20 Facts About KNVA

KNVA is a television station in Austin, Texas, United States, serving as a de facto owned-and-operated station of The CW.

Boulevard and San Gabriel Street, while KNVA's transmitter is located at the West Austin Antenna Farm on Mount Larson .

Channel 54—as KNVA —began test broadcasts on August 24,1994, in order to meet an FCC-required deadline to commence broadcasts by the end of that month to maintain the license.

The format—which included breakaways for brief commercial breaks and customary station identifications—could allow KNVA to provide supplementary live coverage from the KXAN weather staff in severe weather situations that did not warrant extended coverage on Channel 36.

Meanwhile, KNVA managing partner LIN TV acquired the UPN affiliation, but opted to carry the network on seven low-power repeaters of KXAN.

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On January 9,1995, KNVA switched to a family-oriented general entertainment programming format, with program selections made based on suggestions from Central Texas residents; it originally carried a mix of classic and some recent off-network sitcoms and drama series, some feature films, first-run syndicated programs, animated series, rebroadcasts of KXAN's local newscasts and a limited amount of Spanish-language programming.

KNVA gradually evolved its programming slate during the late 1990s, scaling back many of the classic sitcom reruns that populated its schedule and shifting its focus more towards a lineup consisting primarily of family-oriented sitcoms and first-run talk shows during the daytime hours, and more recent sitcoms and first-run and off-network drama series as well as select reality series at night.

KNVA switched to identifying as simply "Austin's WB" in September 2003, amid a growing trend among Austin's UHF television stations of reducing their dependence on referencing their over-the-air channel allocation due to the high cable penetration rate within the market in order to receive UHF signals that were otherwise impaired by the Hill Country's rugged terrain.

Over a week after the CW affiliation announcement, on April 26,2006, LIN—as part of a separate contract covering sister stations WNDY-TV in Indianapolis, WCTX in Hartford–New Haven and WXSP-CD in Grand Rapids—announced that KNVA would become a charter outlet of MyNetworkTV, offering its programming on a secondary basis.

KNVA-DT2 is the Grit-affiliated second digital subchannel of KNVA, broadcasting in standard definition on UHF channel 23.

KNVA originally launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 54.

On October 25,2010, KNVA-DT2 converted into an affiliate of TheCoolTV, as a result of then-parent LIN Media having signed a deal with Cool Music Network LLC to carry the music video network on the group's stations in eleven of the 17 markets where it operated stations at the time; LIN dropped the network from KNVA and its sister stations elsewhere in the U S – and decommissioned the 54.

KNVA-DT3 is the Laff-affiliated third digital subchannel of KNVA, broadcasting in standard definition on UHF channel 23.

On January 29,2016, as part of Media General's agreement with Katz, KNVA launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 54.

KNVA-DT4 is the Ion Mystery-affiliated fourth digital subchannel of KNVA, broadcasting in standard definition on UHF channel 23.

On October 13,2017, as part of a June 2016 agreement between Nexstar Media Group and Katz Broadcasting to affiliate 81 stations with one or more of Katz's four multicast networks, KNVA launched a digital subchannel on virtual channel 54.

KNVA currently carries the entire CW network schedule, offering its programming in pattern.

KNVA was announced as the flagship station for Austin FC starting with the 2021 season.

KNVA shut down its analog signal on June 12,2009, as part of the FCC-mandated transition to digital television for full-power stations.

KNVA is rebroadcast on five digital Class A translator stations across Central Texas – all owned by Nexstar Media Group and utilizing call signs that reference their former alliance under the defunct Hill Country Paramount Network service – located in communities surrounding Austin:.