The Victoria Television Group studios are located on North Navarro Street, with transmitter facilities on Farm to Market Road 236 west of the city.

Two groups sought translators: Corpus Christi public television station KEDT and a husband and wife who proposed to rebroadcast KWEX-TV in San Antonio.

[6] By December 1980, however, an application for a new full-service television station on channel 25 had taken precedence, from Community Broadcasting of Coastal Bend, owned by the Constant family: Dr. George and his wife Ruth.

[9] In September, the FCC awarded a construction permit to Community Broadcasting, which declared its intention to be on the air by July 4, 1982, preferably as a CBS affiliate.

[12] The studios on Navarro Road, still used by the Victoria Television Group, had previously housed a Devereux Foundation school run by founder Dr. George Constant.

[13][14] Several years after launching, a dispute emerged affecting Community Broadcasting of Coastal Bend, rooted in a promissory note that was issued in March 1983 in order for new investors to buy into the station.

[16] Even as the litigation between KAVU-TV and the bank remained under a gag order, further issues arose when former general manager Richard Lee French, who owned 10.9 percent of the company, filed a challenge to its license renewal the next year.

[18] The judge in the federal case would find that the sale to the bank violated the settlement of the state suit; as a result, he also ordered KAVU-TV to pay $28,000 in unpaid royalties to ASCAP.

[33] KAVU-TV was briefly carried in Corpus Christi in 2006 when Time Warner Cable (now Charter Spectrum) entered into a retransmission consent dispute with that city's ABC affiliate, KIII-TV.