KVHV-TV
| KVHV | |
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| Hill Valley, California United States |
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| City | Hill Valley, California |
| Channels |
Digital: 27 (UHF) Virtual: 35 |
| Branding | 35 KVHV |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | 35.1: Independent |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Hill County Media Group, LP |
| Sister stations | KVGV-FM, KKHV-AM |
| History | |
| First air date | April 6, 1981; years ago |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 35 (UHF, 1981–2009) Digital: 36 (UHF, until 2018) |
| Call sign meaning | Voice of Hill Valley |
KVHV-TV (channel 35) is an independent television station located in Hill Valley, California, United States. The station is owned by the Hill County Media Group, alongside KVGV-FM in Grass Valley. It's transmitter is located on top of Black Mountain.
In 2003, KVHV hosted the Pinheads' concert Live From F@#king Nowhere, which the station also produced. The concert, held in a specially-constructed stage in the desert outside Hill Valley in front of no audience, remains the station's most-watched program. Through a special arrangement with VH2, the program aired one hour before its premiere on the latter network.
Since 2018, the station has hosted on Saturday nights Grampa's Science Fiction Theater, in which science fiction author George McFly (the grandfather of a former station employee) hosts "snarky-but-loving" reviews of old science fiction B-movies. The airing of Plan 9 From Outer Space, featuring McFly and his wife Lorraine reminiscing about seeing the movie in theaters in 1959, was the second-most watched program in the station's history.
Since 2021, the station has aired silent movies overnight on Fridays/Saturdays as part of "Century Movie Night." These also aired in a continuous loop on the station's .2 subchannel from December 2021 through August 2022, before the subchannel went dark again.