|
KIFI-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for Southeastern Idaho, Southwestern Montana and Northwestern Wyoming that is licensed to Idaho Falls. It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter on East Butte in unincorporated northern Bingham County along the Idaho National Laboratory border. The station can also be seen on Cable One channel 8 and in high definition on digital channel 455. Owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company, KIFI operates CBS affiliate KIDK and low-powered MyNetworkTV outlet KXPI-LD (both owned by VistaWest Media, LLC) through a shared services agreement. All three television stations share studios on North Yellowstone Highway/U.S. 26 in Idaho Falls. Syndicated programming on this station includes ''Everybody Loves Raymond'', ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'', ''The Dr. Oz Show'', and ''Anderson'' among others. ==History== Founded in 1961, KIFI-TV was the third television station to broadcast in Eastern Idaho. It went on the air in January 1961. KIFI began broadcasting the NBC television network, with 316,000 watts,and shared an ABC partial affiliation with then KID-TV. At the time, KIFI was the most powerful television station in Idaho. In 1962, KIFI aired the first live remote basketball telecast in Idaho from Reed Gym at Idaho State University in Pocatello. In 1965, KIFI was the first station in Idaho to install a color film chain for color film (16mm and 35mm color slides). In 1968, KIFI broadcast the first live telecast from the Eastern Idaho State Fair in Blackfoot with weatherman Lloyd Lindsey Young. In early 1996, KIFI-TV changed from an NBC affiliate to an ABC affiliate, swapping with the longtime ABC affiliate KPVI after KPVI was sold to Sunbelt Broadcasting. Originally owned by ''The Post Register'', the area's leading newspaper, it was sold to News-Press & Gazette in 2005. KIFI-TV was branded as "Idaho 8" for a number of years, before being branded ''Local News 8'' in early 1999. In 2008, KIFI launches "WiNG" (Wireless Internet Newsgathering), becoming the first station in the United States to execute live shots using WiMAX technology. In December 2010, it was announced that KIFI had entered into a shared services agreement with Fisher Communications-owned KIDK and would operate the CBS affiliate out of the KIFI facility.〔(KIDK-KIFI SSA Deal To Cost 27 Jobs ), TVNewsCheck, December 9, 2010〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KIFI-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|