KAME-TV

KAME-TV, virtual channel 21, is the MyNetworkTV–affiliated television station for Western 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.