The station signed on March 27, 1997 as a NBC affiliate. The station was originally owned by the Sunbelt Broadcasting Company and was a semi-satellite of KRNV (channel 4) in Reno. The station became the first (and only) full-power television station in Elko.
1998–2006[]
2006–2018[]
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On November 22, 2013, the Sinclair Broadcast Group announced the acquisition of KRNV's non-license assets. Since Sinclair cannot own KENV due to its location in the Salt Lake City DMA where the company owns CBS affiliate KUTV (channel 2) and MyNetworkTV affiliate KMYU (channel 12), the licensees for KENV and KRNV were acquired by Cunningham Broadcasting on January 9, 2018.
2018–present[]
On December 14, 2017, KENV announced that it was unable to renew its affiliation agreement with NBC, which expired on December 31. This led to KSL-TV (channel 5) being the sole NBC affiliate for the entire Salt Lake City market; similar moves were made with WMGM-TV (channel 40) in Wildwood, New Jersey and WHAG-TV (channel 25, now an independent station as WDVM-TV) in Hagerstown, Maryland to protect network-owned WRC-TV (channel 4) and WCAU (channel 10) in Washington DC and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania respectively. KENV later announced that it would become an affiliate of the Sinclair-owned science-fiction network Comet on January 1, 2018. As of 2020, the station is affiliated with TBD.
1Owned by Tennessee Broadcasting and operated by Sinclair under an outsourcing agreement. 2Nominally owned by Cunningham Broadcasting and operated by Sinclair under an LMA. However, trusts belonging to members of Sinclair's founding Smith family control almost all of Cunningham's stock. 3Operated by Nexstar Media Group under an LMA. 4Owned by Second Generation of Iowa, Ltd. and operated by Sinclair under a LMA. 5Owned by Manhan Media and managed by Sinclair. 6Owned by Howard Stirk Holdings, operated by Sinclair under an LMA. 7Owned by Mercury Broadcasting Company and operated by Sinclair. 8Owned by Deerfield Media and operated by Sinclair under an LMA. 9Owned by Roberts Media, but operated by Sinclair. 10Owned by Mitts Telecasting and operated by Sinclair. 11Owned by GOCOM Media and operated by Sinclair. 12Owned by Waitt Broadcasting, but operated by Sinclair under an SSA. 13Owned by Granite Broadcasting Corporation and operated by Sinclair through a JSA and SSA. 14Owned by New Age Media and operated by Sinclair under an MSA. 15Owned by MPS Media, but operated by New Age Media under an LMA. 16Owned by Diamond Sports Group, a joint venture of Sinclair and Entertainment Studios. 17Co-owned with Yankee Global Enterprises, The Blackstone Group, Amazon, RedBird Capital and Mubadala Investment Company. 18Co-owned with Chicago Cubs. 19Owned by Sinclair and operated by Jukin Media. 20Owned by Palm Television, L.P. and operated by Cunningham Broadcasting under an LMA.