Several years after launching, a dispute emerged affecting Community Broadcasting of Coastal Bend, rooted in a promissory note that was issued in March 1983 in order for new investors to buy into the station. Bank ownership and consolidation with KVCT The studios on Navarro Road, still used by the Victoria Television Group, had previously housed a Devereux Foundation school run by founder Dr. Selecting the call letters KAVU-TV, as had Tibiletti in 1969, the station signed an affiliation contract with NBC and began broadcasting July 21, 1982. In September, the FCC awarded a construction permit to Community Broadcasting, which declared its intention to be on the air by July 4, 1982, preferably as a CBS affiliate. This third filing snarled KEDT's plans to expand, even though the commission had granted a construction permit, because a grant of the Community Broadcasting application would bump KEDT's translator to another channel and created uncertainty around the investment the South Texas Educational Broadcasting Council, owner of KEDT, sought to have channel 25 reserved for noncommercial use. By December 1980, however, an application for a new full-service television station on channel 25 had taken precedence, from Community Broadcasting of Coastal Bend, owned by the Constant family: Dr. 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. KAVU-TV (channel 25) is a television station in Victoria, Texas, United States, affiliated with ABC.
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