KTIV

The KCOM Broadcasting Company applied on February 27, 1952, for a new television station on channel 4 in Sioux City.{{Cite web|url=https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=85450|title=History Cards for KTIV|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}} The application was made in anticipation of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) lifting in the near future a years-long freeze on television station grants.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-radio-station-here-ap/99866100/|date=March 4, 1952|page=7|title=Radio Station Here Applies to F. F. C. for Video License|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}} Soon after, another group also filed for channel 4: Perkins Bros. Inc., the owners of Sioux City radio station KSCJ and sister to the Sioux City Journal newspaper. In September 1952, the FCC ordered hearings to be held on the competing applicants for channel 4.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-order-hearings-on-4-s/134372807/|date=September 26, 1952|page=1|title=Order Hearings On 4 Sioux City Video Requests|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}} However, no hearings were held, as the commission worked through a large backlog of competing TV applications. Instead, in December 1953, KCOM and KSCJ combined their applications;{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99866283/t-v-applicants-join-interests-perkins/|date=December 29, 1953|page=1|title=T. V. Applicants Join Interests: Perkins Bros, KCOM Apply for Channel 4 in City|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=Sioux City, Iowa|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=April 16, 2022|archive-date=April 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416195519/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99866283/t-v-applicants-join-interests/|url-status=live}} the KCOM Broadcasting Company gave KSCJ an option to acquire half the company and agreed to sell off KCOM.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99866153/tv-proposal-at-sioux-city/|date=December 28, 1953|page=15|agency=Associated Press|title=TV Proposal At Sioux City|newspaper=Des Moines Tribune|location=Des Moines, Iowa|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=April 16, 2022|archive-date=April 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416195547/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99866153/tv-proposal-at-sioux-city/|url-status=live}} The merger of the KCOM and KSCJ applications cleared the way for the FCC to grant a construction permit on January 20, 1954.{{r|hc}}

Tower construction began in May at a site in Plymouth County,{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-site-of-new-televisio/134373525/|date=May 12, 1954|page=12|title=Site of New Television Tower|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}} and KTIV affiliated with NBC and ABC. However, the company had yet to announce where its studios would be located.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-ktiv-aims-to-be-on-ai/102688775/|date=May 21, 1954|page=12|title=KTIV Aims To Be On Air August 15|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}} The station put out its first test pattern on September 23{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-ktiv-begins-test-patt/134373897/|date=September 23, 1954|page=2|title=KTIV Begins Test Patterns Here Today|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}} and intended to be on air in time for the 1954 World Series, but officials could not establish a link between the studio and transmitter site to air the games, leaving Sioux City's other TV station—KVTV (channel 9)—to air the Series.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-ktiv-plans-hit-snag/134373666/|date=September 29, 1954|page=1|title=KTIV Plans Hit Snag; Series to Be on KVTV|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}} In order to get the signal past a tree that blocked the way, the height of the microwave antenna had to be raised twice.{{Cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060421220003/http://www.ktiv.com/CustomPages/KTIVHistory.cfm|title=KTIV History|website=KTIV|url=http://www.ktiv.com/CustomPages/KTIVHistory.cfm|archive-date=April 21, 2006|url-status=dead}} KTIV went on the air on October 10, 1954, with programming from NBC, ABC, and the DuMont Television Network; it had no local programming, as its studios at 10th and Grandview streets had not been completed.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-ktiv-begins-telecasts/102688787/|date=October 10, 1954|page=1|title=KTIV Begins Telecasts on Channel 4 Tonight|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}} Shortly after signing on the air, KSCJ exercised the option to buy half of KTIV, which the FCC approved in March 1955.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-approval-sought-for-s/134374011/|date=February 5, 1955|page=2|agency=Associated Press|title=Approval Sought for Stock Shift in Station KTIV|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}}{{r|hc}} After the change in ownership, the station increased its effective radiated power to 100,000 watts, the maximum allowed on channel 4, improving reception in rural areas beyond Sioux City; the FCC granted this on May 13, 1955, and the increase took effect five days later.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-ktiv-celebrates-first/134374220/|date=October 9, 1955|page=34|title=KTIV Celebrates First Anniversary Today with Birthday: Two Network Programs Will Top Schedule|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}} The DuMont network disappeared in September 1955;{{Cite magazine|id={{ProQuest|1014914488}}|title=DuMont Network To Quit In Telecasting 'Spin-Off'|page=64|magazine=Broadcasting|date=August 15, 1955}} the station also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network, which began in 1956.{{cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1956/1956-09-17-BC.pdf|date=September 17, 1956|work=Broadcasting|pages=56, 58|id={{ProQuest|1285731096}}|title=104 Sign Up For NTA Film Network, Due to Begin Operations on Oct. 15}}

In 1961, KTIV hired Tom Brokaw, a native of Yankton, South Dakota. Brokaw earned $75 a week (equivalent to $783 in 2024) to be a staff announcer and part-time weatherman and newscaster.{{Cite news|id={{ProQuest|427645146}}|date=July 11, 2004|first=Pamela|last=Huey|title=Home is where Brokaw's heart is: South Dakota played a big part in the soon-to-be retired NBC anchor's life|work=Star Tribune|page=1A}} Brokaw worked at the station while enrolled at the University of South Dakota. From KTIV, Brokaw went on to jobs in Omaha and Atlanta before joining KNBC in Los Angeles in 1966, the first in a series of posts at NBC before later anchoring the NBC Nightly News.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-signing-off-brokaw-e/134426880/|date=November 26, 2004|pages=C1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-brokaw/134426909/ C3]|first=Bruce R.|last=Miller|title=Signing off: Brokaw ends more than two decades as anchor|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 1, 2023}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-former-yankton-man-co/134374803/|date=August 8, 1973|page=A5|title=Former Yankton Man Covers White House|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}}

Perkins Bros. acquired the remainder of the company from the former KCOM group in 1965, spending $2.2 million.{{r|hc}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-nonpareil-2200000-deal/134375007/|date=May 27, 1965|page=2|agency=Associated Press|title=$2,200,000 Deal|newspaper=The Daily Nonpareil|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}} Prior to then, Perkins Bros. had been a silent partner, and management duties belonged to Dietrich Dirks, who had founded KCOM.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-pioneer-sioux-city-br/134424706/|date=July 13, 2002|page=A4|first=Michele|last=Linck|title=Pioneer Sioux City broadcaster Dirks celebrates 100th birthday|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 1, 2023}} That December, after seven years of joint work and the withdrawal of an objection by KQTV in Fort Dodge,{{cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1965/1965-01-25-BC.pdf|work=Broadcasting|date=January 25, 1965|page=66|id={{ProQuest|1014487117}}|title=Iowa TV's settle tower disagreement|access-date=May 28, 2022|archive-date=November 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108154437/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1965/1965-01-25-BC.pdf|url-status=live}} KTIV moved to a new tower near Hinton, Iowa, that it co-owned with KVTV.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102688939/tall-tower-moving-day-big-event/|date=December 5, 1965|page=10|title=Tall Tower Moving Day Big Event|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=Sioux City, Iowa|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=May 28, 2022|archive-date=May 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528215014/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102688939/tall-tower-moving-day-big-event/|url-status=live}} KTIV then donated its previous {{convert|700|ft|m}} tower to South Dakota Educational Television, which reassembled the mast near Beresford.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102689096/etv-gains-equipment-from-iowa/|date=February 25, 1967|page=3|title=ETV Gains Equipment From Iowa|newspaper=Rapid City Journal|location=Rapid City, South Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=May 28, 2022|archive-date=May 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528215106/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102689096/etv-gains-equipment-from-iowa/|url-status=live}} The station continued to split ABC programs with KVTV until 1967, when KVTV became KCAU-TV and a full-time ABC affiliate, while new station KMEG acquired the CBS affiliation.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-new-tv-lineup-in-fall/123940696/|date=July 17, 1967|pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-tv/123940730/ 5]|first=Marvin|last=Hastings|title=New TV Lineup in Fall: KMEG Is CBS, KTIV Has NBC and KVTV, ABC|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=May 3, 2023|archive-date=May 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230503081320/https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-new-tv-lineup-in-fall/123940696/|url-status=live}}

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| source = KTIV news director in 1984, describing the situation when he arrived at the station{{r|Siou840203}}

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In November 1973, Perkins Bros. sold KTIV to Black Hawk Broadcasting, which owned television and radio stations in Waterloo and in Austin, Minnesota, for $2.5 million.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-sale-of-ktiv-announce/134376195/|date=November 3, 1973|page=1|title=Sale of KTIV Announced|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-2-12-million-sale-p/134376270/|date=November 17, 1973|page=2|title=$2 1/2 Million Sale Price of Channel 4|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}} Ground was broken in 1976 on a new studio facility within the Stonesthrow Office Complex,{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-contractors-selected/134376365/|date=April 11, 1976|page=A15|title=Contractors Selected for KTIV Construction|newspaper=Sioux City Sunday Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}} atop Sioux City's Signal Hill. KTIV began broadcasting from the new structure on June 5, 1977; it was the only studio in the area purpose-built for television and was fitted out with electronic news gathering equipment.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-ktiv-will-broadcast-f/134375885/|date=June 5, 1977|page=A9|title=KTIV Will Broadcast from New Site Today|newspaper=Sioux City Sunday Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}} The facility also aided Black Hawk in its push to expand the station's staff; the station payroll grew from 32 employees in 1974 to 58 in 1978.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-signal-hill-new-home/134376611/|date=March 25, 1978|page=D4|title=Signal Hill new home for KTIV|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}}

Black Hawk Broadcasting merged into American Family Broadcasting, the broadcast division of insurer American Family Corporation (today better known as Aflac), in a deal announced in 1979 and completed in 1980. In the deal, Black Hawk spun off all of its other broadcast stations except KTIV and KWWL in Waterloo to meet FCC ownership limits.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-broadcasting-outlets/134376659/|date=September 29, 1979|page=A7|title=Broadcasting outlets here involved in sale, merger|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}}{{Cite news|page=68|title=Changing Hands|work=Broadcasting|date=November 3, 1980|id={{ProQuest|1014717297}} }}

Quincy Newspapers Inc. acquired KTIV from American Family in 1989. Quincy owned no stations in Iowa, but it did own broadcast properties in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and West Virginia, three of which were NBC affiliates like KTIV.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-ktiv-tv-being-sold-to/107438805/|date=August 24, 1989|page=A16|title=KTIV-TV being sold to Quincy company|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}} At the time, Sioux City was the smallest market in which American Family owned a TV station.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/ledger-enquirer-wtvm-is-now-part-of-the/108168551/|date=November 6, 1988|pages=E-1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/ledger-enquirer-amfam/108168625/ E-2]|first=Mick|last=Walsh|title=WTVM is now part of the American Family|newspaper=Columbus Ledger-Enquirer|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}} To run KTIV, Quincy hired William F. Turner, who had been the general manager at KCAU-TV when Forward Communications owned it and worked in the corporate office of KCAU's then-owner, Citadel Communications; Turner had a long-term friendship with the Oakley family, owners of Quincy Newspapers.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-ex-kcau-executive-tur/134377803/|date=November 9, 1989|page=A3|title=Ex-KCAU executive Turner joins KTIV|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}}

On September 16, 2002, KTIV began broadcasting a digital signal on UHF channel 41.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-digital-broadcasts-be/134379269/|date=September 17, 2002|page=B1|first=Glenn|last=Olson|title=Digital broadcasts begin at KTIV-TV|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}} The station continued dual analog and digital broadcasts until it shut down its analog signal on February 17, 2009, the original date for full-power stations to convert to digital service.{{cite news|url=http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2009/02/17/news/local/559211bae0111b0d8625755f007f2829.txt|title=Today is the day for digital TV switch|first=Dave|last=Dreeszen|work=Sioux City Journal|date=February 17, 2009}} KTIV continued to broadcast on channel 41, using virtual channel 4,{{Cite web |date=May 23, 2006 |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds |url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 |access-date=August 29, 2021 |publisher=Federal Communications Commission}} until it switched to channel 14 in 2018 as a result of the 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction.{{Cite web|url=http://data.fcc.gov/download/incentive-auctions/Transition_Files/Phase_Assignment_Closing_PN.csv|title=FCC TV Spectrum Phase Assignment Table|format=CSV|website=Federal Communications Commission|date=April 13, 2017|access-date=April 17, 2017|archive-date=April 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170417160749/http://data.fcc.gov/download/incentive-auctions/Transition_Files/Phase_Assignment_Closing_PN.csv|url-status=live}}

KTIV assumed ad sales responsibility in 2003 for "KXWB", the local The WB 100+ Station Group station;{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-wb-station-group-sele/123946887/|date=December 22, 2002|page=F5|title=WB station group selects KTIV as new local broadcast partners|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=May 5, 2023}} KCAU-TV had been providing advertising and marketing services to the cable-only service when it launched in 1998.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-new-area-cable-statio/123946690/|date=March 28, 1999|page=F2|title=New area cable station carries WB network|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=May 5, 2023}} When The WB merged with UPN to form The CW in 2006, KTIV obtained the affiliation and programmed the network on its second subchannel.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-new-network-coming-to/123922386/|date=August 20, 2006|page=B1|first=Dave|last=Dreeszen|title=New network coming to region|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}}

In 2021, Gray Television purchased Quincy Media for $925 million.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2021/02/gray-television-quincy-media-for-925-million-in-cash-1234684531/|title=Gray Television Acquires Quincy Media For $925 Million In Cash|first=Jill|last=Goldsmith|work=Deadline Hollywood|publisher=Penske Media Corporation|date=February 1, 2021|accessdate=February 1, 2021}}{{cite press release|url=https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/08/02/2273228/0/en/Gray-Television-Closes-Quincy-Acquisition.html|title=Gray Television Closes Quincy Acquisition|first=Hilton|last=Howell Jr.|work=Gray Television|publisher=Globe Newswire|date=August 2, 2021|access-date=August 2, 2021}}

Local news debuted within the station's first year of operation.{{r|Siou551009}} Ken Wayman, the station's first news director in the 1950s, was also the first reporter to take a still camera into an Iowa courtroom; he won a national award from the Radio Television News Directors Association for his coverage.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register-50s-television/134424486/|date=March 2, 1998|page=3M|first=Shuva|last=Rahim|title='50's television news director Wayman dies|newspaper=The Des Moines Register|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 1, 2023}}

For most of the late 1960s and 1970s, KCAU-TV was the dominant station in the market, with a nearly two-to-one ratings lead. It also benefited from being the most accessible ABC affiliate to many viewers in the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, market. However, when ABC moved its Sioux Falls market affiliation from KORN-TV/KXON-TV/KDLT in Mitchell to KSFY-TV in Sioux Falls, this factor disappeared.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102709470/television-is-in-the-spotlight-turner-r/|date=September 21, 1985|page=A1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102709414/turner-receives-standing-ovation/ A26]|title=Television is in the spotlight: Turner resigns|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=Sioux City, Iowa|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=May 28, 2022|archive-date=May 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528215107/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102709470/television-is-in-the-spotlight-turner/|url-status=live}} KTIV had been improving its coverage steadily for several years; most notably, it had hired Dave Nixon (Sr.), a former KCAU anchor, who returned to Sioux City and KTIV after two years with WHO-TV in Des Moines. Dave Nixon's son, Dave Nixon Jr., worked as a weekend anchor at the station while his father presented the weeknight newscasts.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-des-moines-register-fine-tuning/124318103/|date=June 5, 1983|page=2-TV|first=Dave|last=Rhein|title=Fine tuning|newspaper=The Des Moines Register|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}} Between Nixon Sr.'s hiring and the loss of KCAU's ABC viewership advantage, as well as promotional tactics to increase viewership in outlying communities within the market, KTIV surged past KCAU-TV for first place.{{r|Siou850921}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102710028/news-wars/|date=February 3, 1984|page=B1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102709991/ B4]|first=Bruce R.|last=Miller|title=News wars|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=Sioux City, Iowa|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=May 28, 2022|archive-date=May 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528215107/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102710028/news-wars/|url-status=live}} Dave Nixon Sr. departed in 1990 to start a broadcasting program at Iowa Lakes Community College, but his son returned to Sioux City from Mankato, Minnesota, in 1992 to serve as KTIV's news director.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-dr-dave-former-ktiv/134378370/|date=November 6, 1992|page=A10|first=Marcia|last=Poole|title=Dr. Dave: Former KTIV anchorman enjoys life as professor|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}} Turner remained with KTIV until his retirement in 1994.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-ktiv-names-deschepper/134378983/|date=July 31, 1994|page=B3|title=KTIV names DeSchepper: Succeeds retiring Bill Turner at television helm|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}}

In 1989, KTIV cameras captured the crash of United Airlines Flight 232 in Sioux City. Reporter-photographer Dave Boxum was the only television cameraman positioned to see the airplane hit the ground and explode into a fireball. Footage from the crash was intended as an exclusive for the station and NBC but mistakenly received far wider distribution. To uplink the pictures, KTIV had to use a Conus Communications transponder, inadvertently making the footage available to 135 member stations of Conus when it was intended only for NBC and its affiliates. The footage wound up being widely used, including by KCAU-TV, which obtained it from ABC, and by CBS, which did not have permission.{{Cite news|title=KTIV and the case of the nonexclusive exclusive video|pages=77–78|work=Broadcasting|date=August 7, 1989|id={{ProQuest|1016937893}} }}

KTIV expanded its news department in 2023, coinciding with the closing of the newsroom at Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned KPTH. Three KPTH news employees, including former KTIV anchor Larry Wentz, joined channel 4's staff.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-veteran-newsman-larry/134379129/|date=May 31, 2023|page=A2|first=Earl|last=Horlyk|title=Veteran newsman Larry Wentz rejoining KTIV|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 31, 2023}} The station introduced an expanded noon newscast and Saturday and Sunday morning news programs.{{Cite news |date=June 8, 2023 |title=KTIV Television Expands News Products, Offering More Local Coverage to Viewers in Siouxland |language=en |work=KTIV |url=https://www.ktiv.com/2023/06/08/ktiv-television-expands-news-products-offering-more-local-coverage-viewers-siouxland/ |access-date=October 31, 2023}}

• Paul Moyer{{cite web|last=Schneider|first=Michael|title=KNBC's Paul Moyer set to retire|url=https://variety.com/2009/scene/news/knbc-s-paul-moyer-set-to-retire-1118001997/|publisher=Variety|access-date=March 26, 2014|date=April 1, 2009}}
• Gene Sherman – sportscaster, 1985–1994{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-siouxland-sports-lege/134426560/|date=August 29, 2000|page=A4|first=Lynn|last=Zerschling|title=Siouxland sports legend Sherman dies|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 1, 2023}}
• Terry Zahn – newscaster, 1978–1980{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-new-team-announced/134426463/|date=July 18, 1978|page=18|title=New 'team' announced at Channel 4|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 1, 2023}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sioux-city-journal-dave-nixon-named-ktiv/102709250/|date=February 12, 1980|page=A3|title=Dave Nixon named KTIV anchorman|newspaper=Sioux City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 1, 2023}}

The station's signal is multiplexed:

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