KTVB (channel 7) is a

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, United States, affiliated with

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and owned by

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The station's studios are located on West Fairview Avenue (off

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) in Boise, and its transmitter is located at the

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summit in

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Boise County. The station also operates a low-power

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in Twin Falls, KTFT-LD (channel 7). The two signals are identical, with the exception of commercials, which are sold and targeted to the

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area. KTFT maintains a small advertising sales office on Falls Avenue in Twin Falls and transmitter on Flat Top Butte near

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and most internal operations are based at KTVB's facilities.

History

The station, Idaho's oldest (but not its first), signed on July 12, 1953, as KIDO-TV. Along with radio station

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, it was originally owned by Georgia Davidson, who was one of only three female station owners in the NBC network including

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of future sister station

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. Davidson sold KIDO radio in 1959 but kept KIDO-TV, which she renamed KTVB on February 1. KTVB has always been a primary NBC affiliate, owing to KIDO radio's longtime relationship with the

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. After

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(channel 2,

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) signed on in November 1953, the two stations briefly shared secondary DuMont affiliations, and shared secondary

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affiliations until KITC (channel 6) signed on in 1974. Before

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KAID-TV (channel 4) signed on in December 1971, KTVB preempted the second hour of the ''

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'' to carry ''

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'' without commercials on weekday mornings. In the early 1960s, KTVB built a

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. KTVR-TV (channel 13) went on the air December 6, 1964, as a

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of KTVB, but had a La Grande studio at 1605 Adams Ave., producing a nightly newscast and other local programming. However, by 1967, the La Grande studio and office had been closed and KTVR was a total satellite of KTVB. KTVR was unique in the

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because as a repeater of a

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station, its "prime time" schedule was broadcast from 6 to 9 p.m. PT, two hours early. OEPBS (now

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) bought KTVR on August 31, 1976, and converted it to a non-commercial PBS member station on February 1, 1977.

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, the father of television and a native of

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, was present as the station signed on the air. During KTVB's fiftieth year celebration in 2003, the tag line "the first television station in the state where TV was invented" was used in some promotional announcements. In 1979, KTVB was sold to the Bullitts' King Broadcasting Company, joining company flagship station KING-TV in Seattle,

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, and

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, as part of King Broadcasting. In 1992, the company was sold to the

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Company, which was later sold to Belo Corp. in 1997. KTVB has branched out into non-traditional areas, such as its free "Idaho Classifieds" project on the ZIdaho website. KTVB is no longer affiliated with ZIdaho as of January 2013. In August 2011, KTVB became the first station in Boise to broadcast its entire weekday schedule in high definition. On June 13, 2013, the

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on subchannel 7.3 on January 20, 2015. NWCN would shut down almost two years later, on January 6, 2017. On June 29, 2015, the Gannett Company split in two, with one side specializing in print media and the other side specializing in broadcast and digital media. KTVB was retained by the latter company, named

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KTVB-DT2

KTVB-DT2, branded on-air as Idaho's Very Own 24/7, is the second

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of KTVB, programmed as an

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, it broadcasts on channel 7.2 in Boise and on KTFT-LD 7.8 in Twin Falls.

History

At the end of October 2003, KTVB launched 24/7 NewsChannel on KTVB-DT2, one of the first digital secondary subchannels in the nation. The subchannel's programming initially consisted of time-shifted newscasts plus five other programs not on its main channel. Plans for the independent news format subchannel were for original news programs and other local programming. By fall 2011, the station had rebranded its 24/7 NewsChannel as "Idaho's Very Own 24/7" while revamping the 6:30 p.m. newscast and the morning news at 7 a.m. added additional features. Though originally billed as a 24-hour news channel, the subchannel has become more of an independent station in order to compete with other subchannels in the area which carry other outside subchannel networks, along with adding traditional syndicated programming, especially with KTRV-TV's September 2016 decision to convert to a full-time

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affiliate (and eventual purchase by Ion itself), which freed up several programs for the local market (another factor is KTVB's newscasts being available live or delayed on its website, making the subchannel's original purpose superfluous).

Programming

KTVB-DT2 simulcasts the main station's morning newscasts on weekdays, along with weekend early evening newscasts and its 10 p.m. show nightly. Airing the weekend early evening newscasts allows viewers to still see a newscast despite

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preempting newscasts for college football or ''

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'' coverage during the fall, and

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and

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coverage in those seasons. Exclusive to the station is a weekday 7 a.m. hour-long newscast, and ''Friday Night Flights'' on Friday evenings, which provides coverage of local

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. In other non-prime slots, repeats of the last KTVB newscast produced before that time period are seen. KTVB-DT2 also broadcasts

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athletic contests—including

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and

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—along with shows like ''Inside Bronco Football'' on Wednesday nights and the ''

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Coaches Show'' on Thursday nights. Both programs are shown at 10:30 p.m. and repeated the following day at 12:30 p.m. Syndicated programming on KTVB-DT2 includes ''

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'', '' Just for Laughs Gags'', ''

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'' and '' The Dr. Oz Show'', along with second runs of KTVB's syndicated programming such as ''

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''. In rare cases where KTVB must preempt NBC network programming for local

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or community interest coverage, KTVB-DT2 carries network shows in their regularly scheduled timeslots.

News operation

KTVB produces 6½ hours of original news programming each weekday distributed between KTVB and KTVB-DT2, and a total of 38 hours of original news and sports programming per week. Former reporters have gone on to attain national prominence, including

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, Trace Gallagher of

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and Meg Oliver of

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' ''

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''. The KTVB news gathering fleet includes a new state of the art satellite truck purchased in 2006, allowing for live coverage of events across the region. KTVB's resources also include two live units, 10 news gathering vehicles, and a digital production truck. The station has won a total of seven National Edward R. Murrow awards from the

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(RTDNA). KTVB is also the recipient of numerous

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s from the

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, Northwest Chapter. On September 30, 2013, KTVB added the area's second weekday hour-long 4:00 p.m. newscast (after KBOI-TV).

Notable former-on air staff

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– weekend sports anchor (1984–1986). Currently weeknight anchor for KOMO 4 in Seattle.

Technical information

Subchannels

The stations' digital signals are

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KTVB

KTFT-LD

Analog-to-digital conversion

KTVB shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, 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 relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 26 to VHF channel 7 for post-transition operations.

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References

External links

* * {{Tegna NBC network affiliates True Crime Network affiliates Quest (American TV network) affiliates Twist (TV network) affiliates Rewind TV affiliates Tegna Inc. Television channels and stations established in 1953 1953 establishments in Idaho

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24-hour television news channels in the United States Former Gannett subsidiaries

History

KTVB-DT2

History

Programming

News operation

Notable former-on air staff

Technical information

Subchannels

KTVB

KTFT-LD

Analog-to-digital conversion

Translators

See also

References

External links