KSVT-LD (channel 14) is a

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, United States, affiliated with

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and

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. It is owned by

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alongside dual

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/ CW+ affiliate

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 Media alongside low-power Fox/MyNetworkTV affiliate KSVT-LD (channel 14). The two stations share studios o ...

(channel 11). The two stations share studios on Blue Lakes Boulevard North/

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in Twin Falls; KSVT-LD's transmitter is located on Flat Top Butte in unincorporated Jerome County east of

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and US 93. In addition to its own digital signal, KSVT-LD is

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on KMVT's third

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(11.3) from the same transmitter site.

History

KSVT signed-on for the first time on October 8, 1999, as

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K43FK. It became KTWT-LP in 2000. The station was a

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affiliate from late 2004 (picking up the UPN affiliation from

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, channel 5) until September 2006 when UPN merged with

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(which was seen on KWTE, via

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) to form

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. The new network was seen on KTWT (via

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) until March 2012, when the station switched to

following the closure of sister station KTID-LP. CW programming remains available through the second digital subchannel of KMVT, which previously simulcast with KTWT. KTWT joined Fox on July 1, 2012, replacing

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(channel 35); the station also converted to digital operation and branded as "Fox 14" (making it one of a handful of digital stations to brand using its physical channel as opposed to its former analog channel); MyNetworkTV programming is shown out-of-pattern weeknights at 10 p.m. KTWT was also added to a new third digital subchannel of KMVT. On February 27, 2014, the station changed its call letters to KSVT-LD to reflect an increased emphasis on Blaine County and the

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, including Sun Valley (from which the call letters are derived). (A previous and unrelated low-power TV station in

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had also operated as KSVT-LD, simulcasting with KSVX-CD in Hailey.) On March 12, 2015,

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announced that it would purchase KSVT-LD and KMVT from Neuhoff Communications for $17.5 million. The sale was completed on July 1. On July 7, 2025, it was announced that, in an exchange of several stations between Gray Media and the

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, KSVT-LD and KMVT would be traded to Scripps, making them

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KSAW-LD KSAW-LD (channel 6) is a low-power television station in Twin Falls, Idaho, United States, affiliated with ABC. Owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, the station maintains an advertising sales office in the Blue Lakes Office Park on Falls Aven ...

Newscasts

With KTWT's transition to Fox affiliation, there was a significant expansion of the news operation of sister station KMVT. More specifically, the CBS affiliate began producing a half-hour extension of its morning newscast ''Rise and Shine'' that is seen weekdays at 7 a.m. on KSVT. In addition, this station added half-hour newscasts at 5 p.m. on weeknights only and every night at 9 p.m. The news broadcasts on KSVT utilize a separate news anchor on weeknights and feature more regional, national and international news of the day compared to the newscasts seen on KMVT. As with local newscasts on KMVT, daily newscasts seen on KSVT-LD are broadcast in high definition. Concurrent with the relaunch as KSVT, Neuhoff Communications announced that the station would open a Wood River Valley bureau.

Subchannels

The station's signal is

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References

External links

KMVT website
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