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| City | Pocatello, Idaho |
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| Branding | KVUI 31 |
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| History | |
First air date | July 16, 1998 (27 years ago) (1998-07-16) |
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Former channel numbers | Analog: 31 (UHF, 1998–2008) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 78910 |
| ERP | 68.5kW |
| HAAT | 447 m (1,467 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°55′15″N112°20′47″W / 42.92083°N 112.34639°W /42.92083; -112.34639 |
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KVUI (channel 31) is atelevision station licensed toPocatello, Idaho, United States, serving theIdaho Falls–Pocatellomarket as an affiliate ofIon Television. It is owned by Ventura Broadcasting alongsideGrit affiliateKPIF (channel 15, also licensed to Pocatello). The two stations share studios on West Alameda Road in Pocatello; KVUI's transmitter is located on Howard Mountain.
![[icon]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aWiki_letter_w_cropped.svg) | This sectionneeds expansion with: include information on KFXP's history between its sign on and the disaffiliation from Fox. You can help byadding to it.(July 2012) |
Channel 31 signed on the air as KFXP, theFox affiliate for the Pocatello–Idaho Falls market, on July 16, 1998.[2] Prior to the station's launch, Fox programming had been seen on area cable systems viaFoxnet;[2] the network also maintained a secondary affiliation withCBS affiliateKIDK (channel 3).[3] KFXP was originally owned by a partnership of three companies—Redwood Broadcasting, Winstar Communications, and Compass Communications—that had competed for the license;[3] through atime brokerage agreement, the station was operated by Sunbelt Communications (later known asIntermountain West Communications Company), owner ofNBC outletKPVI (channel 6), and the two stations shared studios in Pocatello.[2] By 1999, Compass Communications had acquired Redwood and Winstar's interests in KFXP.[4][5] In its early years, channel 31 had a secondary affiliation withUPN;[6] however, this had ended by 2000.[7]
KFXP discontinued its Fox affiliation on July 1, 2012, following a dispute with the network overretransmission consent;severalotherstationslost their Fox affiliations a year earlier for similar reasons. The station subsequently affiliated withThis TV (previously shown on KPVI-DT3) effective on that date with the network airing during the morning and overnight hours, though it retained general entertainment programming during daytime and prime time hours.Twin Falls sister station KXTF also lost its affiliation and switched to This TV on the same date, with Fox programming moving toMyNetworkTV affiliateKTWT-LD as a primary affiliation.[8][9] MyNetworkTV affiliateKXPI-LD (channel 34, which is repeated on KIDK-DT2) assumed the Fox affiliation and retained MyNetworkTV as a secondary affiliation.[9]
KFXP went dark on July 1, 2013[10] following the end of its lease on its transmission tower; a new lease on the tower cannot be negotiated until the completion of an ownership change for the tower.[11] The time brokerage agreement with KPVI-DT was also terminated as of the preceding day; it had been slated to expire on July 16.[12] KFXP had begun showing a still announcing the shutdown on June 24, 2013. On January 31, 2014, Compass Communications reached a deal to sell KFXP, along with two commonly-owned low-power stations inBeaumont, Texas, to Abraham Telecasting Company,[13] however, the sale fell through. On June 12, 2015, Compass agreed to sell KFXP to Buckalew Media for $450,000.[14] The sale was completed on October 30;[15] on November 9, Buckalew changed the station's call letters to KVUI.[16] Buckalew then announced that it would relaunch KVUI by December 1 as aMeTV affiliate; the station also intends to air some local programming.[17]
Buckalew Media agreed to sell KVUI, along with theconstruction permit forKVUT-LD in Twin Falls, to Ventura TV Video Appliance Center for $575,000 on January 20, 2017.[18]
Shortly after sign-on, KFXP partnered with KPVI to provide a 9 p.m. newscast on Monday through Friday nights. The program was canceled after a few years and entertainment programming returned to the timeslot. KFXP partnered with KPVI once again in 2006 to produce a late evening newscast at 9 p.m. that debuted on October 30, 2006, entitledKPVI on Fox News at 9; this newscast was also broadcast on Twin Falls sister station KXTF. In preparation for the discontinuance of its Fox affiliation and the switch to This TV, the station canceled the 9 p.m. newscast for a second time,[19] with its last broadcast airing on June 29, 2012; it was replaced with a new weeknight 5:30 p.m. newscast produced by KPVI, that debuted in September 2012.[9] The 5:30 p.m. program was titledKPVI More, an interview and features program that aired simultaneously on KXTF. It contained no weather or sports segments.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 31.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 31.2 | 480i | Grit | Grit | |
| 31.3 | HNI | Heroes & Icons | ||
| 31.4 | Cozi | Cozi TV | ||
| 31.5 | 4:3 | GetTV | Get | |
| 31.6 | 16:9 | Mystery | Ion Mystery | |
| 31.7 | JTV | Jewelry Television | ||
| 31.8 | StartTV | Start TV | ||
| 31.9 | HSN | HSN | ||
| 31.10 | Buzzr | Buzzr | ||
| 31.11 | RVTV | RVTV | ||
| 31.12 | RNowTV | Right Now TV | ||
| 31.13 | Ventana | Ventana TV |
KVUI (as KFXP) shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 31, on November 17, 2008. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 31.[21][22] Because it was granted an original construction permit after theFCC finalized theDTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digitaltelevision station.
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