KIVI-TV
ABC television affiliate in Nampa, Idaho, United States
KIVI-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Nampa, Idaho, United States, serving the Boise area as an affiliate of ABC. Owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, the station maintains studios on East Chisholm Drive in Nampa (along I-84/US 30/SH-55), while its transmitter is located at the Bogus Basin ski area summit in unincorporated Boise County.
KIVI-TV operates KSAW-LD in Twin Falls, a semi-satellite of KIVI for the Magic Valley. It airs KIVI's ABC programs and some of its newscasts, alongside local commercials, separate evening newscasts produced from Nampa covering the Twin Falls area, and separate syndicated programming. KSAW-LD also maintains a small advertising sales office in the Blue Lakes Office Park on Falls Avenue in Twin Falls.
History
Prior use of channel 6
What is now KIVI-TV is actually the third attempt to launch a television station on channel 6 in Nampa, but the first to be successful.
The first of these earned the distinction of being Idaho's first television station. KFXD-TV broadcast under special temporary authority from June 18 to August 11, 1953. However, it was unable to obtain a network affiliation. KIDO-TV (channel 7, now KTVB), which signed on in July 1953, was a primary NBC affiliate but also had secondary affiliations with CBS, ABC and DuMont Television Network. Unable to find programming and limited to a two-man operation, KFXD-TV went off the air after only two months.
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