icao code khsv see huntsville international airport . not to be confused with kshb tv kshv tv khbs tv or kbsh dt . . khsv las vegas nevada united states branding khsv tv channels digital 2 vhf virtual 21 psip subchannels 21.1 h & i 21.2 decades 21.3 comet 21.4 antenna tv affiliations h & i 2016 present owner howard stirk holdings channel 33 inc. founded march 8 1982 first air date july 31 1984 ; 32 years ago 1984 07 31 call letters meaning howard stirk holdings station owner las vegas former callsigns krlr 1984 1995 kupn 1995 1998 kvwb 1998 2006 kvmy 2006 2016 former channel number s analog 21 uhf 1984 2009 digital 22 uhf until 2014 former affiliations primary dt1 independent 1984 1995 upn 1995 1998 the wb 1998 2006 mynetworktv 2006 2014 nbc via ksnv 2014 antenna tv 2015 2016 dt2 cozi tv 2015 transmitter power 27.7 kw height 386 m facility id 69677 transmitter coordinates 36 0 31.9 n 115 0 21.6 w 36.008861 n 115.006000 w 36.008861 ; 115.006000 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs khsv 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 . contents 1 history 2 digital television 2.1 digital channels 2.2 analog to digital conversion 3 newscasts 4 references 5 external links history edit 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 . 1 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 . 2 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 . 3 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 . 2 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 as of june 2013 update . 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 . 2 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 . 4 5 on february 22 news corporation announced that it would start up another new network called mynetworktv . 6 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 . 2 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 . 7 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 . 8 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 . 9 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 . 10 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 . 11 the transaction was finalized on october 30 . 12 on january 1 2016 the las vegas broadcast of cozi tv was ended with little fanfare . the announcement came in the form of a banner display reading ksnv has discontinued the local broadcast offering of cozi tv as of january 1st and is no longer available in the las vegas market . please refer to your guide for other programming options . no announcement has been made of any plan for the available digital channel 21.2 in las vegas and the associated antenna tv broadcast continues operations . on march 7 2016 the callsign was changed to khsv . 13 digital television edit digital channels edit channel video aspect psip short name programming 14 21.1 480i 16 9 h & i heroes & icons 21.2 decades decades 21.3 comet comet 21.4 4 3 antenna antenna tv analog to digital conversion edit when the fcc released its initial digital channel allocations on april 21 1997 it had assigned kupn s digital companion channel to uhf channel 20 . 15 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 . 16 kupn s original allocation would have displaced low power station kkjk lp now khdf cd and a co channel tbn station in bullhead city arizona so the fcc substituted uhf channel 22 . the station renamed kvwb dt was granted a permit to construct its digital facilities on november 24 2000 . technical difficulties delayed construction of the full power facilities requiring extensions of the construction permit 17 and on november 8 2002 kvwb 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 kvmy dt completed construction of its full power digital facilities in january 2007 but as of april 2007 has not yet been granted a license . in 2006 the fcc required each station with a digital companion channel to select which station it would continue to use after the end of the transition period . kvmy dt selected channel 22 as its final digital channel and returned the channel 21 license to the fcc . kvmy continues to use channel 21 as its virtual channel per the atsc standards for psip . regular programming was dropped on february 18 2009 and the station participated in the analog nightlight program for two weeks explaining how to switch to digital reception . newscasts edit 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