KHSL-TV (channel 12) is a television station in Chico, California, United States, serving the Chico–Redding area as an affiliate of CBS and The CW Plus.

Its original transmitter site in Paradise, California, failed to adequately cover Redding, prompting it to relocate to Cohasset the next year.

[4] The Chico Enterprise-Record shunned mention of the new television station, going as far as to remove references to KHSL in photography where warranted, fearing the new media outlet would dilute its revenue.

[9] Days later, the station suffered a control panel fire but was able to make repairs in time to air Game 2 of the 1954 World Series.

[a] KHSL-TV remained at the Fourth and Wall studios in Chico for three decades until June 1984, when it moved into new facilities at Silverbell and Eaton roads.

[23] In October 1994, KHSL-TV was sold to United Communications Corporation, which owned media properties in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and New York state.

Evans immediately began discussing a shared services agreement with Catamount to utilize KHSL-TV resources to support KNVN in areas such as engineering, promotion, and production.

[27] Beginning in 2001, news output was gradually consolidated among the two stations,[28] which had previously served separate demographics with KHSL appealing to an older, more conservative audience.

[35] GOCOM sold KHSL-TV to USA Television Holdings, a joint venture of Heartland Media and MSouth Equity Partners, for $40 million in 2015.

[36][37] Byron Allen, through his Entertainment Studios division, purchased 11 of the Heartland stations, including KHSL-TV, in a deal announced in 2019 and completed in 2020.