KPIF

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KPIF / KBEO
KPIF: Pocatello, Idaho KBEO: Jackson, Wyoming
Branding	KPIF TV - CW15
Channels	KPIF: 15 (UHF) KBEO: 11 (VHF) analog, no digital
Affiliations	The CW, through The CW Plus
Owner	KM Communications Inc. (Pocatello Channel 15, LLC)
Founded	KPIF: March 2, 2001 KBEO: May 15, 1998
Call letters meaning	KPIF: Pocatello-Idaho Falls
Former affiliations	America One (2004) The WB (2004-2006)
Transmitter Power	KPIF: 5000 kW KBEO: 21.9 kW
Height	KPIF: 327 m KBEO: 327 m
Facility ID	KPIF: 86205 KBEO: 35103
Website	www.kpif.net www.kbeo.net (out of date)

KPIF is a full-power television station serving Pocatello and Idaho Falls, Idaho as an affiliate of The CW Television Network. The station is owned by Pocatello Channel 15, LLC and broadcasts in analog on UHF channel 15 from a transmitter located on Howard Mountain in Pocatello. It has no separate digital channel allotment. KPIF's programming can also be seen on KBEO channel 11 in Wyoming's Jackson Hole area.

Contents 1 History 2 Programming 3 Digital television 4 External links

[edit] History

The original construction permit for KPIF was granted on March 2, 2001 to Pocatello Channel 15, LLC, a partnership between KM Communications, Inc. of Skokie, Illinois, Kaleidoscope Foundation, Inc. of Little Rock, Arkansas (a subsidiary of Equity Broadcasting Corporation), and Potelco Broadcasting of Greensboro, North Carolina. The three companies had been competing applicants for a channel 15 television station in Pocatello, and agreed in 2000 to form a partnership in order to expedite construction of the station [1]. In 2003, due to irreconcilable differences that caused delays in development of the permit, Myoung Hwa Bae of KM Communications extended an offer to buy out the other two members [2]. KM Communications completed construction of the station and signed on in March 2004 under Program Test Authority from the FCC [3]. The station applied for a license to cover the construction permit on March 1, 2004 and was granted the license on October 11, 2006.

[edit] Programming

KBEO was the first to sign on, on May 15, 1998.

KPIF came on the air in March 2004 as an America One affiliate, but the station picked up WB affiliation about 4 months later. It has become an affiliate of The CW on September 18, 2006.

[edit] Digital television

Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997 [4], the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, on or before February 18, 2009, which is the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KPIF and KBEO will be required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash-cut").

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for KPIF
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KBEO
• Post Register article on station sign-on