KRGB-TV

KRGB-TV, virtual channel 45 (digital channel 26) is a religious independent television station licensed to San Benito, Texas and serving the Rio Grande Valley area in southern Texas. The station is owned by RJH Media. KRGB's stations are located at E. Minnesota Road in McAllen, Texas, while its transmitter is located near La Feria, Texas.

As a spanish language independent
On July 7, 1982, KRGB-TV would launch over the air. The station was originally owned by the locally operated Rio Grande Broadcasting. The station initially aired Spanish language programs (either Spanish dubs of American shows or imported content from Mexico or South America). At the time, the station gained an audience of Hispanic viewers from the Rio Grande area. The station's early success was due to the region's large population of Hispanic people or people of Spanish descent.

On June 6, 1984, Rio Grande Broadcasting would acquire many radio and television stations across Southern Texas, and thus changed its name to South Texas Broadcasters.

As an affiliate of Fox
On October 9, 1986, KRGB-TV would become the Rio Grande Valley's charter affiliate of the newly launched Fox network. Despite this, KRGB-TV would continue broadcasting Spanish language programming due to Fox not having an established primetime schedule until the next year.

In 1989, KRGB-TV would officially become a fulltime Fox affiliate, this was after the launch of KNVO (an affiliate of Univision) started to take some of KRGB-TV's core demographic and licensing several imports was hard for the local owners. Just a year later, KRGB-TV would adopt the branding "Fox 45", in order to fit with the network's new branding standards.

Sale to RJH Media, becoming a religious independent
On March 18, 1994, RJH Media would successfully buy out KRGB-TV from South Texas Broadcasters. While initially retaining the station's Fox affiliation, the station would disaffiliate Fox on September 4 of the same year. The station would switch to a religious independent adopting a branding style in the same vein as other RJH owned television stations. The station, however would retain its syndicated lineup and continued to carry select Fox programming. The latter of which was due to Fox's then current affiliate XHFOX-TV (now La Estrellas affiliate XHTAM-TV) preempting several Fox programs either due to controversial themes or inappropriate topics.

Programming
Syndicated secular programming on KRGB-TV includes The Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle and The Bernie Mac Show. Syndicated religious programming broadcast by WLCT-TV includes A New Believer's Voice with Ronald Hawkins.