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KVCW
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HAAT382.9 m (1,256 ft)
Transmitter coordinates36°0′28″N 115°0′24″W / 36.00778°N 115.00667°W / 36.00778; -115.00667
Translator(s)15 (UHF) Las Vegas (city)
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KVCW (channel 33) is a

I-515/US 93/US 95
).

History

Early years

On April 22, 1987, the

B-movie showcase Saturday Fright at the Movies, hosted by Count Cool Rider, which aired at 10 p.m. Count Cool Rider was actually Danny Koker II, son of the station president and also one of the station's owners, who has since gone on to become a respected builder of custom motorcycles,[2] as well as a regular expert on the History Channel series Pawn Stars[3] and host of its spinoff, Counting Cars.[4][5]

As a WB affiliate and return to independence

The station primarily broadcast older movies, sitcoms, and dramas during this era, as well as some Christian

KCNG-LP signed on and picked up the UPN affiliation, immediately asserting network exclusivity in the market and causing providers to drop KCOP and WWOR on their request.[citation needed] The station was rebranded as "Gold 33" and began showing mainly newer syndicated programming. Sinclair completed its purchase of Montecito and Channel 33, Inc. in February 2000, resulting in the creation of the market's first duopoly
between KFBT and KVWB.

As a CW affiliate

On January 24, 2006,

Twentieth Television
. MyNetworkTV was created in order to give stations affiliated with UPN and The WB that were not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates another option besides becoming independent stations, as well as to compete against The CW.

Sinclair chose to affiliate KVWB with MyNetworkTV leaving The CW to join with either low-power UPN affiliate KTUD-CA (channel 25) or KFBT. Sinclair began negotiations with The CW to affiliate KFBT, and in April, when KTUD decided to go independent instead of pursuing a CW affiliation,[11] KFBT was virtually assured The CW affiliation. An affiliation agreement was announced on May 2 and KFBT changed its call letters to the current KVCW on June 19, reflecting its pending affiliation with the new network. KVMY (now KHSV) affiliated with MyNetworkTV, when the network launched on September 5, two weeks before The WB was scheduled to shut down and The CW made its debut; as a result, KVCW rejoined The WB for the network's last two weeks of programming before switching its affiliation to The CW on September 18.

On May 15, 2012, Sinclair and Fox agreed to a five-year affiliation agreement extension for the station group's 19 Fox-affiliated stations until 2017. This included an option, that was exercisable between July 1, 2012, and March 31, 2013, for Fox parent News Corporation to buy a combination of six Sinclair-owned stations (two CW/MyNetworkTV duopolies and two standalone MyNetworkTV affiliates) in three out of four markets; KVCW and KVMY were included in the Fox purchase option, along with stations in

Raleigh (WLFL/WRDC) and Norfolk (WTVZ-TV).[12] In January 2013, Fox announced that it would not exercise its option to buy any of the Sinclair stations in the four markets included in the option.[13]

On August 13, 2013, KSNV-DT announced that the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives would move to KVCW as of August 19. The move of the program was necessitated after KSNV changed its schedule to accommodate a 3 p.m. newscast.[14] On September 3, 2014, Sinclair announced the purchase of KSNV from Intermountain West Communications Company for $120 million. As Sinclair already owns KVCW and KVMY, the company will 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 relocated to the other stations.[15] On November 1, 2014, KVMY's programming was moved to KVCW's second digital subchannel, while KSNV's programming began to simulcast on KVMY's license. 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.

Programming

Sports programming

On February 3, 2021, the Henderson Silver Knights announced a partnership with KVCW to broadcast 10 home games during the team's inaugural season.[16] This partnership would continue in the 2021–22 season.[17]

On May 21, 2021, the

WNBA's Las Vegas Aces announced a partnership with MyLVTV to televise 25 games during the 2021 WNBA season.[18] The Aces later moved to KVVU-TV.[19]

Newscasts

Further information: KSNV § Local news and programming

In 2003, former sister station KVWB established a news department and began airing an hour-long primetime newscast at 10 p.m. It was part of Sinclair's centralized News Central operation that was based at the company's headquarters 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 KFBT, 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, originally titled News 3 at 10 on The WB Las Vegas, debuted on April 4, 2006, and was later renamed to News 3 at 10 on MyLVTV to correspond with KVMY's affiliation switch to MyNetworkTV. The program was discontinued on December 15, 2006, and moved to KVCW the following Monday under the title News 3 at 10 on The CW Las Vegas. On August 11, 2007, KVBC became the second station in the Las Vegas market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in

North Las Vegas
. KVBC also produced a 15-minute sports highlight program called Sports Zone, that aired weeknights at 10:45. Both programs were discontinued on September 28, 2009, and replaced with syndicated programming.

As of August 17, 2015, current sister station KSNV relaunched newscasts on KVCW. Wake Up with The CW Las Vegas airs from 7 to 9 a.m. and the half-hour broadcast of The CW Las Vegas News at Ten, airs at 10 p.m. Both newscasts compete with

KVVU's 7 a.m. segment of Fox 5 News This Morning and the 10 p.m. airing of Fox 5 News at Ten.[20]

Technical information

Subchannels

Subchannels provided by KVCW (ATSC 1.0)[21]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming ATSC 1.0 host
33.1 1080i
16:9
 TheCWLV The CW KTNV-TV
33.2 720p My_LVTV MyNetworkTV KSNV
33.3 480i TBD TBD KLAS-TV
33.4 ThisTV The Nest
33.5 Nest

Analog-to-digital conversion

When the FCC released its initial

UHF channel 32.[22] The allocations met with considerable resistance from low-power broadcasters who would be displaced by the digital channel allocations, and on February 17, 1998, the FCC issued a revised final DTV allocation table.[23] KFBT's original allocation would have displaced low-powered K31DO (now KNBX-CD), so the FCC substituted UHF channel 29 allowing channel 32 to be assigned to KMCC-DT in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, and eliminating a displacement there. KFBT was granted a permit to construct its digital facilities on January 26, 2001. Technical difficulties delayed construction of the full-power facilities requiring extensions of the construction permit.[24]

On November 8, 2002, KFBT 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 KVCW-DT, completed construction of its full-power digital facilities in January 2007 and was granted a license on March 8. Back in 2006, the FCC required each station with a digital companion channel to select which one it would continue to use after the end of the transition period (at that time scheduled for February 17, 2009). KVCW-DT selected channel 29 as its final digital channel and returned the channel 33 license to the FCC.[25] Digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 33. Regular analog programming was dropped on February 18, 2009, with the station participating in the "Analog Nightlight" program for two weeks, with a broadcast explaining how to switch to digital reception.

ATSC 3.0 lighthouse

Subchannels of KVCW (ATSC 3.0)[21]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
3.1 1080p
16:9
 KSNV NBC (KSNV)
8.1 KLAS CBS (KLAS-TV)
13.1 720p KTNV ABC (KTNV-TV) DRM
33.1 KVCW The CW
  Subchannel broadcast with digital rights management

On May 26, 2020, KVCW discontinued ATSC 1.0 broadcasts and became one of the first stations in the country (and the first in the Western United States) to begin broadcasting in ATSC 3.0. Its primary channel is simulcast on KTNV-DT5, MyNetworkTV on sister station KSNV-DT5, and KVCW-DT3, KVCW-DT4 and KVCW-DT5 on the fifth, sixth and seventh digital subchannels of KLAS-TV.

Translators

City of license Callsign Channel ERP
HAAT
 Facility ID Transmitter coordinates
Las Vegas KVCW (DTS) 29 11.22 kW 43 m (141 ft) 10195 36°7′44.8″N 115°11′28.4″W / 36.129111°N 115.191222°W / 36.129111; -115.191222 (KVCW (DTS))
Pahrump
 KVCW (DRT) 15 0.25 kW −125.1 m (−410 ft) 10195 36°9′29.5″N 115°54′3.8″W / 36.158194°N 115.901056°W / 36.158194; -115.901056 (KVCW (DRT))

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KVCW". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ K. Fudge. "Danny Koker Feature - 2005". Corbin's RideOn (via archive.org). Archived from the original on September 8, 2007. Retrieved April 28, 2007.
  3. ^ Meet the Experts: Danny Koker, History.com, Accessed November 1, 2010.
  4. ^ "Danny "The Count" Koker is in the Driver's Seat When New Car-Loving Series Premieres on History(R) - 'Counting Cars'". The Futon Critic. July 25, 2012.
  5. ^ Rose, Lacey (July 20, 2012). "History Orders Car Flipping Series Starring 'Pawn Stars' Personality (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter.
  6. ^ Danny Koker Obituary, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 2008.
  7. ^ "Sinclair/MBC Stock Purchase Agreement". March 18, 1998. Retrieved April 28, 2007.
  8. CNNMoney.com
    , January 24, 2006.
  9. ^ UPN and WB to Combine, Forming New TV Network, The New York Times, January 24, 2006.
  10. ^ News Corp. Unveils MyNetworkTV, Broadcasting & Cable, February 22, 2006.
  11. ^ K. White (April 26, 2006). "Second local affiliate rejects new CW". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved April 13, 2007.
  12. ^ Sinclair Reups With Fox, Gets WUTB Option, TVNewsCheck, May 15, 2012.
  13. ^ Sinclair In An Acquisition State Of Mind, TVNewsCheck, February 6, 2013.
  14. ^ "KSNV To Debut One-Hour 3 P.M. News". TVNewsCheck. August 13, 2013. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  15. ^ "Sinclair Buying KSNV Las Vegas For $120M". TVNewsCheck. September 3, 2014. Retrieved September 3, 2014.
  16. ^ "Henderson Silver Knights Announce Inaugural 2020-21 Broadcast Schedule". Henderson Silver Knights. February 3, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
  17. ^ Staff, News 3 (October 4, 2021). "Henderson Silver Knights 2021-22 broadcast schedule". KSNV. Retrieved April 23, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ "Las Vegas to Partner with MyLVTV to Televise up to 25 Games Locally in 2021". Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  19. ^ "FOX5 KVVU announced as Official Broadcast Home of Las Vegas Aces". fox5vegas.com. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
  20. ^ "CW Las Vegas News".
  21. ^ a b "RabbitEars TV Query for KVCW". RabbitEars. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
  22. ^ "DTV Allocation Table, Sixth Report and Order" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. April 21, 1997. p. 34. Retrieved April 28, 2007.
  23. ^ "Final DTV Allocation Table, MO&O for Recon. of Sixth R&O" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. February 17, 1998. p. 27. Retrieved April 28, 2007.
  24. ^ "Construction permit extension request". Federal Communications Commission. August 30, 2007. Retrieved April 28, 2007.[permanent dead link]
  25. ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.

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