KAME-TV

KAME-TV
Reno, Nevada
United States
City of license Reno
Branding My 21 TV (general)
Channels Digital: 20 (UHF)
Virtual: 21 (PSIP)
Subchannels 21.1 MyNetworkTV
21.2 Me-TV
Translators 23 K23DT-D Tahoe City, CA
32 K32GW-D Carson City
Affiliations MyNetworkTV (2006–present)
Owner Deerfield Media
(operated through LMA by Sinclair Broadcast Group)
(Deerfield Media (Reno) Licensee, LLC)
First air date October 11, 1981
Sister station(s) KENV-DT, KRNV-DT, KRXI-TV, KSNV, KVCW, KVMY
Former channel number(s) Analog:
21 (UHF, 1981–2009)
Former affiliations Independent (1981–1986)
Fox (1986–1996)
UPN (1995–2006; secondary until 1996)
Transmitter power 1,000 kW
Height 187 m
Facility ID 19191
Transmitter coordinates 39°35′3″N 119°47′51″W / 39.58417°N 119.79750°W
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website my21reno.com

KAME-TV, virtual channel 21, is the MyNetworkTV–affiliated television station for Northern Nevada's Truckee Meadows licensed to Reno. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 20 (virtual channel 21.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter facility shared with KNPB on Red Hill between US 395 and SR 445 in Sun Valley. The station can also be seen on Charter channel 7 and in high definition on digital channel 787. Owned by Deerfield Media, KAME is operated through a local marketing agreement (LMA) by Sinclair Broadcast Group as sister to Fox affiliate KRXI-TV. The two stations share studios on 4920 Brookside Court in Reno on the eastern side of the Reno-Tahoe International Airport.

History

It launched on October 11, 1981, as an Independent. On October 9, 1986, it became a charter Fox affiliate. On January 16, 1995, KAME picked up UPN on a secondary basis, it became a full-time UPN affiliate on January 1, 1996, after KRXI signed-on and took Fox. Between September 1996 and May 1997, the station was briefly owned by Raycom Media. With the 2006 shutdown and merge of The WB and UPN to form The CW, the station joined News Corporation–owned and Fox sister network MyNetworkTV on September 5, 2006.

On June 20, 2012, Cox Media Group announced that it put KRXI and the LMA for KAME, along with stations in Steubenville, Ohio, Johnstown, Pennsylvania and El Paso, Texas, on the market following its purchase of four television stations in Jacksonville, Florida and Tulsa, Oklahoma from Newport Television.[1] On February 25, 2013, Cox announced that it would sell the four television stations, and the LMA for KAME, to Sinclair Broadcast Group;[2] as part of the deal, Ellis Communications would sell KAME to Deerfield Media.[3] The FCC granted its approval on April 30, 2013, one day after it approved the sale of sister station, KRXI.[4] The sale was finalized on May 2, 2013.[5] Sinclair would subsequently purchase the non-license assets of a third Reno station, KRNV-DT, on November 22, 2013.[6]

Digital television

Digital channels

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[7]
21.1720p16:9KAME-HDMain KAME-TV programming / MyNetworkTV
21.2480i4:3KAME-SDMe-TV

Analog-to-digital conversion

KAME-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 21, on February 17, 2009, the original date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 20.[8] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 21.

Programming

Outside of the MyNetworkTV schedule, syndicated programming featured on KAME-TV include The Real, Judge Faith, The Middle, How I Met Your Mother, The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad!, and Anger Management, among others.

References

  1. ↑ Cox Puts Four TV Stations on Block After Acquiring Four From Newport, from Broadcasting & Cable, June 20, 2012
  2. ↑ Malone, Michael (February 25, 2013). "Sinclair to Acquire Five Cox Stations". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved February 25, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Sinclair Buys Four Cox Stations". TVNewsCheck. February 25, 2013. Retrieved February 25, 2013.
  4. ↑ "distasst" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-02-15.
  5. ↑ "Sinclair Broadcast Group". Sbgi.net. 2013-05-02. Retrieved 2013-07-12.
  6. ↑ "KRNV-TV Sold to Sinclair Broadcast Group". KTVN Channel 2 News. November 22, 2013. Retrieved November 22, 2013.
  7. ↑ "RabbitEars TV Query for KAME". Rabbitears.info. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
  8. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.

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