KRGV-TV
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KRGV-TV is the local ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 affiliate television station for the Rio Grande Valley
Rio Grande Valley
The Rio Grande Valley or the Lower Rio Grande Valley, informally called The Valley, is an area located in the southernmost tip of South Texas...

 in south Texas
Texas
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 (Brownsville
Brownsville, Texas
Brownsville is a city in the southernmost tip of the state of Texas, in the United States. It is located on the northern bank of the Rio Grande, directly north and across the border from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Brownsville is the 16th largest city in the state of Texas with a population of...

, Harlingen
Harlingen, Texas
Harlingen is a city in Cameron County in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, United States, about from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The city covers more than , and is the second largest city in Cameron County and the sixth largest in the Rio Grande Valley...

, McAllen
McAllen, Texas
McAllen is the largest city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. It is located at the southern tip of Texas in an area known as the Rio Grande Valley and is part of the . Its southern boundary is located about five miles from the U.S.–Mexico border and the Mexican city of Reynosa, the Rio...

 and South Padre Island
South Padre Island
South Padre Island is a barrier island in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located in Cameron County and is a popular vacation destination because the resort city South Padre Island is located on the island. The island itself is considered to have been settled by Padre Jose Nicolas Balli, who had a...

). It is licensed to Weslaco, Texas
Weslaco, Texas
Weslaco is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. The population was 35,670 at the 2010 census. Weslaco derives its name from the W.E. Stewart Land Company...

, with studios in Weslaco and transmitter in Santa Maria, Texas
Santa Maria, Texas
Santa Maria is a census-designated place in Cameron County, Texas, United States. The population was 846 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Brownsville–Harlingen Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

. It is owned by the Manship family of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and is the second-largest city in the state.Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, and research center of the American South...

 through Mobile Video Tapes, Inc, which often does business as KRGV-TV Corporation. KRGV is available as digital channel 5 and high definition channel 875 on Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...

. KRGV is also available on channel 5 in both standard definition and high definition on DirecTV
DirecTV
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 and Dish Network
Dish Network
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Station history

KRGV signed on in 1954 as a primary NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 affiliate, sharing ABC programming with KGBT-TV
KGBT-TV
KGBT-TV, virtual channel 4 , is a CBS affiliate located in Harlingen, Texas. Its market includes the greater Rio Grande Valley metropolitan area. KGBT is currently owned by Barrington Broadcasting Company. Its transmitter is located in Cameron County, Texas...

. The current owners, the Manship family, acquired the station in 1964. It became a sole ABC affiliate in 1976; NBC didn't return to the Rio Grande full-time until KVEO
KVEO
KVEO-TV is the NBC affiliate television station for Brownsville, Texas, and serves the entire surrounding metropolitan area, known as the Rio Grande Valley....

 signed on in 1981. KRGV was the first station in the Rio Grande Valley to transmit an HD signal on VHF channel 13. And on September 9, 2009 Newschannel 5 began broadcasting in HD. Also with the switch was a new branding "Channel 5 News."

KRGV has the highest rated television news organizations in the area winning numerous regional and state wide Emmys. Most recently, the station has been the highest-rated station in the Rio Grande Valley for most of the time since the 1950s.

Programming

KRGV carries the complete ABC schedule, in 720p HDTV format when available. Daytime syndicated programming includes The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....

, Dr. Phil and Live with Regis and Kelly
Live with Regis and Kelly
Live! with Kelly is a syndicated American television morning talk show, hosted by Kelly Ripa. The show has aired since 1983 in New York City and 1988 nationwide. Tony Pigg has been the show's announcer since its inception...

. Other syndicated programming includes Entertainment Tonight
Entertainment Tonight
Entertainment Tonight is a daily tabloid television entertainment television news show that is syndicated by CBS Television Distribution throughout the United States, Canada and in many countries around the world. Linda Bell Blue is currently the program's executive producer...

, Married... with Children
Married... with Children
Married... with Children is an American surrealistic sitcom that aired for 11 seasons that featured a dysfunctional family living in Chicago, Illinois. The show, notable for being the first prime time television series to air on Fox, ran from April 5, 1987, to June 9, 1997. The series was created...

, King of the Hill
King of the Hill
King of the Hill is an American animated dramedy series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, that ran from January 12, 1997, to May 6, 2010, on Fox network. It centers on the Hills, a working-class Methodist family in the fictional small town of Arlen, Texas...

, Scrubs
Scrubs (TV series)
Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick, and surreal vignettes...

, Seinfeld
Seinfeld
Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...

 and Boston Legal
Boston Legal
Boston Legal is an American legal dramedy created by David E. Kelley, which was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for the ABC...

.

Preemptions and delays

For many years, KRGV has chosen to air a mixture of syndicated programing and network programing during the weeknight late night programming blocks following their 10 P.M. newscast. Married... with Children
Married... with Children
Married... with Children is an American surrealistic sitcom that aired for 11 seasons that featured a dysfunctional family living in Chicago, Illinois. The show, notable for being the first prime time television series to air on Fox, ran from April 5, 1987, to June 9, 1997. The series was created...

 has consistently aired at 10:30 following the newscast since it first began airing in syndication, while the rest of the late night schedule has shifted around through the years causing the ABC program Nightline to air as late as an hour and a half after its network slot and Jimmy Kimmel Live! as many as two hours after its network slot in some years. Both Nightline and Jimmy Kimmel Live! air back to back as they do across many affiliates, but are tape-delayed 30 minutes in favor of a newly created Channel 5 News at 10:30 broadcast. Because of the delay, both Nightline and Kimmel were broadcast in standard definition because KRGV did not yet have the capability to record the two programs in HD for later rebroadcast. This all changed in 2009, when KRGV began recording network and syndicated programming in HD, enabling both Nightline and Kimmel to be seen in HD.

Digital television

The station's digital channel, VHF 13, is multiplexed: Digital channels>
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Video Aspect
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Programming
5.1 720i  16:9
16:9
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main KRGV programming HD/ ABC HD
5.2 480i
480i
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4:3  LATV
LATV
LATV is a bilingual music and entertainment network. LATV has been on the air in the Los Angeles market as KJLA since 2001 and is distributed through mostly digital television subchannels throughout the United States and Puerto Rico....

 programming
5.3 480i
480i
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4:3  RTV
Retro Television Network
The Retro Television Network is a system of television stations that airs classic television shows as well as more recently produced programs...

 programming
Me-TV (starting 1/14/12)
5.4 480i
480i
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4:3  First Warn Doppler Radar HD


Like many other HD channels on the local Time Warner Cable system, KRGV-DT can be picked up on basic cable by connecting the cable directly into an HDTV with a built-in QAM tuner, channel 102.1 or 79.1 (depending on location).

On June 12, 2009, KRGV-TV left channel 5 and moved to channel 13 when the analog to digital conversion was completed.

News Operation

On August 24, 2009, KRGV extended the newscast by 30 minutes, ending at 11 p.m. This made the station one of the few in the nation to have a 10:30 p.m. newscast. KRGV is now one of four ABC affiliates and the only station not owned by Hearst Television to have hour-long 10 p.m. newscasts, along with KOAT-TV
KOAT-TV
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 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. The city population was 545,852 as of the 2010 Census and ranks as the 32nd-largest city in the U.S. As...

, KITV
KITV
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 in Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
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 and WISN
WISN-TV
WISN-TV, virtual channel 12.1 , is a television station located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin serving as an affiliate of the ABC television network. Its signal covers most of southeastern Wisconsin and parts of northeastern Illinois, including Racine, Kenosha, Sheboygan and Waukesha...

 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the...

.

On September 9, 2009, KRGV began broadcasting in high definition. Along with the switch was a new HD set, graphics from Giant Octopus, and name change. NewsChannel 5 is now known as Channel 5 News. KRGV had been running promotions on the change to HD. KRGV also changed its logo now showing just "5" on a blue background instead of the NewsChannel 5 logo it previously had. In September 2010, KRGV became a fully powered high definition television station. KRGV started shooting and editing in brand new state of the art HD Cameras and HD editing suites making KRGV the premiere High Definition News Leader.

In September 2010, KRGV began expanded Channel 5 News This Morning by a half hour, pushing the start time back another 30 minutes to 4:30 a.m. The newscast is broadcast live in the newsroom and hosted by anchor Jordan Williams. Co-anchor Dina Herrera-Garza joins Williams at 5:30 a.m.

On April 2, 2011, KRGV expanded their morning newscast now being available on Saturday Mornings at 8 a.m. and Sunday Mornings at 9 a.m. On April 1st, 2011, it was revealed to viewers of the new additions. Both Newscasts will anchored by Camaron Abundes and Polo Sandoval and Weather anchored by Weather Forecaster Monica Vaughan. Also revealed was a new set and a new weather center that was rumored to be under construction during the month of March. A new 4 p.m and 6:30 p.m newscast began airing September 12th 2011.

Newscast titles

  • Valley News Parade/The Ten O'clock News (1954-1958)
  • Newsbeat (1958-1964)
  • The 6 O'clock Report-Newswise/The 10 O'clock Report-Newswise (1964-1967)
  • The 6 O'clock Report/The 10 O'clock Report (1967-1970)
  • Big Five News (1970-1976)
  • Eyewitness News
    Eyewitness News
    Eyewitness News is a style of news broadcasting used by local television stations in different markets across the United States. It refers to a particular style of television newscast with an emphasis on visual elements and action video...

     (1976-2000)
  • NewsChannel 5 (2000-2009)
  • Channel 5 News (2009-present)

Station slogans

  • When it matters to you, it matters to 5. (1990s-2002)
  • The Rio Grande Valley's NewsChannel and The Valley's NewsChannel (first used July 2002, trademarked by KRGV)
  • Breaking News. Breaking Stories. Breaking the Mold. (2002-2009)
  • Breaking News. Breaking Stories. (2009-present)

Current on-air staff

Anchors
  • Oscar Adame - Weekdays @ 5 & 10 PM
  • Letty Garza - Weekdays @ 6 & 10 PM
  • Rick Diaz - Weekdays @ 6 PM
  • Lisa Cortez - Weekdays @ 5 PM
  • Eddie Flores - Weekends
  • Dina Herrera Garza - Weekday Mornings & Noon
  • Jordan Williams - Weekday Mornings
  • Camaron Abundes - Weekends Saturday @ 8am & Sunday at 9am


Reporters
  • Polo Sandoval
  • Erica Proffer
  • Farrah Fazal
  • Bill Barajas
  • Manuel De la Rosa
  • Melissa Correa
  • Stephanie Bertini
  • Kirk Chassion
  • Stephanie Zeplin
  • Joe Agustine

First Warn 5 Weather
  • Chief Meteorologist Tim Smith - Weekdays @ 5, 6 & 10 PM
  • Meteorologist Alan Shoemaker - /Weekends @ 6,10 PM(Sat)5:30,10 PM(Sun)
  • Meterologist Lisa Villegas - Weekday Mornings & Noon
  • Forecaster Monica Vaughan - Weekend Mornings


Sports
  • Vince Erickson
  • Joel Villanueva
  • Dave Brown

See also

  • WBRZ-TV
    WBRZ-TV
    WBRZ, virtual channel 2 , is an ABC affiliate television station serving Baton Rouge, Louisiana, south-central and southeastern Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi. It is owned by the Manship family, who also publishes the Baton Rouge daily newspaper, The Advocate. Its transmitter is located in...

     / The Advocate (KRGV's sister properties in Baton Rouge)

External links

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