KVMY

KVMY, virtual channel 21, is a television station located in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The station is owned by the Howard Stirk Holdings. Its transmitter is located on Black Mountain, near Henderson, Nevada (southwest of I-515/U.S. 93/U.S. 95).

Under Sinclair Broadcast Group ownership, the station previously served as the MyNetworkTV affiliate for Las Vegas. After Sinclair purchased NBC affiliate KSNV-DT from Intermountain West Communications Company, the company stated that it would divest the license of either KSNV, CW affiliate KVCW, or KVMY to a third-party. On November 4, 2014, the existing KSNV-DT license was renamed KVMY, and KVMY was renamed KSNV; both stations simulcast KSNV's NBC programming on their main signals until January 1, 2015 when KVMY dropped the simulcast, and MyNetworkTV was moved to KVCW's second subchannel. Later that month, it was disclosed that the KVMY license would be divested to Howard Stirk Holdings.

History

The station was founded on March 8, 1982 with grant of a construction permit issued by the FCC to build a new full-power television station on UHF channel 21 to serve Las Vegas. The original owner Frank Scott, an early independent casino pioneer in Las Vegas, named his company Dres Media Inc., and chose KRLR, which contained the first letter of each of his three children's names, for the station's call letters in December 1982. In August 1984, after a couple of extensions to the original construction permit, the station applied for its license to cover construction and went on the air under a Program Test Authority. KRLR was an independent station branding itself as Vusic 21, and at first, aired only music videos. In addition to its over-the-air broadcast on channel 21, the station was carried by Prime Cable on channel 2. The first music video aired on the station, was "Video Killed the Radio Star".