Dabl/Fox affiliate in Idaho Falls, Idaho
For current information on "KIDK Channel 3" in Idaho Falls, see
KIFI-TV
.
KIDK
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City
| Idaho Falls, Idaho
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Channels
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Branding
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Affiliations
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Owner
| VistaWest Media,
LLC
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Operator
| News-Press & Gazette Company
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| KIFI-TV
,
KXPI-LD
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First air date
| December 20, 1953
(70 years ago)
(
1953-12-20
)
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Former call signs
| KID-TV (1953?1984)
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Former channel number(s)
| - Analog:
3 (
VHF
, 1953?2009)
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| - CBS
(1953?2021)
- DuMont
(secondary, 1953?1955)
[1]
- NBC
(secondary, 1953?1961)
- ABC
(secondary, 1953?1974)
- Fox
(secondary, 1994?1998)
- UPN
(secondary, 1996?2003)
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| Idaho (former
call sign
) with extra "K"
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Licensing authority
| FCC
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Facility ID
| 56028
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ERP
| 200
kW
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HAAT
| 458 m (1,503 ft)
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Transmitter coordinates
| 43°29′51″N
112°39′53″W
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43.49750°N 112.66472°W
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43.49750; -112.66472
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Translator(s)
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Public license information
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KIDK
(channel 3) is a
television station
licensed to
Idaho Falls, Idaho
, United States, serving the Idaho Falls?
Pocatello
market
as an affiliate of
Dabl
,
Fox
, and
MyNetworkTV
. It is owned by VistaWest Media,
LLC
, which maintains a
shared services
agreement (SSA) with the
News-Press & Gazette Company
(NPG), owner of
ABC
/
CBS
/
CW+
/
Telemundo
affiliate
KIFI-TV
(channel 8, also licensed to Idaho Falls), for the provision of certain services. The two stations share studios on North
Yellowstone
Highway/
US 26
in Idaho Falls; KIDK's transmitter is located on East Butte in
unincorporated
northern
Bingham County
along the
Idaho National Laboratory
border.
KIDK's signal is relayed on
low-power
translator
KXPI-LD
(channel 34, owned by NPG outright alongside KIFI-TV) in Pocatello, with transmitter on Howard Mountain in unincorporated
Bannock County
west of downtown Pocatello.
History
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edit
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The station was founded on December 20, 1953, as KID-TV, co-owned with KID radio (
590 AM
and
96.1 FM
, the latter station is now KWFI-FM). The station has been a primary affiliate of CBS since its debut, but carried secondary affiliations with the
DuMont Television Network
until its 1955 shutdown,
NBC
until 1961 (moving to KIFI-TV thereafter until swapping affiliations with
KPVI
in 1996) and
ABC
until 1974 when KPVI became a primary affiliate of the network upon that station's sign on. KID-TV amended its call sign to KIDK on December 18, 1984, when the radio stations were sold due to an FCC rule in place at the time that prohibited TV and radio stations in the same market, but with different ownership from sharing the same call letters.
After dropping its secondary NBC affiliation, KIDK had an exclusive affiliation with CBS until September 1994, when it began to carry a secondary affiliation with Fox, carrying some of the network's shows in late fringe hours. This allowed the station to continue airing
NFL
football, which moved to
Fox
during the
1994 United States broadcast TV realignment
; it still carries Fox programming today through its second subchannel along with programming from the MyNetworkTV service. In 1996, KIDK agreed to carry
UPN
as a third affiliation (KPID-LP, now KXPI-LD, affiliated with the network when it debuted in June 2001; however, KIDK continued its secondary affiliation with the network until 2003).
Star Trek: Voyager
, the highest-rated UPN program, was cleared in the market on KPVI as station management replaced
NYPD Blue
, feeling it was too vulgar for local market standards.
NYPD Blue
aired in its scheduled timeslot on KIFI once it became affiliated with ABC.
[3]
On December 9, 2010,
Fisher Communications
announced that it had entered into a
shared services
arrangement with
News-Press & Gazette Company
?owned ABC affiliate KIFI-TV, under which KIDK would be run out of the KIFI facility and 27 KIDK staffers would be
laid off
. The move placed KIDK under the co-management of the station that accepted the ABC and NBC affiliations that KIDK formerly carried in the same secondary capacity prior to becoming an exclusive CBS affiliate.
[4]
The transaction was completed on January 1, 2011.
[5]
On April 11, 2013, Fisher announced that it would sell its stations to the
Sinclair Broadcast Group
.
[6]
The deal was completed on August 8, 2013.
[7]
Shortly beforehand, a deal was reached to sell KIDK and KXPI to VistaWest Media, LLC, a company based in
St. Joseph, Missouri
(where NPG is also based); the stations would remain operated by NPG under a shared services agreement.
[8]
The sale was finalized on November 29.
[9]
In December 2020, NPG acquired KIDK's non-license assets from VistaWest. As a result, the KIDK intellectual unit moved to KIFI's second digital channel, with Dabl taking over KIDK's main channel. KIDK's operations remained largely unchanged, though over-the-air viewers were asked to rescan their sets in order to continue watching CBS.
[10]
News operation
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edit
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As a result of the SSA between KIDK and KIFI, the former consolidated its news department into KIFI's studios. KIFI then began producing all of KIDK's newscasts. KIDK modified its local news schedule in order to reduce opportunities for direct competition with KIFI. More specifically, KIDK dropped its weekday morning show in favor of
CBS Morning News
repeats making that station one of a few in the United States that does not provide a local news broadcast in the time slot.
Its separate newscasts airing weeknights at 5 and 6 on KIDK were dropped in favor of one seen at 5:30 while KIFI airs
ABC World News Tonight
. KIDK provides the
CBS Evening News
at 5 preceding its local show. KIDK still offers a separate broadcast weeknights at 10 that does compete with KIFI. All local news programming produced for KIDK originates from KIFI's primary set except with modified studio elements, such as
duratrans
and on-screen graphics, indicating the specific channel airing news.
In order to maintain individual on-air identities and branding, KIDK and KIFI have separate graphic schemes and news music packages. The two maintain primary weeknight personalities (such as news anchors) that only appear on one channel. On weekends, KIFI offers its own early evening newscast at 5 while KIDK follows at 5:30. The two television outlets simulcast together at 10 although the broadcast can be delayed or preempted on one channel due to network obligations.
KIDK airs a nightly prime time newscast on its Fox subchannel known as
Channel 3
Eyewitness News
at 9 on Fox 5
. The show can be seen for 35 minutes on weeknights and a half-hour on weekends. Prior to the SSA formulation with KIFI, KIDK-DT2 also rebroadcast KIDK's weekday morning show at 7.
[11]
[12]
KIFI now produces KIDK-DT2's newscast as a result of the SSA. It competed with another local newscast seen weeknights at 9 on KFXP (that was produced by rival NBC affiliate KPVI-DT, channel 6). However, that thirty-minute show was discontinued on June 30, 2012, as KFXP lost its Fox affiliation a day before KXPI affiliated with the network.
[
citation needed
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Notable former on-air staff
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edit
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Technical information
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edit
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Subchannels
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edit
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The station's signal is
multiplexed
:
Analog-to-digital conversion
[
edit
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KIDK shut down its analog signal, over
VHF
channel 3, on June 12, 2009, the official date on 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
UHF
channel 36,
[16]
using
virtual channel
3.
Translators
[
edit
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In addition to KXPI-LD, KIDK has several translators serving parts of Eastern and Central Idaho, and parts of Western
Wyoming
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- ^
Aden, Frank Jr. (2006). "The Beginning of TV in Idaho".
As the Turntable Turns
, issue 1. July 2006. History of Idaho Broadcasting.
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"Facility Technical Data for KIDK"
.
Licensing and Management System
.
Federal Communications Commission
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Menser, Paul.
"KIFI PLANS SWITCH TO ABC PROGRAMMING"
. Post Register
. Retrieved
September 23,
2015
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KIDK-KIFI SSA Deal To Cost 27 Jobs
,
TVNewsCheck
, December 9, 2010.
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KIFI and KIDK enter staff-sharing agreement
,
Post Register
, December 8, 2010.
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Malone, Michael (April 11, 2013).
"Sinclair to Acquire Fisher Stations for $373 Million"
.
Broadcasting & Cable
. Retrieved
April 12,
2013
.
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"Sinclair Broadcast Group Closes On Fisher Communications Acquisition"
.
All Access
. August 8, 2013
. Retrieved
August 8,
2013
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"Application For Consent To Assignment Of Broadcast Station Construction Permit Or License"
. FCC
. Retrieved
July 22,
2013
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"CDBS Print"
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"How to find Eyewitness News 3"
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LocalNews8.com
. NPG of Idaho, Inc. December 29, 2020
. Retrieved
January 2,
2021
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"KIDK Programming Note"
.
KIDK.com
. January 7, 2011
. Retrieved
January 8,
2011
.
[
permanent dead link
]
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Another News Operation Bites The Dust
,
TVNewsCheck
, January 3, 2011.
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"Nadine Woodward LinkedIn"
. LinkedIn.com
. Retrieved
August 10,
2020
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"RabbitEars query for KIDK"
.
www.rabbitears.info
. Retrieved
April 10,
2024
.
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"RabbitEars query for KXPI"
.
www.rabbitears.info
. Retrieved
April 10,
2024
.
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"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds"
(PDF)
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on August 29, 2013
. Retrieved
March 24,
2012
.
External links
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Digital television
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- KIDK
/
KXPI-LD
(3.1/34.1
Dabl
, 3.2/34.2
Fox
/
MNT
)
- KPVI-DT
(6.1
NBC
, 6.2
Catchy
, 6.3
Movies!
)
- KIFI-TV
(8.1
ABC
, 8.2
CBS
, 8.3
CW+
, 8.4 News, 8.5
TMD
)
- KISU-TV
(10.1
PBS
/IdahoPTV, 10.2 IdahoPTV Plus, 10.3
Create
, 10.4
World
, 10.5
PBS Kids
)
- KPIF
(15.1
Grit
, 15.2
Defy
, 15.3
Laff
, 15.4
Bounce
, 15.5
This
, 15.6
Court
, 15.7
Scripps News
, 15.8
QVC
, 15.9
ANT
, 15.10
Daystar
, 15.11 DS Espanol, 15.12
Ads
, 15.13
NewsNet
)
- KVUI
(31.1
Ion
, 31.2
Grit
, 31.3
Grio
, 31.4
Cozi
, 31.5
Get
, 31.6
Mystery
, 31.7
JTV
, 31.8
REW
, 31.9
HSN
, 31.10
Buzzr
, 31.11 RVTV, 31.12 Right Now TV, 31.13 Ventana)
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Cable television
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Defunct
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ABC
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CBS
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Fox
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NBC
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The CW
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MyNetworkTV
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Ion Television
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PBS
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Other
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- KIDK 3
(
Dabl
,
Idaho Falls
)
- KBYU-TV 11
(
BYUtv
,
Provo, UT
)
- KUTF 12
(
Daystar
,
Logan, UT
)
- KJZZ-TV 14
ATSC 3.0
(
Ind.
,
Salt Lake City, UT
)
- KPIF 15
(
MeTV
,
Pocatello
)
- KUPX-TV 16
(
Ind.
,
Provo, UT
)
- K17ED-D 17
(
3ABN
,
Payette
)
- KCLP-CA 18
(
Rel.
,
Boise
)
- KTMW 20
(
TMD
,
Salt Lake City, UT
)
- KZTN-LD 20 (
TBN
,
Boise
)
- KPNZ 24
(
TCT
,
Ogden, UT
)
- KQUP 24
(
Daystar
,
Pullman, WA
)
- K31FD-D 31
(
3ABN
,
Boise
)
- KUTH-DT 32
(
UNI
,
Provo, UT
)
- KXTF 35
(
TCT
,
Twin Falls
)
- KKJB 39
(
TMD
,
Boise
)
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Defunct
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Newspapers
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Radio stations
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Television stations
(by primary affiliations)
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- 1
This station was built and signed on by NPG.
- 2
This station is owned by VistaWest Media, LLC, but is operated by NPG under an
SSA
.
- 3
This station is owned by
Imagicomm Communications
, but is operated by NPG under an SSA.
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This station carries a secondary MyNetworkTV affiliation on its primary channel.
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This station carries a secondary
Retro Television Network
affiliation on its second digital subchannel.
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This station is owned by
Hubbard Broadcasting
, but is operated by NPG.
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Originally operating as a cable-only channel, News-Press 3 NOW is also relayed on a third digital subchannel of KNPN-LD.
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