KNIN-TV (channel 9) is a

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licensed to

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, United States, serving as the

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affiliate for the

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area. It is owned by

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, which maintains a

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agreement (SSA) with the

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, owner of

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-licensed

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affiliate

KIVI-TV KIVI-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Nampa, Idaho, United States, serving the Boise area as an affiliate of ABC. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, which provides certain services to Caldwell-licensed Fox affiliate KNI ...

(channel 6), for the provision of certain services. Both stations share studios on East Chisholm Drive in Nampa along

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/ SH-55, while KNIN-TV's transmitter is located at the

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summit in

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Boise County

History

The station signed on March 8, 1991, as KTMW and aired an analog signal on VHF channel 9. It was originally locally owned by William Schuyler and affiliated with the Home Shopping Network (

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). The call sign would change to KHDT-TV on April 13, 1992. Schuyler later sold the station to a subsidiary of Lambert Broadcasting, LLC. On January 16, 1995, it became a charter

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affiliate, also carrying WB network programming on a secondary basis, while HSN programming was still being aired during the daytime. The

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became KNIN-TV on August 30, 1996 and began to cut back HSN programming to overnight hours, and started picking up general entertainment programming including cartoons and ''

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'' shows (which was previously carried on

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(50% of the company was owned by the LIN TV Corporation of

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). On September 18, 2006, KNIN became an affiliate of

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(the merger of UPN and The WB), carrying it on the main channel in place of UPN. A new second

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signed on offering The CW Plus (a similar operation to The WB 100+) as the replacement for "KWOB". The former cable-exclusive station then dropped the faux calls in favor of KNIN-DT2, creating a situation where CW primetime programming aired on both DT1 and DT2. Though, the children's programming block,

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(later

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) was not picked up on the main channel, which was instead carried on The CW Plus subchannel while the main channel instead carried syndicated E/I programming. On July 1, 2008, Banks Broadcasting announced that it had agreed to sell KNIN to

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(owner of KIVI), creating Boise's first television

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. The

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(FCC) initially rejected the application on November 10; shortly afterward, Banks Broadcasting filed an appeal, and on January 16, 2009 the FCC reversed its decision, allowing the deal to go through. The purchase closed on April 24, at which point KNIN remained on the air with a

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crew at the West Bannock Street studios in downtown Boise until KIVI's new facilities in Nampa were finished. On September 25 of that same year, KNIN went dark at midnight for eight hours while the station was reconfigured to broadcast from the new studios in Nampa at 8 a.m. that Saturday. On September 1, 2011, KNIN assumed the Fox affiliation from KTRV-TV (channel 12), upon expiration of their CW affiliation agreements. On September 12, CW Plus programming moved to KYUU-LP and a subchannel of KBOI-TV. The last CW program to air on KNIN was ''

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''. KNIN's first Fox program was a repeat of ''

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''. Besides this television station sharing the same call sign with

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92.9 in

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, there is no relation between the two. KNIN-DT2 subsequently switched to the

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that same day; it later carried

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on May 20, 2015. On March 2, 2017,

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moved from KTRV-DT2 to KNIN-DT2; H&I then moved to KRID-LD3. On July 30, 2014, it was announced that the

would acquire Journal Communications in an all-stock transaction. The combined firm will retain their broadcast properties and spin off their print assets as Journal Media Group. Originally, KNIN-TV, KIVI-TV and 5 radio stations, were not included in the merger; in September, Journal filed to transfer these stations to Journal/Scripps Divestiture Trust (with Kiel Media Group as trustee). The merge was completed on April 1, 2015 and Kiel Media Group assumed the operations of the license, Scripps retained KIVI and the other 5 radio stations. On May 7, 2015,

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agreed to purchase KNIN-TV for $14.5 million; Scripps then entered into a

agreement that will allow KIVI to continue to provide services to KNIN. This arrangement is similar to one that the two companies have in

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, where Raycom's Fox affiliate

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is operated through SSA by Scripps'

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affiliate

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. The sale was completed on October 1, 2015. The SSA continued unchanged after Raycom merged with

in January 2019.

Programming

Syndicated programming

Syndicated programming on KNIN includes ''

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'' and ''

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'' among others.

Newscasts

Following Journal's acquisition of KNIN, it began airing a weeknight prime time newscast produced by KIVI. Then known as ''Today's 6 News on K9'', the show could be seen for thirty minutes. In January 2011, KIVI upgraded its local newscasts to 16:9 enhanced definition

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and the KNIN weeknight broadcast was included. Although not true high definition, broadcasts match the aspect ratio of HD television screens. Corresponding with the station's affiliation switch to Fox from The CW on September 1, 2011, the weeknight prime time show became known as ''Fox 9 News at 9.'' The newscast was expanded to an hour and originally featured separate news anchors on weeknights. Eventually, the show was renamed ''Fox 9 On Your Side'' and began to resemble local news seen on KIVI. The newscast competes with a weeknight half-hour show on KYUU that is produced by KBOI. In addition, KIVI made the prime time news on this station a seven night operation. On August 25, 2014, KNIN launched an hour-long extension to ''Good Morning Idaho'' from 7:00–8:00 a.m. with KIVI's current morning team.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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Translator

Analog-to-digital conversion

KNIN-TV shut down its analog signal, over

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channel 9, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 10. Through the use of

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, digital television receivers display the station's

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as its former VHF analog channel 9.

References

External links

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KIVITV.com
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