KXAN News history

However, due to contractual obligations, it spent more than a year-and-a-half as an independent before joining NBC in 1966.

What was then known as LIN Broadcasting purchased the station in 1979.

The call letters were changed to the current KXAN-TV on October 15, 1987, in reference to then-sister station and fellow NBC affiliate (now owned-and-operated station) KXAS-TV in Fort Worth.

On September 6, 1991, LIN signed on KLNO in Llano to improve KXAN's reach in the Hill Country.

With the channel change came a new set of call letters, KTVV. The station also boosted its transmitter power to five million watts, which more than doubled its coverage area, and for a time billed itself as the most powerful TV station in the Southwest with these changes. It changed that station's call letters to KXAM-TV after about a month on the air and later to the current KBVO on August 3, 2009.

To date, KNVA was one of two stations in the United States to carry The CW and MyNetworkTV (the other being KWKB in Iowa City, Iowa, which until 2011 was the only station that carried the full schedules of both netlets/programming services).

The merger also marked a re-entry into Austin for Nexstar, which had managed CBS affiliate KEYE-TV under a groupwide agreement with the Four Points Media Group before that company's stations were sold to Sinclair at the beginning of 2012.