KUVI-TV

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KUVI-TV

Bakersfield, California
Branding	My 45
Channels	45 (UHF) analog, 55 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	My Network TV
Owner	Univision
Founded	May 11, 1987
Call letters meaning	K Univision
Former affiliations	UPN (1995-2006) Independent(1987-January, 1995)
Transmitter Power	5,000 kW Analog 250 kW Digital
Website	www.kuvi45.com

KUVI-TV is a television station serving Bakersfield, California. It is a MyNetworkTV affiliate, and transmits on UHF channel 45. It is the only English-language TV station owned by leading Spanish-language broadcaster, Univision. The station's transmitter is located between Bakersfield and Lake Isabella.

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The station was granted its broadcast license on May 11, 1987 as KDOB-TV, but would not begin regular broadcasts until December of 1988. Owned by Dorothy Owens, the station would later be sold to her brother Buck (1929-2006), and change its call letters to KUZZ-TV on March 18, 1991. In 1997, Buck Owens sold the station to Univision, and on October 17, 1997, the station once again changed its call letters, this time to KUVI. One last change to the call letters came on January 1, 2004, the station chose to add the "-TV" suffix to the letters, hence the current callsign KUVI-TV.

KUVI at first was tentatively awaiting to affiliate with The CW Television Network^{[citation needed]}, but instead it was announced on June 15, 2006 that it would affiliate with My Network TV, despite the fact that owner Univision is being sold to a group lead by children's television mogul Haim Saban -- founder of Saban Entertainment and former co-owner of Fox Family Channel with News Corporation before it became ABC-owned ABC Family Channel.

The CW affiliation ended up on KWFB and a digital subchannel of KGET as of September 18, 2006.

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Buck Owens (1929-2006)

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Broadcast television stations in the Bakersfield market (Nielsen DMA #126)
KTFB-CA 4 / KBTF-CA 31 (TFU) - K08MM 8 (3ABN) - KKEY-LP 11 (TEL) - KGET 17 (NBC/The CW on DT2) - K18HD 18 (Multimedios) - KBBV-CA 19 (Ind) - K21FP 21 (TBN) - KERO 23 (ABC) - KFRE-CA 27 (Ind) - KBAK 29 (CBS) - KVPT 34 (PBS) - KBFK-LP 36 (HSN) - KABE-LP 39 (UNI) - KPMC-LP 42 (AZA) - KUVI 45 (MNTV) - KNXT-LP 57 (Ind) - KBFX 58 (Fox)
Local cable & satellite television channels
KWFB (The CW/The CW Plus)

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MyNetworkTV Affiliates in the state of California

KOTR-LP 2 (Gonzales/Monterey/Salinas) - KEYT-DT 3.2 (Santa Barbara) - KRON 4 (San Francisco) - KCOP 13 (Los Angeles) - KUVU-LP 17/9 (Eureka) - KRVU-LP 21 (Redding/Chico) KUVI 45 (Bakersfield) - XHDTV 49 (Tecate, BCN/ San Diego) - KPSE-LP 50 (Palm Springs) - KAIL 53 (Fresno) - KQCA 58 (Stockton/Sacramento/Modesto)

See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Independent, Other Spanish Network, Religious, Home Shopping and Other stations in California

Univision Communications (a subsidiary of TPG Capital, L.P.)

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Television Networks: Galavisión | TeleFutura | Univision

Record Labels: Univision Records | Fonovisa | Disa Records

Other Television Stations: KUVI (MNTV affiliate) | WSTE (Independent)³

¹Univision owns the licenses. However these stations are operated by Entravision under a Local Marketing Agreement.

²Univision owns the license. However this station operates in a Joint Sales Agreement with Entravision.

³The station is locally owned. However thorugh WLII and WSUR-TV, Univision operates the station under a Local Marketing Agreement.

Annual Revenue: $2.9 billion USD (2006) | Employees: 4,233 | Stock Symbols: None, privately held. | Website: www.univision.net

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