KVHP
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| Lake Charles, Louisiana | |
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| Branding |
Fox 29 (general) Fox 29 News Express (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 30 (UHF) Virtual: 29 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | Fox |
| Owner | National Communications, Inc. |
| First air date | December 12, 1982 |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 29 \(UHF, 1983-2009) |
| Former affiliations | independent (1982-1986) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 315 m |
| Facility ID | 35852 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°17′25.2″N 93°34′36.6″W / 30.290333°N 93.576833°W |
| Website | www.watchfox29.com |
KVHP-FOX29 & CW are two Television Stations locally owned and operated by National Communications, Inc. in Lake Charles, Louisiana. FOX29 is a Fox-affiliated television station in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 30 (virtual channel 29.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in rural northwestern Calcasieu Parish (located halfway between Lake Charles and Beaumont, Texas, allowing the station's signal to reach both markets). FOX29 and The Lake Charles CW maintain studios on Prien Lake Road in Lake Charles. Syndicated programs seen on this station include Two and a Half Men, The Dr. Oz Show, Jeopardy!, How I Met Your Mother, Rachael Ray,Modern Family, Queen Latifah, Steve Harvey, and FOX29 News Express. KVHP CW Lake Charles is a CW Network affiliate delivering favorite shows like The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, Arrow, American Next Top Model and more.
History
The station first signed on the air on December 12, 1982 as an independent station with the slogan "Make a U-Turn to KVHP, Channel 29". KVHP became a charter affiliate of the upstart Fox Broadcasting Company on October 9, 1986.
In 2003, KVHP established a low-power repeater station for the Beaumont area, KUIL-LP (channel 64), which served as the Fox affiliate for southeast Texas and held a secondary affiliation with UPN (KUIL-LP lost its Fox affiliation to KBTV-TV in January 2009 and became a MyNetworkTV affiliate).[1] KVHP also operated another Texas-based repeater, KVHP-LD (channel 44) in Jasper; in March 2011, KVHP-LD ceased to serve as a translator of KVHP and began relaying programming from Beaumont ABC affiliate KBMT.
On July 28, 2009, KVHP began carrying programming from The CW Television Network on digital subchannel 29.2 (which had broadcast the main channel's programming in standard-definition prior to joining the network), after KVHP owner National Communications assumed promotional and advertising control of cable-only CW Plus affiliate "WBLC" from Suddenlink Communications.
Digital television
This station's digital signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming |
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| 29.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KVHP-HD | Main KVHP programming / Fox |
| 29.2 | 480i | 4:3 | KVHP-SD | CW Lake Charles |
Newscasts and local programming
KVHP aired news capsules and newscasts for a time during the late 1980s and early 1990s, before dropping them for a number of years. The station began airing local newscast once again in 1999, when it established an in-house news department and began producing a primetime newscast at 9 p.m. Within a year of the news department's launch, the station expanded its news programming and began producing a two-hour morning show and an hour-long 5 p.m. newscast. KVHP's newscasts were never considered a serious threat to the ratings dominance of NBC affiliate KPLC and by 2004, KVHP's news department was shut down with local news dropped from the station's lineup entirely.
Soon afterward, the station's only locally-produced program consisted of a half-hour public affairs program called On the Air with Fox 29, which aired twice on Sundays and has since been cancelled. On April 27, 2009, KVHP began broadcasting a tape-delay of Baton Rouge ABC affiliate WBRZ's weeknight 6 p.m. newscast, under the repackaged title Fox 29 News from the Capital at 9 p.m. on Monday through Friday evenings; the WBRZ rebroadcast was dropped in 2011.
On May 7, 2012, KVHP reinstated an in-house news department with the launch of a half-hour midday newscast at noon on weekdays (currently titled Fox 29 News Express). Unlike most Fox affiliates that broadcast or produce local newscasts, the station does not carry a late evening newscast following Fox primetime programming.
News team
- Heather Ieyoub - News Director and Anchor; Weekdays at Noon
- Jeff Gerber - Meteorologist; Weekdays at Noon
- Valen Johnson - General Assignment Reporter
- Rhonda Kitchens - News Executive Producer and Reporter
References
- ↑ Sanders, Ashley (December 18, 2008). "FOX 64 to drop affiliate in New Year". The Beaumont Enterprise. Retrieved December 20, 2008.
External links
- Official website for KVHP "Fox 29"
- Official website for KVHP-DT2 "CW Lake Charles"
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KVHP
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KVHP-TV
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