KVTE-LP

KVTE-LP is a low power television station in Las Vegas, Nevada owned by Mountain Ridge Holdings – a company based in Salt Lake City, Utah; with transmitter on studio building in Las Vegas, Nevada. The station is now active at 2 Kw , while continuing to build their digital facilities and return to full power.

History

On 15 April 1994, application JF0415CY was filed with the Federal Communications Commission. It was first granted a license to operate as K61GV channel 61 on April 15, 1996. On July 28, 1999, the station moved to its current frequency and changed its call-letters to K35FN, then changed callsigns to KYRK-LP on November 5, 1999. It gained its current call-sign of KVTE-LP on June 17, 2005.

Robin Leach became affiliated with KVTE in late 2004, and by March, 2005 had filed a lawsuit against owner Nathan Drage claiming, among other things, fraud against the corporation. Ultimately over a year later, in May 2006, Leach dismissed his lawsuit and claimed it was all a misunderstanding and that the allegations of fraud were the result of a miscommunication between Leach and his legal counsel.^[1]

After Leach's departure the station produced a completely different show line-up of all original programming geared towards a national and international audience for what it called the Las Vegas Television Network. By June 1, 2010, however, the station was airing color bars and tone and had filed for a silent Special Temporary Authority with the Federal Communications Commission. (Even if airing color bars, the FCC defines "on air" as broadcasting programming viewable to the public; WYLE, a now-defunct television station in Florence, Alabama, was silent for four days shy of a year (February 7, 2007 – February 3, 2008), then broadcast color bars 24 hours a day for over a year until the FCC ruled that the color bars were insufficient in March 2009.)

References

External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for KVTE
• Las Vegas Television Network