KXVO [SEP] inception
station is available on Cox Communications channel 11 and CenturyLink Prism channel 15.
History.
KXVO signed on the air on June 10, 1995 as an affiliate of The WB, which debuted nationally almost five months earlier on January 11 of that year; the station was originally owned by Cocola Broadcasting, but was operated by Pappas Telecasting under a local marketing agreement. In the interim six months, Omaha did have access to the WB via cable and satellite providers through Chicago-based national superstation WGN. Cocola would later sell
on the station when the network launched on September 18 of that year.
On January 16, 2009, it was announced that several Pappas stations, including sister station KPTM, would be sold to New World TV Group, after the sale received United States bankruptcy court approval. The LMA between KXVO and KPTM continued after the deal was finalized.
After KFXL-TV in Lincoln switched from The CW to Fox in 2009, KXVO became that market's default CW affiliate on DirecTV. Since its inception, KXVO has also