KXPI-LD (channel 3) is a low-power television station licensed to

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, United States. Owned by

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(NPG), it is a

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–licensed

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/ Fox/

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affiliate

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, channel 3 (which is owned by VistaWest Media,

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but operated by NPG under a

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agreement SA; it is also a

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to ABC affiliate

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, channel 8 (also licensed to Idaho Falls), which NPG owns outright. KXPI-LD's transmitter is located on Howard Mountain in unincorporated Bannock County west of downtown Pocatello; its parent station shares studios with KIFI-TV on North

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in Idaho Falls.

History

An original

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for low-power station K24EV was granted on June 20, 1997, to Idaho Independent Television, Inc. This construction permit was acquired by the Pocatello Media Group on May 19, 2000. K24EV had originally planned to simulcast the programming of future KRXZ-LP on channel 59 licensed to Rexburg, and air UPN programming. KRXZ-LP's license originally covered low-power K63GA on channel 63 which was only on the air for less than a year, from August 1999 to July 2000, when it was granted Remain Silent Authority from the

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(FCC). K24EV had its call letters changed to KPID-LP (standing for "Pocatello, Idaho") and applied for a license to cover on February 2, 2001, which was dismissed in May because it was not timely filed. The underlying construction permit had expired in June 2000, more than seven months before Pocatello Media Group filed for the license. Both KPID-LP and KRXZ-LP were put up for auction, but the company winning the FCC auction (ESI Communications) went into

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and neither signal had gone on the air. However, Pocatello Media Group's license to cover for KPID-LP was reinstated and granted on June 26, 2001, indicating that the station had finally gotten on the air. At this time, the call letters were changed back to K24EV. KRXZ-LP, however, which was to broadcast UPN to the northern portion of the broadcasting area, never went on the air on channel 59. KRXZ-LP's license was deleted in 2003. Equity Broadcasting, through its subsidiary EBC Pocatello, Inc., acquired K24EV on February 3, 2003, and changed the call letters to KUNP-LP on March 5, 2004. The station was finally acquired by

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, owner of CBS affiliate KIDK, on May 15, 2006. UPN merged with

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to form

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and WB affiliate KPIF (channel 15) acquired the CW affiliation. UPN ceased programming on September 15, 2006, and KUNP-LP became an affiliate of the

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TeleFutura network (now

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). The call letters changed again on December 15, 2006, to KPPP-LP. In mid-December 2008, KPPP dropped its TeleFutura affiliation and signed off. The station then changed its call letters to the current KXPI-LP on April 22, 2009. The station signed back on September 14, 2009, with programming from

; at that time, KXPI began to be simulcast on a new subchannel of KIDK-DT. Prior to this latest relaunch, the Idaho Falls–Pocatello market was one of the few markets in the country without a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. In January 2011, the News-Press & Gazette Company (owner of local ABC affiliate KIFI-TV) began operating KXPI-LD and sister station KIDK through shared services agreements. On June 15, 2012, it was announced that KXPI-LD/KIDK-DT2 would be taking over the Fox affiliation from Intermountain West Communications Company–managed KFXP (channel 31, now KVUI) beginning July 1. KFXP would then switch to

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on that date. KXPI would retain MyNetworkTV as a secondary affiliation airing programming in a delayed arrangement at 10 on weeknights. The affiliation move gives News-Press & Gazette operational control of five of the six largest

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networks in the Idaho Falls–Pocatello market since The CW moved its affiliation from KPIF to a new digital subchannel of KIFI back in 2009. It also makes the Idaho Falls–Pocatello market one of the few markets with all three legacy networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) as primary affiliations and all three post-1986 networks (Fox, The CW and the MyNetworkTV programming service) as digital multicast channels in a market with four commercial full-power stations (or five when counting KPIF). After joining Fox, KXPI's

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could also be interpreted as "Fox Pocatello, Idaho". On April 11, 2013, Fisher announced that it would sell its stations to the

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. The deal was completed on August 8, 2013. Shortly beforehand, a deal was reached to sell KXPI and KIDK to VistaWest Media, LLC, a company based in

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(where NPG is also based); the stations remain operated by NPG under a shared services agreement. The sale was finalized on November 29. NPG agreed to purchase KXPI-LD outright on February 1, 2017. The sale was completed on March 20.Consummation Notice
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Subchannels

This station rebroadcasts the subchannels of KIDK.

References

Post-Register article on station construction, February 25, 2001.

External links

* {{NPG 2001 establishments in Idaho Dabl affiliates Fox Broadcasting Company affiliates XPI-LD MyNetworkTV affiliates News-Press & Gazette Company Television channels and stations established in 2001 XPI-LD

History

Subchannels

See also

References

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