KSAW-LD (channel 6) is a
low-power television station in
Twin Falls, Idaho
Twin Falls is the county seat and largest city of Twin Falls County, Idaho, United States. The city had a population of 51,807 as of the 2020 census. In the Magic Valley region, Twin Falls is the largest city in a radius, and is the regiona ...
, United States, affiliated with
ABC
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. Owned by the
E. W. Scripps Company
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, the station maintains an advertising sales office in the Blue Lakes Office Park on Falls Avenue in Twin Falls (housed in the same building as the sales office of
NBC
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outlet
KTFT-LD), and its transmitter is located on Flat Top Butte near
Jerome, Idaho
Jerome is a city in and county seat of Jerome County, Idaho, United States. The population was 10,890 at the 2010 census, up from 7,780 in 2000.[semi-satellite
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of
Nampa-licensed
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 ...
(channel 6), which serves the
Boise
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market
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. KSAW clears all network programming as provided through its parent and
simulcast
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s some of KIVI's newscasts, but airs a separate offering of
syndicated programming
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; there are also separate evening newscasts originating from KIVI's studios, as well as separate
station identification
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s and commercial inserts targeting the Magic Valley. KSAW's
master control
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, as well as most internal operations, are housed at the shared studios of KIVI and
SSA partner
KNIN-TV
KNIN-TV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Caldwell, Idaho, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Boise area. It is owned by Gray Television, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with the E. W. Scrip ...
(channel 9, owned by
Gray Television
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) on East Chisholm Drive in Nampa (along
I-84
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/
US 30
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/
SH-55).
KSAW-LD's signal simulcasts three of KIVI's
digital subchannel
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s (carrying
Laff
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,
Ion Mystery
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and
Court TV
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); however, none of them are carried on the
Sparklight
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cable
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system in Twin Falls. KSAW operates a low-power digital
translator
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of its own, K29GV-D (channel 29) in
Hagerman, with transmitter northwest of the town on a ridge along the
Snake River
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.
History
In 1985, KIVI established K27AO, a 100-watt channel 27 translator, to serve viewers in the Magic Valley. In June 1989, this translator was upgraded to 1,000 watts on channel 68 as K68CO. That same year,
KKVI channel 35 began operating as a semi-satellite of
KPVI in
Pocatello
Pocatello () is the county seat of and largest city in Bannock County, with a small portion on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in neighboring Power County, in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. It is the principal city of the P ...
, creating a full-power ABC affiliate in the Twin Falls area. Beginning on January 1, 1990, KKVI held
syndication exclusivity priority over KIVI on Twin Falls cable systems for ABC programs the two stations aired at the same time. The next year,
King Videocable
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, the main cable system in the Twin Falls market, moved KIVI from its channel 6 position to share channel 30 with the
Home Shopping Network and placed KKVI on channel 6.
In 1995, an
affiliation switch hit the Pocatello–Idaho Falls market.
KIFI-TV
KIFI-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States, serving the Idaho Falls–Pocatello, Idaho, Pocatello market as an affiliate of American Broadcasting Company, ABC, CBS, The CW Plus and Telemundo. It is o ...
affiliated with ABC, and KPVI became an NBC affiliate. NBC was already seen in Twin Falls by way of KTFT, a low-power semi-satellite of
KTVB
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 at the Bogus Bas ...
in Boise. KKVI, which had already been a secondary Fox outlet, then became the market's Fox affiliate in January 1996; at that time, KIVI returned to full-time carriage on Twin Falls cable systems. On August 28, 1996, K68CO became KSAW-LP, at which time it also began airing separate commercials from KIVI.
In 2000, with the phasing out of channels 60 to 69 from television use, KSAW moved to channel 52. The phasing out of channels 52 to 59 forced KSAW to move again to channel 51.
On July 30, 2014, it was announced that the
E. W. Scripps Company
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would acquire Journal Communications in an all-stock transaction. The combined firm will retain their broadcast properties, including KSAW, and spin off their print assets as Journal Media Group.
The FCC approved the deal on December 12, 2014. It was approved by shareholders on March 11, 2015. It closed on April 1. Afterwards, Scripps made the decision to drop all usage of channel 51 from KSAW-LD, opting to use the same channel 6 branding as KIVI-TV; its
virtual channel
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was also changed from 51 to 6.
Local news
Though KSAW was established as a separate station from KIVI in August 1996, it continued to simulcast all of KIVI's local newscasts from Boise, which featured regional
forecasts
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geared toward the Magic Valley.
Scripps announced plans to launch a dedicated evening newscast for KSAW, beginning on April 13, 2020; it is produced and anchored from Boise, and features three Twin Falls-based reporters, creating the second television newsroom in the market (after
KMVT
KMVT (channel 11) is a television station in Twin Falls, Idaho, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW Plus. It is owned by Gray Television alongside low-power Fox/MyNetworkTV affiliate KSVT-LD (channel 14). The two stations share studio ...
). The program airs live at 5:30 p.m. weeknights and is
tape delayed at 10 p.m. KSAW and KIVI also concurrently rebranded from ''6 On Your Side'' to ''Idaho News 6''. KIVI's morning and weekend newscasts continue to be simulcast on KSAW.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed
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Television channels and stations established in 1985
1985 establishments in Idaho
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Low-power television stations in the United States
ABC network affiliates
Laff (TV network) affiliates
Ion Mystery affiliates
Grit (TV network) affiliates
E. W. Scripps Company television stations