KNIN-TV

KNIN-TV
Caldwell/Boise, Idaho
United States
City Caldwell, Idaho
Branding Fox 9
Slogan On Your Side.
Channels Digital: 10 (VHF)
Virtual: 9 (PSIP)
Subchannels 9.1 Fox
9.2 MeTV
9.3 Grit TV
Affiliations Fox (2011–present)
Owner Raycom Media
(sale to Gray Television pending[1])
(KNIN License Subsidiary, LLC)
Operator E. W. Scripps Company
First air date March 8, 1991 (1991-03-08)
Call letters' meaning NINe (channel number/canine as tribute to former dog mascot)
Sister station(s) KIVI-TV, KJOT, KQXR, KRVB, KTHI
Former callsigns KTMW (1991–1992)
KHDT-TV (1992–1996)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
9 (VHF, 1991–2009)
Former affiliations Primary:
HSN (1991–1995)
UPN (1995–2006)
The CW (2006–2011)
Secondary:
The WB (1995–1998)
Pax (1998–2003, mornings)
Transmitter power 25 kW
Height 818 m (2,684 ft)
Class DT
Facility ID 59363
Transmitter coordinates 43°45′18″N 116°5′55″W / 43.75500°N 116.09861°W / 43.75500; -116.09861
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website fox9now.revrocket.us

KNIN-TV is a Fox-affiliated television station serving Boise, Idaho, United States that is licensed to Caldwell. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 10 (or virtual channel 9.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter at the Bogus Basin ski area summit in unincorporated Boise County. The station can also be seen on Cable One channel 9 and in high definition on digital channel 485.

Owned by Raycom Media, KNIN is operated under a shared services agreement by the E. W. Scripps Company (which owned the station outright until 2015). This makes it a sister station to Nampa-licensed ABC affiliate KIVI-TV (channel 6) and the two outlets share studios with several Scripps-owned radio stations on East Chisholm Drive in Nampa along I-84/US 30/SH-55.

History

Station logo used from 2003 until 2006. An alternate version with The CW logo below the "9" was featured until 2009.

The station signed-on March 8, 1991 as KTMW and aired an analog signal on VHF channel 9. It was originally locally owned by William Schuyler and affiliated with the Home Shopping Network (HSN). The call sign would change to KHDT-TV on April 13, 1992. Schuyler later sold the station to a subsidiary of Lambert Broadcasting, LLC. On January 16, 1995, it became a charter UPN affiliate, also carrying WB network programming on a secondary basis.

The call letters became KNIN-TV on August 30, 1996 and, during the first five years with those calls, the station was known as Boise's "no news" channel and had a mascot news anchor named 'Rot Weiller'. The call letters are pronounced "canine", the Latin term for a dog.[2] It phased out the news anchor mascot in 2002.[3]

In late 1998, the station dropped WB programming, as the network decided to only air on cable outside the top 100 markets. Through national service The WB 100+, "KWOB" replaced KNIN as Boise's affiliate, and cleared the entire WB schedule. KNIN was eventually sold to Banks Broadcasting (50% of the company was owned by the LIN TV Corporation of Providence, Rhode Island).

On September 18, 2006, KNIN became an affiliate of The CW (the merger of UPN and The WB), carrying it on the main channel in place of UPN. A new second digital subchannel signed-on offering The CW Plus (a similar operation to The WB 100+) as the replacement for "KWOB". The former cable-exclusive station then dropped the faux calls in favor of KNIN-DT2, creating a situation where CW primetime programming aired on both DT1 and DT2. On July 1, 2008, Banks Broadcasting announced that it had agreed to sell KNIN to Journal Communications (owner of KIVI), creating Boise's first television duopoly.[4][5]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) initially rejected the application on November 10;[6] shortly afterward, Banks Broadcasting filed an appeal, and on January 16, 2009 the FCC reversed its decision, allowing the deal to go through.[7] The purchase closed on April 24, at which point KNIN remained on the air with a master control crew at the West Bannock Street studios in downtown Boise until KIVI's new facilities in Nampa were finished. On September 25 of that same year, KNIN went dark at midnight for eight hours while the station was reconfigured to broadcast from the new studios in Nampa at 8 a.m. that Saturday.[8] On September 1, 2011, KNIN assumed the Fox affiliation from KTRV-TV (channel 12), upon expiration of their CW affiliation agreements.[9][10][11][12]

On September 12, CW Plus programming moved to KYUU-LP and a subchannel of KBOI-TV.[13] The last CW program to air on KNIN was America's Next Top Model. KNIN's first Fox program was a repeat of Bones. Besides this television station sharing the same call sign with KNIN-FM 92.9 in Wichita Falls, Texas, there is no relation between the two. KNIN-DT2 previously carried the Live Well Network, it added Heroes & Icons on May 20, 2015.

On July 30, 2014, it was announced that the E. W. Scripps Company would acquire Journal Communications in an all-stock transaction. The combined firm will retain their broadcast properties and spin off their print assets as Journal Media Group.[14] Originally, KNIN-TV, KIVI-TV and 5 radio stations, were not included in the merger; in September, Journal filed to transfer these stations to Journal/Scripps Divestiture Trust (with Kiel Media Group as trustee).[15][16] The merge was completed on April 1, 2015[17][18] and Kiel Media Group assumed the operations of the license, Scripps retained KIVI and the other 5 radio stations.[19] On May 7, 2015, Raycom Media agreed to purchase KNIN-TV for $14.5 million; Scripps will then enter into a shared services agreement that will allow KIVI to continue to provide services to KNIN. This arrangement is similar to one that the two companies have in West Palm Beach, Florida, where Raycom's Fox affiliate WFLX is operated through SSA by Scripps' NBC affiliate WPTV.[20] The sale was completed on October 1, 2015.[21]

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[22]
9.1720p16:9KNIN-HDMain KNIN-TV programming / Fox
9.2480i4:3MeTVMeTV
9.3Grit TVGrit TV

Analog-to-digital conversion

KNIN-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 9, 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 remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 10.[23] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 9.

Programming

Syndicated programming on KNIN includes Two and a Half Men, Maury, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and The Big Bang Theory among others.

Newscasts

Following Journal's acquisition of KNIN, it began airing a weeknight prime time newscast produced by KIVI. Then known as Today's 6 News on K9, the show could be seen for thirty minutes. In January 2011, KIVI upgraded its local newscasts to 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen and the KNIN weeknight broadcast was included. Although not high definition, broadcasts match the aspect ratio of HD television screens.

Corresponding with the station's affiliation switch to Fox from The CW on September 1, 2011, the weeknight prime time show became known as Fox 9 News at 9. The newscast was expanded to an hour and originally featured separate news anchors on weeknights. Eventually, the show was renamed Fox 9 On Your Side and began to resemble local news seen on KIVI. The newscast competes with a weeknight half-hour show on KYUU that is produced by KBOI. In addition, KIVI made the prime time news on this station a seven night operation.

On August 25, 2014, KNIN launched an hour-long extension to Good Morning Idaho from 7:00–8:00 a.m. with KIVI's current morning team.[24]

References

  1. ↑ Miller, Mark K. (June 25, 2018). "Gray To Buy Raycom For $3.6 Billion". TVNewsCheck. NewsCheckMedia. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
  2. ↑ Welcome to KNIN.com - Put Your Feet Up at Archive.org
  3. ↑ KNIN-TV.com at Archive.org
  4. ↑ JS Online: NewsWatch
  5. ↑ TVNEWSDAY - Journal Broadcast Doubling Up in Boise
  6. ↑ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-08-2471A1.pdf
  7. ↑ KTVB.COM: FCC gives OK for Channel 6 to buy Channel 9
  8. ↑ "Journal Closes on KNIN - Broadcasting & Cable". Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  9. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120314112458/http://voices.idahostatesman.com/2011/05/11/mdeeds/channel_9_become_new_fox_affiliate_treasure_valley at Archive.org
  10. ↑
  11. ↑ http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2011/05/11/51171/fox-pulls-affiliations-in-evansville-boise
  12. ↑ Malone, Michael. "Fox Inks New Affiliation Agreements, Scraps Others - Broadcasting & Cable". Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  13. ↑ "CW lands with Fisher in Boise". Television Business Report. June 13, 2011. Archived from the original on June 15, 2011. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
  14. ↑ Glauber, Bill (30 July 2014). "Journal, Scripps deal announced". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  15. ↑ "Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. September 2, 2014. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
  16. ↑ "Description of the Proposed Transaction". Federal Communications Commission. September 2, 2014. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
  17. ↑ Scripps, Journal Merger Complete - Broadcasting & Cable
  18. ↑ Scripps, Journal Communications Complete Merger And Spinoff - NetNewsCheck.com
  19. ↑ Consummation Notice - FCC
  20. ↑ "APPLICATION FOR CONSENT TO ASSIGNMENT OF BROADCAST STATION CONSTRUCTION PERMIT OR LICENSE". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. May 14, 2015. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
  21. ↑ Raycom closes On KNIN Boise Purchase - TVNewsCheck
  22. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KNIN
  23. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  24. ↑ Changes within the Boise market... The Changing Newscasts Blog, September 26th, 2014.
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