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Retro: Lower Rio Grande Valley Mon, Jan 31, 1983

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Bluenoser

Jumping ahead 6 years from the previous listing ;D
from Valley Morning News
Valley Cable TV had since changed to Heritage Cablevision and the Mexican and Corpus Christi stations long gone...the Morning News' TV listings had evolved as well, switching to TV Data as their provider

KGBT 4-CBS Harlingen
6:00 Buenos Dias
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 $25,000 Pyramid
9:30 Child's Play
10:00 Price is Right
11:00 Young & the Restless
noon NewsCenter 4
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Capitol
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Tattletales
3:30 Scooby-Doo
4:00 Brady Bunch
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 One Day at a Time
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 NewsCenter 4
6:30 Two by Two
7:00 Square Pegs
7:30 Filthy Rich
8:00 M*A*S*H
8:30 Newhart
9:00 Cagney & Lacey
10:00 NewsCenter 4
10:30 Carol Burnett
11:00 Trapper John, MD
mid. Columbo

KRGV 5-ABC Weslaco
5:30 CNN News
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:15 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Hour Magazine
11:00 Family Feud
11:30 Ryan's Hope
noon All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Pink Panther
4:00 Tarzan
5:00 Sanford & Son
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 Jeffersons
7:00 That's Incredible!
8:00 ABC Movie "Confessions of a Married Man"
10:00 Eyewitness News
10:30 M*A*S*H
11:00 Hawaii Five-O
mid. Last Word
1:00 CNN News
1:30 Eyewitness News

K12TV-SIN/Cable Harlingen (were there many SIN cable affiliates?)
5:00 El Oriental cont'd
5:30 No Toca Boton
7:00 Capulina
7:30 Los Polivoces
8:30 La Buena Vibra
9:00 Grandes Novelas
10:30 Hoy Mismo
noon Mundo Latino
1:00 Las Aventuras de Capulina
1:30 Una Limosna de Amor
2:00 Andrea Celeste
3:00 Luisana Mia
4:00 XETU
4:30 Extranos Caminos del Amor
5:00 Mundo Latino
5:30 Noticiero Nacional SIN
6:00 Soledad
6:30 Super Cine
8:30 Vanessa
9:00 24 Horas
10:00 Nocha a Noche
mid. Una Limosna de Amor
12:30 Super Cine
2:30 Grandes Novelas
4:00 Soledad
4:30 24 Horas

KVEO 23-NBC Brownsville
6:30 Early Today
7:00 Today
9:00 Spanish Programs
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Hit Man
11:00 Just Men
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon Don Blakey (local news was part of the early history of the station (launched 1981, shut after a couple of years), but didn't return to ch 23 until 2007, and since January 2010 has been produced out of sister station KDBC El Paso)
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Another World
2:30 Fantasy
3:30 Richard Simmons
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Eight is Enough
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Hardy Boys
7:00 Shogun (pt 1)
10:00 More Real People
10:30 Best of Carson
11:30 Late Night with David Letterman
12:30 NBC News Overnight

KZLN 60-PBS San Benito
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Instructional Programs
3:00 Sesame Street
4:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Daily Feature
5:00 3-2-1 Contact
5:30 Over Easy
6:00 Nightly Business Report
6:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:00 Frontline "In the Shadow of the Capitol" (a look at issues facing Washington's black community)
8:00 Shakespeare Plays "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
11:00 PBS LateNight (JIP, normally started at 10:30)
11:30 Nightly Business Report
 
from Wikipedia, here's what the current RGV TV dial looks like...

2.1 XHRIO-Fox/My/Tr3s
4.1 KGBT-CBS
4.2 Mexicanal
4.3 Immigrante TV
5.1 KRGV-ABC
5.2 LATV
5.3 MeTV
5.4 First Warn Doppler Weather
6 KRGT-LP (Telefrontera)
7 XHAB-Vallevision (Televisa regional)
9.1 XERV-Canal de las Estrellas (and RGV Killer Bees hockey in English-with ads en Espanol)
9.2 Canal 5 (XHGC)
11 XHMTA-Azteca 13 Noreste
12 XHREY-Azteca 13 Noreste
14 XHOR-Azteca 7 Noreste
17 XHTAM-Canal de las Estrellas (the former RGV Fox affil, switching to Spanish in 2002)
20 KVTF-CA (Telefutura)
23.1 KVEO-NBC
23.2 Estrella TV
28 KJST-LP (Telefrontera)
30 KFTN-CA (Telefutura)
32 KTFV-CA (Telefutura)
35 KRZG-CA (Azteca America)
38.1 KMBH-PBS
38.2 V-me
38.3 Valley Catholic Network (KMBH is owned by the local Catholic diocese)
40.1 KTLM-Telemundo
40.3 Tr3s
40.4 Immigrante TV
42 XHRBT-Proyecto 40 (its only affil outside Mexico City)
44.1 KLUJ-TBN
44.2 Church Channel
44.3 JCTV
44.4 Enlace
44.5 Smile of a Child TV
48.1 KNVO-Univision
48.2 KVTF-CA (Telefutura)
48.3 XHRIO-Fox/My/Tr3s
48.4 KSFE-LP (CW)
54 XHVTV-Multimedios
57 KAZH-LP (Azteca America)
64 KNWS-LP (Azteca America)
67.1 XHRIO-Fox/My/Tr3s
67.2 KSFE-LD (CW)
 
Bluenoser said:
Jumping ahead 6 years from the previous listing ;D
from Valley Morning News
Valley Cable TV had since changed to Heritage Cablevision and the Mexican and Corpus Christi stations long gone...
Click to expand...

So when did local television come to Matamoros? I know that XHRIO did not sign on until 1979, but what about the other stations?

Bluenoser said:
K12TV-SIN/Cable Harlingen (were there many SIN cable affiliates?)
Click to expand...

Maybe they picked up off the satellite? The nearest SIN stations were KORO in Corpus Cristi and KWEX in San Antonio, but those stations
signed off at night, while the national SIN feed was 24 hours.

Bluenoser said:
KZLN 60-PBS San Benito
Click to expand...

The station went on the air just a few months prior, in May 1982, which was delayed from 1979, due to lack of funds -- the station would soon close down after a few months, after only getting 400 members at its peak. PBS would not return for good to the Valley until October 1985, when KMBH would sign on on the same channel.

More here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMBH_(TV)
 
There was a point (in the '90s, I think, you can correct me)
when KVEO did not carry "NBC Nightly News," one of only
two stations I can think of that pre-empted it at some point
(Ch. 36 in Charlotte when Group W owned it in the early '80s
is the other).
 
azumanga said:
Bluenoser said:
Jumping ahead 6 years from the previous listing ;D
from Valley Morning News
Valley Cable TV had since changed to Heritage Cablevision and the Mexican and Corpus Christi stations long gone...
Click to expand...

So when did local television come to Matamoros? I know that XHRIO did not sign on until 1979, but what about the other stations?
Click to expand...

The first incarnation of Fox Rio (XHRIO) was XHTX in the 60s, Telesistema Mexicana (Televisa) quickly took it dark, however... Not a lot out there on the Web re: TV history on the Mexican side of the RGV...
 
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