is a
Television station serving
Bakersfield, California . It is a
UPN affiliate, and transmits on
UHF channel 45. It is the only English-language TV station owned by leading Spanish-language broadcaster,
Univision .
The station was granted its broadcast license on
May 11 1987 as , but would not begin regular broadcasts until the fall of 1988. Owned by Dorothy Owens, the station would later be sold to her brother
Buck , 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'''.
It was announced late in
March of
2006 that KUVI will affiliate with
The CW Television Network when it launches on
September 4 ,
2006 to close out the
Labor Day Weekend.
Buck Owens
