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10 PM Newscast on Fri. night, Dec. 29th, 1978. - - From videotape & recorded as it happened. Now KVCT, the station was founded in 1969 by KIII-TV 3 in Corpus Christi as a translator. It was sold in 1976 & operated out of a small building & a trailer out on the Port Lavaca Hwy. A tiny UHF station back then, they ran a mere 15KW effective radiated power visual. (That's compared to 5 Million watt UHFs in larger markets). KXIX was an ABC affiliate at the time, but left the air sometime in the 90's & returned as a TBN affiliate, but no longer. As of this writing, it's a FOX affiliate. Back when we had a free country, people REPORTED the news rather than injecting their own bias and snide insinuations that are so prevalent today. Sometimes Ch. 19 had a problem being picked up 5 miles away, but they did a pretty good job on the news overall. The few commercials at the end were recorded about 2 years later and this was the first & only TV station in Victoria at the time. This is 100% real & expert "know-it-alls" that think it isn't are dopey kids or just plain ignorant. .TV Broadcasting began in Texas in 1948. I've made a few short edits & was 24 years old when I recorded it . The idea was to try to capture "the station" itself, rather than just than just a single program. - If that makes any sense. NTSC System M, - Antenna 495 ft. AGL, 500-506 MHz (CH 19) REMOVED from YouTube & placed here. At least it's saved online somewhere before I die. . Other than that, it's just history. Might as well upload it after more than 40 years of sitting on a shelf. . . Cheers.

Long since dried up, the supposedly haunted McDow watering hole in Texas isn't far. It's said that the ghost of Jenny Papworth can be seen periodically after midnight, or your car may stall on the bridge. . She was murdered around the 1850s. . Buck Fiden.