KVMY
Encyclopedia
KVMY, branded as MyLVTV is a full-service television station
in Las Vegas, Nevada
, broadcasting locally in digital
on UHF channel 22 as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV
. Founded March 8, 1982, the station is owned and operated by the Sinclair Broadcast Group
. Its transmitter is located in Henderson, Nevada
.
to build a new full-service television station on UHF channel 21 to serve Las Vegas. The original owner Frank Scott, an early independent casino pioneer in Las Vegas, named his company- Dres Media Inc., and chose KRLR, which contained the first letter of each of his three children's names, for the station's call letters in December 1982. In August 1984, after a couple of extensions to the original construction permit, the station applied for its license to cover construction and went on the air under Program Test Authority. KRLR was an independent station branding itself as Vusic 21, and at first, aired only music videos. In addition to its over-the-air broadcast on channel 21, the station was carried by Prime Cable on channel 2.
The station's first music video aired, was "Video Killed the Radio Star", per Rick Scott, General Manager.
In mid-1985, KRLR began to introduce a few classic television programs, and in mid-1985 began airing World Class Championship Wrestling, a popular one-hour wrestling program originating from Dallas, Texas. KRLR was licensed by the FCC on April 11, 1986. By 1987, the station had replaced the music videos with more conventional fare, and added more pro wrestling programs, inclding the UWF
, AWA
(moving from KTNV-TV) and the NWA
.
In May 1994, Dres Media sold the station for $2.85 million to new owners- Channel 21, LP, a subsidiary of Lambert Broadcasting of Los Angeles
. In January 1995, after nearly eleven years of being an independent, the station became an affiliate of the new UPN
television network, and changed its call letters to KUPN to reflect the new affiliation. One of the most successful turn-around stories in broadcasting, Channel 21 L.P. sold the station just 3 short years later to Sinclair Broadcast Group
in April 1997 for $87 million. Sinclair created the company KUPN Licensee to manage the station's license. The station remains licensed to KUPN licensee as of March 2007. On March 1, 1998, Sinclair changed the station's affiliation to The WB Television Network
(The WB) and on May 27, 1998, changed the station's call letters to KVWB, again in honor of its new affiliation. The station moved to channel 12 on the local cable system in 1999, when Cox Communications
acquired Prime Cable.
In 2003, the station launched a local newscast, combined with Sinclair's own "News Central" national broadcast, at 10:00 p.m.. The local news department was shared with co-owned independent station KFBT "Gold 33", which aired its News Central newscast at 7:00 p.m.. The news department was shut down at the beginning of March 2006. KVWB later entered into an agreement to air a 10:00 p.m. newscast produced by KVBC (now KSNV-DT), the local NBC affiliate. The newscast debuted on April 6, 2006, titled "NEWS 3 at 10 on The WB Las Vegas" and later renamed to "NEWS 3 at 10 on My LV TV". It was discontinued on December 15, 2006, and "NEWS 3 at 10 on The CW Las Vegas" was launched the following Monday on sister station KVCW
. That newscast was also discontinued on September 28, 2009 (only to be revived on KTUD-LD
a month later) and today neither KVMY nor KVCW airs any newscasts at all.
In January 2006, UPN and The WB announced that in September 2006, both networks would cease operations. In their place would be a new network called The CW
. In February 2006, Fox
announced that they would also launch a new network, which they eventually named My Network TV. Sinclair chose to put The CW on their other station in town, the then-independent KFBT, and to put My Network TV on KVWB. In June 2006, anticipating the start of My Network TV, Sinclair changed the station's call letters yet again, and the station became KVMY.
allocations on April 21, 1997, it had assigned UHF channel 20 to KUPN-DT as its digital companion channel. The allocations met with considerable resistance from low-power broadcasters who would be displaced by the DTV allocations, and on February 17, 1998, the FCC issued a revised final DTV allocations table. KUPN's original allocation would have displaced LPTV station KKJK-LP (now KHDF-CA
) and a co-channel TBN
station in Bullhead City, Arizona
, so the FCC substituted UHF channel 22. The station, renamed KVWB-DT, was granted a permit to construct its digital facilities on November 24, 2000. Technical difficulties delayed construction of the full-power facilities, requiring extensions of the construction permit, and on November 8, 2002, KVWB was granted Special Temporary Authority (STA) to construct a low-power facility in order to comply with the FCC deadline for commencing digital broadcasting while the full-power facilities were still being built. The station, now known as KVMY-DT, completed construction of its full-power digital facilities in January 2007, but as of April 2007, has not yet been granted a license.
In 2006, the FCC required each station with a digital companion channel to select which station it would continue to use after the end of the transition period. KVMY-DT has selected channel 22 as its final digital channel and will return the channel 21 license to the FCC. Televisions will still tune to KVMY on channel 21 per the ATSC
virtual channel standards. Regular programming was dropped on February 18, 2009 and was replaced with a broadcast explaining how to switch to digital reception.
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
in Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...
, broadcasting locally in digital
ATSC
ATSC standards are a set of standards developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee for digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable, and satellite networks....
on UHF channel 22 as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
. Founded March 8, 1982, the station is owned and operated by the Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group
The Sinclair Broadcast Group is an American telecommunications company that operates the largest number of local television stations in the United States. Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, it owns a total of 57 stations across the country in 35 primarily small and medium markets, many of...
. Its transmitter is located in Henderson, Nevada
Henderson, Nevada
-Demographics:According to the 2000 census, there were 175,381 people, 66,331 households, and 47,095 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,200.8 people per square mile . There were 71,149 housing units at an average density of 892.8 per square mile...
.
History
The station began its existence March 8, 1982 with a construction permit issued by the FCCFederal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
to build a new full-service television station on UHF channel 21 to serve Las Vegas. The original owner Frank Scott, an early independent casino pioneer in Las Vegas, named his company- Dres Media Inc., and chose KRLR, which contained the first letter of each of his three children's names, for the station's call letters in December 1982. In August 1984, after a couple of extensions to the original construction permit, the station applied for its license to cover construction and went on the air under Program Test Authority. KRLR was an independent station branding itself as Vusic 21, and at first, aired only music videos. In addition to its over-the-air broadcast on channel 21, the station was carried by Prime Cable on channel 2.
The station's first music video aired, was "Video Killed the Radio Star", per Rick Scott, General Manager.
In mid-1985, KRLR began to introduce a few classic television programs, and in mid-1985 began airing World Class Championship Wrestling, a popular one-hour wrestling program originating from Dallas, Texas. KRLR was licensed by the FCC on April 11, 1986. By 1987, the station had replaced the music videos with more conventional fare, and added more pro wrestling programs, inclding the UWF
Universal Wrestling Federation
The name Universal Wrestling Federation may refer to:*Universal Wrestling Federation , an American professional wrestling promotion owned by Bill Watts...
, AWA
American Wrestling Association
The American Wrestling Association was an American professional wrestling promotion based in Minneapolis, Minnesota that ran from 1960 to 1991. It was owned and founded by Verne Gagne and Wally Karbo...
(moving from KTNV-TV) and the NWA
National Wrestling Alliance
The National Wrestling Alliance is a wrestling promotion company and sanctions various NWA championships in the United States. The NWA has been in operation since 1948...
.
In May 1994, Dres Media sold the station for $2.85 million to new owners- Channel 21, LP, a subsidiary of Lambert Broadcasting of Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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. In January 1995, after nearly eleven years of being an independent, the station became an affiliate of the new UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
television network, and changed its call letters to KUPN to reflect the new affiliation. One of the most successful turn-around stories in broadcasting, Channel 21 L.P. sold the station just 3 short years later to Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group
The Sinclair Broadcast Group is an American telecommunications company that operates the largest number of local television stations in the United States. Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, it owns a total of 57 stations across the country in 35 primarily small and medium markets, many of...
in April 1997 for $87 million. Sinclair created the company KUPN Licensee to manage the station's license. The station remains licensed to KUPN licensee as of March 2007. On March 1, 1998, Sinclair changed the station's affiliation to The WB Television Network
The WB Television Network
The WB Television Network is a former television network in the United States that was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros...
(The WB) and on May 27, 1998, changed the station's call letters to KVWB, again in honor of its new affiliation. The station moved to channel 12 on the local cable system in 1999, when Cox Communications
Cox Communications
Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States...
acquired Prime Cable.
In 2003, the station launched a local newscast, combined with Sinclair's own "News Central" national broadcast, at 10:00 p.m.. The local news department was shared with co-owned independent station KFBT "Gold 33", which aired its News Central newscast at 7:00 p.m.. The news department was shut down at the beginning of March 2006. KVWB later entered into an agreement to air a 10:00 p.m. newscast produced by KVBC (now KSNV-DT), the local NBC affiliate. The newscast debuted on April 6, 2006, titled "NEWS 3 at 10 on The WB Las Vegas" and later renamed to "NEWS 3 at 10 on My LV TV". It was discontinued on December 15, 2006, and "NEWS 3 at 10 on The CW Las Vegas" was launched the following Monday on sister station KVCW
KVCW
KVCW, branded as The CW Las Vegas, is the CW-affiliated television station for Las Vegas. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 29 from a transmitter in Henderson, Nevada southwest of I-515/U.S. 93/U.S. 95...
. That newscast was also discontinued on September 28, 2009 (only to be revived on KTUD-LD
KTUD-CA
KTUD-LD, virtual channel 25.1 , is an independent television station serving the Las Vegas, Nevada market owned and operated by the Greenspun Broadcasting, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Greenspun Corporation...
a month later) and today neither KVMY nor KVCW airs any newscasts at all.
In January 2006, UPN and The WB announced that in September 2006, both networks would cease operations. In their place would be a new network called The CW
The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
. In February 2006, Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
announced that they would also launch a new network, which they eventually named My Network TV. Sinclair chose to put The CW on their other station in town, the then-independent KFBT, and to put My Network TV on KVWB. In June 2006, anticipating the start of My Network TV, Sinclair changed the station's call letters yet again, and the station became KVMY.
Digital television
When the FCC released its initial DTVDigital television
Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...
allocations on April 21, 1997, it had assigned UHF channel 20 to KUPN-DT as its digital companion channel. The allocations met with considerable resistance from low-power broadcasters who would be displaced by the DTV allocations, and on February 17, 1998, the FCC issued a revised final DTV allocations table. KUPN's original allocation would have displaced LPTV station KKJK-LP (now KHDF-CA
KHDF-CA
KHDF-CD is a low-power Class A digital television station in Las Vegas, Nevada, broadcasting locally in digital on UHF channel 19 as an Azteca America-affiliate. Founded on June 15, 1990, the station is owned by Una Vez Mas Holdings, LLC of Dallas, Texas...
) and a co-channel TBN
Trinity Broadcasting Network
The Trinity Broadcasting Network is a major American Christian television network. TBN is based in Costa Mesa, California, with auxiliary studio facilities in Irving, Texas; Hendersonville, Tennessee; Gadsden, Alabama; Decatur, Georgia; Miami, Florida; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Orlando, Florida; and New...
station in Bullhead City, Arizona
Bullhead City, Arizona
Bullhead City is a city located on the Colorado River in Mohave County, Arizona, USA, roughly south of Las Vegas, Nevada, and directly across the Colorado River from Laughlin, Nevada, whose casinos and ancillary services supply much of the employment for Bullhead City...
, so the FCC substituted UHF channel 22. The station, renamed KVWB-DT, was granted a permit to construct its digital facilities on November 24, 2000. Technical difficulties delayed construction of the full-power facilities, requiring extensions of the construction permit, and on November 8, 2002, KVWB was granted Special Temporary Authority (STA) to construct a low-power facility in order to comply with the FCC deadline for commencing digital broadcasting while the full-power facilities were still being built. The station, now known as KVMY-DT, completed construction of its full-power digital facilities in January 2007, but as of April 2007, has not yet been granted a license.
In 2006, the FCC required each station with a digital companion channel to select which station it would continue to use after the end of the transition period. KVMY-DT has selected channel 22 as its final digital channel and will return the channel 21 license to the FCC. Televisions will still tune to KVMY on channel 21 per the ATSC
ATSC
ATSC standards are a set of standards developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee for digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable, and satellite networks....
virtual channel standards. Regular programming was dropped on February 18, 2009 and was replaced with a broadcast explaining how to switch to digital reception.