KAVU-TV

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KAVU-TV
Victoria, Texas
Branding	ABC 25 Newscenter 25
Slogan	Your Hometown News
Channels	Analog: 25 (UHF) Digital: 15 (UHF)
Affiliations	ABC
Owner	Saga Communications, Inc. (Saga Broadcasting, LLC)
First air date	July 1982
Sister station(s)	KVCT
Former affiliations	NBC (1982-1994) ABC (secondary, 1989-1994)
Transmitter Power	1298 kW (analog) 900 kW (digital)
Height	312 m (both)
Facility ID	73101
Transmitter Coordinates	28°50′43.4″N, 97°7′34″W
Website	Official site

KAVU-TV, known locally as ABC 25, is a full-service television station in Victoria, Texas. Serving the entire Victoria, Texas metropolitan area as an ABC network affiliate, this station is owned and operated by Saga Broadcasting, as part of a group of six television stations serving the Victoria market.

[edit] History

KAVU was founded on December 7, 1981 but did not take to the air until sometime in 1982. At the time, it began as an NBC network affiliate, but then joined ABC as a secondary affiliate from 1989 to 1994, after the previous affiliate, KVCT (now a Fox affiliate), dropped the ABC affiliation to become a religious station.

In 1994 KAVU would become solely an ABC affiliate.

Today, KAVU and KVCT both operate as sister stations, and also operate the market's NBC, MyNetworkTV, Univision, and Telemundo affiliates via low-power stations and/or digital subchannels.

[edit] News Team

Anchors

Matt Dougherty (Newscenter 25 at 6pm/10pm Anchor)

Lindsay Lozano (Newscenter 25 at 6pm/10pm Anchor)

Shawna Currie (Newscenter 25 at Sunrise Anchor)

Lacey Harris (Newscenter 25 at 5pm/Fox News at 9 Anchor)

Reporters

Jennifer Gayle

Na'Tassia Finley

Ashley Holland

Steve Broussard

Shannon Dillon

[edit] Sports

Don Brubaker

Chase Gallimore

[edit] Weather

Sarah McKenna

David Harker

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KAVU
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KAVU-TV