KTNV-TV
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Las Vegas, Nevada United States |
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| City | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Branding | Channel 13 (general) 13 Action News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Fast and First |
| Channels |
Digital: 13 (VHF) Virtual: 13 () |
| Subchannels | 13.1 ABC 13.2 Laff 13.3 Grit TV |
| Affiliations | ABC |
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E. W. Scripps Company (Scripps Broadcasting Holdings LLC) |
| First air date | May 4, 1956 |
| Call letters' meaning | Television NeVada |
| Former callsigns | KSHO-TV (1956–1980) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 13 (VHF, 1956–2009) Digital: 12 (VHF, until 2009) |
| Transmitter power | 30.5 kW |
| Height | 606 m |
| Facility ID | 74100 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°56′43″N 115°2′32″W / 35.94528°N 115.04222°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KTNV-TV, channel 13, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The station is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. KTNV's studios are located on South Valley View Boulevard in the nearby community of Paradise (though with a Las Vegas address), and its transmitter is located atop Mount Arden in Henderson.
The station signed on the air for the first time on May 4, 1956 as KSHO-TV. Channel 13 has been an ABC affiliate since its inception, taking the network from KLRJ/KORK-TV (channel 3, now KSNV-DT) and KLAS-TV (channel 8), which shared programming from the network from the January 1955 sign-on of KLRJ (though KLAS had carried a secondary affiliation with ABC since it debuted in 1953) until KSHO signed on.
In 1979, KSHO was purchased by Journal Communications; the acquisition made it Journal's second television station property (and its first television station acquisition outside of the company's headquarters of Milwaukee, Wisconsin). The station changed its callsign to KTNV-TV on March 2, 1980 (the -TV suffix was removed from 1988 to 2009).
KTNV originally transmitted its signal from a tower located right outside the station at the intersection of Desert Inn Road and Valley View Boulevard, on the quadruple border of city of Las Vegas, Spring Valley, Paradise and Winchester. The tower is a unique and visible landmark throughout the Las Vegas Valley.
On July 30, 2014, it was announced that the E. W. Scripps Company would buy Journal Communications in an all-stock transaction. Scripps will retain the two companies' broadcast properties, including KTNV, and spin off its print properties as part of Journal Media Group. The FCC approved the deal on December 12, 2014. It was approved by shareholders on March 11, 2015. The merger was completed on April 1, 2015. With new sister station KNXV-TV in Phoenix, along with existing Tucson sister KGUN-TV, this effectively gives E.W. Scripps a monopoly for ABC network programming across the wide geographical area of Southern Nevada and most of the state of Arizona.
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