KFXV (TV)
Fox affiliate station in Harlingen, Texas, United States
KFXV (channel 60) is a television station licensed to Harlingen, Texas, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Lower Rio Grande Valley. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside McAllen-licensed Univision affiliate KNVO (channel 48), PBS member station KMBH-CD (channel 21), and Class A UniMás affiliate KTFV-CD (channel 32). The stations share studios on North Jackson Road in McAllen; KFXV's transmitter is located near La Feria, Texas.
Prior to being a Fox affiliate, KFXV had been the PBS member station for the Lower Rio Grande Valley as KZLN from 1982 to 1983 and KMBH, owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville, between 1985 and 2014. As a result of a historical quirk, it was built on a channel not reserved for noncommercial use and thus could be sold and become a commercial station. It has operated as a commercial outlet since 2014. The station returned to the air in May 2020, assuming the Fox affiliation from two low-power TV stations also owned by Entravision: McAllen-licensed KMBH-LD and Brownsville-licensed KXFX-CD (channel 67), which today operate as translators of KFXV.
History
KZLN
On April 20, 1977, the Texas Consumer Education and Communications Development Committee (TCECDC), related to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville, filed an application to build a new television station on non-commercially reserved channel 44 in Harlingen; however, in October, TCECDC modified its application to specify channel 60—thus becoming a non-commercial station operating on a non-reserved commercial channel. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted the committee a construction permit on January 24, 1979. The call letters KZLN were assigned that June for the new educational television outlet. Original plans called for the station to be on the air by December 1979 with a bilingual program schedule; however, opposition from Harlingen officials brought those plans to a halt.
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