KIVI-TV

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KIVI-TV
Nampa/Boise, Idaho
Branding	KIVI: Today's 6 News KSAW: KSAW Channel 51
Slogan	Idaho's Most Award-winning News. Touch Today's Channel 6
Channels	Digital: 24 (UHF)
Translators	KSAW-LP 51 Twin Falls K27DX McCall
Affiliations	ABC
Owner	Journal Broadcast Group, Inc. (Journal Broadcast Corporation)
First air date	February 1, 1974
Call letters’ meaning	Idaho VI (Roman numeral 6)
Sister station(s)	KNIN-TV
Former callsigns	KITC (1974-1975) KIVI-TV (1975-1998) KIVI (1998-2009)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 6 (1974-2009)
Transmitter Power	589 kW
Height	858.1 m
Facility ID	59255
Transmitter Coordinates	43°45′21″N 116°5′54″W / 43.75583°N 116.09833°W / 43.75583; -116.09833
Website	www.kivitv.com

KIVI-TV, also known as Today's 6, is the ABC affiliate serving the Boise, Idaho area. It is owned by Journal Communications, and it is licensed to Nampa, Idaho. KIVI has been an ABC affiliate since it signed on the air on February 1, 1974 as KITC-TV. The station was long known as 6 On Your Side.

The station runs a distant second in the ratings in all newscast time periods. ^[1]

KIVI, along with KBCI, have hour-long newscasts in the evening.

KIVI's programming can also be seen in Twin Falls on KSAW-LP/51 and in McCall on K27DX.

[edit] Digital television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels

[edit] This American Life story

The station was the subject of part of an episode of the Chicago Public Radio series This American Life (TAL) called "The Competition" which was first broadcast in November 2007.^[2] The episode was about how in 2005 KIVI covered what started as the revelation that a registered sex offender was working as a hockey referee at Idaho Ice World; it described in detail KIVI's decision to break and then cover the story, as well as the aftermath of the decision.^[2]

The story was narrated by Thanh Tan, a reporter now at KATU in Portland, Oregon who had been a reporter at KBCI-TV in Boise; Tan and her news director, who got the tip the same day that KIVI did, waited a day to get more details on the case, then chose not to cover the story.^[2] The TAL episode features comments from both stations' news directors, Brandi Smith (the former KIVI reporter who covered the story), and the referee and his wife.^[2]

The referee in question had been charged in 1992 with statutory rape; he had been 23 years old, and his victim had been 15.^[2] The charge had been dismissed by a judge three years later, though the dismissal did not eliminate the requirement that the referee register as a sex offender.^[2]

[edit] News/Station Presentation

[edit] Newscast Titles

• Channel 6 Evening News (1974-1975)
• Newservice (1975-1977)
• TV-6 News (1977-1980)
• Action News (1980-1983)
• Newswatch 6 (1983-1991)
• Channel 6 News (1991-1997)
• News Idaho 6 (1997-2002)
• 6 On Your Side (2002-2005)
• Today's 6 News (2005-present)

[edit] On-air personalities

Old logo

Former KIVI logo used from 2002-2005

[edit] Anchors

• Don Nelson - Weekdays, Live at 5:00, 6:00, 6:30 & 10:00
• Michelle Edmonds - Weekdays, Live at 5:00, 6:00, 6:30 & 10:00
• Mellisa Paul - Weekdays, Good Morning Live
• Michelle Stark - Weekdays, Good Morning Live
• Lincoln Graves - Weekdays, Good Morning Live
• Shane Johnson - Weekends

[edit] Reporter

• Kelsey Minor

[edit] Weather

• Scott Dorval, Chief Meteorologist - Weekdays, Live at 5:00, 6:00, 6:30 & 10:00

[edit] Sports

• Joe Hughes - Weekdays
• Randy Simon - Weekends

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• KIVI website
• KSAW Twin Falls
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KIVI
  • Query the FCC's TV station database for KSAW
  • Query the FCC's TV station database for K27DX
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KIVI-TV

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