Talk:KVIA-TV

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In the mid to late 1970s, when KELP became KVIA, the station adapted the "Pro News" slogan, similar to that with KVII up in Amarillo.

Gary Warner, Al Hinjos, Robert Nitzburg and John Garmon anchored the 6 PM and 10 PM newscasts back in those days. Today, Warner is the only original anchor remaining from the days when KELP became KVIA (as well as when the station switched from Channel 13 to Channel 7 back in 1982).

The station was also the first one in El Paso to provide viewers with a weather radar. That occurred in 1979.

Anybody else who remembers the Pro News days, please pass the info along.

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This is what I removed due to it being sourced by a forum post and being deliberately confrontational. Sorry it was marked minor.

On August 8, 2008 in a Pathetic attempt to compete with KTSM, KVIA Started to claim they were showing their News in HD, while Actually broadcasting in Stretch-o-Vision. this has been reported on the El Paso HDTV Thread at the AVSForum.

Drunken Pirate (talk) 05:16, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

I edited it to say:

On August 8, 2008 KVIA Started to claim they were showing their News in HD, while Actually broadcasting in Stretch-o-Vision. this has been reported on the El Paso HDTV Thread at the AVSForum.

I know this is true I have seen it with my own Eyes, I Even checked the analog channel. There was no difference between the Analog and HD Channel except the HD Channel was stretched. Joeloliv8 06:38, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I wasn't disagreeing with you, I just objected to "in a Pathetic attempt to compete with KTSM", which isn't very encyclopedic and "Pathetic" didn't need to be capitilized. It should still be sourced properly or someone else might remove it. Drunken Pirate (talk) 07:51, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I figured you just wanted me to remove that part since you put it in quotes on your edit summary. I'm sorry about that, but I was mad when I wrote that for obvious reason. I forgot that a lot more people watch these articles, than the Mexican TV channel articles I'm used to editing.  What do you mean by sourced properly? Do you mean put the link in the bottom part, and link to it using the numbers, because I know how to do that. If you mean find another source, I doubt I'll find one. I don't know if you're from this area, but just in case you're not, KVIA is the richest station in the entire DMA including the Juarez area.  I doubt any reputable source like a newspaper, will report about this without solid proof, for fear of being sued.  Joeloliv8 (talk) 18:14, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

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