KEYE-TV

KEYE-TV

Austin, Texas United States
Channels	Digital: 34 (UHF) Virtual: 42
Branding	CBS Austin Telemundo Austin; Noticiero Austin (DT2)
Programming
Affiliations	42.1: CBS 42.2: Telemundo
Ownership
Owner	Sinclair Broadcast Group (KEYE Licensee, LLC)
History
First air date	December 4, 1983 (40 years ago) (1983-12-04)
Former call signs	KBVO-TV (1983–1995)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 42 (UHF, 1983–2009) Digital: 43 (UHF, 2003–2019)
Former affiliations	Independent (1983–1986) Fox (1986–1995)
Call sign meaning	The CBS Eye
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	33691
ERP	1,000 kW
HAAT	395 m (1,296 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	30°19′19.3″N 97°48′12.6″W / 30.322028°N 97.803500°W / 30.322028; -97.803500
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	cbsaustin.com

KEYE-TV (channel 42) is a television station in Austin, Texas, United States, affiliated with CBS and Telemundo. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station maintains studios on Metric Boulevard in North Austin and a transmitter on Waymaker Way on the city's west side.

Channel 42 began broadcasting on December 4, 1983, as KBVO-TV. Owned by Austin Television, a consortium of three groups that sought the license, it was Austin's first new commercial TV station since 1971 and its first local independent station. Originally emphasizing movies in its schedule, the station broadened its appeal by affiliating with the new Fox network at its launch in October 1986.

In 1994, Fox announced it would move its local affiliation to KTBC, the previous CBS affiliate, in July 1995. Austin Television, by this point owned by Darrell Cannan of Wichita Falls and KBVO-TV general manager Steve Beard, sold the station to Granite Broadcasting; Granite in turn secured an affiliation with CBS. The affiliation switch in Austin took place on July 2, 1995. On that day, channel 42 became KEYE-TV and began broadcasting local newscasts, which typically have been in third- or fourth-place positions in local ratings. After Granite purchased two large-market WB affiliates, it sold KEYE-TV to the CBS network in 1999.

CBS sold four of its smaller-market media properties, including KEYE-TV, to Cerberus Capital Management in 2007; the stations were grouped under the Four Points Media Group name and later run under contract by Nexstar Broadcasting Group. During this time, the station flipped one of its digital subchannels to an affiliate of Telemundo, complete with Spanish-language local newscasts produced by the KEYE-TV newsroom. Sinclair Broadcast Group acquired the Four Points stations in 2011.