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| City | Caldwell, Idaho |
| Channels | |
| Branding | Fox 9, Fox 9 News |
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| History | |
First air date | December 28, 1992 |
Former call signs | KHDT-TV (1992–1996) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 9 (VHF, 1992–2009) |
Call sign meaning | Channel 9, or calls pronounced as "canine" |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 59363 |
| ERP | 25 kW |
| HAAT | 818 m (2,684 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°45′18″N 116°5′55″W / 43.75500°N 116.09861°W |
| Translator(s) | K18NG-D McDermitt, NV |
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Public license information | |
| Website | fox9now |
KNIN-TV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Caldwell, Idaho, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Boise area. The station is owned by Marquee Broadcasting. KNIN-TV's transmitter is located at the Bogus Basin ski area summit in unincorporated Boise County, with its technical and news operations based out of the studios of Sinclair Broadcast Group–owned KBOI-TV (channel 2) on North 16th Street in Boise under a facilities and services agreement.
The station signed on at the end of 1992 as KHDT-TV. Originally airing home shopping programming, the station raised its profile by affiliating with UPN in 1995. It then became a full-time general-entertainment station the next year under new KNIN-TV call letters. Journal Broadcast Group, then-owner of ABC affiliate KIVI-TV, acquired KNIN-TV in 2009 after appealing an FCC decision denying the purchase. Two years later, in the wake of a dispute between Fox and its then-affiliate, KTRV-TV, KNIN-TV replaced it as Boise's Fox affiliate. When the E. W. Scripps Company merged with Journal in 2015, it could not acquire the KNIN-TV license, which was transferred to Raycom Media and later Gray Television while Scripps continued to provide services and local news programming.
Gray traded the station to Marquee Broadcasting in exchange for television properties serving Macon, Georgia, in 2023. KIVI ceased to provide the newscasts at that time, with Marquee contracting with KBOI-TV to provide its news output and technical services.[2]
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KNIN-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Facilities and Service Agreement". Public Inspection File, Federal Communications Commission. Marquee Broadcasting. October 1, 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2023.