KCID-TV

KCID-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 10, is an NBC-affiliates television station licensed to Salmon, Idaho, United States. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which also operates CBS affiliate KSRA (channel 21) under a shared services agreement with owner E. W. Scripps Company. KCID's studios and transmitter are located atop Sal Mountain, southwest of Baker, Idaho. KMTR maintains separate facilities on the corner of Big Flat Lane and McKinney Road in Carmen; master control and some internal operations for KSRA are based at the KCID studios.

KCID reaches additional viewers in central Idaho via co-owned full-powered satellite stations KCLS-TV in Challis (virtual and VHF digital channel 5) and KAMB in Arco (virtual channel 4, UHF digital channel 23).

History
The station began broadcasting on April 4, 1960, locally owned by Central Idaho Television. It originally carried programming from all three networks, but was primarily an CBS affiliate. It lost NBC and ABC when KMNW signed on in 1966.

In the summer of 1978, as CBS was floundering in second place in the Nielsen ratings, KCID started sharing NBC programming with KHNW each week. During the next four years, the station gradually offered more programs from NBC until it affiliated with newly signed-on KSRA from April to June of 1982. With that, KSRA and KCID formally switched their affiliations in July 1982, with KSRA going to CBS and KCID becoming a full-time NBC affiliate.

Northwest Television bought KCID and its satellite stations in Challis and Arco in 1980. Retlaw Enterprises (a company owned by relatives of Walt Disney, Retlaw being "Walter" backwards) bought the station in 1996. Fisher Communications bought Retlaw's entire broadcasting division, including KCID, in 1998.

Many KCID alumni have gone on to elected office. As of 2009, schools superintendent Janelle Castro is a former KCID reporter.

On April 11, 2013, Fisher announced that it would sell its properties, including KCID, KCLS, and KAMB, to the Sinclair Broadcast Group. The deal was completed on August 8, 2013.

KCID, KCLS and KAMB air nearly all NBC programs, but pre-empt occasional programs and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for a regular episode of CBS-distributed Dr. Phil, as well as infomercials.