KKJB (channel 39) is a

television station A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the ea ...

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, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language

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network. It is owned by

Cocola Broadcasting Cocola Broadcasting is a broadcasting company based in Fresno, California. Founded in the early 1980s by Valley broadcasting veteran Gary Cocola, Cocola owns two full-power digital television stations KGMC in Fresno and KKJB in Boise, along with ...

alongside six low-power stations. KKJB's transmitter is located north of the city in the Boise National Forest.

History

KKJB signed on the air in July 2005 as an affiliate of

America One America One was an American television network established in 1995 by USFR Media Group through its America One Television subsidiary.

. In 2009, the station switched its affiliation to Daystar. In 2014, KKJB changed its Daystar affiliation to

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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Analog-to-digital conversion

Because it was granted an original

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after the

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finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital

. KKJB shut down its analog signal, over

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channel 39, instead, on or before June 12, 2009. The station "

flash-cut A flash cut, also called a flash cutover, is an immediate change in a complex system, with no phase-in period. In the United States, some telephone area codes were split or overlaid immediately, rather than being phased in with a permissive d ...

" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 39. On November 30, 2018, KKJB switched from channel 39 to channel 15.

References

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