KSHV-TV
| ATSC 3.0 station | |
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| Branding | V45 |
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| Ownership | |
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| KTAL-TV, KMSS-TV | |
| History | |
First air date | April 15, 1994 |
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Call sign meaning | Shreveport |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 73706 |
| ERP | 301 kW |
| HAAT | 504.9 m (1,656 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°39′58.5″N 93°56′0.7″W / 32.666250°N 93.933528°W |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
KSHV-TV (channel 45) is an independent television station in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, serving the Ark-La-Tex region and also airing MyNetworkTV programming. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Texarkana, Texas–licensed NBC affiliate KTAL-TV (channel 6); Nexstar also provides certain services to Fox affiliate KMSS-TV (channel 33) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with Mission Broadcasting. The stations share studios on North Market Street and Deer Park Road in northeast Shreveport; KSHV-TV's transmitter is located southeast of Mooringsport.
Channel 45 began broadcasting as KWLB on April 15, 1994. It was built by the Word of Life Center, a Shreveport church, and featured a family-oriented format of religious programs and classic TV shows and movies. The church sold the station the next year to White Knight Broadcasting. The new owners changed the station to a UPN affiliate under the new call sign of KSHV and entered into a local marketing agreement with KMSS-TV. The station added programming from The WB in 1996, became a primary WB affiliate in 2001, and dropped UPN altogether in 2003. The station switched to MyNetworkTV upon the 2006 merger of The WB and UPN into The CW.
Nexstar acquired KMSS-TV's owner, Communications Corporation of America, in 2014. The deal included the sale of KSHV-TV to Marshall Broadcasting Group, though Nexstar continued to provide services as well as a newscast produced by KTAL covering Texarkana-area news. Marshall sold its stations to Mission Broadcasting in 2020, and Nexstar acquired KSHV-TV outright from Mission the next year. KSHV is one of two ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) stations in the Shreveport area.