 The station switched to Telemundo on October 31, 1988.It became the first all-Spanish station on the American side of the Laredo/Nuevo Laredo area.Laredo would not regain a locally-based ABC affiliate until July 2014, when KGNS-TV added the network on a digital subchannel; as a result, cable systems in southwestern Texas would carry both KIII and KSAT (the latter being carried in most areas) as the network's default affiliates for the Laredo market.