 During this time, KVAW operated as a Telemundo affiliate serving the immediate Eagle Pass/Piedras Negras area, including local news.In 1996, with Wheeler eyeing coverage in San Antonio where a Telemundo station already existed, he changed the program source to SUR and began simulcasting on an LPTV station, K52EA (now unrelated K17MJ-D).The station's nonexistent signal in San Antonio, however, hampered efforts to force San Antonio's cable systems to carry it.