KCVU

On May 6, 2007, KCVU replaced Medford Fox affiliate KMVU on Northland Cable Television channel 13 in both Mt. Shasta and Yreka when KMVU and Northland could not come to an agreement for KMVU to remain on the cable system. (Northland also carried sister station MyTV Northern California on cable channel 2, but it was replaced with KFBI-LP of Medford.) As a result, Northland was blocked from airing Fox network programming.

On February 8, 2008, the Siskiyou Daily News reported that the dispute was being resolved and Northland was working with KMVU and KCVU to return either channel to both cable systems. KNVN replaced KMVU on channel 13 in Mt. Shasta and channel 11 in Yreka. KHSL-TV started to air on channel 6 in Yreka and KDRV is also on channel 6 in Mt. Shasta.

KMVU won the carriage dispute, and KCVU is no longer available on either cable system because all Fox affiliates are under syndex. KMVU and all other local stations are fed to Yreka via OTA translator. These stations all have fiber optic links to Mt. Shasta, except for KNVN, which uses a Dish Network feed.

The Sacramento Bee and Chico Enterprise Record reported that the founder of Sainte Partners, Chester Smith, died on August 8, 2008, at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, California, at the age of 78. He was survived by his wife and his children. Despite Smith's death, Sainte continued to own and operate KCVU and its sister stations in the Sainte family.[1][2] The family continued to operate the station group despite poor financial practices.

On November 28, 2008, KBVU and KVIQ converted to digital broadcasting and were re-branded from Fox 29 and CBS 6 to Fox 28 and CBS 17, respectively.

In August 2012, it was announced that Sainte would sell KCVU and KBVU to Esteem Broadcasting of California and would fully merge its operations with ABC affiliates KRCR and KAEF.[3]

On April 21, 2017, Sinclair Broadcast Group announced its intent to purchase the Bonten stations, including KRCR, for $240 million.[4] As part of the deal, Sinclair's sidecar Cunningham Broadcasting acquired the Esteem stations, including KCVU.[5] The sale was completed September 1, 2017.[6]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

On August 21, 2009, KCVU and KBVU replaced the digital simulcast of MyNetworkTV with This TV on their DT2 sub-carriers. This was later replaced with Cozi TV.

On December 22, 2008, KCVU shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 30, due to lack of funding; KCVU used its existing digital facilities, as did its other debt-ridden rivals KHSL and KNVN.[8] The virtual channel was changed from 30 to 20 and the station was re-branded as "Fox 20 Digital".

Fox programs broadcast from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in high definition, as are sporting events such as Major League Baseball, NASCAR, and NFL Football. Unlike co-owned market competitors KHSL and KNVN, however, none of KCVU's syndicated programming (most of which is distributed in high definition) is broadcast in HD. It is unknown when this will be changed.

KCVU provides facilities and services to tape local programs from its studios in Chico. There are currently no local programs scheduled. Two of the station's longtime regional programs, Issues & Answers and Pray Northstate, were cancelled in 2010 by management.

• Spotlight – hosted by Lisa Shaw, then Katey Bailey (2002–2003)
  • Pilot was called Community Spotlight hosted by Shaw in September 2002
• Issues & Answers – hosted by Georgie Hall, Ron Pate, Peter Hansen, and Georgie Szendrey (1998-2010)
• Pray Northstate – hosted by Pastor Jim Wilson (2005–2010, started on KGEC-TV, forced off the air by the FCC due to a closed captioning issue)
• Randy & Monica: Almost Live! – hosted by Randy and Monica Zachary (2007–2008)
• [Real] Music – ten episodes with musical performances by local or visiting musicians (2004–2005)