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KMBH-TV Sold to Entravision

a rarity as the -2 is PBS

Public media just sucks in the RGV. They don't have NPR anymore, PBS is on .2 and with this sale, Entravision is more likely expected to convert KMBH to a commercial station and drop PBS entirely. This would leave no public media station left in the area once it happens.

In fact, the nearest PBS and NPR member outlet to the RGV will be KEDT/TV-FM Corpus Christi (Laredo doesn't have its own PBS or NPR outlets either).
 
Public media just sucks in the RGV. They don't have NPR anymore, PBS is on .2 and with this sale, Entravision is more likely expected to convert KMBH to a commercial station and drop PBS entirely. This would leave no public media station left in the area once it happens.

In fact, the nearest PBS and NPR member outlet to the RGV will be KEDT/TV-FM Corpus Christi (Laredo doesn't have its own PBS or NPR outlets either).

I'm assuming NPR didn't do very well in the past. It also doesn't help that there are zero high-power (above Class A) stations on the American side in the non-commercial portion of the dial.
I would expect KEDT or KLRN to be added to cable systems in the Rio Grande Valley. The RGV would be the second market in Texas to lose its PBS member after Waco (cable systems there added Austin's KLRU instead of Bryan's KAMU (Bryan is technically in the same market as Waco, but could easily be its own market)). In addition, several markets have never had a locally-based PBS, such as Laredo, Abilene, Wichita Falls, San Angelo, Tyler/Longview/Lufkin, and Beaumont/Port Arthur
 
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