KCVU

KCVU

Paradise–Chico–Redding, California United States
City	Paradise, California
Channels	Digital: 30 (UHF) Virtual: 20
Branding	Fox 20
Programming
Affiliations	20.1: Fox for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Cunningham Broadcasting (Paradise (KCVU-TV) Licensee, Inc.)
Operator	Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sister stations	KRCR-TV, KRVU-LD, KZVU-LD, KUCO-LD, KXVU-LD, KKTF-LD
History
Founded	May 14, 1986
First air date	November 14, 1990 (34 years ago) (1990-11-14)
Former call signs	KBCP (1990–1992)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 30 (UHF, 1990–2008) Digital: 20 (UHF, until 2020), 17 (UHF, 2020–2021)
Former affiliations	Independent (1990–1994) UPN (secondary, 1995–1997) The WB (secondary, 1995–1998)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	58605
ERP	500 kW
HAAT	430.6 m (1,413 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	39°57′42.7″N 121°42′43.1″W / 39.961861°N 121.711972°W / 39.961861; -121.711972
Translator(s)	KRCR-DT 20.1 (7.4 VHF) Redding K22MD-D (UHF) Anderson/Central Valley
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS

KCVU (channel 20) is a television station licensed to Paradise, California, United States, serving the Chico–Redding market as an affiliate of the Fox network. It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of Redding-licensed ABC affiliate KRCR-TV (channel 7), for the provision of certain services. However, Sinclair effectively owns KCVU as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. KCVU is also sister to five low-power stations owned by Sinclair: Chico-licensed Antenna TV affiliate KXVU-LD (channel 17); MyNetworkTV affiliates Chico-licensed KRVU-LD (channel 22) and Redding-licensed KZVU-LD (channel 21); Chico-licensed Univision affiliate KUCO-LD (channel 27); and Chico-licensed 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 (for FCC and other legal purposes, the Chico/Paradise-licensed stations still use the Chico address and Redding-licensed stations use the Redding address). 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 network programming as provided through its parent station but airs a separate offering of syndicated programming; there are also separate local newscasts, commercial inserts and legal station identifications. Although KBVU maintains its own studios (shared with LMA partner KAEF-TV) on Sixth Street in downtown Eureka, master control and some internal operations are based at KCVU's facilities.