KVUE-TV
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Austin, Texas United States |
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| Branding | KVUE (general) KVUE News (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
Where Trust is Earned. (general) Austin's News Station (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 33 (UHF) Virtual: 24 () |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner |
Tegna Media (KVUE Television, Inc.) |
| First air date | September 12, 1971 |
| Call letters' meaning | K-VUE, pronounced "k-view" |
| Sister station(s) | WFAA, KHOU, KENS, KCEN-TV, KAGS-LD, KYTX, KBMT, KIII, KIDY, KXVA |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 24 (UHF, 1971–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 376 m |
| Facility ID | 35867 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°19′19.3″N 97°48′12.6″W / 30.322028°N 97.803500°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.kvue.com |
KVUE, virtual channel 24 (UHF digital channel 33), is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Austin, Texas, United States. The station is owned by Tegna, Inc. KVUE maintains studios located on Steck Avenue (Loop 1) in northwest Austin, and its transmitter is located on the West Austin Antenna Farm just west of downtown Austin (which it shares with KEYE-TV).
The station first signed on the air on September 12, 1971, and was originally operated by Center Broadcasting Co. of Center, Texas (owned by Tolbert Foster). The station was the market's first full-time ABC affiliate; prior to KVUE's sign-on, the network's programming had previously been limited to off-hours clearances on KTBC (channel 7), which carried the network through a secondary affiliation with the network (all three networks of the time – ABC, NBC and CBS – had their programming shoehorned onto KTBC's schedule), though most of the market could pick up San Antonio's KSAT-TV with a decent antenna. Unlike most affiliates with the network in then two-station markets, KHFI-TV (channel 36, now KXAN-TV) did not take on a secondary affiliation with ABC when that station signed on in February 1965.
Universal Communications, the broadcasting arm of The Detroit News, purchased KVUE from Center Broadcasting in 1978. The station was acquired by the Gannett Company in 1986 as part of its purchase of The Detroit News. In 1999, Gannett swapped KVUE to Belo Corporation in exchange for KXTV in Sacramento. Previously, Belo had established a Texas-based cable news channel, Texas Cable News (TXCN), a partnership amongst the company's Texas station properties, including KHOU-TV in Houston, WFAA-TV in Dallas and KENS-TV in San Antonio. With the addition of KVUE, TXCN could provide news and information from the four largest cities in Texas. On June 13, 2013, Gannett announced that it would acquire Belo for $1.5 billion. The sale was completed on December 23, which once again put KVUE under Gannett ownership and reunited the station with several of its sister stations for the first time in 14 years, as well as becoming a sister station to KXTV in Sacramento for the first time.
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