KUVI-DT

KUVI-DT (channel 45) is a television station in Bakersfield, California, United States, affiliated with the digital multicast network Quest. It is owned by TelevisaUnivision alongside two Class A stations carrying TelevisaUnivision's networks: Univision station KABE-CD (channel 39), and UniMás station KBTF-CD (channel 31), both of which are also subchannels of KUVI-DT. The three stations share studios on Truxtun Avenue in western Bakersfield; KUVI's transmitter is located atop Mount Adelaide.

Channel 45 went on air in 1988 as KDOB-TV, Bakersfield's first local independent station, and was originally owned by Dorothy Owens Broadcasting. Owens had to settle with five competing applicants to obtain the construction permit, incurring significant debt in the process, and went into bankruptcy reorganization after less than a year in operation. The best offer for the station came from Buck Owens, Dorothy's brother and owner of the KUZZ radio stations; the other three TV stations in town called the transaction a "sham" and an end-run around Federal Communications Commission ownership rules, but the FCC approved the deal in 1990. The station changed its call sign in March 1991 to KUZZ-TV to match its sister radio properties.

While many similar stations affiliated with the Fox network, KUZZ-TV was shut out because KMPH-TV in Visalia, owned by Harry Pappas, claimed rights to the Fox affiliation in Bakersfield as well as Fresno; Pappas wielded significant influence with the network and ultimately started a translator of KMPH as the local Fox affiliate. In 1995, the station affiliated with UPN. Two years later, Buck Owens sold KUZZ-TV to Univision, becoming the company's first English-language TV station. The purchase came about because Univision feared displacement of its local low-power TV station by a proposed educational channel; the company committed to honoring the preexisting UPN affiliation agreement. KUVI became the MyNetworkTV affiliate for Bakersfield in 2006 and since 2017 has used its main channel to broadcast a series of diginets.