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KPTV is the Fox television affiliate serving the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 12, and its digital signal on UHF channel 30. Its transmitter is located in Portland.
KPTV is owned by Meredith Corporation, and is sister station to KPDX, Portland's current UPN affiliate (and future My Network TV affiliate).
History
The station signed on in 1952 on channel 27, as Oregon's first television station, as well as the world's first commercial TV station on the UHF band. It was owned by Empire Coil. As Portland's only TV station at the time, KPTV carried programming from all four networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and the now-defunct Dumont network. Storer Broadcasting bought out Empire Coil in 1954.
The channel 12 allocation was at first occupied by KLOR-TV (which signed on in 1955 as an ABC affiliate). However, by 1957 KPTV and KLOR came under common ownership (as Detroit businessman George Haggarty purchased KPTV from Storer and KLOR from its local owners earlier that year), and the two stations merged on May 1, 1957 under KPTV's license, but using KLOR's channel. In 1959, KPTV was sold to Chris-Craft Industries (whose pre-United Television broadcasting unit later became BHC Communications) and became a full-time ABC affiliate. However, the station lost its ABC affiliation to KATU in 1964, and went on to become an independent station. The station's long-running news program, The 10 O'Clock News, launched in 1970.
KPTV was one of Fox network's original charter affiliates in 1986; however, the station disaffiliated from the network in 1988 and reverted to its independent status. The Fox affiliation ended up on upstart KPDX. KPTV once again gained a network affiliation in 1995, as Portland's UPN outlet.
Chris-Craft sold most of its television holdings, including KPTV, to News Corporation in 2000. Instead of keeping KPTV, News Corp. decided to trade it to Meredith in exchange for WOFL in Orlando, Florida. This move gave Meredith, which already owned KPDX, the first "duopoly" operation in the Portland market.
Meredith decided to move the Fox affiliation to the higher-rated KPTV. As a result, an affiliation switch occurred in 2002, with KPDX becoming a UPN affiliate, and KPTV becoming a Fox affiliate once again. KPDX's news department was merged into KPTV's newsroom (although KPTV's operation actually moved into KPDX's newer facility, located in Beaverton), and KPDX's existing 10pm newscast was cancelled. KPTV, however, chose not to air Fox's children's programming (4Kids TV; formerly Fox Kids), which remains on KPDX.
In June 2006, the station's website was redesigned (along with those of four of Meredith Corporation's other stations). The old website was operated by the Local Media Network division of World Now. Now Internet Broadcasting operates the site. However, KPTV is still listed on Local Media Network's list of TV websites.
Newscasts
- Good Day Oregon
- 5 AM-9 AM weekdays
- 6 AM-9 AM weekends
- More Good Day Oregon - 9 AM-10 AM weekdays
- The 5 O'Clock News - 5 PM-6 PM Sundays
- The 10 O'Clock News - 10 PM-11 PM Seven Nights a Week (Shauna Parsons)
- The 11 O'Clock News - 11 PM-11:30 PM weeknights (Shauna Parsons)
NOTE: KPTV is the only Fox affiliate on the Pacific Coast to have an 11 PM Newscast.
External Links
- Yesterday's KPTV - A look back at KPTV's history
Fox network affiliates | Channel 12 TV stations in the United States
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