History
KVVU went on the air September 10, 1967 as KHBV-TV, Nevada's first independent station; the current call letters were adopted in 1971 as KVVU-TV. It originally broadcast from a converted Flying A gas station along Boulder Highway near Sunset Road, while the offices were housed in a modern office building on Flamingo Road.
KVVU was owned for several years by Johnny Carson, who visited the station fairly often. Under Carson, the station often ran R-rated theatrical films uncut in the late-night/early morning hours. While the afternoon (1 p.m.) and evening (9 p.m.) movie would be always different, the same film would be run uncut in the evening and censored in the afternoon, but not on the same day. The evening movie generally reran at 1 a.m. almost every day. Films with questionable content were sometimes prefaced by a pre-recorded warning from Carson.
Meredith Corporation bought the station in 1985. The station's "5" logo for the next four years was used on other Meredith-owned stations broadcasting on channel 5, including KPHO-TV, WNEM-TV, KCTV and WTVH. The station moved into its present home on Sunset Way in the Green Valley subdivision of Henderson in 1991.
KVVU was not part of the 1994 affiliation deal between Meredith and CBS because that network had a long-term affiliation contract with its existing affiliate KLAS-TV (however, KPHO and WNEM were part of the Meredith-CBS deal, and KCTV was already affiliated with that network). It was one of only five stations (not counting satellites or semi-satellites) under Meredith ownership (the company having recently sold off WTVH) at the time of the deal.
The station's announcer from 1973-2001, Ralph Menard, would identify channel 5 in station IDs with the catch-phrase "Henderson and Laaassss Vegas"; he passed away in 2003.
In June 2006, the station's website was redesigned (along with those of four of Meredith Corporation's other stations). The old website was operated by the Local Media Network division of World Now. Internet Broadcasting operated the site until 2011, when WorldNow began a group deal with all of Meredith's stations.
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