KIVI-TV

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.

[3] KIDO-TV (channel 7, now KTVB), which signed on in July 1953, primarily carried NBC shows but also had a secondary affiliation with ABC.

It was delayed a month by the collapse of the tower for Pocatello sister station KPTO (changed before launch to KPVI) during construction.

At that time, the station opened its Nampa studios, after having begun broadcasting from two mobile homes, and began producing local news programming on April 27, the same day that KPVI launched.

On July 1, 2008, it was reported Banks Broadcasting had agreed to sell KNIN-TV (channel 9) to Journal Communications, which would create Boise's first television duopoly.

[14] The purchase closed on April 24, at which point KNIN vacated its longtime studios on West Bannock Street in downtown Boise and was integrated into KIVI's facilities in Nampa.

The combined firm retained the companies' broadcast holdings and spun off their print assets as Journal Media Group.

[24] KIVI's second subchannel became "Boise 6" in October 2023, as Scripps acquired local rights to air the Vegas Golden Knights.

Known as Today's 6 News on K9, the show was seen for thirty minutes and competed with a nightly half-hour newscast on then RTV affiliate KYUU-LP (which was produced by KBOI).

In January 2011, KIVI upgraded its local newscasts to 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen with the KNIN show being included in the change.

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