KTVB

KTVB

Boise, Idaho United States
Channels	Digital: 7 (VHF); applied for 23 (UHF) Virtual: 7
Branding	NewsChannel 7
Programming
Affiliations	7.1: NBC for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Tegna Inc. (King Broadcasting Company)
Sister stations	KTFT-LD
History
First air date	July 12, 1953 (71 years ago) (1953-07-12)
Former call signs	KIDO-TV (1953–1959)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 7 (VHF, 1953–2009) Digital: 26 (UHF, 2002–2009)
Former affiliations	All secondary: DuMont (1953–1955) ABC (1953–1974) PBS (per program, 1970–1971)
Call sign meaning	Television Boise
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	34858
ERP	42.1 kW 1,000 kW (application)
HAAT	806 m (2,644 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	43°45′15.6″N 116°5′59.4″W / 43.754333°N 116.099833°W / 43.754333; -116.099833
Translator(s)	KTFT-LD 20 (7) Twin Falls for others, see § Translators
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.ktvb.com
Translator
KTFT-LD
Twin Falls, Idaho
Channels	Digital: 20 (UHF) Virtual: 7
Programming
Affiliations	7.1: NBC for others, see § Subchannels
History
First air date	July 1, 1986 (38 years ago) (1986-07-01)
Former call signs	K38AS (1986–1994) KTFT-LP (1994–2010)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 38 (UHF, 1986–2010) Virtual: 7.7 (2010–2022)
Call sign meaning	Twin Falls Television
Technical information[2]
Facility ID	167056
ERP	15 kW
HAAT	226.6 m (743 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	42°43′47.7″N 114°25′9.1″W / 42.729917°N 114.419194°W / 42.729917; -114.419194
Translator(s)	K18NF-D Hagerman
Links
Public license information	LMS

KTVB (channel 7) is a television station in Boise, Idaho, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc. The station's studios are located on West Fairview Avenue (off I-184) in Boise, and its transmitter is located on Deer Point in unincorporated Boise County. It is rebroadcast by KTFT-LD (channel 7) in Twin Falls, which airs KTVB programming with local advertising for the Magic Valley area from its transmitter on Flat Top Butte near Jerome, Idaho, and maintains a local sales office in Twin Falls.

Channel 7 was the second television station to be built in Idaho, debuting on July 12, 1953, as KIDO-TV. Though KFXD-TV (channel 6) in Nampa beat KIDO-TV to the air by a month, KIDO-TV was by far the more organized operation with network and local programming, neither of which KFXD-TV featured in its brief two-month tenure on air. It was owned by Georgia Davidson alongside Boise radio station KIDO and a primary affiliate of NBC, though it also held affiliations with other networks in its early history. KIDO radio was separated from the TV station in 1958, and channel 7 changed its call sign to KTVB the next year. Davidson was for years the only female owner at NBC TV affiliate meetings. By the 1970s, KTVB had emerged as the news ratings leader in Boise, a position it has not yielded since.

King Broadcasting acquired KTVB in 1979. The station continued to lead local news ratings in the market with long-tenured personalities. In 1986, KTVB established K38AS (now KTFT-LD), the first low-power NBC affiliate. KTVB has been sold in larger transactions three times since 1990: to the Providence Journal Company, Belo Corporation, and Gannett, whose broadcast division split off as Tegna in 2015.