KXPI-LD (channel 3) is a low-power television station in Pocatello, Idaho, United States. Owned by News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG), it is a translator of Idaho Falls–licensed MeTV/Fox affiliate KIDK, channel 3 (which is owned by VistaWest Media, LLC but operated by NPG under a shared services agreement [SSA]); it is also a sister station to ABC affiliate KIFI-TV, channel 8 (also licensed to Idaho Falls), which NPG owns outright. KXPI-LD's transmitter is located on Howard Mountain in unincorporated Bannock County west of downtown Pocatello; its parent station shares studios with KIFI-TV on North Yellowstone Highway/US 26 in Idaho Falls.
History
An original construction permit for low-power station K24EV was granted on June 20, 1997, to Idaho Independent Television, Inc. This construction permit was acquired by the Pocatello Media Group on May 19, 2000. K24EV had originally planned to simulcast the programming of future KRXZ-LP on channel 59 licensed to Rexburg, and air UPN programming. KRXZ-LP's license originally covered low-power K63GA on channel 63 which was only on the air for less than a year, from August 1999 to July 2000,