KVEO-TV (channel 23) is a

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licensed to Brownsville, Texas, United States, serving the

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as a dual affiliate of

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and CBS. It is owned by

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alongside Harlingen-licensed primary

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and secondary

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affiliate

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 ...

(channel 4). Both stations share studios on West Expressway ( I-2/

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) in Harlingen, while KVEO-TV's transmitter is located in

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History

KVEO signed on the air on December 19, 1981. Before then, the area had been one of the few in the country without a full-time NBC affiliate; the area's original NBC affiliate,

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KRGV-TV KRGV-TV (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Weslaco, Texas, United States, serving the Lower Rio Grande Valley as an affiliate of ABC. The station is owned by the Manship family of Baton Rouge, Louisiana through Mobile Video Tapes, ...

(channel 5), had become a full-time

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affiliate in 1976. The station was originally owned by a local group of investors called Tierra Del Broadcasting Corporation. In the interim, CBS affiliate

(channel 4) carried NBC programming on a secondary basis. Tierra Del sold the station to Valley Broadcasting in 1984, which in turn sold KVEO to Southwest Multimedia a year later. Southwest Multimedia would then sold it to Associated Broadcasters (later renamed

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, founded by Thomas R. Galloway and D. Wayne Elmore) in 1990. KVEO added a secondary affiliation with

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in 1996, replacing previous secondary affiliate KRGV-TV; in 1999, the station lost UPN to XHRIO-TV in Matamoros. On April 24, 2013, Communications Corporation of America announced the sale of its entire group (including KVEO-TV) to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group. The sale was completed on January 1, 2015. On January 27, 2020,

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announced that it would sell the non-license assets of KGBT-TV (including its CBS affiliation and syndication contracts) to Nexstar as part of a settlement between the two companies over Sinclair's failed acquisition of

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, which was ultimately acquired by Nexstar. KGBT-TV's CBS affiliation, news department, and syndicated programming moved to KVEO's second subchannel the next day, thus bringing an end to KGBT-TV's affiliation with the network after 66 years. KGBT-TV's main 4.1 subchannel went dark (it has since been resurrected as a

affiliate). On-air operations mostly remained unchanged, though viewers were asked to rescan their sets in order to continue watching CBS. However, few viewers actually lost access to CBS programming due to the high penetration of cable and satellite in the market. In addition, Nexstar also announced that it would merge KVEO and KGBT-TV's operations at KGBT-TV's facility in Harlingen within a few months.

Programming

Syndicated programming

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programming (as of September 2020) on KVEO-DT1 includes ''

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'', '' The Drew Barrymore Show'', '' Daily Mail TV'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. Syndicated programming on KVEO-DT2 includes ''

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'', '' The Doctors'', ''

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'', and reruns of ''Jeopardy!''.

Newscasts

At the station's inception, KVEO had a news operation branded as ''Total 23 News.'' However, it made almost no headway in the ratings against KGBT and KRGV. Within a few years, the news department was shut down. For the next quarter-century, KVEO was one of the few Big Three stations with no local newscasts. Local news returned to the station on October 1, 2007, under the ''NewsCenter 23'' branding. The newscasts are produced in

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, making KVEO the first station in the Rio Grande Valley to do so. In January 2010, ComCorp announced that it would close KVEO's news department, other than a few reporters. The locally produced newscast would now originate from a ComCorp-controlled station in

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, using its own staff, with the remaining reporters in Brownsville filing reports. The new newscast, which debuted January 18, 2010, was broadcast live from El Paso, and has continued with the acquisition of both stations by Nexstar. KVEO debuted its new news set for CBS 4 on July 16, 2020 and its new news set for NBC 23 on August 31, 2020. Brenda Medina and Robert Bettes did not sign new contracts with NBC 23. In addition, NBC 23 also debuted several new newscasts, including a morning newscast, a midday newscast, a 4 p.m. newscast, a 6:30 p.m. newscast and weekend newscasts. However, NBC 23's 5 p.m. newscast was dropped around the same time.

Weather segment

Even before KVEO restarted its news operation, KVEO provided a weather segment at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. weekday evenings with meteorologist Jason McCleave of

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. KVEO also broadcasts local forecast segments during ''

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''. KVEO offered

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on 23.2 prior to

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