History
The station was founded on December 20, 1953 as KID-TV, co-owned with KID radio (AM 590 and FM 96.1). The station has been a primary affiliate of CBS since its debut, however it carried secondary affiliations with the DuMont Television Network until its 1955 shutdown, NBC until 1961 (moving to KIFI-TV thereafter until swapping affiliations with KPVI in 1996) and ABC until 1974 (when KPVI became a primary affiliate of the network upon that station's debut). KID-TV changed its callsign to KIDK in 1984, when the radio stations were sold.
After dropping its secondary NBC affiliation, KIDK had an exclusive affiliation with CBS until January 1995, when it began carrying UPN as a secondary affiliation (KXPI-LD affiliated with the network when it debuted in June 2001; however, KIDK continued its secondary affiliation with the network until 2003). On December 9, 2010, Fisher Communications announced that it had entered into a shared services arrangement with News-Press & Gazette Company-owned ABC affiliate KIFI-TV, under which KIDK would be run out of the KIFI facility and 27 KIDK staffers would be laid off.
The move placed KIDK under the co-management of the station that accepted the ABC and NBC affiliations that KIDK formerly carried in the same secondary capacity prior to becoming an exclusive CBS affiliate. The transaction was completed on January 1, 2011. The kidk.com URL was subsequently replaced by a redirect to a separate section of the KIFI website. KIDK has a construction permit for a digital fill-in translator on channel 38 in Rexburg, Idaho.
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