KVVV ch.16, Galveston, TX?

[bhayes1016]

Someone on the Houston radio board posted this link:
http://www.chalkhillmedia.org/museum/Early_Texas_Broadcasting.htm

There's an ad for a KVVV channel 16 in Galveston. It advertises shows in color, so it must be from the late 60s. I've never heard any of the "old-timers" or historians discuss this station. Anyone know anything?

 

[Smittian]

It had to have gone off the air before Oct. 1972, when KEDT Corpus Christi signed on Channel 16 for the first time.

 

[Braves2005]

> There's an ad for a KVVV channel 16 in Galveston. It
> advertises shows in color, so it must be from the late 60s.
> I've never heard any of the "old-timers" or historians
> discuss this station. Anyone know anything?

The way it looks that KVVV Channel 16 was an NBC/ABC station because it shows after Man From U.N.C.L.E which aired on NBC was 12 O'Clock High which aired on ABC.

Quite possibly,that ad may possibly be from the fall of 1965 because the first season of Man From U.N.C.L.E(1964-1965) aired in Black and White. 12 O'Clock High ended its run on ABC in January 1967.

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Braves 2005 commented:

> The way it looks that KVVV Channel 16 was an NBC/ABC
> station because it shows after Man From U.N.C.L.E which
> aired on NBC was 12 O'Clock High which aired on ABC.
>
> Quite possibly, that ad may possibly be from the fall of
> 1965 because the first season of "Man From
> U.N.C.L.E" (1964-1965) aired in Black and White. 12 O'Clock
> High ended its run on ABC in January 1967.

I doubt that KVVV was ever a network affiliate. Galveston is close enough to Houston that it would be served by the network-affiliated VHF's from nearby Houston.

It is possible that both shows were on KVVV because they were not cleared by the "regular" NBC (KPRC-2) and ABC (KTRK-13) affiliates in Houston. However, I think the ad did not appear until after both shows were cancelled by the network and KVVV began showing synbdicated reruns of the two series. That would be during or sometime after September of 1968.

 

[bhayes1016]

A poster on the Houston radio board says that they aired Star Trek when it first went into syndication, which would be late 60s or maybe early 70s.

 

[rugrats1]

> A poster on the Houston radio board says that they aired
> Star Trek when it first went into syndication, which would
> be late 60s or maybe early 70s.
>

I think KVVV went dark by Summer 1970 at the latest -- I have a SE TX TV Guide from 8/24/1970 (which includes Houston area listings), and it had no listings for KVVV. KHTV (now KHWB) was the sole indy for Houston until KVRL (now KRIV) started up in 1971.

 

[rugrats1]

By the way, was the old KVVV ch.16 related in any way to the present-day KAZH ch.57? It's a Tv Azteca station licensed in Baytown, but its previous calls were KVVV, when it had Value Vision home shopping.