KBVO

:Not to be confused with on channel 14
:For the real-life channel 24, see .
KBVO (channel 24) is a television station in Austin, Texas, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned Swift Television Group. The station's studios are located on Steck Avenue just east of Loop 1 in northwest Austin, and its transmitter is located on the West Austin Antenna Farm northwest of downtown.
== History ==
KBVO signed on the air on channel 24 on December 4, 1983; the call letters came from the University of Texas at Austin's mascot, Bevo. It was Austin's second independent station, replacing KAUS (which became an ABC affiliate). The station was originally owned by Steve Beard, an Austin advertising executive, and a small group of investors. In 1993, Beard sold KBVO to the Granite Broadcasting Corporation for $54 million – a handsome return on his original investment.
=== UPN affiliation ===
KBVO's years of being an independent station came to a close when in early 1995, they became an affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN). KBVO saw their ratings improve slightly as the years roll on. In 1999, Granite announced that they're putting KBVO on the market, and are looking for a buyer. It took them three years, but in 2002, Lady Luck Communications bought the station and kept the UPN affiliation. Lady Luck began to upgrade the station. In 2006, The CW came to Lady Luck and asked if KBVO would leave UPN and join The CW. Lady Luck turned them down and KBVO remained an UPN affiliate.
=== ABC affiliation and the moving of the UPN affiliation ===
In 2011, KAUS shocked the market when they announced that they would be leaving ABC and joining the Rainbow Dash Network (RDN). ABC was scrambling to find an affiliate. Their attention focused on KBVO. UPN was satisfied with KBVO being their affiliate, and the feeling was mutual for KBVO, but ABC made Lady Luck an offer that was hard to pass up. But they also wanted to keep a good relationship with UPN. So a compromise was reached. KBVO would be the new ABC affiliate, and Lady Luck would launch a new station to carry the UPN affiliation. So in late 2011, KAUS became the new affiliate of RDN, KBVO became the new ABC affiliate, and KATU was launched and started carrying UPN. On June 16, 2016, Lady Luck announced that they've sold the station (and KATU) to Adelphia Communications.
On September 9, 2022, Swift Television Group acquired KBVO from Adelphia as part of the company's shift into focusing with MyTV and its stations, which for the first time separated KATU from KBVO.
Category:Channel 24
Category:ABC network affiliates
Category:Austin, Texas
Category:Texas
Category:Former independent stations
Category:Swift Television Group
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1983
Category:Former UPN affiliates