KVHP (channel 29) is a television station in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with Fox, ABC and Univision. It is owned by American Spirit Media, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Gray Media, owner of dual NBC/CW+ affiliate KPLC (channel 7), for the provision of certain services. The two stations share studios on Division Street in downtown Lake Charles; KVHP's transmitter is located in rural northwestern Calcasieu Parish 5 mi northwest of Edgerly (halfway between Lake Charles and Beaumont, Texas, allowing the station's signal to reach both markets).
History
The station first signed on the air on December 12, 1982, as an independent station with the slogan "Make a U-Turn to KVHP, Channel 29", airing a mixture of religious and family programming. It signed on by Dr. Hugh Van Eaton, a local Baptist minister, and he entered a partnership with Dr. J. W. DiGiglia and Herschell Hardesty and Harold E. Protter (also a co-owner of independent station WNOL in New Orleans) in 1984, under the name Lake Charles Electronic Media.