KXTF

KXTF is a television station affiliated with Cozi TV in Southern Idaho's Magic Valley that is licensed to Twin Falls. It broadcasts a standard-definition digital signal on UHF channel 35 from a transmitter on Flat Top Butte in unincorporated Jerome County east of Jerome and U.S. 93. The station can also be seen on Cable ONE channel 6 and in high definition on digital channel 475. Owned by Frontier Radio Management, KXTF maintains studios on North 100 West in Jerome.

History

The station originally signed on the air in January 1989 as KKVI, operating as a satellite station of Pocatello ABC affiliate KPVI; it also carried Fox as a secondary affiliation during the late evening hours. This arrangement ended when KPVI ended its ABC affiliation to become an NBC affiliate in 1996. KKVI could not operate as an NBC affiliate because the network's Boise affiliate KTVB provided NBC network programming to Twin Falls via a low-power broadcast translator. The station then chose to switch to Fox full-time.