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KVMY, virtual channel 21, is a television station located in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The station is owned by the Howard Stirk Holdings. Its transmitter is located on Black Mountain, near Henderson, Nevada (southwest of I-515/U.S. 93/U.S. 95). Under Sinclair Broadcast Group ownership, the station previously served as the MyNetworkTV affiliate for Las Vegas. After Sinclair purchased NBC affiliate KSNV-DT from Intermountain West Communications Company, the company stated that it would divest the license of either KSNV, CW affiliate KVCW, 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== The station was founded on March 8, 1982 with grant of a construction permit issued by the FCC to build a new full-power television station on UHF channel 21 to serve Las Vegas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Original CP application summary )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Callsign changes )〕 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 a 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 first music video aired on the station, was "Video Killed the Radio Star".〔per Rick Scott, General Manager〕 In mid-1985, KRLR began to introduce a few classic television programs, and also began airing ''World Class Championship Wrestling'', a popular one-hour wrestling program originating from Dallas, Texas. KRLR was given an FCC license on April 11, 1986. By 1987, the station had replaced the music videos with more conventional fare,such as sitcoms, dramas, movies, and sports. KRLR was best known for being the broadcast home of UNLV Running Rebel Basketball. In May 1994, Dres Media sold the station to Channel 21, LP, a subsidiary of Los Angeles-based Lambert Broadcasting for $2.85 million. On January 16, 1995, the station became an affiliate of the new United Paramount Network, and changed its call letters to KUPN to reflect the new affiliation.〔 One of the most successful turnaround stories in broadcasting, Channel 21 L.P. sold the station just two years later to the 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 . On March 1, 1998, Sinclair changed the station's affiliation to The WB Television Network 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 provider in 1999, when Cox Communications acquired Prime Cable. On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner announced that The WB and UPN would be shut down that September and have their higher-rated programs merged onto a new jointly owned network called The CW.〔('Gilmore Girls' meet 'Smackdown'; CW Network to combine WB, UPN in CBS-Warner venture beginning in September ), CNNMoney.com, January 24, 2006.〕〔(UPN and WB to Combine, Forming New TV Network ), ''The New York Times'', January 24, 2006.〕 On February 22, News Corporation announced that it would start up another new network called MyNetworkTV.〔(News Corp. Unveils MyNetworkTV ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', February 22, 2006.〕 This new service, which would be a sister network to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division, 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 put The CW on the company's other Las Vegas area station, the then-independent KFBT, and chose to acquire the MyNetworkTV affiliation for KVWB. In June 2006, anticipating the start of MyNetworkTV, Sinclair changed the station's call letters yet again to KVMY.〔 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; KVMY and KVCW were included in the Fox purchase option, along with stations in Cincinnati (WSTR-TV), Raleigh (WLFL/WRDC) and Norfolk (WTVZ).〔(Sinclair Reups With Fox, Gets WUTB Option ), ''TVNewsCheck'', May 15, 2012.〕 In January 2013, Fox announced that it will not exercise its option to buy any of the Sinclair stations in the four markets included in the option.〔(Sinclair In An Acquisition State Of Mind ), ''TVNewsCheck'', February 6, 2013.〕 On September 3, 2014, Sinclair announced the purchase of NBC affiliate KSNV-DT (channel 3) from Intermountain West Communications Company for $120 million. As Sinclair already owns KVMY and KVCW, 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. On November 1, 2014, KVMY's digital subchannel affiliations were swapped with KSNV—moving Cozi TV and Antenna TV to KSNV in exchange for Estrella TV and GetTV. MyNetworkTV programming was moved to KVCW's second digital subchannel, and was replaced by a simulcast of KSNV's NBC programming. On November 4, the two stations also switched callsigns, with KVMY being renamed to KSNV, and KSNV-DT taking on the former KVMY callsign. As of January 2015, KVMY no longer simulcasts NBC programming from KSNV, solely carrying Antenna TV and Cozi TV. On January 28, 2015, Intermountain West Communications filed to sell KVMY to Howard Stirk Holdings (a company controlled by Armstrong Williams). HSH had agreed on January 14 to purchase for $150,000 the stock of the Sinclair subsidiary that was a party to IWCC's sale of KSNV-DT and currently holds the license of KVCW; KVCW and KSNV themselves remain under Sinclair ownership. The transaction was finalized on October 30. 〔(Consummation Notice ) ''CDBS Public Access'', Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 4 November, 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KVMY」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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