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TBN Flip in the Valley

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fredcantu

TBN's full power affiliate in the Valley has flipped its flagship TBN network and its Spanish language Enlace network. Now Enlace gets the primary channel and TBN is a digital subchannel. The big difference is that Enlace now gets the prime channel 9 slot on the Time Warner Cable system.

Enlace is not the only full power Spanish religious TV in the Valley. KMBH the PBS station operated by the Diocese of Brownsville runs Catholic programming in Spanish on a digital subchannel.
 
fredcantu said:
TBN's full power affiliate in the Valley has flipped its flagship TBN network and its Spanish language Enlace network. Now Enlace gets the primary channel and TBN is a digital subchannel. The big difference is that Enlace now gets the prime channel 9 slot on the Time Warner Cable system.

Enlace is not the only full power Spanish religious TV in the Valley. KMBH the PBS station operated by the Diocese of Brownsville runs Catholic programming in Spanish on a digital subchannel.
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Also noteworthy is that the RGV has two non-commercial allotments, KLUJ (TBN) and KMBH (PBS). Given that the market size (at least on the US side of the border) per Nielsen is smaller than markets like Shreveport, that's rather unusual.

Granted that the larger Austin DMA was a rather late bloomer with its population growth, but it has just one NC allotment. (I realize that channel 9 at one time did serve both San Antonio and Austin with the channel 18 allotment reserved for non-commercial use).
 
According to the 1980 Broadcasting Yearbook-- Analog 44 & 60 were both originally commercial assignments. So originally the FCC reserved NO channels in the RGV for non-comm use. I guess the applicants converted the channels to non-comm to fit their business models.
 
fredcantu said:
According to the 1980 Broadcasting Yearbook-- Analog 44 & 60 were both originally commercial assignments. So originally the FCC reserved NO channels in the RGV for non-comm use. I guess the applicants converted the channels to non-comm to fit their business models.
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Don't place too much faith in that old Broadcasting Yearbook -- they were notoriously bad at leaving off the little + sign that denotes non-commercial allocations.
 
As one who was down there, I can assure you that 60 was a non com assignment back in the late 70s. We had a predecessor station to the current PBS down there running on 60 at that time....the late (somewhat) lamented KZLN.
 
I recall KZLN, too. But I was only speaking to the channel assignment. It was commercial. The applicant turned it non-comm.
 
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