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| City | Idaho Falls, Idaho |
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| KIDK, KXPI-LD | |
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First air date | January 23, 1961 |
Former call signs | KIFI (1961–1980) |
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Call sign meaning | Idaho Falls, Idaho |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 66258 |
| ERP | 500 kW |
| HAAT | 444 m (1,457 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°30′4″N 112°39′46″W / 43.50111°N 112.66278°W |
| Translator(s) | see § Translators |
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| Website | www |
KIFI-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States, serving the Idaho Falls–Pocatello market as an affiliate of ABC, CBS, The CW Plus, and Telemundo. The station is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG), which provides certain services to Idaho Falls–based KIDK (channel 3) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with VistaWest Media, LLC. The two stations share studios on North Yellowstone Highway/US 26 in Idaho Falls; KIFI-TV's transmitter is located on East Butte in unincorporated northern Bingham County along the Idaho National Laboratory border.
KIFI-TV began broadcasting on January 23, 1961, as the second station in Idaho Falls. It was the NBC affiliate for eastern Idaho at start-up, the network having decided to move to the new station from KTLE (channel 6) in Pocatello. KIFI-TV was owned for the first 44 years of its existence by the Brady family, publishers of The Post Register newspaper in Idaho Falls. In 1996, KIFI-TV switched from NBC to ABC. NPG acquired KIFI-TV in 2005; in 2010, operations of KIDK were assumed by KIFI-TV, with the CBS subchannel moving over on January 1, 2021.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KIFI-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.