 The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 8.Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 5.On August 9, 2006, the FCC granted "flash-cut" authorization to KHBB-LD, meaning that on or before August 9, 2009, analog station KHBB-LP would shut down and digital station KHBB-LD would commence broadcasting on channel 21.