Originally signed on the air on September 10, 1967, as KHBV-TV, Nevada's first independent station licensed to Henderson on VHF channel 5. Owned first by Charles Vanda, Levin-Townsend Enterprises acquired the station in 1969.
KVVU-TV
1971–1975
LOGO MISSING
In 1971, the station assumed its current KVVU-TV call letters after being purchased by the Nevada Independent Broadcasting Corporation.
1975–1985
1975–1979
In 1978, the station was sold to Carson Broadcasting, a company owned by talk show host and entertainer Johnny Carson, who visited the station fairly often. Under Carson's ownership, the station often ran R-rated theatrical films uncut during the late-night and early morning hours; while the afternoon (1:00 p.m.) and evening (9:00 p.m.) movies would always be different, the same film would be run uncut in the evening and aired in its censored form in the afternoon, but not on the same day.
1979–1985
Station ID (December 21, 1985)
Station ID ("TV5 Saturday Cinema", December 21, 1985)
Shortly after Meredith's takeover, it adopted a logo design, which was borrowed from its new sister stations KCTV in Kansas City, KPHO-TV in Phoenix, WNEM-TV in Bay City, Michigan and until 1993, WTVH in Syracuse, New York. Both KVVU-TV and WNEM-TV continued using the "5" portion of this logo until 2002 and 2004, long after each of those other stations had discontinued using the stylized "tv5" logo (WTVH doing so after being sold by Meredith in 1993 for example).
1Owned by Branson Visitors TV, Gray holds a 50.1% interest in the company. 2Owned by Schurz Communications, Gray operated KGHZ through an SSA. 3Gray operates this station owned by American Spirit Media. 4Gray operates this station owned by Tegna through an SSA. 5The E.W. Scripps Company operates this station through an SSA. 6Gray operates this station owned by Tougaloo College. 7Joint venture with Ryman Hospitality Properties. 8Gray operates this station owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting through an SSA.