![]() Two groups sought translators: Corpus Christi public television station KEDT and a husband and wife who proposed to rebroadcast KWEX-TV in San Antonio. Interest around channel 25 arose again at the end of the 1970s. The sale was never closed, and the commission dismissed Tibiletti's application for more time to build in 1974. Initially promising to operate a full-service station with possible network affiliation, Tibiletti sold the unbuilt construction permit to K-SIX Television, owners of Corpus Christi station KZTV, in 1971. Tibiletti had pushed for the commission to assign a second channel to Victoria in 1963. "Joe" Tibiletti, owner of radio station KTXN-FM, for a channel 25 television station-which applied for the KAVU-TV call letters. In February 1969, the FCC granted a construction permit to John J. History Prior channel 25 permit and early years In the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, KAVU-TV's owners expanded with additional low-power TV stations, creating the Victoria Television Group, which provides all major over-the-air television service to the city and also houses the area's only TV news department. In 1989, a bank that came to have financial interests in KAVU and its primary competitor, KVCT, consolidated the two stations' assets into KAVU-TV and spun off the other station. KAVU-TV was established in 1982 as the second full-service TV station in Victoria. ![]() The Victoria Television Group studios are located on North Navarro Street, with transmitter facilities on Farm to Market Road 236 west of the city. Owned by Morgan Murphy Media, it is the largest station in the Victoria Television Group, which also includes the low-power affiliates of NBC ( KMOL-LD channel 17), CBS ( KXTS-LD channel 41), Univision ( KUNU-LD channel 21), Telemundo ( KVTX-LD channel 45), and Cozi TV ( KQZY-LD channel 33) additionally, Morgan Murphy provides certain services to Fox affiliate KVCT (channel 19) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with SagamoreHill Broadcasting. ![]() He's a founding member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.KAVU-TV (channel 25) is a television station in Victoria, Texas, United States, affiliated with ABC. In other news, I hear Perez and his wife are expecting their first grandchild soon too! Having worked in varied communities, I am excited to get to know the folks in the Crossroads region. "I found out that retirement is for the birds! And I am ready to get back into the swing. "I also look forward to collaborating with the newsroom on other stories that would be of interest to the Crossroads region," Perez told me. Just last year in 2022, Perez ran for Texas' 27th Congressional District seat. Perez's previous 40 year broadcasting career included meteorology positions with News 4 San Antonio WOAI, KCBS 2 Los Angeles (KNXT when he was hired) and KENS 5 San Antonio.īefore returning to school to earn a degree in meteorology, the University of Texas at Austin grad was a reporter for KMOL San Antonio (now back to the original WOAI call letters). He is "well aware of Gulf Coast weather" because Perez was with KRIS 6 Corpus Christi for nearly 10 years until he retired from TV news in 2020. "Obviously, I am well aware of Gulf Coast weather and by most experts we expect it to be an active hurricane season. "I look forward to working with the KAVU news staff and I appreciate James Munoz's confidence in me," Perez told. Maclovio Perez returns to Texas television weather as the 25 News Now KAVU Victoria chief meteorologist.
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