KIVI-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Nampa, Idaho, United States, serving the Boise area as an affiliate of ABC. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, which provides certain services to Caldwell-licensed Fox affiliate KNIN-TV (channel 9, which was directly co-owned with KIVI from 2009 to 2015) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with Gray Television. Both stations share studios on East Chisholm Drive in Nampa (along I-84/US 30/SH-55), while KIVI-TV's transmitter is located at the Bogus Basin ski area summit in unincorporated Boise County. KIVI-TV operates KSAW-LD in Twin Falls, a semi-satellite of KIVI for the Magic Valley. It airs KIVI's ABC programs and some of its newscasts, alongside local commercials, separate evening newscasts produced from Nampa covering the Twin Falls area, and separate syndicated programming. KSAW-LD also maintains a small advertising sales office in the Blue Lakes Office Park on Falls Avenue in Twin Falls. History Prior use of channel 6 Prior to KIVI-TV's establishment, there had been two failed attempts to establish a station on the Nampa channel 6 allocation. The first of these earned the distinction of being Idaho's first television station. KFXD-TV broadcast from June 18 to August 11, 1953. However, it was unable to obtain a network affiliation, struggled to find programming and was a two-man operation, resulting in its prompt closure. It was the first VHF television station in the United States to cease broadcasting altogether. KCIX-TV had a longer run on the air, from November 1958 to January 1960. However, it, too, failed to secure an ABC affiliation, and the station went silent awaiting the completion of a merger deal with a radio and television station in Pocatello that fell apart. Early years In 1968, two parties filed to make a third attempt at channel 6 in Nampa, both of them seeking a hookup with ABC. Actor Robert Taylor was the headline name in one bidder, Snake River Valley Television, while James Lavenstein of Salt Lake City backed the bid of the Idaho Television Corporation. A construction permit was granted to Idaho Television Corporation on May 26, 1971. The station signed on February 1, 1974, as KITC, representing its ownership. It was delayed a month by the collapse of the tower for Pocatello sister station KPTO (changed before launch to KPVI) during construction. For the first time, Boise had full network service from all three stations; previously,