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For the airport serving Sacramento, California, assigned the ICAO code KMCC, seeMcClellan Airfield.For the television stations in Texas that formerly used the KMCC callsign, seeKAMCandKVIH-TV.
Not to be confused withWMCC.
KMCC
CityLaughlin, Nevada
Channels
BrandingVegas 34
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KTNV-TV
History
First air date
August 21, 2003(21 years ago)(2003-08-21)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:34 (UHF, 2003–2009)
Call signmeaning
Meridian Communications Company (original licensee)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID41237
ERP
HAAT
  • DTS1:607 m (1,991 ft)
  • DTS2:60 m (197 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
Links
Public license information
Websitevegas34

KMCC(channel 34), brandedVegas 34,is anindependent television stationlicensed toLaughlin, Nevada,United States, serving theLas Vegasarea. It is owned by theE. W. Scripps CompanyalongsideABCaffiliateKTNV-TV(channel 13). The two stations share studios on South Valley View Boulevard in the nearbyunincorporatedcommunity ofParadise(though with a Las Vegasmailingaddress). KMCC uses adistributed transmission system,with the main transmitter located nearDolan Springs, Arizona,and a secondary transmitter at the KTNV studios.

Channel 34 was originally intended to be built atLake Havasu City, Arizona.However, the original permittee, Meridian Communications Company, had the channel reallocated to Laughlin in order to allow it to broadcastNBCprogramming, increase its service area, and overcome various technical restrictions. The station began broadcasting in August 2003 and was soon after sold to Cranston II LLC, which used it to broadcast Spanish-language programming from a series of services:TeleFórmula,Multimedios Televisión,Mega TV,VasalloVision,andMundoFox/MundoMax.Entravision Communicationsacquired KMCC in 2017 and switched its programming source toAzteca América.

Ion Mediaacquired KMCC in early 2020 and was in turn acquired by the E. W. Scripps Company. In 2023, Ion programming moved to a subchannel, and the station became a new English-language independent station under the name Vegas 34. This coincided with Scripps obtaining the broadcast rights toVegas Golden Knightshockey, which aired on KMCC beginning in the 2023–24 season.

History

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On May 14, 1996, theFederal Communications Commission(FCC) issued aconstruction permitto Meridian Communications Company (later Mojave Broadcasting Company) for a full power television station on UHF channel 34 to serveLake Havasu City, Arizona.Its original call letters were to be KAUE, adopted in February 1997, but changed to KMCC a month later.

In July 1996, while preparing to build the station, Mojave Broadcasting determined that the proposed transmitter location was inadequate for a full-power television operation and that the alternate site nearOatman, Arizona,could not provide city-grade service to Lake Havasu City due to terrain. In early 1999, the company requested to move the station and both the analog and digital allotments to Laughlin, Nevada, with the transmitter at the Oatman site. It later modified its proposal to specify a transmitter in Laughlin, allowing it to secure an affiliation withNBC,since the new location would not interfere with Las Vegas NBC station KVBC (channel 3, nowKSNV); the children of James Rogers, chairman of KVBC ownerSunbelt Communications Company,owned Mojave Broadcasting, and Sunbelt had signed atime brokerage agreementwith KMCC.

The FCC formally granted the request in June 2000,[2]and Mojave Broadcasting began building the station in Laughlin. The FCC granted a construction permit for a digital companion channel, UHF 32, on January 15, 2002, and grantedspecial temporary authority(STA) on April 6, 2004, to broadcast in digital at reduced power from the analog transmitter location.

The analog station signed on August 21, 2003, as asatelliteof KVBC, and was granted a license on May 28, 2004. The arrangement was temporary, as before the station was licensed, Cranston II LLC had agreed to buy KMCC from Mojave Broadcasting. The sale was approved by the FCC in October 2004 and consummated in July 2005. Upon taking ownership, Cranston changed the station toSpanish-languageprogramming from TeleFórmula, the cable news arm ofGrupo Fórmula.In March 2006, equipment failure forced the station to reduce power significantly; in November, it switched toMultimedios Television.

KMCC had a construction permit to broadcast on UHF channel 32 from a transmitter location approximately 40 kilometers (25 mi) NNE of the analog transmitter location. The site, located near Dolan Springs, Arizona, is over 1,200 meters (3,937 ft) higher in elevation than the analog site, so while the analog station served the Mohave Valley fromBullhead City, Arizona,and Laughlin down toNeedles, California,the digital station, when fully built and operational, would not only serve Laughlin and the Colorado River Valley, but most of centralMohave County, Arizona,and would reach beyond Las Vegas.[3]As of October 2017,however, the station was broadcasting on STA from the analog site at 15 kW with coverage approximately that of the analog signal. Cranston filed a request to extend the STA until January 1, 2007.

Logo as MundoFox, 2012–2015

On January 26, 2009, KMCC switched toMega TV,an independent television network based inFlorida.The station again changed affiliations onJanuary 1,2010, affiliating withVasalloVision.[4]KMCC then became an affiliate of MundoFox (laterMundoMax) when it launched on August 13, 2012.[5]In 2015, KMCC aired amusic videoformat 24/7 calledTheCoolTVon digital channels 32.2, 32.3 with some local programming. On December 1, 2016, with the demise of MundoMax, KMCC switched toLuken Communications' The Action Channel andHeartlandnetworks.[6]

Entravision Communicationsagreed to purchase KMCC for $2.75 million on March 1, 2017; the sale created aduopolywithUnivisionaffiliateKINC.[7]The sale was completed on January 17, 2018.[8]In April 2018, KMCC became anAzteca Américaaffiliate.[9]

On January 27, 2020, it was announced thatIon Mediawould purchase KMCC from Entravision for an undisclosed price.[10]The sale was completed on April 3.[11]On September 24, 2020, theCincinnati-basedE. W. Scripps Company(owners ofABCaffiliateKTNV-TV,channel 13) announced that it would purchase Ion Media for $2.65 billion, with financing fromBerkshire Hathaway.[12][13][14]

On May 4, 2023, theVegas Golden Knightsannounced that KMCC, through the E. W. Scripps Company'sScripps Sportsarm, would become the team's new television partner, replacingAT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountainafter the latter's parent company,Warner Bros. Discovery,announced its intentions to exit theRSNbusiness. Along with broadcasting all Golden Knights non-exclusive games over the air in partnership with a network of stations across the Golden Knights' broadcast territory, KMCC rebranded as Vegas 34 and became independent on August 14, 2023,[15]with Ion programming moving to the station's second subchannel.[16]

Local programming

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The station carries all regional Vegas Golden Knights games beginning in the2023–24 NHL seasonand airs ancillary programming such asKnight Life.[15]KMCC also simulcasts select programming fromScripps Newsand airs games from theHenderson Silver Knights,a minor league affiliate of the Golden Knights.[17]

Newscasts

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KMCC airs four hours of local news each weekday, simulcasting programming from sister station KTNV-TV.

Subchannels

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Subchannels of KMCC[18]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
34.1 720p 16:9 Vegas34 Independent
34.2 ION Ion Television
34.3 480i CourtTV Court TV
34.4 SCRIPPS Scripps News
34.5 IONPlus Ion Plus[19]
34.6 Bounce Bounce TV
34.7 Mystery Ion Mystery
34.8 HSN HSN

References

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  1. ^"Facility Technical Data for KMCC".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^"Report and Order"(PDF).Federal Communications Commission.June 21, 2000.
  3. ^https:// fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=DT995554.html[permanent dead link]
  4. ^"'VasalloVision Network' in Las Vegas, Nevada "(Press release). VasalloVision Television Network. January 14, 2010.RetrievedJanuary 15,2010.
  5. ^Sieroty, Chris (August 14, 2012)."MundoFox joins battle for Spanish viewers".Las Vegas Review-Journal.RetrievedAugust 19,2012.
  6. ^"The Notes: Feb. 19-25".Las Vegas Sun.February 20, 2017.
  7. ^"Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.RetrievedMarch 16,2017.
  8. ^Miller, Mark K. (January 17, 2018)."Entravision Closes on Purchase of KMCC".TVNewsCheck.RetrievedJanuary 17,2018.
  9. ^Villafañe, Veronica (April 27, 2018)."Entravision's KMCC becomes Azteca América affiliate in Las Vegas".Media Moves.RetrievedMay 5,2018.
  10. ^Miller, Mark K. (January 27, 2020)."Ion Media Buys Entravision's KMCC Las Vegas".TVNewsCheck.NewsCheckMedia.RetrievedJanuary 27,2020.
  11. ^"CDBS Print".licensing.fcc.gov.
  12. ^"Breaking News – Scripps Creates National Television Networks Business with Acquisition of ION Media".TheFutonCritic.RetrievedMay 5,2022.
  13. ^Cimilluca, Dana."E.W. Scripps Agrees to Buy ION Media for $2.65 billion in Berkshire-Backed Deal".RetrievedSeptember 24,2020.
  14. ^"E.W. Scripps scales up with $2.65 billion Berkshire-backed deal for ION Media".Reuters.September 24, 2020 – via reuters.
  15. ^ab"Vegas 34 Launches with Cup Final Replays".NHL.RetrievedSeptember 6,2023.
  16. ^"VGK and Scripps Partner on Multi-Year Agreement to Air NHL Team's Games".Vegas Golden Knights.May 4, 2023.RetrievedMay 4,2023.
  17. ^"Vegas 34 launches as the official broadcast partner of the Vegas Golden Knights".KTNV-TV.August 29, 2023.RetrievedAugust 30,2023.
  18. ^"RabbitEars TV Query for KMCC".RabbitEars.
  19. ^Keys, Matthew (June 28, 2024)."Scripps replacing Defy TV with Ion Plus on broadcast TV".TheDesk.net.RetrievedJune 28,2024.
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