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Channels | |
Branding | NewsChannel 7 |
Programming | |
Affiliations |
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Ownership | |
Owner | |
KTFT-LD | |
History | |
First air date | July 12, 1953 |
Former call signs | KIDO-TV (1953–1959) |
Former channel number(s) |
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Call sign meaning | Television Boise |
Technical information [1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 34858 |
ERP | 42.1 kW |
HAAT | 806 m (2,644 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 43°45′16″N 116°5′56″W / 43.75444°N 116.09889°W |
Translator(s) |
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Links | |
Public license information | |
Website |
www |
Translator | |
KTFT-LD | |
Channels | |
Programming | |
Affiliations |
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History | |
Founded | April 18, 1984 |
First air date | August 6, 1986 |
Former call signs |
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Former channel number(s) |
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Call sign meaning | Twin Falls Television |
Technical information [2] | |
Facility ID | 167056 |
ERP | 15 kW |
HAAT | 226.6 m (743 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 42°43′47.7″N 114°25′9.1″W / 42.729917°N 114.419194°W |
Translator(s) | K18NF-D Hagerman |
Links | |
Public license information | LMS |
KTVB (channel 7) is a television station in Boise, Idaho, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc. The station's studios are located on West Fairview Avenue (off I-184) in Boise, and its transmitter is located on Dear Point in unincorporated Boise County.
The station also operates a low-power repeater in Twin Falls, KTFT-LD (channel 7). The two signals are identical, with the exception of commercials, which are sold and targeted to the Magic Valley area. KTFT maintains a small advertising sales office on Falls Avenue in Twin Falls and transmitter on Flat Top Butte near Jerome, Idaho. Master control and most internal operations are based at KTVB's facilities.
Boise radio station KIDO, owned by Georgia Davidson, filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in March 1952 seeking to build a television station on the city's allotted channel 7. The application arrived in anticipation of the end of the FCC's multi-year freeze on TV station applications. [3] The construction permit was granted on December 23, [4] KIDO already had some equipment on hand; the month before, it conducted a closed-circuit demonstration of television at its AM transmitter site. [5] On an elevation behind the city, construction began in February on the transmitter site. [6] The station signed for affiliation with the CBS, NBC, and DuMont networks; [7] KIDO radio had maintained NBC affiliation since 1937. [8]
KIDO-TV began broadcasting on July 12, 1953; Philo Farnsworth, a television pioneer, was one of the guests of honor at the dedication. [9] It was not the first television station to make its bow in Idaho, but under the circumstances, it was effectively the first serious station to set up. On June 18, KFXD-TV (channel 6) in Nampa put out its first test pattern. [10] Reliant exclusively on old movies with no studio facilities, it lasted less than two months before leaving the air. [11] The lone missing national network, ABC, affiliated with KIDO-TV in December. [12]
National live programming became a reality beginning with the 1955 World Series after a microwave transmission link between Boise and Salt Lake City was set up. The tower was relocated to Deer Point in 1956, which together with an increased effective radiated power extended the station's coverage to a further 80,000 people. [13]
Davidson agreed to sell KIDO radio to the Mesabi Western Corp. in November 1958; the radio station retained its call sign, [14] and channel 7 became KTVB. [15]
Davidson was one of only three female station owners in the NBC network including Dorothy Bullitt of future sister station KING-TV in Seattle.
KTVB has always been a primary NBC affiliate, owing to KIDO radio's longtime relationship with the NBC Radio Network. After KBOI-TV (channel 2, CBS) signed on in November 1953, the two stations briefly shared secondary DuMont affiliations, and shared secondary ABC affiliations until KITC (channel 6) signed on in 1974. Before PBS member KAID-TV (channel 4) signed on in December 1971, KTVB preempted the second hour of the Today Show to carry Sesame Street without commercials on weekday mornings.
In the early 1960s, KTVB built a satellite station in La Grande, Oregon. KTVR-TV (channel 13) went on the air December 6, 1964, as a semi-satellite of KTVB, but had a La Grande studio at 1605 Adams Ave., producing a nightly newscast and other local programming. However, by 1967, the La Grande studio and office had been closed and KTVR was a total satellite of KTVB. KTVR was unique in the Pacific Time Zone because as a repeater of a Mountain Time Zone station, its "prime time" schedule was broadcast from 6 to 9 p.m. PT, two hours early. OEPBS (now Oregon Public Broadcasting) bought KTVR on August 31, 1976, and converted it to a non-commercial PBS member station on February 1, 1977.
Philo Farnsworth, the father of television and a native of Beaver, Utah, was present as the station signed on the air. During KTVB's fiftieth year celebration in 2003, the tag line "the first television station in the state where TV was invented" was used in some promotional announcements.
In 1979, KTVB was sold to the Bullitts' King Broadcasting Company, joining company flagship station KING-TV in Seattle, KREM-TV in Spokane, and KGW-TV in Portland, as part of King Broadcasting. In 1992, the company was sold to the Providence Journal Company, which was later sold to Belo Corp. in 1997.
KTVB has branched out into non-traditional areas, such as its free "Idaho Classifieds" project on the ZIdaho website. KTVB is no longer affiliated with ZIdaho as of January 2013. [16] In August 2011, KTVB became the first station in Boise to broadcast its entire weekday schedule in high definition.
On June 13, 2013, the Gannett Company announced that it would acquire Belo. [17] The sale was completed on December 23. [18]
The station's multicast channels, Idaho's Very Own 24/7 and NWCN, were moved to the basic plan on Cable One system on August 27, 2013. [19] Northwest Cable News was replaced with the Justice Network on subchannel 7.3 on January 20, 2015. [19] [20] [21] NWCN would shut down almost two years later, on January 6, 2017.
On June 29, 2015, the Gannett Company split in two, with one side specializing in print media and the other side specializing in broadcast and digital media. KTVB was retained by the latter company, named Tegna. [22]
KTVB-DT2, branded on-air as Idaho's Very Own 24/7, is the second digital subchannel of KTVB, programmed as an independent station. Over the air, it broadcasts on channel 7.2 in Boise and on KTFT-LD 7.2 in Twin Falls.
At the end of October 2003, KTVB launched 24/7 NewsChannel on KTVB-DT2, one of the first digital secondary subchannels in the nation. The subchannel's programming initially consisted of time-shifted newscasts plus five other programs not on its main channel. Plans for the independent news format subchannel were for original news programs and other local programming. [23]
By fall 2011, the station had rebranded its 24/7 NewsChannel as "Idaho's Very Own 24/7" while revamping the 6:30 p.m. newscast and the morning news at 7 a.m. added additional features. [24]
Though originally billed as a 24-hour news channel, the subchannel has become more of an independent station in order to compete with other subchannels in the area which carry other outside subchannel networks, along with adding traditional syndicated programming, especially with KTRV-TV's September 2016 decision to convert to a full-time Ion Television affiliate (and eventual purchase by Ion itself), which freed up several programs for the local market (another factor is KTVB's newscasts being available live or delayed on its website, making the subchannel's original purpose superfluous).
KTVB-DT2 simulcasts the main station's morning and 5 p.m. newscasts on Mondays through Saturdays, as well as the weekend early evening (Saturdays at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.) and weekend 10 p.m. newscasts. Airing the weekend early evening newscasts allows viewers to still see a newscast despite NBC Sports preempting newscasts for college football or NBC Sunday Night Football coverage during the fall, and golf and NASCAR coverage in those seasons. Exclusive to the station is a weekday 7 a.m. hour-long newscast, and Friday Night Flights on Friday evenings, which provides coverage of local high school football. In other non-prime slots, repeats of the last KTVB newscast produced before that time period are seen. KTVB-DT2 also broadcasts Boise State University athletic contests—including football and basketball—along with shows like Inside Bronco Football on Wednesday nights and the Idaho Coaches Show on Thursday nights. Both programs are shown at 10:30 p.m. and repeated the following day at 12:30 p.m.
In rare cases where KTVB must preempt NBC network programming for local breaking news or community interest coverage, KTVB-DT2 carries network shows in their regularly scheduled timeslots. KTVB-DT2 also airs second runs of KTVB's syndicated programming.
KTVB produces 6+1⁄2 hours of original news programming each weekday distributed between KTVB and KTVB-DT2, and a total of 38 hours of original news and sports programming per week.
Former reporters have gone on to attain national prominence, including Christi Paul of CNN Headline News, Trace Gallagher of Fox News, David Kerley of ABC News [25] and Meg Oliver of CBS News' Up To The Minute.
The KTVB news gathering fleet includes a new state of the art satellite truck purchased in 2006, allowing for live coverage of events across the region. KTVB's resources also include two live units, 10 news gathering vehicles, and a digital production truck.
The station has won a total of seven National Edward R. Murrow awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA). KTVB is also the recipient of numerous Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Northwest Chapter. On September 30, 2013, KTVB added the area's second weekday hour-long 4 p.m. newscast (after KBOI-TV). [26]
The stations' signals are multiplexed:
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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7.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KTVB-HD | Main KTVB programming / NBC |
7.2 | 720p | 24/7 | Independent | |
7.3 | 480i | Crime | True Crime Network | |
7.4 | Quest | Quest | ||
7.5 | NEST | The Nest | ||
7.6 | ShopLC | Shop LC | ||
7.7 | HSN | [blank] | ||
7.8 | RewindTV | Rewind TV |
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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7.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KTFT | Main KTFT-LD programming / NBC |
7.2 | 720p | 24/7 | Independent | |
7.3 | 480i | Crime | True Crime Network | |
7.4 | Quest | Quest | ||
7.5 | ShopLC | Shop LC |
KTVB shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 26 to VHF channel 7 for post-transition operations. [30] [31] [32]
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| |
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Channels | |
Branding | NewsChannel 7 |
Programming | |
Affiliations |
|
Ownership | |
Owner | |
KTFT-LD | |
History | |
First air date | July 12, 1953 |
Former call signs | KIDO-TV (1953–1959) |
Former channel number(s) |
|
Call sign meaning | Television Boise |
Technical information [1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 34858 |
ERP | 42.1 kW |
HAAT | 806 m (2,644 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 43°45′16″N 116°5′56″W / 43.75444°N 116.09889°W |
Translator(s) |
|
Links | |
Public license information | |
Website |
www |
Translator | |
KTFT-LD | |
Channels | |
Programming | |
Affiliations |
|
History | |
Founded | April 18, 1984 |
First air date | August 6, 1986 |
Former call signs |
|
Former channel number(s) |
|
Call sign meaning | Twin Falls Television |
Technical information [2] | |
Facility ID | 167056 |
ERP | 15 kW |
HAAT | 226.6 m (743 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 42°43′47.7″N 114°25′9.1″W / 42.729917°N 114.419194°W |
Translator(s) | K18NF-D Hagerman |
Links | |
Public license information | LMS |
KTVB (channel 7) is a television station in Boise, Idaho, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc. The station's studios are located on West Fairview Avenue (off I-184) in Boise, and its transmitter is located on Dear Point in unincorporated Boise County.
The station also operates a low-power repeater in Twin Falls, KTFT-LD (channel 7). The two signals are identical, with the exception of commercials, which are sold and targeted to the Magic Valley area. KTFT maintains a small advertising sales office on Falls Avenue in Twin Falls and transmitter on Flat Top Butte near Jerome, Idaho. Master control and most internal operations are based at KTVB's facilities.
Boise radio station KIDO, owned by Georgia Davidson, filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in March 1952 seeking to build a television station on the city's allotted channel 7. The application arrived in anticipation of the end of the FCC's multi-year freeze on TV station applications. [3] The construction permit was granted on December 23, [4] KIDO already had some equipment on hand; the month before, it conducted a closed-circuit demonstration of television at its AM transmitter site. [5] On an elevation behind the city, construction began in February on the transmitter site. [6] The station signed for affiliation with the CBS, NBC, and DuMont networks; [7] KIDO radio had maintained NBC affiliation since 1937. [8]
KIDO-TV began broadcasting on July 12, 1953; Philo Farnsworth, a television pioneer, was one of the guests of honor at the dedication. [9] It was not the first television station to make its bow in Idaho, but under the circumstances, it was effectively the first serious station to set up. On June 18, KFXD-TV (channel 6) in Nampa put out its first test pattern. [10] Reliant exclusively on old movies with no studio facilities, it lasted less than two months before leaving the air. [11] The lone missing national network, ABC, affiliated with KIDO-TV in December. [12]
National live programming became a reality beginning with the 1955 World Series after a microwave transmission link between Boise and Salt Lake City was set up. The tower was relocated to Deer Point in 1956, which together with an increased effective radiated power extended the station's coverage to a further 80,000 people. [13]
Davidson agreed to sell KIDO radio to the Mesabi Western Corp. in November 1958; the radio station retained its call sign, [14] and channel 7 became KTVB. [15]
Davidson was one of only three female station owners in the NBC network including Dorothy Bullitt of future sister station KING-TV in Seattle.
KTVB has always been a primary NBC affiliate, owing to KIDO radio's longtime relationship with the NBC Radio Network. After KBOI-TV (channel 2, CBS) signed on in November 1953, the two stations briefly shared secondary DuMont affiliations, and shared secondary ABC affiliations until KITC (channel 6) signed on in 1974. Before PBS member KAID-TV (channel 4) signed on in December 1971, KTVB preempted the second hour of the Today Show to carry Sesame Street without commercials on weekday mornings.
In the early 1960s, KTVB built a satellite station in La Grande, Oregon. KTVR-TV (channel 13) went on the air December 6, 1964, as a semi-satellite of KTVB, but had a La Grande studio at 1605 Adams Ave., producing a nightly newscast and other local programming. However, by 1967, the La Grande studio and office had been closed and KTVR was a total satellite of KTVB. KTVR was unique in the Pacific Time Zone because as a repeater of a Mountain Time Zone station, its "prime time" schedule was broadcast from 6 to 9 p.m. PT, two hours early. OEPBS (now Oregon Public Broadcasting) bought KTVR on August 31, 1976, and converted it to a non-commercial PBS member station on February 1, 1977.
Philo Farnsworth, the father of television and a native of Beaver, Utah, was present as the station signed on the air. During KTVB's fiftieth year celebration in 2003, the tag line "the first television station in the state where TV was invented" was used in some promotional announcements.
In 1979, KTVB was sold to the Bullitts' King Broadcasting Company, joining company flagship station KING-TV in Seattle, KREM-TV in Spokane, and KGW-TV in Portland, as part of King Broadcasting. In 1992, the company was sold to the Providence Journal Company, which was later sold to Belo Corp. in 1997.
KTVB has branched out into non-traditional areas, such as its free "Idaho Classifieds" project on the ZIdaho website. KTVB is no longer affiliated with ZIdaho as of January 2013. [16] In August 2011, KTVB became the first station in Boise to broadcast its entire weekday schedule in high definition.
On June 13, 2013, the Gannett Company announced that it would acquire Belo. [17] The sale was completed on December 23. [18]
The station's multicast channels, Idaho's Very Own 24/7 and NWCN, were moved to the basic plan on Cable One system on August 27, 2013. [19] Northwest Cable News was replaced with the Justice Network on subchannel 7.3 on January 20, 2015. [19] [20] [21] NWCN would shut down almost two years later, on January 6, 2017.
On June 29, 2015, the Gannett Company split in two, with one side specializing in print media and the other side specializing in broadcast and digital media. KTVB was retained by the latter company, named Tegna. [22]
KTVB-DT2, branded on-air as Idaho's Very Own 24/7, is the second digital subchannel of KTVB, programmed as an independent station. Over the air, it broadcasts on channel 7.2 in Boise and on KTFT-LD 7.2 in Twin Falls.
At the end of October 2003, KTVB launched 24/7 NewsChannel on KTVB-DT2, one of the first digital secondary subchannels in the nation. The subchannel's programming initially consisted of time-shifted newscasts plus five other programs not on its main channel. Plans for the independent news format subchannel were for original news programs and other local programming. [23]
By fall 2011, the station had rebranded its 24/7 NewsChannel as "Idaho's Very Own 24/7" while revamping the 6:30 p.m. newscast and the morning news at 7 a.m. added additional features. [24]
Though originally billed as a 24-hour news channel, the subchannel has become more of an independent station in order to compete with other subchannels in the area which carry other outside subchannel networks, along with adding traditional syndicated programming, especially with KTRV-TV's September 2016 decision to convert to a full-time Ion Television affiliate (and eventual purchase by Ion itself), which freed up several programs for the local market (another factor is KTVB's newscasts being available live or delayed on its website, making the subchannel's original purpose superfluous).
KTVB-DT2 simulcasts the main station's morning and 5 p.m. newscasts on Mondays through Saturdays, as well as the weekend early evening (Saturdays at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.) and weekend 10 p.m. newscasts. Airing the weekend early evening newscasts allows viewers to still see a newscast despite NBC Sports preempting newscasts for college football or NBC Sunday Night Football coverage during the fall, and golf and NASCAR coverage in those seasons. Exclusive to the station is a weekday 7 a.m. hour-long newscast, and Friday Night Flights on Friday evenings, which provides coverage of local high school football. In other non-prime slots, repeats of the last KTVB newscast produced before that time period are seen. KTVB-DT2 also broadcasts Boise State University athletic contests—including football and basketball—along with shows like Inside Bronco Football on Wednesday nights and the Idaho Coaches Show on Thursday nights. Both programs are shown at 10:30 p.m. and repeated the following day at 12:30 p.m.
In rare cases where KTVB must preempt NBC network programming for local breaking news or community interest coverage, KTVB-DT2 carries network shows in their regularly scheduled timeslots. KTVB-DT2 also airs second runs of KTVB's syndicated programming.
KTVB produces 6+1⁄2 hours of original news programming each weekday distributed between KTVB and KTVB-DT2, and a total of 38 hours of original news and sports programming per week.
Former reporters have gone on to attain national prominence, including Christi Paul of CNN Headline News, Trace Gallagher of Fox News, David Kerley of ABC News [25] and Meg Oliver of CBS News' Up To The Minute.
The KTVB news gathering fleet includes a new state of the art satellite truck purchased in 2006, allowing for live coverage of events across the region. KTVB's resources also include two live units, 10 news gathering vehicles, and a digital production truck.
The station has won a total of seven National Edward R. Murrow awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA). KTVB is also the recipient of numerous Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Northwest Chapter. On September 30, 2013, KTVB added the area's second weekday hour-long 4 p.m. newscast (after KBOI-TV). [26]
The stations' signals are multiplexed:
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
---|---|---|---|---|
7.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KTVB-HD | Main KTVB programming / NBC |
7.2 | 720p | 24/7 | Independent | |
7.3 | 480i | Crime | True Crime Network | |
7.4 | Quest | Quest | ||
7.5 | NEST | The Nest | ||
7.6 | ShopLC | Shop LC | ||
7.7 | HSN | [blank] | ||
7.8 | RewindTV | Rewind TV |
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
---|---|---|---|---|
7.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KTFT | Main KTFT-LD programming / NBC |
7.2 | 720p | 24/7 | Independent | |
7.3 | 480i | Crime | True Crime Network | |
7.4 | Quest | Quest | ||
7.5 | ShopLC | Shop LC |
KTVB shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 26 to VHF channel 7 for post-transition operations. [30] [31] [32]
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