City Reno | Branding My 21 TV (general) | |
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Channels Digital: 20 (UHF)
Virtual: 21 (PSIP) Subchannels 21.1 MyNetworkTV
21.2 MeTV
21.3 Comet TV Translators 23 K23DT-D Tahoe City, CA
32 K32GW-D Carson City Affiliations MyNetworkTV (2006–present) | ||
KAME-TV, virtual channel 21, is the MyNetworkTV–affiliated television station for Western Nevada's Truckee Meadows licensed to Reno. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 20 (virtual channel 21.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter facility shared with KNPB on Red Hill between US 395 and SR 445 in Sun Valley. The station can also be seen on Charter channel 7 and in high definition on digital channel 787. Owned by Deerfield Media, KAME is operated through a local marketing agreement (LMA) by Sinclair Broadcast Group as sister to Fox affiliate KRXI-TV. The two stations share studios on 4920 Brookside Court in Reno on the eastern side of the Reno-Tahoe International Airport.
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History
It launched on October 11, 1981, as an Independent airing movies ("TV-21's The Big Movie"), cartoons, westerns, and sitcoms. On October 9, 1986, it became a charter Fox affiliate. On January 16, 1995, KAME picked up UPN on a secondary basis; it became a full-time UPN affiliate on January 1, 1996, after KRXI signed-on and took Fox. Between September 1996 and May 1997, the station was briefly owned by Raycom Media. With the 2006 shutdown and merge of The WB and UPN to form The CW, the station joined News Corporation–owned and Fox sister network MyNetworkTV on September 5, 2006.
On June 20, 2012, Cox Media Group announced that it put KRXI and the LMA for KAME, along with stations in Steubenville, Ohio, Johnstown, Pennsylvania and El Paso, Texas, on the market following its purchase of four television stations in Jacksonville, Florida and Tulsa, Oklahoma from Newport Television. On February 25, 2013, Cox announced that it would sell the four television stations, and the LMA for KAME, to Sinclair Broadcast Group; as part of the deal, Ellis Communications would sell KAME to Deerfield Media. The FCC granted its approval on April 30, 2013, one day after it approved the sale of sister station, KRXI. The sale was finalized on May 2, 2013. Sinclair would subsequently purchase the non-license assets of a third Reno station, KRNV-DT, on November 22, 2013. Sinclair could not buy KRNV-DT outright because Reno has only six full-power stations--three too few to legally permit a duopoly. When the sale closes, Sinclair will control half of those stations. It will also create a situation in which a Fox affiliate is the nominal senior partner in a duopoly involving an NBC affiliate and a "Big Three" station.
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KAME-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 21, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 20. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 21.
Programming
Outside of the MyNetworkTV schedule, syndicated programming featured on KAME-TV include The Real, Judge Faith, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Anger Management, among others.