KNVN

KNVN
CityChico, California
Channels
Branding
  • NBC 24; Action News Now
  • Telemundo Chico Redding (24.2)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
OwnerMaxair Media, LLC
OperatorAllen Media Group via SSA
KHSL-TV
History
First air date
September 24, 1985 (1985-09-24)
Former call signs
KCPM (1985–1998)
Former channel numbers
  • Analog: 24 (UHF, 1983–2008)
  • Digital: 36 (UHF, 2004–2008), 24 (UHF, 2008–2020)
Call sign meaning
North Valley News
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID33745
ERP300 kW
HAAT566.7 m (1,859 ft)
Transmitter coordinates40°15′30.6″N 122°5′24.4″W / 40.258500°N 122.090111°W / 40.258500; -122.090111 (KNVN)
Translator(s)K31ND-D Oroville
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.actionnewsnow.com

KNVN (channel 24) is a television station in Chico, California, United States, serving the Chico–Redding area as an affiliate of NBC and Telemundo. It is owned by Maxair Media, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Allen Media Group, owner of Chico CBS affiliate KHSL-TV (channel 12), for the provision of certain services. The two stations share studios on the corner of Eaton Road and Silverbell Road on the northwest side of Chico; KNVN's transmitter is located northeast of Red Bluff.

Channel 24 in Chico began broadcasting on September 24, 1985, as KCPM. Owned by Superior Broadcasting of California, it brought a full-time NBC affiliate to the Chico–Redding media market. The next year, it debuted local newscasts, bringing a larger-market style of newscasting to Chico. Lorimar-Telepictures became a minority owner and eventually sold the station to the Davis-Goldfarb group in 1989. In 1998, after a year of technical issues and transmitter malfunctions, new owner GOCOM Communications relaunched the station as KNVN ("North Valley News").

After GOCOM merged with Grapevine Communications in 1999, the company sought to sell KNVN, the only station it owned west of the Rocky Mountains. The new owner, Bill Evans Communications, entered into the shared services agreement with KHSL-TV and moved its operations in with that station. Over the course of the early 2000s, separate newscasts were merged into a shared news product. KNVN's operations have been managed by KHSL-TV under several different owners.