KPVI

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KPVI / KJWY
KPVI: Pocatello, Idaho KJWY: Jackson, Wyoming
Branding	NBC Newschannel 6
Slogan	Where News Comes First
Channels	KPVI: 6 (VHF) KJWY: 2 (VHF) analog, KPVI: 23 (UHF) KJWY: 14 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	NBC NBC Weather Plus (DT2)
Owner	Sunbelt Communications Company
Founded	KPVI: April 26,1974 KJWY: October 24, 1990
Call letters meaning	KPVI: K Pocatello 6 (Roman numeral VI) KJWY: K Jackson Hole, WYoming
Former callsigns	KPVI: KPTO, KTLE KJWY: KJVI
Former affiliations	ABC (1974-1996)
Transmitter Power	KPVI: 100 kW (Analog) 505 kW (Digital) KJWY: 178 watts (Analog) 48 kW (Digital)
Website	www.kpvi.com

KPVI is the local NBC affiliate for Idaho Falls and Pocatello, Idaho. It broadcasts an analog signal on channel 6, and a digital signal on channel 23. The station is owned by Sunbelt Communications Company.

KPVI's transmitter is located on a mountain top about 4 miles ENE of the Pocatello city limits, along with its sister station KFXP. This location was chosen because of possible interference from KIVI television in Nampa, Idaho which also broadcasts on channel 6 and at one time were sister stations (hence the roman numerals) with the same affiliation (ABC, until 1996). KPVI broadcasts its analog signal at 100 kW.

KJWY is a full service television station broadcasting on analog channel 2 in Jackson, Wyoming, and has the distinction of being the lowest-powered full-service television station in the United States, at only 178 watts. It also tied CJBN-TV channel 13 of Kenora, Ontario, also at 178 watts. While KJWY is technically a satellite of KPVI, it also carries Wyoming news from co-owned KCWY in Casper, Wyoming.

KPVI offers NBC Weather Plus on one of their digital stations.

Contents 1 Translators 2 Previous Logos 3 Newscast Titles 4 Sources 5 External links

[edit] Translators

KPVI's network of 23 translators covers eastern Idaho, a portion of western Wyoming, and also West Yellowstone, Montana.

• Arco, Idaho: K13VK
• Ashton, Idaho: K13YF
• Blackfoot, Idaho: K13VI
• Challis, Idaho: K04OH, K07VI
• Driggs, Idaho: K51HF
• Firth, Idaho: K12OE
• Georgetown, Idaho: K17CO
• Idaho Falls, Idaho: K12NZ
• Inkom, Idaho: K07NO
• Leadore, Idaho: K30BU, K34CB
• Montpelier, Idaho: K11PP
• Pescadero, Idaho: K29BM
• Pocatello, Idaho: K12OA
• Ramsey, Tendoy & Baker, Idaho: K55AI
• Rexburg, Idaho: K13UF
• Salmon, Idaho: K59AV
• Shelley, Idaho: K13VI
• Soda Springs, Idaho: K46BW
• St. Anthony, Idaho: K12OB
• Thayne, Wyoming: K12LI
• West Yellowstone, Montana: K32CG

These translators are either owned and operated by KPVI or by local governments or television associations.

[edit] Previous Logos

KPVI logo from the early-1980s (actual year unknown), when they were an ABC affiliate.

[edit] Newscast Titles

• Before becoming an NBC affiliate, KPVI branded as "Channel 6 Eyewitness News", which soon became NewsChannel 6.

[edit] Sources

• U. S. Television History - Various Articles (under "Idaho TV History")

[edit] External links

• KPVI's Homepage
• KJWY's Homepage
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KPVI
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KJWY
• Aerial photo of KPVI transmitter from Google Local