KIFI-TV

KIFI-TV
CityIdaho Falls, Idaho
Channels
Branding
  • Local News 8 (8.1)
  • Eyewitness News 3 (8.2)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KIDK, KXPI-LD
History
First air date
January 23, 1961 (63 years ago) (1961-01-23)
Former call signs
KIFI (1961–1980)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 8 (VHF, 1961–2009)
  • Digital: 9 (VHF, until 2009), 8 (VHF, 2009–2024)
  • NBC (1961–1996)
  • ABC (secondary, 1961–1974)
Call sign meaning
Idaho Falls, Idaho
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID66258
ERP500 kW
HAAT444 m (1,457 ft)
Transmitter coordinates43°30′4″N 112°39′46″W / 43.50111°N 112.66278°W / 43.50111; -112.66278
Translator(s)see § Translators
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.localnews8.com

KIFI-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States, serving the Idaho Falls–Pocatello market as an affiliate of ABC, CBS, The CW Plus, and Telemundo. The station is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG), which provides certain services to Idaho Falls–based KIDK (channel 3) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with VistaWest Media, LLC. The two stations share studios on North Yellowstone Highway/US 26 in Idaho Falls; KIFI-TV's transmitter is located on East Butte in unincorporated northern Bingham County along the Idaho National Laboratory border.

KIFI-TV began broadcasting on January 23, 1961, as the second station in Idaho Falls. It was the NBC affiliate for eastern Idaho at start-up, the network having decided to move to the new station from KTLE (channel 6) in Pocatello. KIFI-TV was owned for the first 44 years of its existence by the Brady family, publishers of The Post Register newspaper in Idaho Falls. In 1996, KIFI-TV switched from NBC to ABC. NPG acquired KIFI-TV in 2005; in 2010, operations of KIDK were assumed by KIFI-TV, with the CBS subchannel moving over on January 1, 2021.

History

Idaho Falls radio station KIFI (1260 AM) first contemplated expanding to television in the early 1950s. On February 26, 1953, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) simultaneously issued construction permits to the owners of radio station KID for channel 3 and KIFI for channel 8.[2] It intended at that time to broadcast its signal from the KIFI radio studio and transmitter site on North Yellowstone Highway.[3] However, KIFI's ownership at the time consisted of multiple people, Frank C. Carman, Grant R. Wrathall, and Edna O. Powers. Each had an interest in five TV outlets but together owning seven—more than allowed by FCC regulations introduced in late 1953.[4] In October 1954, the permit for KIFT—along with those of co-owned stations in Boise and Pocatello, was surrendered to the FCC on economic grounds.[5]

In 1955, the J. Robb Brady Trust acquired KIFI and co-owned KWIK in Pocatello from the Carman–Wrathall–Powers group, which at the same time sold some of its other stations to newspapers in Utah.[6] Less than two years later, under the new ownership, management of KIFI had changed its mind on television. On August 9, 1957, the Eastern Idaho Broadcasting and Television Company reapplied for channel 8.[7] Sam Bennion became a competing applicant in February 1959,[8] but an FCC examiner dismissed his bid that December for failure to prosecute and granted the construction permit to KIFI.[9]

KIFI-TV began broadcasting on January 23, 1961.[10] The station was an affiliate of NBC, having signed for network affiliation in November 1960.[11] In making a deal with channel 8, NBC cut off the second television station to start in Eastern Idaho, KTLE (channel 6) in Pocatello. It was claimed that KIFI offered a better, full-power signal to Eastern Idaho than KTLE.[12] NBC also alleged that Idaho Falls was an easier sell than Pocatello to network sponsors; KTLE executive director L. John Miner noted that Pocatello had not been a city with a station until channel 6 signed on, compared to Idaho Falls, which already had KID-TV (channel 3).[13] KTLE attempted to obtain ABC affiliation in a final effort to keep the station viable,[14] but ABC was already affiliated with KID-TV.[15] KTLE shut down on January 23, 1961, when KIFI-TV came to air.[16][a]

In 1962, KIFI aired the first live remote basketball telecast in Idaho, from Reed Gym at Idaho State University in Pocatello. It was first locally with color cameras, computerized election returns, and stereo sound.[18] From 1971 to 1977 and again from 1980 to 1981, Lloyd Lindsay Young worked as KIFI-TV's weather presenter. The former DJ, known for his unconventional presentation of local weather, caught his big break when the manager of a San Francisco station watched his forecasts while skiing at Sun Valley.[19]

On September 21, 1995, KIFI announced its plan to switch network affiliation to ABC in January 1996. General manager Rickie Orchin Brady cited ABC's higher network news ratings as the impetus for the switch.[20] By this time, KIFI had the number-one local newscasts in the market.[21]

News-Press & Gazette Company ownership and consolidation with KIDK

The Brady family sold KIFI-TV to the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) in 2005. In announcing the $2.5 million transaction, Orchin Brady noted that the increasing consolidation of the TV station industry had increased the cost of equipment and programming beyond what a standalone station could pay.[22] In 2009, the station acquired The CW affiliation for the Idaho Falls–Pocatello market.[23][24]

NPG entered into a shared services agreement to operate KIDK, then owned by Fisher Communications, in December 2010. Operations of the two stations were combined, with 27 of 43 KIDK employees being laid off and another 14 joining KIFI.[25] When the agreement took effect in January 2011, KIDK's news offerings were reorganized to reduce overlap with KIFI.[26] In 2013, KIDK was sold to VistaWest Media, a company whose principal had previously worked for NPG;[27] the CBS affiliation and programming moved to a subchannel of KIFI on January 1, 2021.[28]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KIFI-TV[29]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
8.1 720p 16:9 KIFI ABC
8.2 1080i CBS CBS
8.3 480i CW The CW
8.4 Now Local News 8 NOW
8.5 Telemun Telemundo

Analog-to-digital conversion

KIFI-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 8, on June 12, 2009,[30] the official digital television transition date. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition VHF channel 9 to channel 8 for post-transition operations.[31]

On July 1, 2024, after receiving FCC approval in November 2023,[32] KIFI-TV changed physical channels to UHF channel 18.[33] KIFI was broadcast from the existing VHF transmitter and the new UHF transmitter until August 14, 2024.[34]

Translators

KIFI-TV's signal is additionally rebroadcast over the following translators:[35]

The station was also relayed on K24HU-D in Burley (in the Twin Falls market); this translator was decommissioned on August 14, 2024, as a result of the switch to the UHF band in Idaho Falls and its location in another DMA.[36] KIFI had been available from a Burley translator since 1977.[37]

Notes

  1. ^ KTLE had several stints on the air as an independent station, the last coming to an end in 1971, when its owner cleared the way for the construction of KPVI by withdrawing from a license challenge.[17]

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KIFI-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ "FCC Grants Two TV Permits Here". The Post-Register. February 26, 1953.
  3. ^ "KID to Erect Powerful TV Tower on East Butte". The Post-Register. August 25, 1953. pp. 1, 9.
  4. ^ "FCC Sets Ownership Limits: Television 5; AM, FM Each 7". Broadcasting. November 30, 1953. pp. 44, 48, 50. ProQuest 1401208569.
  5. ^ "WGOV-TV Suspension Brings Video Dropout Total to 108". Broadcasting. November 8, 1954. p. 54. ProQuest 1285723309.
  6. ^ "Surge of Radio-TV Buying Sees Millions Change Hands". Broadcasting. December 5, 1955. pp. 31–32. ProQuest 1014917803.
  7. ^ "KIFI Makes Bid For TV Station". The Post-Register. Associated Press. August 10, 1957. p. 1.
  8. ^ "New TV Station Proposed Here". The Post-Register. Associated Press. February 4, 1959. p. 1.
  9. ^ "FCC Grants TV Channel In City". The Post-Register. Associated Press. December 10, 1959. p. 2.
  10. ^ "KIFI-TV to Inaugurate New Service Monday: Channel 8 Facility Offers Full Power". The Post-Register. Idaho Falls, Idaho. January 22, 1961. p. 6.
  11. ^ "KIFI-TV Signs NBC". The Post-Register. November 7, 1960. p. 12.
  12. ^ "KIFI History Began On Jan. 23, 1961". The Post-Register. Idaho Falls, Idaho. September 10, 1965. p. 27. Archived from the original on July 18, 2024. Retrieved July 17, 2024.
  13. ^ "KTLE Official Clarifies Statement on Pocatello". Idaho Sunday Journal. January 15, 1961. p. 2. Archived from the original on July 17, 2024. Retrieved July 17, 2024.
  14. ^ "KTLE Faces Operating Crisis: Pocatello TV Station May Go Off Air Soon". Idaho State Journal. January 10, 1961. p. 1. Archived from the original on July 17, 2024. Retrieved July 17, 2024.
  15. ^ "City to Support KTLE in Saving NBC Affiliation". Idaho State Journal. November 18, 1960. p. 3.
  16. ^ "KTLE to Leave Air After Monday Night". Idaho Sunday Journal. January 22, 1961. p. 2. Archived from the original on July 18, 2024. Retrieved July 18, 2024.
  17. ^ "Company to Build New Television Station in Pocatello on Channel Six". Idaho State Journal. Pocatello, Idaho. October 22, 1971. p. 1. Retrieved July 17, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ Huegel, Tony (July 4, 1991). "News media came early to I.F." Post Register. p. E10.
  19. ^ Carpenter, Clay (August 2, 1995). "Hell-OOOOO, Idaho Falls! Crazy father and son weather guys rocket from Idaho Falls to stardom". Post Register. pp. C1, C6.
  20. ^ Menser, Paul (September 21, 1995). "KIFI plans switch to ABC programming". Post Register. pp. A1, A9.
  21. ^ Richert, Kevin; Carpenter, Clay (February 4, 1996). "When it's sweeps month... TV goes to war". Post Register.
  22. ^ Menser, Paul (April 30, 2005). "Post Co. sells KIFI". Post Register. p. A1.
  23. ^ "Application For Consent To Assignment Of Broadcast Station Construction Permit Or License". Consolidated Database System. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved July 22, 2013.
  24. ^ "KIFI News Group joins CW as affiliate in eastern Idaho". Idaho Business Review. June 4, 2009.
  25. ^ "KIDK-KIFI SSA Deal To Cost 27 Jobs". TVNewsCheck. December 9, 2010.
  26. ^ Marszalek, Diana (January 3, 2011). "Another News Operation Bites The Dust". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved August 14, 2024.
  27. ^ Nellis, Stephen (April 25, 2014). "Shell company holds key to Central Coast TV station rollup". Pacific Coast Business Times. Archived from the original on July 8, 2014.
  28. ^ "How to find Eyewitness News 3". KIFI. December 29, 2020.
  29. ^ "TV Query for KIFI". RabbitEars.
  30. ^ "All local stations to delay digital transition". Post Register. February 6, 2009. p. A4.
  31. ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. May 23, 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved August 29, 2021.
  32. ^ Media Bureau, Federal Communications Commission (November 7, 2023). "Report & Order" (PDF). Retrieved November 7, 2023.
  33. ^ "Local News 8 adds a new, stronger TV signal! Here's how to get it". KIFI. July 1, 2024.
  34. ^ "Rescan now to access KIFI Local News 8's improved signal". KIFI. August 6, 2024.
  35. ^ "List of TV Translator Input Channels". Federal Communications Commission. July 23, 2021. Archived from the original on December 9, 2021. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  36. ^ Robertson, Tucker (August 14, 2024). "Burley-Rupert Area Losing Local News 8 Signal". LocalNews8.com. Retrieved August 16, 2024.
  37. ^ "IF stations 'on the air'". South Idaho Press. Burley, Idaho. March 24, 1977. p. 1. Retrieved August 16, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.

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