The station is owned by Allen Media Group, and maintains studios on Knutson Avenue (near Rogue Valley International–Medford Airport) in north Medford.

Its transmitter is located at the edge of Wolf Creek Park in rural northeastern Josephine County (near Golden).

KDKF (channel 31) in Klamath Falls operates as a full-time satellite of KDRV; this station's transmitter is located atop Stukel Mountain.

KDKF covers areas of southwest/south-central Oregon that receive a marginal to a non-existent over-the-air signal from KDRV, although there is significant overlap between the two stations' contours otherwise.

[citation needed] Prior to 1984, KOBI (channel 5) served as the primary ABC affiliate for southern Oregon and extreme northern California, but Medford was only partially covered.

On March 5, 2014, Chambers Communications announced that it would exit broadcasting and sell its stations to Heartland Media, a company owned by former Gray Television executive Bob Prather.

KDRV airs its morning news starting at 5 a.m. Anchor and reporter Ron Brown (Known as the "Dean of News Anchors" in Southern Oregon) and Chief Meteorologist Scott Lewis were the longest-tenured newscasters in the station's history, but Lewis retired in 2012 and Brown retired in May 2015.

[14] In January 2012, KDRV replaced Redding, California, ABC affiliate KRCR-TV on Northland Communications (now Vyve Broadband) cable channel 7 in Mt.

Shasta, California, as Northland and KRCR severed ties after failing to come to a mutual agreement to continue coverage on the Mt.

Shasta; however, certain programs on KHSL and KNVN are subject to blackout due to the FCC's network non-duplication and syndication exclusivity rules.