KVUI

{{expand section|include information on KFXP's history between its sign on and the disaffiliation from Fox|date=July 2012}}

Channel 31 signed on the air as KFXP, the Fox affiliate for the Pocatello–Idaho Falls market, on July 16, 1998.{{cite news|last1=Menser|first1=Paul|title=Fox makes it to rooftops; WB preview on its way|url=http://www.postregister.com/story.php?accnum=00895-07161998&today=1998-07-16|access-date=November 12, 2015|work=Post Register|date=July 16, 1998}} Prior to the station's launch, Fox programming had been seen on area cable systems via Foxnet; the network also maintained a secondary affiliation with CBS affiliate KIDK (channel 3).{{cite news|last1=Menser|first1=Paul|title=Fox network gets local affiliate|url=http://www.postregister.com/story.php?accnum=00148-04281998&today=1998-04-28|access-date=November 12, 2015|work=Post Register|date=April 28, 1998}} KFXP was originally owned by a partnership of three companies—Redwood Broadcasting, Winstar Communications, and Compass Communications—that had competed for the license; through a time brokerage agreement, the station was operated by Sunbelt Communications (later known as Intermountain West Communications Company), owner of NBC outlet KPVI (channel 6), and the two stations shared studios in Pocatello. By 1999, Compass Communications had acquired Redwood and Winstar's interests in KFXP.{{cite web|title=Application Search Details (1)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=272849|website=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=November 12, 2015}}{{cite web|title=Application Search Details (2)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=286978|website=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=November 12, 2015}} In its early years, channel 31 had a secondary affiliation with UPN;{{cite web|title=Listing of channel lineups in TV Guide Idaho Edition|url=http://www.matthewsittel.com/tvg/tvg-id.htm|website=matthewsittel.com|access-date=November 12, 2015}} however, this had ended by 2000.{{cite news|last1=Ginter|first1=Barry|title='Voyager' will arrive late on new channel|url=http://www.postregister.com/story.php?accnum=120571-11152000&today=2000-11-15|access-date=November 12, 2015|work=Post Register|date=November 15, 2000}}

KFXP discontinued its Fox affiliation on July 1, 2012, following a dispute with the network over retransmission consent; several other stations lost their Fox affiliations a year earlier for similar reasons. The station subsequently affiliated with This TV (previously shown on KPVI-DT3) effective on that date with the network airing during the morning and overnight hours, though it retained general entertainment programming during daytime and prime time hours. Twin Falls sister station KXTF also lost its affiliation and switched to This TV on the same date, with Fox programming moving to MyNetworkTV affiliate KTWT-LD as a primary affiliation.{{cite news|title=Eastern Idaho to Lose Fox Network Affiliate |url=http://www.kpvi.com/content/news/local/story/Eastern-Idaho-to-Lose-Fox-Network-Affiliate/e0InUYoEhUiV66G_heyl6g.cspx |access-date=May 21, 2012 |newspaper=KPVI News 6 |date=May 17, 2012 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}[http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/485964-Fisher_s_KXPI_Grabs_Fox_Affiliation_in_Idaho_Falls.php Fisher's KXPI Grabs Fox Affiliation in Idaho Falls], Broadcasting & Cable, June 15, 2012. MyNetworkTV affiliate KXPI-LD (channel 34, which is repeated on KIDK-DT2) assumed the Fox affiliation and retained MyNetworkTV as a secondary affiliation.

KFXP went dark on July 1, 2013{{cite web|last=Monroy|first=Barbara|title=FCC 398 Children's Television Programming Report|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/KidVid/public/report/19/report.faces?id=142448|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=July 11, 2013|date=July 1, 2013}} following the end of its lease on its transmission tower; a new lease on the tower cannot be negotiated until the completion of an ownership change for the tower.{{cite web|last=Proctor|first=Gerald R|title=Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1562636&Service=DT&Form_id=910&Facility_id=78910|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=July 11, 2013|date=July 10, 2013}} The time brokerage agreement with KPVI-DT was also terminated as of the preceding day; it had been slated to expire on July 16.{{cite web|title=Oregon Trail Broadcasting Company Character Issues [Amendment]|url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101592442&qnum=5000©num=1&exhcnum=1|work=KPVI-DT sale application|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=January 4, 2014|date=November 26, 2013}} KFXP had begun showing a still announcing the shutdown on June 24, 2013. On January 31, 2014, Compass Communications reached a deal to sell KFXP, along with two commonly-owned low-power stations in Beaumont, Texas, to Abraham Telecasting Company,{{cite web|title=Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1622468&Service=DT&Form_id=314&Facility_id=78910|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=February 3, 2014|date=January 31, 2014}} however, the sale fell through. On June 12, 2015, Compass agreed to sell KFXP to Buckalew Media for $450,000.{{cite web|title=Application For Consent To Assignment Of Broadcast Station Construction Permit Or License|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1681798&Service=DT&Form_id=314&Facility_id=78910|website=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=July 14, 2015|date=June 29, 2015}} The sale was completed on October 30;[http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1696804&Service=DT&Form_id=905&Facility_id=78910 Consummation Notice] CDBS Public Access, Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved November 2, 2015. on November 9, Buckalew changed the station's call letters to KVUI.{{cite web|title=Call Sign History|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=78910&Callsign=KVUI|website=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=November 12, 2015}} Buckalew then announced that it would relaunch KVUI by December 1 as a MeTV affiliate; the station also intends to air some local programming.{{cite news|last1=McFarland|first1=Cydney|title=Family-friendly TV channel returns to Pocatello with new name|url=http://www.idahostatejournal.com/members/family-friendly-tv-channel-returns-to-pocatello-with-new-name/article_57108b1a-1259-52e6-a4ac-855666b3200b.html|access-date=November 24, 2015|work=Idaho State Journal|date=November 19, 2015}}{{Dead link|date=February 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Buckalew Media agreed to sell KVUI, along with the construction permit for KVUT-LD in Twin Falls, to Ventura TV Video Appliance Center for $575,000 on January 20, 2017.{{cite web|title=Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1749387&Service=DT&Form_id=314&Facility_id=78910|website=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=January 24, 2017|date=January 23, 2017}}

Shortly after sign-on, KFXP partnered with KPVI to provide a 9 p.m. newscast on Monday through Friday nights. The program was canceled after a few years and entertainment programming returned to the timeslot. KFXP partnered with KPVI once again in 2006 to produce a late evening newscast at 9 p.m. that debuted on October 30, 2006, entitled KPVI on Fox News at 9; this newscast was also broadcast on Twin Falls sister station KXTF. In preparation for the discontinuance of its Fox affiliation and the switch to This TV, the station canceled the 9 p.m. newscast for a second time,{{cite news|last=Malone|first=Michael|title=KTXF Staffers Moving on After Fox Split|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/484967-KTXF_Staffers_Moving_on_After_Fox_Split.php|access-date=May 22, 2012|newspaper=Broadcasting & Cable|date=May 22, 2012}} with its last broadcast airing on June 29, 2012; it was replaced with a new weeknight 5:30 p.m. newscast produced by KPVI, that debuted in September 2012. The 5:30 p.m. program was titled KPVI More, an interview and features program that aired simultaneously on KXTF. It contained no weather or sports segments.

The station's signal is multiplexed:

KVUI (as KFXP) shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 31, on November 17, 2008. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 31.{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |access-date=March 24, 2012 |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 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.transmitter.com/FCC97115/chanplan.html|title = Final DTV Channel Plan from FCC97-115}} Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station.

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