KHSV

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KHSV
KHSV21logo.png
Las Vegas, Nevada
United States
ChannelsDigital: 2 (VHF)
(applied for 21 (UHF)[1])
Virtual: 21
BrandingKHSV-TV
Programming
Affiliations21.1: H&I
21.2: Decades
21.3: Circle
21.4: Antenna TV
21.5: Start TV
21.6: QVC
Ownership
OwnerHoward Stirk Holdings
(Channel 33, Inc.)
History
First air date
January 23, 1955 (67 years ago) (1955-01-23)
Former call signs
KLRJ-TV (January–September 1955)
KORK-TV (September 1955–1979)
KVBC (1979–2009)
KVBC-DT (2009–2010)
KSNV-DT (2010–2014)
KVMY (2014–2016)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
2 (VHF, 1955–1967)
3 (VHF, 1967–2009)
Digital:
2 (VHF, 1999–2014)
Primary:
NBC (1955–2014)
Both secondary:
ABC (1955–1956)
NTA (1956–1961)
Call sign meaning
Howard Stirk Holdings (station owner)
Las Vegas
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID69677
ERP27.7 kW
1,000 kW (application)[1]
HAAT386 m (1,266 ft)
Transmitter coordinates36°0′31″N 115°0′20″W / 36.00861°N 115.00556°W / 36.00861; -115.00556
Translator(s)K26NP-D 26 Overton
Links
Public license information
Profile
LMS

KHSV, virtual channel 21 (VHF digital channel 2), is a television station licensed to Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, which carries various multicast specialty television networks on digital subchannels. The station is owned by Howard Stirk Holdings. KHSV's transmitter is located on Black Mountain, near Henderson (southwest of I-515/US 93/US 95).

Under ownership of the Sinclair Broadcast Group as KVMY, the station previously served as the MyNetworkTV affiliate for Las Vegas. After Sinclair purchased NBC affiliate KSNV-DT (channel 3) from Intermountain West Communications Company, the company stated that it would divest the license of either KSNV, CW affiliate KVCW (channel 33), or KVMY to a third-party. On November 4, 2014, the existing KSNV-DT license was renamed KVMY, and KVMY was renamed KSNV; both stations simulcast KSNV's NBC programming on their main signals until January 1, 2015 when KVMY dropped the simulcast, and MyNetworkTV was moved to KVCW's second subchannel. Later that month, it was disclosed that the KVMY license would be divested to Howard Stirk Holdings.

History[]

Early years[]

The station went on the air as KLRJ-TV on VHF channel 2 on January 23, 1955; it was originally licensed to Henderson and was owned by Southwestern Publishing Company along with the Las Vegas Review-Journal and KORK radio (920 AM, now KRLV; and 97.1 FM, now KXPT). In September 1955, it changed its calls to KORK-TV to match its radio sisters, and soon after moved its city of license and studio facilities to Las Vegas. It has always been an NBC affiliate, but shared ABC with KLAS-TV (channel 8) until KSHO-TV (channel 13, now KTNV-TV) signed on in 1956. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.[2] In 1960, the Donrey Media Group (later Stephens Media) bought the Review-Journal and the KORK stations.

In 1967, KORK-TV moved to channel 3 in order to operate from Potosi Mountain without being short-spaced to KNXT (now KCBS-TV) in Los Angeles, which also operated on channel 2;[3] this move would also allow KTVN in Reno to begin operations on channel 2 on June 4 of that year. In 1971, a group of local residents led by Las Vegas attorney Jim Rogers began an effort to take control of channel 3. Rogers' group gained more support when Donrey began to heavily preempt NBC programming in order to sell more local advertising in the late 1970s. NBC was far less tolerant of programming preemptions than the other networks at the time. The most notable of these preemptions was the 1978 World Series, angering both NBC and several Las Vegas area viewers, some of whom filed complaints to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Facing pressure from both NBC and the FCC, Donrey was forced to sell the station to the Rogers group's holding company, Valley Broadcasting Company, in 1979. Donrey retained KORK radio and as a result on October 1, 1979, the TV station changed its call letters to KVBC, reflecting the new ownership (the change was made due to a now-repealed FCC rule that forbade TV and radio stations in the same market, but with different ownership from sharing the same call letters).

On March 6, 1972, KORK-TV's original building was completely destroyed by a fire, forcing the station to knock off the air indefinitely. Out of around 50 people at the building, no injuries were reported. As for the building, its microwave antennas were destroyed in the fire, as well as tapes and films NBC brought in were either damaged or destroyed.

In the late 1980s, KVBC's sign-on to sign-off ratings climbed to an all-time high, thanks in part to a strong primetime lineup by NBC.[4]

Two major "events" aided KVBC's rise to the top. In May 1988, an explosion and fire rocked the Pacific Engineering and Production Company (PEPCON) in Henderson. KVBC ended up knocking off the air for a few minutes due to its transmitter facilities atop Black Mountain were positioned just above the blast site. Once KVBC was back on the air, it was the first local station to continuously broadcast its breaking news coverage of the explosion. Later that year, CBS produced 48 Hours in Las Vegas, a feature about Las Vegas that portrayed the city as full of gamblers and riddled by crime. In response, KVBC produced a one-hour documentary entitled Las Vegas, Beyond 48 Hours, which painted a more realistic picture of "Sin City" and its residents.

KVBC was first to document The Mirage volcano explosion during its initial test in front of an unsuspecting nighttime audience.

With the digital transition completed, the station officially added the -DT suffix to its legal call sign on June 23, 2009.[5]

As KSNV[]

On June 18, 2010, KVBC filed an application with the FCC to change the station's call letters to KSNV-DT, reflecting the renaming of Valley Broadcasting Company (which by this time, was a subsidiary of Sunbelt Communications Company that held the station's license) to Southern Nevada Communications, as well as better reflecting the station's relationship with sister stations KRNV-DT in Reno and KENV-DT in Elko.[6] The change to KSNV-DT became official on July 9, 2010.[5][7]

Jim Rogers died of cancer on June 14, 2014, at the age of 75.[8]

Sale to Sinclair, license swap[]

On September 3, 2014, Intermountain West Communications announced that it would sell KSNV-DT to Sinclair Broadcast Group for $120 million. As Sinclair already owned a duopoly in Las Vegas, KVMY (channel 21) and KVCW (channel 33), the company planned to sell the license assets (though not the programming) of one of the three stations to comply with FCC ownership restrictions, with the divested station's programming being moved to the other stations.[9] 80–85% of proceeds from the sale will go toward the formation of the Rogers Educational Foundation, which will support students and educators in Southern Nevada.[10]

On November 1, 2014, KSNV began the process of swapping signals with KVMY; KVMY moved its MyNetworkTV programming to a subchannel of KVCW, which was replaced by a simulcast of KSNV-DT's programming. Additionally, the two stations swapped virtual channel numbers, which moved KVMY to channel 3, and KSNV to channel 21. On November 4, 2014, the call letters on KVMY's license were changed to KSNV, and the existing KSNV license changed its call letters to KVMY. These moves effectively put KSNV under Sinclair ownership, operating under the license for the former KVMY. Indeed, the licensee for KSNV still reads "KUPN Licensee, LLC"—reflecting KVMY's former call letters. The previous channel 3 license was later sold to Howard Stirk Holdings.[11][7] A similar swap occurred during Sinclair's acquisition of WCIV in Charleston, South Carolina, in which its ABC programming and call sign were moved to another Sinclair-owned signal, and the previous WCIV channel 4 license (renamed WMMP, now WGWG) was sold to Howard Stirk Holdings, though the PSIP channel number was not swapped.[12][13] Sinclair could not buy KSNV-DT outright because Las Vegas has only seven full-power stations—one too few to legally permit a duopoly. The FCC requires a market to have eight unique station owners after a duopoly is formed. With the sale's completion, Sinclair now controls half of those stations. It also created a situation in which a CW affiliate is the nominal senior partner in a duopoly involving an NBC affiliate and a "Big Four" station.

Cozi TV was dropped by the station on January 1, 2016; it was later replaced by Decades.

On March 7, 2016, the callsign was changed to KHSV.[14] A month before, it switched to Heroes and Icons.

Digital television[]

Digital channels[]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect Short name Programming[15]
21.1 480i 16:9 H&I Heroes & Icons
21.2 DECADES Decades
21.3 CIRCLE Circle
21.4 4:3 ANTENNA Antenna TV
21.5 16:9 START Start TV
21.6 QVC QVC

Analog-to-digital conversion[]

KSNV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 3, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 2.[16] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 3. As mentioned above, KSNV moved their signal on November 1, 2014 to the digital channel 21 formerly used by KVMY. KSNV was one of the few major network affiliates to utilize channel 2 for their digital broadcasts; low-VHF channels have been very prone to interference in the digital age, though the relatively flat terrain of southern Nevada and northern Arizona made this interference much less of a factor than areas with varied terrain.

Newscasts[]

In 2003, KHSV (as KVWB) established a news department and began airing a primetime newscast at 10 p.m. It was part of Sinclair's centralized News Central operation that was based at the company's headquarters on Beaver Dam Road in Hunt Valley, Maryland. National and international news segments, weather forecasts and some sports segments originated from the company's Hunt Valley facility, while local news and sports segments were based at KFBT/KVWB's Las Vegas studios. The news department was shared with then-independent station KFBT (channel 33; now KVCW), which aired its own local newscast at 7 p.m. It also aired The Point, a one-minute conservative political commentary, that was required to be broadcast on all Sinclair-owned stations with newscasts. The news department was shut down at the beginning of March 2006, as were the majority of Sinclair's news operations under the News Central format.

KVWB later entered into a news share agreement with NBC affiliate KVBC (channel 3, now KSNV) to produce a nightly 10 p.m. newscast for channel 21. The newscast debuted on April 6, 2006, under the title News 3 at 10 on The WB Las Vegas and was later renamed to News 3 at 10 on MyLVTV following the September switch to MyNetworkTV. The 10 p.m. newscast originated from KVBC's studios on Foremaster Lane in Las Vegas near the border with North Las Vegas. The program was discontinued on December 15, 2006, and moved to KVCW the following Monday. That newscast was also discontinued on September 28, 2009, but was revived in 2015.

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Channel Substitution/Community of License Change". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. November 27, 2020. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
  2. ^ "Require Prime Evening Time for NTA Films", Boxoffice: 13, November 10, 1956, archived from the original on June 14, 2009
  3. ^ "Rulemakings" (PDF). Broadcasting. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  4. ^ Las Vegas Review-Journal, Dec 1989
  5. ^ a b "Call Sign History". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved July 10, 2010.
  6. ^ Bornfeld, Steve (19 June 2010). "MEDIA: Channel 3 files request for change of call letters". Stephens Media. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  7. ^ a b "Call Sign History (facility ID 69677)". CDBS Public Access. FCC. Retrieved November 4, 2014.
  8. ^ Koch, Ed (15 June 2014). "Media mogul remembered as 'fearless advocate' for education whose 'charity was unmatched'". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  9. ^ "Sinclair Buying KSNV Las Vegas For $120M". TVNewsCheck. September 3, 2014. Retrieved September 3, 2014.
  10. ^ "KSNV Vegas Proceeds To Fund Education Foundation". Broadcasting & Cable. September 3, 2014. Retrieved September 3, 2014.
  11. ^ "Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. January 28, 2015. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
  12. ^ "DESCRIPTION OF TRANSACTION AND UNIQUE SERVICE TO BE PROVIDED". Howard Stirk Holdings. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  13. ^ "Time to rescan for ABC News 4's new channel". ABCNews4.com. Sinclair Broadcast Group. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  14. ^ Call Sign History - KHSV
  15. ^ RabbitEars TV Query for KHSV
  16. ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2013-12-07.

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