KNVN

KNVN
Chico/Redding, California United States

Branding	NBC 24 (general) Action News Now (newscasts)
Slogan	Your Community, In-Depth
Channels	Digital: 24 (UHF) Virtual: 24 (PSIP)
Subchannels	24.1 NBC 24.2 Telemundo 24.5 The AccuWeather Channel
Translators	K42HL-D Oroville
Affiliations	NBC
Owner	Maxair Media, LLC
Operator	Heartland Media, LLC
First air date	September 24, 1985 (1985-09-24)
Call letters' meaning	North Valley News
Sister station(s)	KHSL-TV KDRV KEZI
Former callsigns	KCPM (1985–1998)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 24 (UHF, 1983–2008) Digital: 36 (UHF, 2004–2008)
Transmitter power	321 kW
Height	803.5 m
Facility ID	33745
Transmitter coordinates	40°15′30.5″N 122°5′24.3″W / 40.258472°N 122.090083°W / 40.258472; -122.090083 (KNVN)
Licensing authority	FCC
Public license information:	Profile CDBS
Website	www.actionnewsnow.com

KNVN is the NBC television station for the Chico/Redding, California market. The station is owned by Maxair Media, LLC, and operated by Heartland Media, the owners of CBS affiliate KHSL-TV. It shares its studios, office and newscasts with KHSL-TV.

History

Channel 24 first hit the airwaves on September 24, 1985 as KCPM, making the northern Sacramento Valley one of the last regions of the country with full network service. It also brought a full NBC affiliate to the area for the first time since KRCR-TV switched from NBC to ABC in 1978. Since then, assorted NBC programs had been available via off-hours clearances from both KHSL and KRCR.

KCPM signed on during a very prosperous time for NBC, and it did quite well for the first several years on the air. But by 1998, the station was sinking in debt and on the verge of closing down. At this point, KHSL stepped in, not wanting to see the loss of full network service in the area. Then-owner Grapevine Communications sold the station to Evans Broadcasting, which changed the calls to the current KNVN on August 10th and turned the station's operations over to KHSL (owned by Catamount Broadcasting at the time) under a shared services agreement.

A report in the Chico News & Review on January 3, 2013 said that there were rumors of a sale of KHSL and KNVN to Nexstar Broadcasting Group.^[1] However, on February 6, KNVN was instead sold to K4 Media Holdings. Operations of the station were taken over by GOCOM Media, LLC, which concurrently bought KHSL.^[2]^[3] The FCC approved the sale on April 19;^[4] it was consummated on May 6.^[5] On July 14, 2015, it was announced that K4 would sell KNVN to Maxair Media. Concurrently, GOCOM will sell KHSL-TV to Heartland Media, through its USA Television Holdings joint venture with MSouth Equity Partners, for $40 million; Heartland will provide services to KNVN and sell up to 15 percent of channel 24's advertising time.^[6] The sale was completed on December 1.^[7]

News Operation

KHSL and KNVN currently share a single news operation; for information, see KHSL-TV#Action News.

KCPM aired its own newscasts for a time after going on the air. After Grapevine sold the station, KNVN relaunched its own news department, this time targeted toward younger viewers. However, this attempt at local news failed to make much of an impact. FInally, the news departments of both stations formally merged into a single news department in February 2000.

Digital Television and High-Definition

Digital television

KNVN's former logo.

KNVN has been broadcasting all-digital on UHF channel 24 since December 22, 2008, with its main channel and The Local AccuWeather Channel on DT2. It broadcasts an SD feed on cable channel 4 on every major cable system in Northern California.

See KHSL-TV for additional information on digital programming.

Digital channels for KNVN

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming^[8]
24.1	1080i	16:9	KNVN-HD	Main KNVN programming / NBC
24.2	720i	4:3	Telmundo	Telemundo
24.5	720i	4:3	AccuWX	The AccuWeather Channel

Digital channels for K42HL-D

Channel	Programming
42.1 / 24.4	Telemundo (KNVN-DT2)
42.3 / 24.3	KNVN SD
42.4 / 12.3	KHSL SD
42.5 / 12.4	The CW 10
42.6 / 24.6	The AccuWeather Channel

Analog-to-digital conversion

KNVN shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 24, on December 22, 2008. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 36 to channel 24.^[9]

High-Definition

KNVN airs all NBC-produced and most syndicated shows in HD, such as Live! with Kelly and Michael, Anderson, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, NUMB3RS, The New Adventures of Old Christine, and Without a Trace.

Although KNVN and KHSL began airing local commercials (including their own promos) in high definition in January 2012, no details have been released if local newscasts will ever be produced in HD.

KNVN began airing high definition local newscasts on January 7, 2014.

KNVN-DT2 Telemundo

KNVN-DT2 is the digital subchannel broadcasting locally on channel 24.2 as an affiliate of the Spanish-language Telemundo network. The station's Telemundo affiliation originally started with KXVU-LP Channel 17 in 2006. It was founded by Chester Smith of Sainte Partners II, L.P., joining sister station KUCO-LP (their Univision affiliate) as the only two Spanish-language stations in the North Valley until they also founded KKTF-LD (the UniMás affiliate). After the sale of Sainte's assets to Bonten Media Group, the new owners sold the rights to Telemundo to K4 Media Holdings and moved the network from KXVU's channel 17 to channel 24.2. (KXVU has since become an affiliate of Antenna TV.)

KNVN-DT2 is seen on Comcast channel 193 (SD) and 714 (HD) in Chico, as well as Charter channel 189. It is the first local Spanish-language station in the Northstate to broadcast a locally-produced Spanish-language newscast called Acción Noticiero Telemundo with Josh Navarro and Daniela Contreras as anchors.

References

↑ Clash of the broadcasts, Tom Gascoyne, Chico News & Review, January 3, 2013
↑ http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1535479&Service=DT&Form_id=314&Facility_id=33745
↑ http://rbr.com/double-deal-with-moving-parts-in-chico-redding-dma/
↑ http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1550981.pdf
↑ https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101553813&formid=905&fac_num=33745
↑ Malone, Michael (July 14, 2015). "Heartland, Maxair to Acquire Chico-Redding Stations". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
↑ Consummation Notice, CDBS Public Access, Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 2 December, 2015
↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KNVN
↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.

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Broadcast television in the Chico-Redding market of California

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

English channels	KRCR (7.1 ABC, 7.2 MeTV, 7.3 Movies!) KIXE (9.1 PBS, 9.2 Create, 9.3 World) KMCA-LD 10 (Youtoo) K11VZ-D 11/KRDT-CD 23 (Religious) KHSL (12.1 CBS, 12.2 CW) K19FY 19 (silent) KCVU (20.1 Fox, 20.2 This TV) KRVU-LD (21.1 MyNetworkTV) KZVU-LD (22.1 MyNetworkTV) KRDT-LD (23.1 Religious, 23.2 HSN) KNVN (24.1 NBC, 24.5 AccuWX) KGEC-LD (26.1 RTV, 26.2 Tuff TV, 26.3 The Family Channel, 26.4 NASA) KKPM-CA (28.1 Religious, 28.2 HSN) K33HH 33 (KBLN-TV/3ABN) K50GP 50 (TBN) K15HV-D (73.1 3ABN)

Spanish channels	K11VZ-D/KRDT-CD (11.4/23.4 K49KS-D 49.2) KNVN (24.2 Telemundo) KUCO 27 (UNI) KKTF-LD (30.1 UniMás) KRHT 41 (AZA)

Regional cable channels	CSN Bay Area CSN West

Adjacent locals	Sacramento KCRA (3.1 NBC) KVIE (6.1 PBS, 6.3 V-me) KXTV (10.1 ABC) KOVR (13.1 CBS)

Defunct locals	KRDN-LP (5 DS) KXVU-LP (17 TMD) K46DQ (46 Network One)

California television Bakersfield Chico–Redding Eureka Fresno Las Vegas NV Los Angeles Medford OR Monterey Inland Empire (Palm Springs) Reno NV Sacramento San Diego San Francisco Santa Barbara El Centro CA / Yuma AZ

NBC Network Affiliates in the state of California

KCRA 3 (Sacramento) KIEM 3 (Eureka) KNBC 4 (Los Angeles) KSBY 6 (San Luis Obispo) KSBW 8 (Salinas/Monterey/Santa Cruz) KNTV 11 (San Francisco/San Jose/Oakland) KGET 17 (Bakersfield) KNVN 24 (Chico) KSEE 24 (Fresno) KMIR 36 (Palm Desert) KNSD 39 (San Diego)

See also ABC CBS CW Fox Ion MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in California

Other television stations in the state of California

Ion Television	KSPX-TV 29 (Sacramento) KPXN-TV 30 (San Bernardino) KKPX-TV 65 (San Jose)

Youtoo America	KMCA-LD 10 (Redding) KYMB-LD 27.4 (Monterey) KJEO-LD 32.2 (Fresno)

Retro Television Network	KAXT 1.2 (San Francsico) KEYT-TV 3.2 (Santa Barbara) KAIL 7.2 (Fresno)

Me-TV	KCRA-TV 3.2 (Sacramento) KRCR-TV 7.2 (Redding) KFMB-TV 8.2 (San Diego) KVME 20.1 (Bishop/Los Angeles) KOFY-TV 20.2 (San Francisco) KAEF-TV 23.2 (Arcata) KERO-TV 23.3 (Bakersfield) KYMB-LD 27.2 (Monterey) KRET-CD 31.1 (Cathedral City) KGMC 43.6 (Clovis) KDOC-TV 56.3 (Anaheim/Los Angeles)

Antenna TV	KRON 4.3 (San Francisco) KTLA 5.2 (Los Angeles) KRET-CD 31.4 (Cathedral City) KTXL 40.2 (Sacramento) KGMC 43.5 (Clovis) KSWB-TV 69.2 (San Diego)

Bounce TV	KVHF 4.2 (Fresno) KUVS 19.3 (Sacramento) KMEX 34.3 (Los Angeles) KFSF 66.2 (Sacramento)

This TV	KTLA 5.3 (Los Angeles) KCVU 20.2 (Redding-Chico) KMPH 26.2 (Fresno) KYMB 27.2 (Monterey) KBVU 28.2 (Eureka) KBFX 29.2 (Bakersfield) KRET-CD 31.2 (Palm Springs) KTNC 42.3 (San Francisco) KQCA 58.2 (Stockton-Sacramento) KSWB 69.3 (San Diego)

Movies!	KRCR 7.3 (Chico) KCOP 13.3 (Los Angeles) KAEF 23.3 (Eureka)

Decades	KCBS 2.2 (Los Angeles) KPIX 5.2 (San Francisco) KOVR 13.2 (Stockton/Sacramento)

Other Stations	KAXT-CD (1.3 QVC, 1.7 VieTop, 1.8 Creation TV, 1.10 Tiempos Finales, 1.11 Jewelry, San Francsico) K15CU-D (15.1 Cozi TV, Monterey) KVHF-LD (4.4 AMGTV, Fresno) KQSL (8.1 TheCoolTV, 8.2 Tuff TV, Fort Bragg) KSDI-LP (33.2 The Family Channel / 33.4 TheCoolTV, Fresno)

Defunct	KAZV-LP 14 (Modesto) KCCE-LP 50 (San Luis Obispo)

See also ABC CBS CW Fox Ion MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in California See also Azteca América MundoMax Telemundo UniMás Univision Other Spanish network affiliates Religious Home Shopping Independent

Heartland Media

KDRV / KDKF (ABC) KEZI (ABC) KHSL (CBS, The CW on DT2) KNVN (NBC) ¹ WKTV (NBC, CBS on DT2, The CW on DT3) WLOV-TV (Fox) ² WTVA (NBC, ABC on DT2)

¹ Owned by Maxair Media, KNVN is operated under an SSA. ² Owned by Coastal Television Broadcasting, WLOV is operated under an SSA.

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