KRGV-TV

KRGV-TV is the local ABC affiliate television station for the Rio Grande Valley in far south Texas (Brownsville, Harlingen, McAllen and South Padre Island). It is licensed to Weslaco, Texas, with studios located on East Expressway (I-2/US 83) in Weslaco and transmitter in Santa Maria, Texas. It is owned by the Manship family of Baton Rouge, Louisiana through Mobile Video Tapes, Incorporated which often does business as KRGV-TV Corporation. KRGV is available as digital channel 5 and high definition channel 875 on Time Warner Cable. KRGV is also available on channel 5 in both standard definition and high definition on DirecTV and Dish Network

Station history

KRGV signed on in 1954 as a primary NBC affiliate, sharing ABC programming with KGBT-TV. 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 signed on in 1981. In 1995, KRGV added a secondary affiliation with UPN (it had carried the first season of the network's Star Trek: Voyager on a standalone basis before signing as a formal secondary affiliate that June); the following year, UPN programming moved to KVEO, also on a secondary basis.