBS also made investments in weather forecasting and anchor salaries as well as $ 15 million to make KEYE the city's first TV station with high-definition local newscasts in 2007, with the Four Points sale in progress. The station canceled its 5 p.m. newscast in September 2009, replacing it with We Are Austin Live , an hour-long 4 p.m. lifestyle show anchored by Michelle Valles and Jason Wheeler. A few weeks later,
1326-432: The exception of nightly updates aired during Fox prime time programming from a small closet studio. After the affiliation swap, on July 3, 1995, KEYE immediately launched a full slate of newscasts, under the moniker K-EYEWitness News . Veteran anchorman Neal Spelce, formerly of KTBC, was hired as part of the new operation, and the station's Metric Boulevard studios were expanded to house the news department. In launching
1377-489: The fifteen towers on the hill, the channel 36 tower is the tallest and the highest structure in Austin. In addition to its transmission antenna, the mast also incorporates a camera with views of downtown to the east and the hills to the west. On March 21, 2014, it was announced that Media General would acquire LIN. The merger was completed on December 19, 2014, and KXAN joined the Media General station portfolio. Just over
1428-498: The in-house newscast We Are Austin Mornings , a morning extension of We Are Austin LIVE similar in format to national network morning newscasts. We Are Austin Mornings lasted less than a year before being replaced with a more conventional morning newscast. The 2009 afternoon news changes were reversed in June 2012, when We Are Austin Live was canceled to make way for the reinstatement of
1479-567: The increased power, channel 36's signal was marginal in some parts of the Hill Country such as Fredericksburg . On September 6, 1991, LIN signed on KLNO in Llano to improve KXAN's reach in the Hill Country. It changed that station's call letters to KXAM-TV after about a month on the air and later to the current KBVO on August 3, 2009. This call sign, named after the University of Texas' mascot " Bevo ",
1530-521: The latter part of the 1990s, channel 36 had overtaken channel 7 for the lead. Since then, it has waged a spirited battle for first place in the market with KVUE. On December 23, 2008, starting with the weekday noon newscast, KXAN became the third television station in the Austin market (and the second LIN owned station, behind WAVY-TV / WVBT in the Hampton Roads market) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition . On September 28, 2009,
1581-601: The network in then two-station markets , KHFI did not take on a secondary ABC affiliation (KTBC instead took on the secondary ABC affiliation, until a third station, KVUE signed on in 1971, taking on the ABC affiliation). The Kingsburys would later bring in Henry Tippie as a partner and on January 15, 1973, were granted permission from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to move KHFI-TV to channel 36. With
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1632-732: The new call letters, "CBS is literally our middle name". The new owners also wanted to shed KBVO's image as a station focused on children's programming. The station began producing local newscasts that day and broke ground on a studio expansion to house its newsroom. At the start of 1999, Granite put KEYE up for sale to help debt obligations it incurred in acquiring two larger-market affiliates of The WB , KBWB in San Francisco and WDWB in Detroit . Several large broadcast companies, including Raycom Media and Hearst-Argyle Television , expressed interest in acquiring KEYE. That April, CBS agreed to buy
1683-658: The presence of nearby NBC stations in the San Antonio and Temple/Waco markets. KXAN's first number one rated newscast was also Austin's first hour-long morning newscast, News 36 Firstcast , which went on the air in November 1990. All other local stations soon followed suit, but Firstcast built an audience that delivered KXAN the station's first sweeps victory in February 1993. After KTBC switched to its current Fox affiliation in 1995, KXAN's ratings slowly increased in other time periods. By
1734-532: The prospects for UHF in a market that stretched from Mason in the west to La Grange in the east, and also included much of the Hill Country . KHFI-TV logically should have signed on as Austin's NBC station, since up to that time all three networks had been shoehorned on KTBC, then a primary CBS affiliate. However, due to contractual obligations, it spent more than a year-and-a-half as an independent station before joining NBC in 1966. Unlike most affiliates with
1785-537: The sale represented an estate planning move. On July 2, 1995, KTBC and KBVO swapped affiliations, with Fox moving to KTBC and the CBS affiliation going to KBVO. Simultaneously with the affiliation switch, KBVO changed its call sign to KEYE-TV. Granite wanted to bolster channel 42's ties to its new network, whose main symbol is an eye , and eliminate any confusion about where CBS programming could be found in Austin. Beard's successor as general manager, Dennis Upiah, said that with
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1887-463: The station began producing a nightly 9 p.m. newscast on KNVA (currently titled KXAN News at 9 ) to compete with KTBC's longer-established and hour-long prime time newscast. On September 3, 2013, KXAN began producing a two-hour extension of its weekday morning newscast for sister station KNVA. Known as KXAN News on The CW Austin , the expanded broadcast runs from 7 to 9 a.m. and competes against KTBC's long-dominant morning newscast Good Day Austin and
1938-413: The station for $ 160 million. The sale closed that August. Under CBS, management turned over frequently, with six general managers in five years. On February 7, 2007, CBS agreed to sell seven of its smaller-market stations to Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. , for $ 185 million. Cerberus formed a new holding company for the stations, Four Points Media Group , which took over the operations of
1989-481: The station placed third or fourth in all of the time slots where it aired a newscast. In March 2021, it tied KVUE for second place at 10 p.m. but had half as many viewers in the target demographic of viewers 25–54. The station's signal is multiplexed : KEYE-TV broadcasts two subchannels of KBVO-CD as part of Austin's ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) deployment plan. KBVO-CD began 3.0 broadcasting in October 2020. KEYE-TV shut down its analog signal on February 17, 2009; it
2040-526: The station to Granite Broadcasting ; Granite in turn secured an affiliation with CBS. The affiliation switch in Austin took place on July 2, 1995. On that day, channel 42 became KEYE-TV and began broadcasting local newscasts, which typically have been in third- or fourth-place positions in local ratings. After Granite purchased two large-market WB affiliates, it sold KEYE-TV to the CBS network in 1999. CBS sold four of its smaller-market media properties, including KEYE-TV, to Cerberus Capital Management in 2007;
2091-446: The stations through local marketing agreements in late June 2007; the sale to Four Points was consummated on January 10, 2008. Four Points operated the stations outright until March 20, 2009, when it entered into a three-year management agreement with the Irving, Texas –based Nexstar Broadcasting Group . Sinclair Broadcast Group announced the acquisition of the Four Points stations for $ 200 million in September 2011. The deal
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2142-509: The stations were grouped under the Four Points Media Group name and later run under contract by Nexstar Broadcasting Group . During this time, the station flipped one of its digital subchannels to an affiliate of Telemundo, complete with Spanish-language local newscasts produced by the KEYE-TV newsroom. Sinclair Broadcast Group acquired the Four Points stations in 2012. Channel 42 in Austin had two prior users before KEYE-TV began broadcasting. It
2193-640: The time the Spanish International Network sought channel 42 for a translator, interest was beginning to build around the use of the channel for a full-service TV station. A Christian group and an Austin entrepreneur each analyzed filing, but neither did, and the first official application came from Texas Television, Inc.— the broadcasting business of the McKinnon family , which owned stations in Beaumont and Corpus Christi . Four other applicants filed with
2244-404: The weekday morning newscast was canceled and later replaced with a simulcast of the J. B. and Sandy Morning Show from KAMX (94.7 FM), leaving KEYE with its 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts and a 5:30 p.m. newscast on Sunday evenings. On June 30, 2011, after the station was unable to renew its agreement with KAMX owner Entercom , KEYE replaced the simulcast of the J. B. and Sandy Morning Show with
2295-743: Was completed on January 3, 2012, at which time the Nexstar management agreement was terminated. In August 2016, the station began referring to itself as "CBS Austin". In June 2008, KEYE began broadcasting a second digital subchannel offering programming from the Retro Television Network as well as a repeat of its morning newscast. This was replaced on October 1, 2009, with the Spanish-language network Telemundo . KEYE also debuted Spanish-language local newscasts at 5 and 10 p.m. weeknights. Before it switched to CBS, KBVO-TV had no newscasts with
2346-453: Was first assigned to KHFI-TV , which began broadcasting as Austin's second television station on February 12, 1965. The station, renamed KTVV, moved to channel 36 in January 1973. The Spanish International Network applied for a translator of KWEX-TV from San Antonio using channel 42 in 1977; this application remained pending by 1979, but K42AB began broadcasting on January 24, 1982. By
2397-540: Was formerly used on the current channel 42—which is now CBS affiliate KEYE-TV —from December 1983 to July 1995, and is shared with channel 14's repeater KBVO-CD. KXAN is one of two stations in Austin (the other being KVUE , channel 24) to retain its original network affiliation in the wake of a network swap between KTBC and Fox station KBVO (now KEYE-TV, channel 42) in 1995, the result of Fox's affiliation deal with New World Communications due to that network acquiring rights to NFL games. On October 21, 2009, KBVO became
2448-449: Was one of the ten highest-rated Fox affiliates in the country; the station was now exclusively owned by Cannan and Beard. In May 1994, New World Communications purchased longtime CBS affiliate KTBC , which was included later that month in a groupwide affiliation deal to switch most of New World's stations to Fox. Despite KBVO's strong ratings among younger demographics, its UHF signal was inferior to KTBC's VHF signal. The move came as
2499-709: Was owned by the Kingsbury family, along with KHFI radio (970 AM, now KJFK at 1490; and 98.3 FM, now KVET-FM at 98.1). KHFI was the second television station in Austin, signing on a little more than twelve years after KTBC-TV (channel 7). Although Austin was big enough to support three television stations as early as the 1950s, KTBC was the only VHF license in the area. Until 1964, UHF stations could only be seen with an expensive converter, and even then picture quality left much to be desired. Additionally, UHF signals usually do not travel very far over long distances or over rugged terrain. This made several potential owners skittish about
2550-431: Was profitable within five months of starting up. On October 9, 1986, the station became a charter affiliate of the upstart Fox network. Beard attributed the station's success to good timing and its movie identity, which helped it weather a regional economic downturn later in the 1980s. In 1991, KBVO-TV became the first station outside of San Antonio to air a package of San Antonio Spurs basketball games. By 1994, it
2601-442: Was the first Austin station to cease analog broadcasting. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 43, using virtual channel 42. KEYE-TV moved its digital signal from channel 43 to channel 34 on June 21, 2019, as a result of the 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction . KHFI-TV KXAN-TV (channel 36) is a television station in Austin, Texas , United States, affiliated with NBC . It
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