KKJB (channel 39) is a

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, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network

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. Owned by Cocola Broadcasting, the station maintains a transmitter north of the city in the

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History

KKJB signed on the air in July 2005 as an affiliate of

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. In 2009, the station switched its affiliation to Daystar. In 2014, KKJB changed its Daystar affiliation to

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

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Analog-to-digital conversion

Because it was granted an original

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after the

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finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital

. KKJB shut down its analog signal, over

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channel 39, instead, on or before June 12, 2009. The station "

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" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 39. On November 30, 2018, KKJB switched from channel 39 to channel 15.

Sister stations

Cocola Broadcasting also owns the following low-power stations in the Boise area: * 33 * 41 * 43 * 49 Two other LPTV stations owned by Cocola, KKIC-LD and KEVA-LD, were sold to Bridge Media Networks and

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, respectively.

References

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