KTVN

KTVN (channel 2) is a television station in Reno, Nevada, United States, affiliated with CBS. Owned by Sarkes Tarzian, Inc., the station maintains studios on Energy Way in Reno, and its transmitter is located on Slide Mountain in unincorporated Washoe County.

KTVN

Reno, Nevada United States
Channels	Digital: 11 (VHF) Virtual: 2
Branding	KTVN 2 News Nevada
Programming
Affiliations	2.1: CBS for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Sarkes Tarzian, Inc.
History
First air date	June 4, 1967 (56 years ago) (1967-06-04)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 2 (VHF, 1967–2009) Digital: 32 (UHF, 1999–2001) 13 (VHF, 2001–2019)
Former affiliations	ABC (1967–1972)
Call sign meaning	Television Nevada
Technical information^[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	59139
ERP	20.6 kW
HAAT	891.4 m (2,925 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	39°18′56.2″N 119°53′6″W / 39.315611°N 119.88500°W / 39.315611; -119.88500
Translator(s)	see § Translators
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.ktvn.com

History

A group of nine Reno residents, headlined by KBET (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 station KNEV 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 a satellite station, KEKO-TV (channel 10) in Elko.^[9] KEKO signed on April 18, 1973; it was off-the-air from January 24, 1974, to June 27, 1975.^[10] On December 23, 1975, Washoe Empire informed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that KEKO's transmitter and equipment had been destroyed in a fire; on April 14, 1976, the FCC granted special temporary authority (STA) to Washoe Empire to operate a KTVN translator 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 the KEKO license effective March 18.^[12] Channel 10 in Elko is currently used by KENV-DT, which formerly operated as a satellite of KRNV-DT until its disaffiliation from NBC on January 1, 2018; it is now a TBD-operated station.

Sarkes Tarzian bought KTVN from Washoe Empire for $12.5 million in 1980.^[13]

News operation

KTVN is the only station in the Reno market to not have a midday newscast. KTVN airs the CBS Evening News at 6 p.m. and KOLO-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.

Notable current on-air staff

• Kyle Lowder

Notable former on-air staff

• Jodi Applegate
• Mike Galanos
• Tony Kovaleski
• Richard Labunski
• Rene Syler
• Elizabeth Vargas

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KTVN^[14]

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
2.1	1080i	16:9	2 CBS	Main KTVN programming / CBS
2.2	480i		NEWSY	Scripps News
2.3			ion TV	Ion Television
2.4			DEFY	Defy TV
2.5			TRUE	Grit
21.3	480i	16:9	Comet	Comet (KNSN-DT3)

  Broadcast on behalf of another station

Analog-to-digital conversion

KTVN shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 13,^[15] using virtual channel 2.

Translators

• K16FD-D Battle Mountain
• K18JG-D Beowawe
• K21OS-D Beowawe
• K06MK-D Elko
• K25FR-D Elko
• K36HA-D Elko
• K18KA-D Ely
• K17NV-D Eureka
• K22NU-D Golconda
• K29MG-D Hawthorne
• K24FF-D Lovelock
• K29NH-D Lund–Preston
• K12MW-D Manhattan
• K10GT-D Mina–Luning
• K29KJ-D Orovada
• K19MM-D Ruth
• K06NY-D Ryndon
• K34LE-D Schurz
• K29BN-D Silver Springs, etc.
• K17HE-D Susanville, etc., CA
• K20OD-D Valmy
• K33ER-D Verdi–Mogul
• K14JY-D Walker Lake
• K08IO-D Wells
• K36PO-D Winnemucca

References

1. "Facility Technical Data for KTVN". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
2. FCC History Cards for KTVN
3. "Reno Men Seek New TV Station". Reno Evening-Gazette. January 3, 1966. p. 1. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
4. "Third Reno Television Station Approved". Reno Evening Gazette. July 28, 1966. p. 15. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
5. "New Reno TV Station Delayed". Nevada State Journal. September 15, 1966. p. 13. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
6. "Court OK's Third Reno TV Station". Nevada State Journal. October 12, 1966. p. 8. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
7. "Legal Delay For New TV Station". Reno Evening Gazette. February 18, 1967. p. 10. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
8. 1968 Broadcasting Yearbook (PDF). 1968. p. A-36. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
9. "CBS switch in Reno" (PDF). Broadcasting. January 17, 1972. p. 42. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
10. Television Factbook 1976 Edition (PDF). 1976. p. 520-b. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
11. "For the Record" (PDF). Broadcasting. April 26, 1976. p. 54. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
12. "For the Record" (PDF). Broadcasting. May 9, 1977. p. 102. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
13. "Changing Hands" (PDF). Broadcasting. May 26, 1980. pp. 40–1. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
14. "RabbitEars TV Query for KTVN". Rabbitears.info. Retrieved February 15, 2014.
15. (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.

External links

• Official website