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KVEO-TV
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) lasted less than two years each. The station was sold to what became Communications Corporation of America (ComCorp) in 1990. ComCorp began airing local news programming on the station aga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KGBT-TV
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, Texas, Brownsville-licensed dual NBC/CBS affiliate KVEO-TV (channel 23). The two stations share studios on West Expressway (Interstate 2, I-2/U.S. Route 83 in Texas, 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. History Early history KGBT-TV's roots lie in the 1941 establishment of KYWW, KGBS radio, an inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranchlander National Bank
The Ranchlander National Bank was a financial institution in the town of Melvin, Texas, United States. It was chartered in 1916 and collapsed in November 1982 after bank fraud was uncovered under its final ''de facto'' owner, who was revealed to be one-time convicted bank fraudster Orrin Shaid. Shaid was sentenced to prison for bank and mail fraud charges in connection with the Ranchlander and other Texas banks. The bank was last located at the intersection of US 87 and FM 2028 north of Melvin. History Pre-1982 history The First State Bank of Melvin was chartered on June 14, 1916, five months after receiving a state banking license in January, and became a national bank in 1925. E. A. Baze purchased controlling stake in the bank in 1920 and became its president eight years later. The bank had more than $246,000 in deposits at the end of 1941; within five years, that total had surged past $1 million. A. Waldrep was president from 1949 until he sold his stake in the bank in 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communications Corporation Of America
Communications Corporation of America (also known as ComCorp) was a broadcasting company in the United States that owned television stations in smaller markets. The company was headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana. It owned and/or operated 20 stations (counting satellite stations and those controlled via local marketing agreements). The company began in 1989 and the next year, it purchased three television stations from Southwest MultiMedia Company of Houston: KVEO in Brownsville, KPEJ in Odessa, and KWKT in Waco using the holding company Associated Broadcasters. They also purchased the license for WPFT in Baton Rouge, LA, which they signed on in 1991 as WGMB with the holding Galloway Media. At one point, ComCorp was also an owner of radio stations in its home market of Lafayette; it subsequently sold those stations to Regent Communications. In June 2006, ComCorp filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company emerged from bankruptcy in October 2007 under the control of Sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brownsville, Texas
Brownsville ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Cameron County, Texas, Cameron County, located on the western Gulf Coast in South Texas, adjacent to the Mexico–United States border, border with Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The city covers , and had a population of 186,738 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, it is the List of United States cities by population, 136th-most populous city in the United States and List of cities in Texas by population, 18th-most populous in Texas. It is part of the Matamoros–Brownsville metropolitan area. The city is known for its year-round subtropical climate, deep-water seaport, and Hispanic culture. The city was founded in 1848 by American entrepreneur Charles Stillman after he developed a successful river-boat company nearby. It was named for Fort Brown, itself named after Major Jacob Brown (Texas soldier), Jacob Brown, who fought and died while serving as a United States Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interstate 2
Interstate 2 (I-2) is a partially completed Interstate Highway running through the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. It begins at the intersection of US Highway 83 (US 83) and Business US 83 (Bus. US 83) in Peñitas and heads eastward before terminating at I-69E/ US 77/US 83 in Harlingen. A westward extension around La Joya has been completed, and is designated as I-2 East. For almost its entire length, I-2 runs concurrently with US 83. I-2 also parallels Mexican Federal Highway 2 (Fed. 2), another major east–west route that traces the Mexico–US border along the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. When completed, the western terminus will be the city of Laredo. The route is one of the more recently designated Interstate Highways; it was signed as an Interstate in 2013. Its construction is part of an expansion of the Interstate System into southern Texas that includes the three branches of I-69. It currently intersec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Rio Grande Valley
Lower Rio Grande Valley (), often referred to as the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) of South Texas, is a region located in the southernmost part of Texas, along the northern bank of the Rio Grande. It is also known locally as the Valley or the 956 (the area code for the region). It is a region spanning the border of Texas and Mexico located in a floodplain of the Rio Grande near its mouth. The region includes the southernmost tip of South Texas and a portion of northern Tamaulipas, Mexico. In the United States, it consists of the Brownsville-Harlingen and McAllen-Edinburg-Mission metropolitan areas, and the Rio Grande City-Roma and Raymondville micropolitan areas. In Mexico, it consists of the Matamoros, Río Bravo, and Reynosa metropolitan areas. The area is generally bilingual in English and Spanish, with a fair amount of Spanglish due to the region's diverse history and transborder agglomerations. It is home to some of the poorest cities in the nation, as well as many unincorpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KRGV-TV
KRGV-TV (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Weslaco, Texas, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Lower Rio Grande Valley. The station is owned by the Manship family of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, through Mobile Video Tapes, Inc., which frequently does business as KRGV-TV Corporation. KRGV-TV's studios are located on East Expressway ( I-2/ US 83) in Weslaco, and its transmitter is located in Santa Maria, Texas. History KRGV joined as a primary NBC affiliate in 1954, sharing ABC programming with KGBT-TV. The original owner of the station was O. L. Taylor. In 1956, Taylor sold half of the station's interest to future President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson's Texas-based broadcasting company. The Johnsons owned the station until 1961, until they sold it to Kenco Enterprises. Mobile Video Tapes, which was formed by the Manship family, purchased the station from Kenco three years later. On April 12, 1976, KRGV became the first NBC affil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Monitor (Texas)
''The Monitor'' is a newspaper in McAllen, Texas that covers Starr and Hidalgo counties. It was owned by Freedom Communications until 2012, when Freedom papers in Texas were sold to AIM Media Texas. ''The Monitors Spanish-language sister paper, '' La Frontera'', shut down in 2009. It shares content with the '' Valley Morning Star'' and ''The Brownsville Herald.'' Both are also owned by AIM Media Texas. Both its former publisher, M. Olaf Frandsen, and its former editor-in-chief, Steve Fagan, have worked at Pulitzer-winning newspapers. Frandsen was editor-in-chief of the '' Odessa American'' in 1988 when the paper won the Pulitzer for spot news photography. Frandsen now is editor and publisher of the Salina, KS, ''Journal'', a member of Harris Enterprises Inc. In 2017 ''The Monitor'' partnered with ''Quartz Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The Atom, atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen Tetrahedral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Economic History Of Mexico
Since the colonial era, the economic history of Mexico has been characterized by resource extraction, agriculture, and a relatively underdeveloped industrial sector. Historically, Mexico has been characterized by high levels of inequality, with one of key conflicts being about land reforms, pitting large landowners against peasants. New Spain was envisioned by the Spanish crown as a supplier of wealth to Iberia, which was accomplished through large silver mines and indigenous labor. The Independence of Mexico in 1821 was initially difficult for the country, with the loss of its supply of mercury from Spain in silver mines. The mid-nineteenth-century Liberal Reforma (ca. 1850–1861; 1867–76) attempted to curtail the economic power of the Catholic Church and to modernize and industrialize the Mexican economy. Following the Reform War and the Second French intervention, the late nineteenth century found political stability and economic prosperity during the Porfiriato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comal County
Comal County ( ) is a County (United States), county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 161,501. Comal County is known for its rich German-Texan and European history. Its county seat is New Braunfels, Texas, New Braunfels. Comal County is part of the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX San Antonio metropolitan area, metropolitan statistical area. Along with Hays County, Texas, Hays and Kendall County, Texas, Kendall Counties, Comal was listed in 2017 of the nation's 10 fastest-growing large counties with a population of at least 10,000. In 2017, Comal County was second on the list; it grew by 5,675 newcomers, or 4.4% from 2015 to 2016. Kendall County was the second-fastest growing county in the nation in 2015 to 2016, growing by 5.16%. Hays County, third on the national list, had nearly 10,000 new residents during the year. As a result of this growth, the counties have experienced new home co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melvin, Texas
Melvin is a town in McCulloch County, Texas, United States. Its population was 123 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Climate The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen climate classification, Melvin has a humid subtropical climate, ''Cfa'' on climate maps. Demographics As of the census of 2000, 155 people, 68 households, and 39 families were residing in the town. The population density was . The 100 housing units averaged 212.4 per square mile (82.1/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 87.10% White, 12.26% from other races, and 0.65% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 27.10% of the population. Of the 68 households, 27.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.5% were married couples living together, 8.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 42.6% we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brownout (electricity)
A brownout is a drop in the magnitude of voltage in an electrical power system. Unintentional brownouts can be caused by excessive electricity demand, severe weather events, or a malfunction or error affecting electrical grid control or monitoring systems. Intentional brownouts are used for load reduction in an emergency, or to prevent a total grid power outage due to high demand. The term ''brownout'' comes from the dimming of incandescent lighting when voltage reduces. In some countries, the term ''brownout'' refers not to a drop in voltage but to an intentional or unintentional power outage (or blackout). Effects Different types of electrical apparatus will react in different ways to a voltage reduction. Some devices will be severely affected, while others may not be affected at all. Resistive loads The heat output of any resistive device, such as an electric space heater, toaster, oven, and incandescent bulbs is equal to the power consumption, which is directly p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
