On September 1, 2016, KTRV joined Ion Television as an affiliate. The station had announced on August 31 that it would become an Ion affiliate by October 1; in the announcement, Block Communications chairman Allan Block said that "the timing was right to move to a more immersive network". Ion Media Networks, owner of the network, then announced in June 2017 it would purchase KTRV-TV from Block Communications and two other stations—WRBU in St. Louis and WZRB in Columbia, South Carolina—from a divestiture trust. The sale was completed on October 24, 2017. In 2020, the E. W. Scripps Company purchased Ion Media. Because it owned KIVI-TV and operated KNIN-TV, it could not acquire KTRV-TV; 23 stations in such positions were sold to Inyo Broadcast Holdings in a transaction that closed at the start of 2021. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion KTRV-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 12, on June 12, 2009, the official date in 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 12. Translators KTRV-TV is repeated on two low-power translators in the Garden Valley area. Garden Valley: K36LZ-D Terrace Lakes: K14SB-D Notes References External links Television channels and stations established in 1981 1981 establishments in Idaho TRV-TV Ion Television affiliates Court TV affiliates Grit (TV network) affiliates Ion Mystery affiliates Defy TV affiliates Scripps News affiliates TrueReal affiliates