KTIV (channel 4) is a television station in Sioux City, Iowa, United States, affiliated with NBC and The CW Plus.

Owned by Gray Media, the station has studios on Signal Hill Drive in Sioux City, and its transmitter is located near Hinton, Iowa.

Tom Brokaw, later the anchor of the NBC Nightly News and a native of Yankton, South Dakota, got his start in television at the station in the early 1960s.

Black Hawk Broadcasting acquired KTIV in 1974 and opened the station's present studios on Signal Hill three years later.

Under the ownership of American Family Broadcasting in the 1980s, KTIV improved its news department and pushed past a once-dominant KCAU-TV to become the highest-rated station in Sioux City, a position it has retained ever since.

[2] The application was made in anticipation of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) lifting in the near future a years-long freeze on television station grants.

[12] Shortly after signing on the air, KSCJ exercised the option to buy half of KTIV, which the FCC approved in March 1955.

[21] That December, after seven years of joint work and the withdrawal of an objection by KQTV in Fort Dodge,[22] KTIV moved to a new tower near Hinton, Iowa, that it co-owned with KVTV.

[23] KTIV then donated its previous 700 feet (210 m) tower to South Dakota Educational Television, which reassembled the mast near Beresford.

In November 1973, Perkins Bros. sold KTIV to Black Hawk Broadcasting, which owned television and radio stations in Waterloo and in Austin, Minnesota, for $2.5 million.

[27][28] Ground was broken in 1976 on a new studio facility within the Stonesthrow Office Complex,[29] atop Sioux City's Signal Hill.

KTIV began broadcasting from the new structure on June 5, 1977; it was the only studio in the area purpose-built for television and was fitted out with electronic news gathering equipment.

In the deal, Black Hawk spun off all of its other broadcast stations except KTIV and KWWL in Waterloo to meet FCC ownership limits.

[47][26] Dave Nixon Sr. departed in 1990 to start a broadcasting program at Iowa Lakes Community College, but his son returned to Sioux City from Mankato, Minnesota, in 1992 to serve as KTIV's news director.