KORO (TV)

KORO, virtual channel 28 (UHF digital channel 27), is a Univision-affiliated television station licensed to Corpus Christi, Texas, United States. Owned by Entravision Communications, it is a sister station to low-power, Class A UniMás affiliate KCRP-CD (channel 41). The two stations share studios on North Mesquite Street in Downtown Corpus Christi; KORO's transmitter is located between Petronila and Robstown.

KORO
Corpus Christi, Texas
United States
BrandingUnivision 28 (general)
Noticias Univision 28 (newscasts)
ChannelsDigital: 27 (UHF)
Virtual: 28 (PSIP)
Affiliations28.1: Univision (1987–present)
28.2: Court TV Mystery
28.3: Laff
28.4: Comet
OwnerEntravision Communications
LicenseeEntravision Holdings, LLC
First air dateApril 1977 (1977-04)[1]
Call sign meaningORO = Spanish for gold
Sister station(s)KCRP-CD
Former channel number(s)Analog:
28 (UHF, 1977–2009)
Former affiliationsAnalog/DT1:
SIN (1977–1987)
DT2:
UniMás (via KCRP-CD, until 2019)
Transmitter power1000 kW
Height287.3 m (943 ft)
Facility ID64877
Transmitter coordinates27°42′29″N 97°38′0″W
Licensing authorityFCC
Public license informationProfile
CDBS
Websitenoticiasya.com/corpus-christi

History
KORO's logo prior to January 1, 2013

KORO was founded in 1977 as a locally owned, mostly independent station airing programming from the Spanish International Network, a forerunner of Univision. The original owners included lawyers, doctors, and other professionals.

The nearly 1,000-foot-tall (300 m) tower was shared by KORO and radio station KBCB (now KRYS-FM).

KORO's call letters are pronounced in station IDs as "Kah-ORO".

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[2]
28.11080i16:9KORO-DTMain KORO programming / Univision
28.2480i4:3Court TV Mystery
28.3Laff
28.4Comet

Analog-to-digital conversion

KORO shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 28, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 27.[3] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 28.

Newscasts
  • En Punto de las Cinco - Noticias Univision 28 (Mondays thru Fridays 5:00–5:30 p.m.)
  • Sólo a las Diez - Noticias Univision 28 (Mondays thru Fridays 10:00–10:30 p.m.)

References
  1. The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says April 15, while the Television and Cable Factbook says April 13.
  2. RabbitEars TV Query for KORO
  3. "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.


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