KVVU-TV

KVVU-TV (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Henderson, Nevada, United States, serving the Las Vegas area as an affiliate of the Fox network.

Owned by Gray Media, the station maintains studios at the Broadcast Center on West Sunset Road in Henderson (using the 25 TV 5 Drive street address), while its transmitter is located on Black Mountain, just southeast of the city.

[2] By 1975, the station was on the air by 7 a.m. and ran a large number of movies, cartoons, more off-network sitcoms, drama shows, and some westerns.

[4] Under Carson's ownership, the station often ran R-rated theatrical films uncut during the late-night and early morning hours.

On May 3, 2021, Gray Television announced its intent to purchase the Meredith Local Media division, including KVVU, for $2.7 billion.

[10] In addition to KVVU's local newscasts, the station also produces a locally produced entertainment and lifestyle magazine program called MORE, which took its name from the defunct similarly-named magazine for women 40+ published by former owner Meredith (the MORE program format originated at sister station KPTV in Portland, Oregon).

All Aces games not nationally televised on ESPN, CBS Sports Network, Ion Television, KLAS or KTNV as part of the league's national TV deal are broadcast on KVVU's second digital subchannel branded as the Silver State Sports and Entertainment Network.

[13] In the 2022–23 television season, Gray began to produce a syndicated sports betting show, Beat the Odds, from KVVU's studio.

The following year, the program was expanded by 90 minutes with the addition of a news block from 5:30 to 7 a.m. News programming on channel 5 would not expand again until September 10, 2007, with the debut of an hour-long block of newscasts during the 5 p.m. hour; with the expansion, KVVU-TV became the only local station in Las Vegas carrying a newscast in the 5:30 p.m. timeslot.

On that same day, KVVU expanded its weeknight 11 p.m. newscast to an hour; this made KVVU among the very few stations to extend its late newscast to midnight, and one of six Fox affiliates (Kansas City's WDAF-TV, Washington, D.C.'s WTTG, Atlanta's WAGA-TV, Tampa's WTVT and Phoenix's KSAZ-TV being the others) to air a two-hour late local news block.

Afternoon and evening newscasts now run from 1 to 7:30 p.m. Because of KVVU's large-scale news schedule, most of the station's syndicated programming airs late at night to appeal to the market's unique "night owl" audience, with little to no paid programming scheduled outside weekends, and the station's Saturday infomercials exclusively from Fox's Weekend Marketplace, itself exclusive to summer and rarely-aired due to Fox Sports preemptions as a side effect of Las Vegas being in the Pacific Time Zone.

Appropriately, repeats of the locally produced History Channel series Pawn Stars air in various time periods throughout the week.

The Meredith-era "TV5" logo used from 1985 to 1990.
Logo of the network