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Full-power digital · channel 17 · EL PASO, TX
| Facility ID | 49832 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | NPG OF TEXAS, L.P. |
| Community of licence | EL PASO, TX
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 31.80525, -106.48353 |
| Effective radiated power | 263 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 1819.4 m above average terrain · directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | http://www.kvia.com |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | none |
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| facility 795352 | 2 | LPT | |
| facility 795361 | 3 | LPT | |
| facility 795090 | 10 | LPD | |
| KCOS | 13 | DTV | TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY |
| facility 793711 | 14 | LPD | |
| KFOX-TV | 15 | DTV | KFOX LICENSEE, LLC |
| KTSM-TV | 16 | DTV | NEXSTAR MEDIA INC. |
| KDBC-TV | 18 | DTV | KDBC LICENSEE, LLC |
| KTFN | 20 | DTV | ENTRAVISION HOLDINGS, LLC |
| KSCE | 21 | DTV | CHANNEL 38 CHRISTIAN TELEVISION |
| facility 795269 | 22 | LPT | |
| KINT-TV | 25 | DTV | ENTRAVISION HOLDINGS, LLC |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/KVIA-TV | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=KVIA-TV | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.