| Omaha, Nebraska | |
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| Branding | CW Nebraska |
| Slogan | Omaha's CW |
| Channels | Digital: 38 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | The CW Azteca América (DT2) |
| Owner | Mitts Telecasting Company (operated through an LMA by Titan TV Broadcast Group) |
| First air date | June 10, 1995 |
| Call letters' meaning | XV = Roman numeral 15 Omaha |
| Sister station(s) | KPTM |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 15 (UHF, 1995-2009) |
| Former affiliations | The WB (1995-2006) |
| Transmitter power | 490 kW |
| Height | 475 m |
| Facility ID | 23277 |
| Website | www.kxvo.com |
KXVO digital channel 38 (virtual channel 15) is the The CW affiliated television station in Omaha, Nebraska. The station is owned by Mitts Telecasting Company and operated by Titan TV Broadcast Group through a local marketing agreement. KXVO shares operations and studios with another Titan-owned station, Fox affiliate KPTM. KXVO began broadcasting in 1995; its transmitter is located in Gretna, Nebraska.
KXVO's schedule includes The CW, Toonzai and Weekend Marketplace (Fox) programs as well as reruns of The Simpsons, That '70s Show, Family Guy, Malcolm in the Middle, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, King of the Hill, House and other shows.
On January 16, 2009, it was announced that several Pappas stations, including sister station KPTM, would be sold to New World TV Group, after the sale received United States bankruptcy court approval.[1] The LMA between KXVO and KPTM is expected to continue after the deal is finalized.
Since KFXL-TV in Lincoln switched from The CW to Fox in 2009, KXVO has become that market's local CW affiliate on DirecTV. Dish Network does not carry a local CW signal in the Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney market. Since its inception, KXVO has also been carried on cable in the eastern portion of the Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney market. Cable systems in the western portion of the market carry the national CW100+ feed.
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With KXVO's original identity and tagline of "All Entertainment, all the Time" in 1995, news did not seem like a natural fit. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, KXVO aired sixty-second "news updates" that promoted stories from that night's newscast on KPTM. These updates aired during the six-o-clock hour.
In 2001, KXVO station management made plans to produce a 5:30 pm newscast, utilizing on-air talent and production from sister station KPTM. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the resulting economic downturn, these plans were put on hold and eventually abandoned.
In the days following the 9/11 attacks, KXVO aired continuous news coverage from CNN Headline News.
Early in 2006, the station began airing a ten o'clock newscast, "The KXVO 15 10 O'Clock News," which was produced by KPTM. The show debuted on January 28, 2006. In April of the same year former MTV VJ and reality show host Brian McFayden was hired to anchor the program. McFayden left the show to work for Al Gore's Current TV.
In late August 2006, comedian and Second City Training Center alumnus Matt Geiler was named the new anchor of "The KXVO 15 10 O'Clock News." By this time, the show had become some sort of sketch comedy program, with news content being handled by KPTM staff. Throughout its run, the show never registered a single ratings point, and was canceled in 2007.
KXVO's DT2 digital subchannel carries Spanish language network Azteca America, with local news, weather, entertainment, and advertising inserts. This Azteca America subchannel is locally branded as "MXVO", a shortened combination of the call letters "KXVO" and "MX" for Mexico (as Azteca America is itself a US-targeted feed of Mexico's TV Azteca). KXVO-DT2 programming was simulcast on KAZO-LP, analog channel 57, until fall 2009 when that station left the air. Until 2009, KAZO-LP was actually the primary Azteca America affiliate in Omaha; KXVO-DT2 and a number of analog low-power transmitters around eastern Nebraska (which have since left the air) rebroadcast the KAZO-LP signal.
Prior to July 1, 2007, KAZO-LP, KXVO-DT2, and their repeaters in eastern Nebraska, were affiliated with the Azteca America network. Prior to the Azteca affiliation (circa 2004?), KAZO-LP was a repeater for KXVO. Pappas Telecasting terminated its affiliation agreement with Azteca America on July 1, 2007; [1] after that date, KAZO-LP, KXVO-DT2, and other former Azteca America channels operated by Pappas became a part of Pappas' fledgling independent Spanish language network, TuVision. [2]
In October 2008, KAZO-LP dropped the TuVision affiliation and returned to Azteca America programming simulcast on KXVO-DT2 channel 15.2 (RF 38) in Omaha and KMEG-DT2 channel 14.2 (RF 39) in Sioux City, Iowa. Around this time, analog transmissions on KAZO-LP temporarily ceased, though the analog channel 57 signal was again seen on the air in October 2009. KAZO-LP left the air for good later in fall 2009 and was no longer listed on KXVO-DT2 station ID screens. By spring 2010, KMEG-DT2 had been spun off from KXVO-DT2 to have its own local feed in the Sioux City, Iowa area.
KXVO-DT2 is carried on DirecTV's locals package in the Omaha area as KAZO 57. Dish Network and Cox Cable do not carry the station, though Cox does provide the national Azteca America feed on digital cable channel 407. Cox Cable had previously carried KAZO-LP on analog channel 68 but dropped it in 2007 when the station became a TuVision affiliate, and did not restore the local signal when it returned to Azteca America programming in 2008. Until the addition of Estrella TV on KPTM-DT3 in June 2010, KXVO-DT2 was Omaha's only Spanish-language broadcast channel. KXVO-DT2 also has the distinction of being the only digital subchannel in the Omaha area not carried on the local Cox Communications cable system.
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