 It is the only one of the "Big Three" affiliated stations in Reno to have never changed its primary affiliation.It signed on KENV in Elko on March 25, 1997, as a semi-satellite, providing Nevada-based programming to the Nevada side of the Salt Lake City, Utah market.The station operated another satellite, KWNV channel 7, in Winnemucca, but this went silent on July 1, 2008.