KVHP

For other stations that also use the on-air branding "Fox 29", see Fox 29.

KVHP
Lake Charles, Louisiana United States

Branding	Fox 29 (general) Fox 29 News Express (newscasts)
Channels	Digital: 30 (UHF) Virtual: 29 (PSIP)
Subchannels	29.1 Fox 29.2 The CW
Affiliations	Fox (1986-present)
Owner	National Communications, Inc.
First air date	December 12, 1982 (1982-12-12)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 29 (UHF, 1983-2009)
Former affiliations	independent (1982-1986)
Height	315 meters (1,033 ft)
Facility ID	35852
Transmitter coordinates	30°17′25.2″N 93°34′36.6″W / 30.290333°N 93.576833°W / 30.290333; -93.576833
Licensing authority	FCC
Public license information:	Profile CDBS
Website	www.watchfox29.com

KVHP, channel 29 (PSIP), 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 5 miles northwest of Edgerly (located halfway between Lake Charles and Beaumont, Texas, allowing the station's signal to reach both markets), while the station 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, The Queen Latifah Show, and Steve Harvey.

KVHP also operates as an affiliate of The CW on its HD2 subchannel.

History

KVHP logo, used through 2008.

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

Digital channels

This station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming^[2]
29.1	720p	16:9	KVHP-HD	Main KVHP programming / Fox
29.2	480i	4:3	KVHP-SD	CW Lake Charles

Analog-to-digital conversion

KVHP shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 29, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 30.^[3] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 29.

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.

References

↑ Sanders, Ashley (December 18, 2008). "FOX 64 to drop affiliate in New Year". The Beaumont Enterprise. Retrieved December 20, 2008.
↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KVHP
↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.

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Television stations in Southwest Louisiana, including Lake Charles

Local stations	KPLC (7.1 NBC, 7.2 This, 7.3 Bounce) KFAM 14 (Ind) KLTL (18.1 PBS/LPB, 18.2 LPB/PBS, 18.3 Create) K19JB-D (19.1 MNT, 19.2 Doctor TV) KVHP (29.1 Fox, 29.2 CW) KYHT 43 (43.1 Heartland, 43.2 VidorVision, 43.3 The Family Channel, 43.4 Familia TV, 43.5 PBJ, 43.6 Tuff TV) K45HY (45.1 America One)

Distant stations	Lafayette KATC (3.1 ABC, 3.2 CW) KLFY (10.1 CBS, 10.3 Ion) KADN (15.1 Fox, 15.2 NBC→KLAF-LD, 15.3 MNTV) KXKW-LD (32.1 This, 32.2 AntTV) KLAF-LD (46.1 NBC) KLWB (50.1 Me-TV, 50.2 Heroes & Icons→KDCG-CD) Beaumont KBTV (4.1 Fox, 4.2 Bounce TV) KFDM (6.1 CBS, 6.2 CW) KBMT (12.1 ABC, 12.2 NBC, 12.3 Cozi TV, 12.4 Me-TV, 12.5 MyNetworkTV, 12.6 MundoMax)

Defunct	KTAG 25 (DuMont/CBS)

Broadcast television in the Golden Triangle (Beaumont/Port Arthur) area

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Local stations	KBTV (4.1 Fox, 4.2 Bounce TV) KIPS-LD (6.1/6.11 Religious) KFDM (6.1 CBS, 6.2 CW, 6.3 Grit) KEBQ-LP (9 Soul of the South) KBMT / K27JJ / KVHP-LD (12.1 ABC, 12.2 NBC, 12.3 Cozi TV, 12.4 Me-TV) KUIL-LD / K36ID-D (12.5 MNTV, 12.6 MundoMax) KUMY-LP (22^Analog Mexicanal) KAOB-LD (27.1 ConexZion TV, 27.2 Vidor, 27.3 Family, 27.4 Punch TV, 27.5 PBJ, 27.6 Tuff TV) KITU (34.1 TBN, 34.2 Church, 34.3 JUCE TV, 34.4 Enlace, 34.5 Smile)

Adjacent locals	Lake Charles, LA KPLC (7.1 NBC, 7.2 This TV, 7.3 Bounce TV) KVHP (29.1 Fox, 29.2 CW)

Texas broadcast television areas by city Abilene/Sweetwater Amarillo (Texas Panhandle) Austin (Hill Country) Beaumont/Port Arthur Corpus Christi Dallas–Fort Worth (North Texas) Ciudad Acuña – Del Rio Eagle Pass El Paso (West Texas) Houston Laredo Lubbock (South Plains) Midland–Odessa (Permian Basin) Presidio Rio Grande Valley San Angelo San Antonio Sherman/Ada, OK Texarkana/Shreveport, LA Tyler/Longview (East Texas) Victoria Waco/Bryan (Brazos Valley) Wichita Falls/Lawton, OK

Fox Network Affiliates in the state of Louisiana

WVUE 8 (New Orleans) KARD 14 (West Monroe) KADN-TV 15 (Lafayette) KVHP 29 (Lake Charles) KMSS 33 (Shreveport) WGMB 44 (Baton Rouge) K47DW 47 / K61GO 61 / K51FO 52¹ (Alexandria/Hicks/Leesville) ¹Stations are repeaters of WNTZ-TV Natchez, MS

See also ABC CBS CW Fox Ion MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in Louisiana

CW Network affiliates in the state of Louisiana

KATC-DT 3.2 (Lafayette) KFDM-DT 6.2/KVHP-DT 29.2 (Lake Charles) KNOE-DT 8.3 (Monroe) KPXJ 21 (Minden) WBRL-CD 21/WGMB-TV 44.2 (Baton Rouge) WNOL 38 (New Orleans) KBCA 41 (Alexandria)

See also ABC CBS CW Fox Ion MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in Louisiana

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