KNVN (channel 24) is a television station licensed to Chico, California, United States, serving the Chico–Redding market as an affiliate of NBC and Telemundo.
Channel 24 first hit the airwaves on September 24, 1985, as KCPM, making the northern Sacramento Valley one of the last regions of the country with full network service.
KCPM signed on during a very prosperous time for NBC (as it rose to become the top rated network), and it did quite well for the first several years on the air.
A report in the Chico News & Review on January 3, 2013, said that there were rumors of a sale of KHSL and KNVN to Nexstar Broadcasting Group.
Concurrently, GOCOM sold KHSL-TV to Heartland Media, through its USA Television Holdings joint venture with MSouth Equity Partners, for $40 million; Heartland provided services to KNVN and sold up to 15 percent of channel 24's advertising time.
[9] KNVN-DT2, branded Telemundo Chico-Redding, is the Telemundo-affiliated second digital subchannel of KNVN, broadcasting in 720p high definition on channel 24.2.
After Grapevine sold the station, KNVN relaunched its own news department, this time targeted toward younger viewers.