Sports programming
In 2017, the then Oakland Raiders announced in preparation for their relocation to Las Vegas that KVVU would be the official home for the team's preseason games and other pre-game programming such as the Silver and Black Show in Las Vegas, which began in the 2017 NFL season.[10] After the Raiders completed their relocation ahead of the 2020 season, KVVU was named the team's official broadcast partner.[11] However, KLAS serves as the Raiders' de facto "home" station, by virtue of CBS owning the rights to most games from the American Football Conference, where the Raiders play. In addition to preseason and Fox Sports Sunday afternoon games, KVVU also airs the Raiders' ESPN Monday Night Football, Amazon Prime Video Thursday Night Football and NFL Network appearances.
In 2023, it was announced that KVVU would become the official broadcast partner of the Las Vegas Aces of the WNBA. All Aces games not nationally televised on ESPN, CBS Sports Network, Ion Television, KLAS or KTNV as part of the league's national TV deal are broadcast on KVVU's second digital subchannel branded as the Silver State Sports and Entertainment Network. In addition, a 30-minute show on the Aces is broadcast weekly on KVVU.[12]
In the 2022–23 television season, Gray began to produce a syndicated sports betting show, Beat the Odds, from KVVU's studio.[13]
In 2025, KVVU and Silver State Sports & Entertainment Network aired a two-game spring training series between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Athletics from Las Vegas Ballpark.[14] KVVU would later announce that they would broadcast 15 regular season Athletics games, simulcast from NBC Sports California, in preparation for the team's move to Las Vegas.[15]
Silver State Sports & Entertainment Network
In June 2022, KVVU launched the Silver State Sports & Entertainment Network on its second subchannel.[16] The network airs local Las Vegas–based sports and entertainment programs.[17] Current live sports rights include select sporting events from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas,[16] Las Vegas Aviators baseball games,[18] Vegas Knight Hawks indoor football games,[19] and Las Vegas Lights FC soccer matches.[20] The network previously held the local broadcasting rights to the Las Vegas Aces
Silver State Sports & Entertainment Network
In June 2022, KVVU launched the Silver State Sports & Entertainment Network on its second subchannel.[16] The network airs local Las Vegas–based sports and entertainment programs.[17] Current live sports rights include select sporting events from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas,[16] Las Vegas Aviators baseball games,[18] Vegas Knight Hawks indoor football games,[19] and Las Vegas Lights FC soccer matches.[20] The network previously held the local broadcasting rights to the Las Vegas Aces[21]
News operation
KVVU-TV presently broadcasts 78 1/2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 14 1/2 hours each weekday and three hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output among Las Vegas' broadcast television stations and highest of any Fox affiliate in the nation; in addition, the station's sports department produces Fox 5 Sports Plus, a 15-minute sports highlight program that airs on Saturday evenings after the 10 p.m. newscast.
Prior to affiliating with Fox, KVVU's news programming consisted solely of daily news updates featured during the station's syndicated programming between the late 1970s and 1986. Meredith Corporation eventually started a news department for KVVU-TV; it began producing a 10 p.m. newscast in June 1998, the Las Vegas market's first local newscast in prime time, the program originated as a weeknight-only half-hour newscast; the broadcast expanded to Saturday and Sunday evenings in June 2002, followed by the expansion of the newscast to an hour-long program in 2003. For the first couple of years, the newscast was solo-anchored by Angelica Urquijo; the station originally did not have a weather anchor or full-time sports anchor; the sports segments were pre-recorded with voice-over work done by boxing analyst Al Bernstein.
In July 1999, the station added a morning newscast that originally aired from 7 to 9 a.m. The following year, the program was expanded by 90 minutes with the addition of a news block from 5:30 to 7 a.m. News programming on channel 5 would not expand again until September 10, 2007, with the debut of an hour-long block of newscasts during the 5 p.m. hour; with the expansion, KVVU-TV became the only local station in Las Vegas carrying a newscast in the 5:30 p.m. timeslot. One year later on August 4, 2008, KVVU debuted a half–hour weeknight–only newscast at 11 p.m. On March 7, 2011, the weekday morning newscast (which consisted of the pre–7 a.m. Fox 5 News This Morning and the 7–9 a.m. Fox 5 News: Live in Las Vegas until 2013, when the program uniformly rebranded under the former title) expanded to 4½ hours, with its start time moved to 4:30 a.m. On July 9, 2012, KVVU debuted a half-hour 6 p.m. newscast.
On April 6, 2020, KVVU added a half-hour 1 p.m. newscast on weekdays, making it one of a few stations airing a 1 p.m. newscast alongside Los Angeles' CW affiliate
Syndicated programming
Because of KVVU's large-scale news schedule, most of the station's syndicated programming airs late at night to appeal to the market's unique "night owl" audience, with little to no paid programming scheduled outside weekends, and the station's Saturday infomercials exclusively from Fox's Weekend Marketplace, itself exclusive to summer and rarely-aired due to Fox Sports preemptions as a side effect of Las Vegas being in the Pacific Time Zone. The station's only daytime syndicated programming consists of TMZ Live at noontime (itself lead into by Gray's national newsmagazine, Investigate TV+) and TMZ before Fox prime time. Appropriately, repeats of the locally produced History Channel series Pawn Stars air in various time periods throughout the week.
- Al Bernstein – sports anchor (1998–2002)
- Cher Calvin – weekday morning anchor
