KCVU
Fox television affiliate in Paradise, California, United States
KCVU (channel 20) is a television station licensed to Paradise, California, United States, serving the Chico–Redding market with programming from the digital multicast network Roar. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Redding-licensed ABC/Fox affiliate KRCR-TV (channel 7) and five low-power stations: Antenna TV affiliate KXVU-LD (channel 17); MyNetworkTV affiliates KRVU-LD (channel 22) and KZVU-LD (channel 21); Univision affiliate KUCO-LD (channel 27); and UniMás affiliate KKTF-LD (channel 30). The stations share studios on Auditorium Drive east of downtown Redding and maintain a news bureau and sales office at the former Sainte Television Group facilities on Main Street in downtown Chico. KCVU's transmitter is located along Cohasset Road northeast of Chico.
KBVU (channel 28) in Eureka operates as a semi-satellite of KCVU. As such, it clears all Roar programming as provided through its parent station, with the only difference being the hourly station identification as Roar uses a master default schedule.
History
The station was founded in 1986 by Chester Smith and his company Sainte Partners II, L.P. of Modesto, California, and started broadcasting as KBCP on channel 30 on November 14, 1990. It was the first Sainte station to broadcast in English; its programming consisted of Christian and home shopping programming, though Smith expressed an interest in a potential Fox affiliation at that time. The call letters changed to KCVU on October 16, 1992, and the station returned to air October 6, 1993. On January 1, 1994, the station finally obtained a Fox affiliation. It replaced an affiliation on KRCR-TV seen during non-ABC hours since the network's inception in 1986.
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