
Tibiletti had pushed for the commission to assign a second channel to Victoria in 1963. "Joe" Tibiletti, owner of radio station KTXN-FM, for a channel 25 television station-which applied for the KAVU-TV call letters. In February 1969, the FCC granted a construction permit to John J.

History Prior channel 25 permit and early years
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In the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, KAVU-TV's owners expanded with additional low-power TV stations, creating the Victoria Television Group, which provides all major over-the-air television service to the city and also houses the area's only TV news department. In 1989, a bank that came to have financial interests in KAVU and its primary competitor, KVCT, consolidated the two stations' assets into KAVU-TV and spun off the other station.

KAVU-TV was established in 1982 as the second full-service TV station in Victoria. The Victoria Television Group studios are located on North Navarro Street, with transmitter facilities on Farm to Market Road 236 west of the city. Owned by Morgan Murphy Media, it is the largest station in the Victoria Television Group, which also includes the low-power affiliates of NBC ( KMOL-LD channel 17), CBS ( KXTS-LD channel 41), Univision ( KUNU-LD channel 21), Telemundo ( KVTX-LD channel 45), and Cozi TV ( KQZY-LD channel 33) additionally, Morgan Murphy provides certain services to Fox affiliate KVCT (channel 19) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with SagamoreHill Broadcasting.

KAVU-TV (channel 25) is a television station in Victoria, Texas, United States, affiliated with ABC.
