KIVI

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KIVI
city =
station_
station_slogan = nowrap|Idaho's Most Award-winning News.
Touch Today's Channel 6
station_branding = KIVI: Today's 6 News
KSAW: ABC51
analog = 6 (VHF)
digital = 24 (UHF)
other_chs = KSAW-LP 51 Twin Falls
K27DX McCall
affiliations = ABC
network =
founded =
airdate = February 1, 1974
location = Nampa/Boise, Idaho
callsign_meaning = Idaho VI (Roman numeral 6)
former_callsigns = KITC (1974-1975)
KIVI-TV (1975-1998)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Journal Broadcast Group, Inc.
licensee = Journal Broadcast Corporation
sister_stations =
former_affiliations =
effective_radiated_power = 56 kW (analog)
589 kW (digital)
HAAT = 856.8 m (analog)
858.1 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 59255
coordinates = coord|43|45|20.8|N|116|5|57|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.todays6.com/ www.todays6.com]

KIVI, also known as "Today's 6", is the ABC affiliate serving the Boise, Idaho area. It is owned by Journal Communications, and it is licensed to Nampa, Idaho. KIVI has been an ABC affiliate since it signed on the air on February 1, 1974 as KITC-TV. The station was long known as "6 On Your Side."

The station runs a distant second in the ratings in all newscast time periods. [http://www.boisetvratings.com/news.html BoiseTVRatings.com ] ]

KIVI's programming can also be seen in Twin Falls on KSAW-LP/51, in McCall on K27DX, and on radio in the Boise area on 87.7 FM.

"Award-winning Newscasts"

In 2008, KIVI-TV was recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences , Northwest Chapter [http://www.natas-seattle.org] with two Emmy Awards in the area of Program Achievement for having the best evening newscast and the best morning newscast in the pacific northwest, small market division. It marked the first time a Boise-area television station had earned an Emmy Award for Program Achievement for two newscasts in the same year.

In 2007, KIVI-TV was also recognized with an Emmy Award in the area of Program Achievement for having the best evening newscast in the pacific northwest, small market division, the station's first ever Emmy Award.

KIVI-TV was also recognized in 2008 has have the best newscast in Idaho by the Idaho Press Club [http://www.idahopressclub.org/] and was also awarded the prestigious 'Sweepstakes Award' for having the most award-winning television news operation in Idaho.

"This American Life" story

The station was the subject of part of an episode of the Chicago Public Radio series "This American Life" (TAL) called "The Competition" which was first broadcast in November 2007. [http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1220 Episode 344: The Competition] from the "This American Life" website] The episode was about how in 2005 KIVI covered what started as the revelation that a registered sex offender was working as a hockey referee at Idaho Ice World; it described in detail KIVI's decision to break and then cover the story, as well as the aftermath of the decision.

The story was narrated by Thanh Tan, a reporter now at KATU in Portland, Oregon who had been a reporter at KBCI-TV in Boise; Tan and her news director, who got the tip the same day that KIVI did, waited a day to get more details on the case, then chose not to cover the story. The "TAL" episode features comments from both stations' news directors, Brandi Smith (the former KIVI reporter who covered the story), and the referee and his wife.

The referee in question had been charged in 1992 with statutory rape; he had been 23 years old, and his victim had been 15. The charge had been dismissed by a judge three years later, though the dismissal did not eliminate the requirement that the referee register as a sex offender.

On-air personalities

Anchors

*Don Nelson - Weekdays, Live at 5:00, 6:00, 6:30 & 10:00
*Michelle Edmonds - Weekdays, Live at 5:00, 6:00, 6:30 & 10:00
*Mellisa Paul - Weekdays, Good Morning Live
*Michelle Stark - Weekdays, Good Morning Live
*Lincoln Graves - Weekdays, Good Morning Live
*Shane Johnson - Weekends

Reporters

*Kelsey Minor
*Rebecca Swart

Weather

*Scott Dorval, Chief Meteorologist - Weekdays, Live at 5:00, 6:00, 6:30 & 10:00
*Jacqueline Bennett - Weekends, Live at 5:30 & 10:00

ports

*Joe Hughes - Weekdays
*Randy "Makin It Rain" Simon - Weekends

External links

* [http://www.kivitv.com/ KIVI website]
* [http://www.ksawtv.com/ KSAW Twin Falls]
*TVQ|KIVI
**TVQ|KSAW
**TVQ|K27DX
*BIA|KIVI|TV|TV

References