KVMY

(channel 29) is a television station in Las Venturas, San Andreas, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. The station is owned by Dorado Station Services subsidiary of Dorado Media alongside DBC outlet KYSX (channel 6).
==History==
===Early years===
The station was founded on March 8, 1982, with grant of a construction permit issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build a new full-power television station on UHF channel 29 to serve Las Venturas. The original owner Frank Scott, an early independent casino pioneer in Las Venturas, named his company Dres Media, Inc., and chose KRLR, which contained the first letter of each of his three children's names, for the station's call letters in December 1982. In August 1984, after a couple of extensions to the original construction permit, the station applied for its license to cover construction and went on the air under a Program Test Authority. KRLR was an independent station branding itself as Vusic 29, and at first, aired only music videos. In addition to its over-the-air broadcast on channel 29, the station was carried by Prime Cable on channel 2. The first music video aired on the station, was "Video Killed the Radio Star".
In mid-1985, KRLR began to introduce a few classic television programs, and also began airing World Class Championship Wrestling, a popular one-hour professional wrestling program originating from Dallas, Texas. KRLR was given an FCC license on April 11, 1986. By 1987, the station had replaced the music videos with more conventional fare, such as sitcoms, dramas, movies, and sports. KRLR was best known for being the broadcast home of USALV Runnin' Rebels and Los Santos Lakers basketball, as well as San Diego Padres and San Fierro A's Major League Baseball. KRLR received competition from movie-intensive KBLC (channel 52, now a Telemundo O&O) and leading independent KYSX (channel 6. now a DBC O&O), but held their own to be the number two independent station in Las Venturas (counting Fox-affiliated KFXZ, which was still programmed like an independent during its early Fox years).
In May 1994, Dres Media sold the station to Channel 29, LP, a subsidiary of Los Santos-based Lambert Broadcasting for $2.85 million. On January 16, 1995, the station became an affiliate of the new United Paramount Network (UPN), and changed its call letters to KUPL to reflect the new affiliation. One of the most successful turnaround stories in broadcasting, Lambert sold the station just two years later to the Sinclair Broadcast Group in April 1997 for $87 million. The station moved to channel 12 (formerly used by CBS affiliate KLVE) on the local cable provider in 1999, when Cox Communications acquired Prime Cable.
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner announced that The WB and UPN would be shut down that September and have their higher-rated programs merged onto a new jointly owned network called The CW. On February 22, News Corporation announced that it would start up another new network called MyNetworkTV. This new service, which would be a sister network to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division, 20th Television (now Fox Alternative Entertainment). MyNetworkTV was created in order to give stations affiliated with UPN and The WB that were not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates another option besides becoming independent stations, as well as to compete against The CW. The then-new network affiliation ended up at outgoing WB affiliate KLVC (channel 43) and changed its call letters to KVCW, while Sinclair chose to acquire the MyNetworkTV affiliation for KUPL. In June 2006, anticipating the start of MyNetworkTV, Sinclair changed the station's call letters again to the current KVMY.
On May 15, 2012, Sinclair and Fox agreed to a five-year affiliation agreement extension for the station group's 19 Fox-affiliated stations until 2017. This included an option, that was exercisable between July 1, 2012 and March 31, 2013, for Fox parent News Corporation to buy a combination of six Sinclair-owned stations (two CW/MyNetworkTV duopolies and two standalone MyNetworkTV affiliates) in three out of four markets; KVMY and KVCW were included in the Fox purchase option, along with stations in Cincinnati (WSTR-TV), Raleigh (WLFL/WRDC) and Norfolk (WTVZ). In January 2013, Fox announced that it will not exercise its option to buy any of the Sinclair stations in the four markets included in the option.
===Trade to Dorado Media===
When the Valley Broadcasting Company (which by that time, was a subsidiary of Sunbelt Communications Company (later the Intermountain West Communications Company) that held the station's license) announced they would exit from broadcasting on September 3, 2014, they sold MIDL to Sinclair for $120 million. However, they would also attempt to sell channel 15 to them and due to laws regarding duopolies, Sinclair could not buy KVBC outright because Las Venturas has only seven full-power stations—one too few to legally permit a duopoly. The FCC requires a market to have eight unique station owners after a duopoly is formed. As a result, they decided to trade KVMY to startup company Dorado Media in exchange for RKO affiliate KLVR, who were in the process of divesting that station after purchasing KYSX that year.
==Gallery==
===Logos===
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Category:MyNetworkTV affiliates
Category:Channel 29
Category:Las Venturas
Category:San Andreas
Category:Former independent stations
Category:Former UPN affiliates
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1984
Category:Dorado Media