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KNVA, virtual channel 54 (UHF digital channel 49), is a CW-affiliated television station located in Austin, Texas, United States. The station is owned by Vaughan Media; Media General, which owns NBC affiliate KXAN-TV (channel 36) and MyNetworkTV affiliate KBVO (channel 14), operates KNVA under a local marketing agreement. All three stations share studios on West Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard between the Clarksville section of Austin and the University of Texas at Austin campus, KNVA's transmitter is located at the West Austin Antenna Farm north of West Lake Hills. Syndicated programming seen on KNVA includes ''The Jerry Springer Show'', ''The Doctors'', ''Everybody Loves Raymond'' and ''The Middle''. ==History== According to an ''Austin American-Statesman'' article and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) records, 54 Broadcasting applied for the license for the station in 1989; it was to have been assigned the call letters KCFP, but it could not economically start up the station until signing a local marketing agreement with LIN TV five years later in 1994.〔http://austintvnews.com/switch3.html〕〔http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=144&Callsign=KNVA〕 KNVA first signed on the air on August 31, 1994 as a 24-hour feed of KXAN's live weather network and Doppler weather radar. It became an independent station for a short time before affiliating with The WB as a charter station the following year on January 11, 1995. During this time, the station was branded as "KNVA 54" and carried off-network sitcoms, drama series and cartoons. In 2001, the station was rebranded "Austin's WB 54", before finally settling on "Austin's WB". On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that the two companies would shut down The WB and UPN and combine the networks' respective programming to create a new "fifth" network called The CW.〔('Gilmore Girls' meet 'Smackdown'; CW Network to combine WB, UPN in CBS-Warner venture beginning in September ), CNNMoney.com, January 24, 2006.〕〔(UPN and WB to Combine, Forming New TV Network ), ''The New York Times'', January 24, 2006.〕 One month later on February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced the launch of a new "sixth" network called MyNetworkTV, which would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television, to give UPN and WB stations that were left out from The CW's affiliate roster another option besides converting to independent stations.〔(News Corp. Unveils MyNetworkTV ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', February 22, 2006.〕 At first, those moves put KNVA's future in doubt, as UPN affiliate KCWX (channel 2, now a MyNetworkTV affiliate) was announced as the affiliate of The CW. However, that station is considered part of the San Antonio market, although it had been supplying the Austin area with UPN programming. Viewers were left speculating that KNVA's only options would be to join MyNetworkTV or revert to being an independent station. But in a surprise move on April 18, LIN TV announced that KNVA would join The CW. KCWX now no longer serves Austin and CW programming on that station began to be blocked out by Time Warner Cable effective October 1, 2006. KCWX's syndicated programming continued to be shown on Time Warner Cable until April 3, 2007 when the provider officially dropped the station from its Austin systems. Over a week later on April 26, 2006, it was announced that KNVA would also carry MyNetworkTV as a secondary affiliation.〔(My LIN TV: 4 More For New Fox Net ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', April 26, 2006.〕 To date, KNVA was one of two stations in the country carrying both The CW and MyNetworkTV (the other being KWKB in Iowa City, Iowa, which would also drop MyNetworkTV and become a sole CW affiliate in September 2011. Until 2014, Columbia, South Carolina's existing MyNetworkTV affiliate WKTC added a primary CW affiliation while retaining MyNetworkTV as a secondary affiliation on its main channel, making it currently the only station in the United States to carry both networks). On August 1, a video posted to the KNVA/KXAN shared website revealed the station would be officially branded as "The CW Austin" with MyNetworkTV programming branded as "MyNetworkTV on The CW Austin". On October 21, 2009, sister station KBVO picked up the MyNetworkTV affiliation for the Austin market, leaving KNVA solely with The CW. That station had been serving as a semi-satellite of KXAN.〔(LIN Launches MyNet Station on KBVO Austin ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', October 21, 2009.〕 Vaughan Media acquired a majority stake in 54 Broadcasting, Inc. on July 27, 2009 from an ownership group that included now-former KEYE-TV news anchor Ron Oliveira, who sold off his share of the station as part of the deal. LIN TV continues to hold a small (4.5 percent) stake in the station. On March 21, 2014, Media General announced that it would purchase LIN Media and its stations, including KXAN-TV, KBVO, and the LMA and 4.5-percent stake in KNVA, in a $1.6 billion merger. The merger was completed on December 19.〔(Media General Completes Merger With LIN Media ), Press Release, Media General, Retrieved 19 December, 2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KNVA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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