KVHP (channel 29) is a television station in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with Fox and ABC.
The two stations share studios on Division Street in downtown Lake Charles; KVHP's transmitter is located in rural northwestern Calcasieu Parish five miles (8 km) northwest of Edgerly (halfway between Lake Charles and Beaumont, Texas, allowing the station's signal to reach both markets).
It signed on by Dr. Hugh Van Eaton, a local Baptist minister, and he entered a partnership with Dr. J. W. DiGiglia and Herschell Hardesty and Harold E. Protter (also a co-owner of independent station WNOL in New Orleans) in 1984, under the name Lake Charles Electronic Media.
On July 28, 2009, KVHP began carrying programming from The CW on digital subchannel 29.2 (which had simulcast the main channel's programming in standard-definition prior to joining the network), after KVHP owner National Communications assumed promotional and advertising control of cable-only CW Plus affiliate "WBLC" from Suddenlink Communications.
[10] KPLC and KVHP began airing continuous coverage of Hurricane Laura on August 25, 2020, from their studio facility in Lake Charles.
[citation needed] KVHP aired news capsules and newscasts for a time during the late 1980s and early 1990s, before dropping them for a number of years.
The standalone newscast was short lived, as KVHP's news operations were taken over by KPLC after American Spirit Media acquired the station in late 2016.