{{Short description|Television station in Reno, Nevada}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Infobox television station | name = | callsign = KTVN | city = | logo = KTVN 2 News.png | logo_upright = .6 | branding = ''KTVN 2 News Nevada'' | digital = 11 (VHF) | virtual = 2 | translators = ''see {{section link||Translators}}'' | affiliations = {{ubl|'''2.1:''' CBS|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}} | airdate = {{Start date|1967|6|4}} | location = Reno, Nevada | country = United States | callsign_meaning = Television Nevada | former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 2 (VHF, 1967–2009)|'''Digital:'''|32 (UHF, 1999–2001)|13 (VHF, 2001–2019)}} | owner = Sarkes Tarzian, Inc. | former_affiliations = ABC (1967–1972) | erp = 20.6 kW | haat = {{convert|891.4|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} | facility_id = 59139 | coordinates = {{coord|39|18|56.2|N|119|53|6|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}} | licensing_authority = FCC | website = {{URL|https://www.ktvn.com/}} }}
'''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.
==History== {{Expand section|further information on the history of KTVN|date=November 2011}}
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.<ref name="hc">{{Cite web|url= https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=85520 |title= History Cards for KTVN|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}} (Guide to reading History Cards)<!--Converted from {{FCC letter}}--></ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64230831/reno-men-seek-new-tv-station-ktvn/|page=1|work=Reno Evening-Gazette|title=Reno Men Seek New TV Station|date=January 3, 1966|access-date=December 15, 2020}}</ref> A construction permit was granted on July 27, 1966.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64230855/third-reno-television-station-approved/|title=Third Reno Television Station Approved|page=15|work=Reno Evening Gazette|access-date=December 15, 2020|date=July 28, 1966}}</ref> After a delay induced by an unsuccessful legal action from KOLO-TV, which sought to block the grant of the permit,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64230872/new-reno-tv-station-delayed/|access-date=December 15, 2020|title=New Reno TV Station Delayed|date=September 15, 1966|page=13|work=Nevada State Journal}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64230881/court-oks-third-reno-tv-station/|access-date=December 15, 2020|date=October 12, 1966|page=8|work=Nevada State Journal|title=Court OK's Third Reno TV Station}}</ref> then an objection by radio station KNEV to the location of its transmitter site,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64230900/legal-delay-for-new-tv-station/|access-date=December 15, 2020|date=February 18, 1967|page=10|title=Legal Delay For New TV Station|work=Reno Evening Gazette}}</ref> KTVN signed on the air on June 4, 1967, as an ABC affiliate.<ref name="by1968">{{cite book|title=1968 Broadcasting Yearbook|year=1968|page=A-36|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1968/Section%20A%20TV%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201968-9.pdf|access-date=December 17, 2017}}</ref> It took over the CBS affiliation on May 10, 1972, replacing previous affiliate KOLO-TV.<ref name="b-ktvnkekocbs">{{cite news|title=CBS switch in Reno|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-BC/Broadcasting-Magazine/BC-1972/1972-01-17-BC.pdf|access-date=December 17, 2017|work=Broadcasting|date=January 17, 1972|page=42}}</ref>
During the 1970s, the station operated a satellite station, KEKO-TV (channel 10) in Elko.<ref name="b-ktvnkekocbs"/> KEKO signed on the air on April 18, 1973, it was off-the-air from January 24, 1974, to June 27, 1975.<ref name=tf1976>{{cite book|title=Television Factbook 1976 Edition|year=1976|page=520-b|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1976-TV-Factbook/6-1976-TV-Factbook.pdf|access-date=December 17, 2017}}{{dead link|date=May 2026|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> 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).<ref name="b-kekofire">{{cite news|title=For the Record|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-BC/Broadcasting-Magazine/BC-1976/1976-04-26-BC.pdf|page=54|access-date=December 17, 2017|work=Broadcasting|date=April 26, 1976}}</ref> On April 8, 1977, at the licensee's request, the FCC canceled KEKO's license effective March 18.<ref name="b-kekodefunct">{{cite news|title=For the Record|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-BC/Broadcasting-Magazine/BC-1977/BC-1977-05-09.pdf|page=102|access-date=December 17, 2017|work=Broadcasting|date=May 9, 1977}}</ref> Channel 10 in Elko is currently used by KENV-DT, which previously operated as a satellite of KRNV-DT until its disaffiliation from NBC on January 1, 2018; it is now a Roar-operated station.
Sarkes Tarzian bought KTVN from Washoe Empire for $12.5 million in 1980.<ref name="b-saletosarkestarzian">{{cite news|title=Changing Hands|url=http://americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1980/1980-05-26-BC.pdf|access-date=December 17, 2017|work=Broadcasting|date=May 26, 1980|pages=40–1|archive-date=July 27, 2015|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20150727132541/http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1980/1980-05-26-BC.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== 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 KRXI-DT2 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 former on-air staff === * Jodi Applegate * Mike Galanos * Tony Kovaleski * Richard Labunski * Kyle Lowder * Rene Syler * Elizabeth Vargas
==Technical information==
===Subchannels=== The station's signal is multiplexed: {| class="wikitable" |+Subchannels of KTVN<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KTVN#station |title=RabbitEars TV Query for KTVN |website=RabbitEars |access-date=February 15, 2014}}</ref> ! scope = "col" | Channel ! scope = "col" | Res. ! scope = "col" | Short name ! scope = "col" | Programming |- ! scope = "row" | 2.1 | 1080i || 2 CBS || CBS |- ! scope = "row" | 2.2 | rowspan=4|480i || Mystery || Ion Mystery |- ! scope = "row" | 2.3 | ion TV || Ion Television |- ! scope = "row" | 2.4 | ion + || Ion Plus |- ! scope = "row" | 2.5 | Grit || Grit |- style="background-color:#DFEBF6; border-top: 2px solid #003399;" ! scope = "row" | 21.3 | 480i || Comet || [[Dark (broadcasting)|[Blank]]] (KNSN-TV) |} {{legend|#DFEBF6|Broadcast on behalf of another station}}
===Analog-to-digital conversion=== KTVN ended regular programming on 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, using virtual channel 2.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |access-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref>
As part of the SAFER Act, KTVN kept its analog signal on the air until June 30 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters.<ref name="FCC Nightlight">{{cite web|url=https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-291375A1.pdf|title=UPDATED List of Participants in the Analog Nightlight Program|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|date=June 12, 2009|access-date=June 14, 2024}}</ref>
===Translators=== {{columns-list|colwidth=15em| *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|130101|3=K16FD-D}}''' Battle Mountain *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|185445|3=K18JG-D}}''' Beowawe *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|183875|3=K21OS-D}}''' Beowawe *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|19380|3=K06MK-D}}''' Elko *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|19381|3=K25FR-D}}''' Elko *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|129073|3=K36HA-D}}''' Elko *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|72253|3=K18KA-D}}''' Ely *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|185329|3=K17NV-D}}''' Eureka *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|28089|3=K22NU-D}}''' Golconda *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|42694|3=K29MG-D}}''' Hawthorne *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|52333|3=K24FF-D}}''' Lovelock *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|185255|3=K29NH-D}}''' Lund–Preston *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|14125|3=K12MW-D}}''' Manhattan *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|42698|3=K10GT-D}}''' Mina–Luning *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|189840|3=K29KJ-D}}''' Orovada *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|185258|3=K19MM-D}}''' Ruth *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|128750|3=K06NY-D}}''' Ryndon *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|70728|3=K34LE-D}}''' Schurz *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|59138|3=K29BN-D}}''' Silver Springs, etc. *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|27581|3=K17HE-D}}''' Susanville, etc., CA *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|167437|3=K20OD-D}}''' Valmy *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|59145|3=K33ER-D}}''' Verdi–Mogul *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|42692|3=K14JY-D}}''' Walker Lake *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|19376|3=K08IO-D}}''' Wells *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|28103|3=K36PO-D}}''' Winnemucca }}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Official website|https://www.ktvn.com/}}
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