KRNV-DT (channel 4) is a
television station
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in
Reno, Nevada
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, United States, affiliated with
NBC
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. It is owned by
Cunningham Broadcasting
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, which maintains
joint sales and
shared services
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agreements (JSA/SSA) with
Sinclair Broadcast Group
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, owner of
Fox
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affiliate
KRXI-TV
KRXI-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Reno, Nevada, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to primary sports-formatted independent station and secondar ...
(channel 11), for the provision of certain services. However, Sinclair effectively owns KRNV-DT as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. Sinclair also manages primary sports-formatted
independent station
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and secondary
MyNetworkTV
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affiliate
KNSN-TV
KNSN-TV (channel 21) is a primary sports-formatted independent station (North America), independent television station in Reno, Nevada, United States, which has a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Deerfield Media, which main ...
(channel 21) under a separate JSA with
Deerfield Media
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.
The stations share studios on Vassar Street in Reno, while KRNV-DT's transmitter is located on
Slide Mountain between
SR 431 and
I-580/
US 395
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/
US 395 ALT in
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Washoe County.
From 1997 until 2018, KRNV operated a
semi-satellite
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in
Elko, Nevada
Elko (Shoshoni: Natakkoa, "Rocks Piled on One Another") is the largest city in and county seat of Elko County, Nevada, United States. With a 2020 population of 20,564, Elko is currently growing at a rate of 0.31% annually and its population has i ...
,
KENV-DT
KENV-DT, virtual and VHF digital channel 10, is a TBD-operated television station licensed to Elko, Nevada, United States. Owned by Baltimore-based Cunningham Broadcasting, it is operated under joint sales and shared services agreements ...
(channel 10), which
simulcast
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all NBC network and
syndicated programming as provided through its parent but aired separate commercial inserts,
legal identifications, and weekday morning newscasts. Even though KENV currently maintains its own studio facilities,
master control
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and some internal operations are based at KRNV's studios in Reno; KENV is now a
TBD
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-
operated station.
History
![KRNV-DT Channel 4 station](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/KRNV-DT_Channel_4_station.jpg)
The station was founded on September 30, 1962, as KCRL. It aired an
analog
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*** Analog electronics, circuits which use analog ...
signal on VHF channel 4 and was the second television station in Northern Nevada. The
Sunbelt Communications Company
Intermountain West Communications Company was an American telecommunications company, formerly owned by James E. Rogers (1938–2014), that remains as the licensee company for a number of local television stations in the United States, operated ...
purchased channel 4 in 1989 and the call letters became the current KRNV on January 22, 1990. The station has always been an NBC affiliate, although it shared ABC with KOLO-TV until 1967. It is the only one of the "Big Three" affiliated stations in Reno to have never changed its primary affiliation.
It signed on KENV in Elko on March 25, 1997, as a semi-satellite, providing Nevada-based programming to the Nevada side of the
Salt Lake City, Utah
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market. The station operated another satellite, KWNV channel 7, in
Winnemucca, but this went silent on July 1, 2008.
On December 19, 2006, KRNV began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition, making it the first station in the market to do so (although local PBS station
KNPB
KNPB (channel 5), branded on-air as PBS Reno, is a PBS member television station in Reno, Nevada, United States, owned by Channel 5 Public Broadcasting, Inc. The station's studios are located on North Virginia Street in Reno, and its transmitter ...
became the first in Northern Nevada to offer digital broadcasts on September 29, 2000).
On September 11, 2010, KRNV debuted public affairs show ''To the Point with Anjeanette Damon''. Damon's first guest was
Republican
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** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
Gubernatorial nominee (now former
Governor
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)
Brian Sandoval
Brian Edward Sandoval (; born August 5, 1963) is an American politician, academic administrator, and former federal judge who served as the 29th Governor of Nevada from 2011 to 2019.
A graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno, Sandoval began ...
. The main guest on her second show was
Democratic Gubernatorial nominee
Rory Reid. ''To the Point'' aired Saturdays at 4:30 p.m. Beginning on November 6, 2010, ''To the Point'' was simulcast statewide on KRNV, KENV and
KSNV
KSNV (channel 3) is a television station in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside dual CW/MyNetworkTV affiliate KVCW (channel 33). Both stations share studios on Foremaster Lan ...
until the show finale on November 9, 2013.
On November 22, 2013,
Sinclair Broadcast Group
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announced the acquisition of KRNV's non-license assets, for $26 million. Sinclair already owned
KRXI-TV
KRXI-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Reno, Nevada, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to primary sports-formatted independent station and secondar ...
and operated
KAME-TV in Reno.
On December 19, it was announced that
Cunningham Broadcasting
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would acquire the license assets of KRNV and KENV for $6.5 million. The sale was approved on September 22, 2017, and was completed on January 9, 2018. Sinclair could not buy KRNV-DT outright because Reno has only six full-power stations—three too few to legally permit a duopoly. With the sale to Cunningham, Sinclair now controls half of those stations. The sale also created a situation in which a Fox affiliate is the nominal senior partner in a duopoly involving an NBC affiliate and a "Big Three" station.
KRNV became the second station in the country to do regularly scheduled Monday through Friday daily web-only newscasts powered by
Google
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's G+ Hangouts on January 25, 2012. The webcast started at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time and incorporated people in a news-talk format from all around the world. An on-air show featuring Google+ at 11:00 am debuted September 24, 2012, under the name ''News 4 Forum''. The first ''News 4 Forum'' featured Steve Grove, Head of Community Development at
Google+
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.
President
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Barack Obama
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did his second Google+ hangout on the ''News 4 Forum'' on the
2012 United States presidential election
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. Google shut down its Google+ social networking service on April 2, 2019.
Programming
In addition to the NBC network schedule,
syndicated programs featured on KRNV-DT include ''
Dr. Phil'', ''
Judge Judy
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'', and ''
Entertainment Tonight
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'', among others. KRNV is one of a few NBC affiliates to air
paid programming
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* ''Paid'' (1930 film), an American film starring Joan Crawford
* ''Paid'' (2006 film), a Dutch film
*''Personality and Individual Differences'', a journal
See also
* Paide
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on weekdays.
News operation
![KRNV-KENV Logo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/KRNV-KENV_Logo.png)
KRNV presently broadcasts 22½ hours of local newscasts each week (with 4½ hours each weekday and 2 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays).
KRNV produces the only hour-long 6:00 p.m. newscast on weeknights in the Reno area. KRNV airs the ''
NBC Nightly News
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'' at 5:30 p.m. while
KTVN
KTVN (channel 2) is a television station in Reno, Nevada, United States, affiliated with CBS. Owned by Sarkes Tarzian, Sarkes Tarzian, Inc., the station has studios on Energy Way in Reno, and its transmitter is located on Slide Mountain (Nevada) ...
and
KOLO-TV
KOLO-TV (channel 8) is a television station in Reno, Nevada, United States, affiliated with ABC and The CW Plus. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Incline Village–licensed low-power Telemundo affiliate KXNV-LD (channel 26). The two stat ...
air their national newscasts at 6:00 p.m. On April 2, 2012, KRNV became the first station to offer a 4:00 p.m. newscast on the market. Other newscasts include a two-hour long ''News 4 Today'' that runs from 5:00-7:00 a.m. and ''News 4'' at 5:00 and 11:00 p.m.
KRNV partners with Sam Shad Productions to air ''The Dining Show'' at 12:30 p.m. on Fridays.
KRNV became the first station in recent history to produce a local "Coaches-Style" sports show on television featuring University of Nevada Wolf Pack sports. ''Wolf Pack All Access'' debuted Sunday, September 9, 2012, after ''Sunday Night Football''.
Notable former on-air staff
*
Bonnie Bernstein
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– former KRNV sports anchor; former
ESPN
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and
CBS Sports
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reporter/host
*
Contessa Brewer
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– former general assignment reporter; former
MSNBC
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anchor;
CNBC
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reporter
*
Steve Handelsman
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– national political correspondent for
NBC News
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'
Washington, D.C.
)
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bureau (1984–2017); now retired
*
Mark Hyman – national political commentator for Sinclair Broadcast Group's ''Behind the Headlines'' (2013–2018); now retired
*
Jon Ralston
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– host of ''Ralston Reports'' (2010–2014); now retired and co-founder of ''The Nevada Independent'' (2017–present)
*
Jim Rogers
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– station owner and founder of the
Intermountain West Communications Company
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(1979–2014); now deceased
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed
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:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KRNV shut down its analog signal, over
VHF channel 4, 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 7.
Through the use of
PSIP
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, digital television receivers display the station's
virtual channel
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as its former VHF analog channel 4.
Translators
References
External links
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