KVVL-TV

KVVL-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for Del Rio, Texas. Licensed to Del Rio, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 33 (or virtual channel 33.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in midtown Del Rio. Owned by Media General, KVVL has sales and administrative offices ten miles east of Del Rio near the county line with Edwards.

Early History
The station was founded on June 1970 and first went on the air the next month. Some of ABC's programming was available on San Antonio's KSAT-TV (Channel 12), Midland-Odessa's KMID-TV (Channel 2), and Abilene's KTXS-TV (Channel 12), all of which are available on cable in most parts of the region. From its sign on until its acquirement by Nationwide Communications (which made the station an affiliate of the ABC television network) in 1980, the station has been an independent station serving Real, Uvalde, Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde and Terrell Counties. Due to growing ambitions to lure Abilene, Odessa-Midland and San Antonio viewers away, it decided to opt syndicated programming such as "Dynasty", "The Joker's Wild", "Texas", "The Oprah Winfrey", "Mary Tyler Moore" and "Jerry Springer". It was sold to Media General in 1989.

Acquirement by Nationwide
In June 1980, Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Communications, Inc. acquired the station from United Artists Broadcasting, a subsidiary of San Francisco, California-based Transamerica Corporation. This partnership eventually made it a charter affiliate of ABC.

Sale to Media General
In September 1989, Nationwide Communications sold KVVL to Richmond, Virginia-based Media General, which, earlier that year, helped the station develop its news department.

On September 8, 2015, Media General, announced that it would acquire Des Moines, Iowa-based Meredith Corporation (owner of CBS affiliates KTLP-TV and KEGP-TV) by June 2016. But due to FCC regulations, Media General decided to keep these stations and convincing Meredith to sell the CBS affiliates to Cox Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group.