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| Branding | KTVN 2 News Nevada |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Sarkes Tarzian, Inc. |
| History | |
First air date | June 4, 1967 (57 years ago) (1967-6-4) |
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| ABC (1967–1972) | |
Call sign meaning | Television Nevada |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 59139 |
| ERP | 20.6kW |
| HAAT | 891.4 m (2,925 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°18′56.2″N119°53′6″W / 39.315611°N 119.88500°W /39.315611; -119.88500 |
| Translator(s) | see§ Translators |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
KTVN (channel 2) is atelevision station inReno, Nevada, United States, affiliated withCBS. Owned bySarkes Tarzian, Inc., the station maintains studios on Energy Way in Reno, and its transmitter is located onSlide Mountain inunincorporatedWashoe County.
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A group of nine Reno residents, headlined byKBET (1340 AM) station manager Robert Stoddard and former KOLO-TV vice president Lee Hirshland, filed on December 22, 1965, for a new channel 2 television station in the city.[2][3] A construction permit was granted on July 27, 1966.[4] After a delay induced by an unsuccessful legal action from KOLO-TV, which sought to block the grant of the permit,[5][6] then an objection by radio stationKNEV to the location of its transmitter site,[7] KTVN signed on the air on June 4, 1967, as an ABC affiliate.[8] It took over the CBS affiliation on May 10, 1972, replacing previous affiliate KOLO-TV.[9]
During the 1970s, the station operated asatellite station, KEKO-TV (channel 10) inElko.[9] KEKO signed on April 18, 1973; it wasoff-the-air from January 24, 1974, to June 27, 1975.[10] On December 23, 1975, Washoe Empire informed theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) that KEKO's transmitter and equipment had been destroyed in a fire; on April 14, 1976, the FCC grantedspecial temporary authority (STA) to Washoe Empire to operate a KTVNtranslator on channel 10 (at the time, Washoe Empire had made no decision about returning KEKO to the air).[11] On April 8, 1977, at the station's request, the FCC canceled KEKO's license effective March 18.[12] Channel 10 in Elko is currently used byKENV-DT, which formerly operated as a satellite ofKRNV-DT until its disaffiliation fromNBC on January 1, 2018; it is now aTBD-operated station.
Sarkes Tarzian bought KTVN from Washoe Empire for $12.5 million in 1980.[13]
KTVN is the only station in the Reno market to not have a midday newscast. KTVN airs theCBS Evening News at 6 p.m. andKOLO-TV also airs their national newscast at 6 p.m. while KRNV is the only station to air their national newscast at 5:30 p.m. KOLO-TV began competing with KTVN on the 4:30 a.m. newscast which debuted on October 13, 2014.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 2.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | 2 CBS | Main KTVN programming /CBS |
| 2.2 | 480i | Scripps | Ion Mystery | |
| 2.3 | ion TV | Ion Television | ||
| 2.4 | DEFY | Ion Plus | ||
| 2.5 | Grit | Grit | ||
| 21.3 | 480i | 16:9 | Comet | Comet (KNSN-DT3) |
KTVN ended regular programming on its analog signal, overVHF channel 2, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 13,[16] usingvirtual channel 2.
As part of theSAFER Act, KTVN kept its analog signal on the air until June 30 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop ofpublic service announcements from theNational Association of Broadcasters.[17]