K38LZ on Channel 38 is now on Channel 27. KPTV, like all other Portland stations, has low-power repeater stations throughout Oregon and Washington. CBS programming was dropped from KPTV's schedule when Portland's first VHF station, KOIN-TV (channel 6), signed on the air on October 15, 1953. It airs the 8 a.m. hour of Good Day Oregon tape-delayed at 9 a.m. on weekdays and the 7:30 half-hour, live on weekends. The latest updates and information from the FOX 12 Weather Team. As part of the switch, KPTV's longtime moniker of "Oregon's 12" transitioned to "Fox 12 Oregon." Fox 12 Webstaff, "After 46 years on KPTV, Perry Mason making the move to KPDX", "'Perry Mason' move: KPTV general manager says, 'I've agonized over this,'", FCC Sets Deadlines for LPTV, TV Translator and Class A Stations To Convert to Digital - And Gives Hints When Television Spectrum May Be Reclaimed for Broadband, BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KPTV-TV, KMTR-DT 16.2 / KMCB-DT 23.2 / KTCW-DT 46.2 / "KZWB", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KPTV&oldid=984582681, Television channels and stations established in 1952, National Basketball Association over-the-air television broadcasters, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles needing additional references from December 2012, All articles needing additional references, Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 October 2020, at 22:04. In this case, consider buying an outdoor antenna. KPTV sued ABC and KATU's then-owner Fisher Broadcasting for breach of contract; the proceeds from the settlement went to rebuild KPTV into a color-capable station, and to purchase a color mobile unit. [26], Television station in Washington, United States, First Fox affiliation, then back to independence. A UHF only antenna might not work depending on location. You will need to do a channel rescan to pick up the new Channel 27. Frank Bonnema, news reporter and afternoon movie host, served as the voice of Portland Wrestling until shortly before his death on October 5, 1982. In 1967, Portland Wrestling returned to KPTV after a 12-year absence. In 1977, Chris-Craft placed its self-named television subsidiary underneath a holding company called BHC, Inc.[9], KPTV carried Operation Prime Time programming at least in 1978. [CDATA[
UPN launched on January 16, 1995, with channel 12 becoming a UPN owned-and-operated station—the first such O&O station in the Portland market—as a result of Chris-Craft/United's ownership stake in the network. // ]]> The station produced a half-hour sports wrap-up show called Oregon Sports Final that aired on Sundays at 11 p.m. (the program ended on September 10, 2017 and was replaced by the Sunday edition of the 11 p.m. newscast on September 17). Take a look at some of the featured stories from the FOX 12 Oregon digital team. In 1970, KPTV became the first television station in the market to broadcast Portland Trail Blazers basketball games, with sports director Jimmy Jones serving as the team's first play-by-play television announcer; KPTV maintained the broadcast rights to Blazers games until the end of the 1977–78 season. You will need to do a channel rescan to pick up the new Channel 29.
Much like the stations that were affected by the Fox/New World affiliation switches of 1994, KPTV chose not to air Fox's children's programming (4Kids TV; formerly Fox Kids) after the 2002 affiliation switch to Fox; the lineup remained on KPDX until 4Kids TV was discontinued by Fox (due to a dispute between the network and the block's lessee 4Kids Entertainment) in December 2008. On August 26, 2013, KPTV became the last television station in the Portland market to begin broadcasting its newscasts in high-definition. KUBN-LD on Channel 43 in Madras is moved to Grizzly Mt. // ]]> K50GG-D on Channel 50 is now on Channel 19. In 1956, KLOR lost its affiliations with both networks as the DuMont Television Network ceased operations, and the ABC affiliation moved to KGW-TV (channel 8) when that station signed on the air in December. The Fox affiliation switch coincided with a realignment of the National Football League that brought the market's most popular NFL team, the Seattle Seahawks, into the NFC West division. On August 11, 1954, KPTV became the first television station in Portland to broadcast in color,[6] three days before KOIN achieved the same milestone.[7]. As Portland's only television station at the time, it carried programming from all four networks of the time: ABC, CBS, NBC and the DuMont Television Network. Later wrestling commentators were KISN radio DJ Don Coss and former wrestlers Dutch Savage and Stan Stasiak. // ]]> For closed captioning issues, e-mail CaptionsKPTV_KPDX@Meredith.com. KPTV can boast being the home of the two top children's TV hosts in Portland's history: Rusty Nails, a sweet-natured clown who was the rough inspiration for The Simpsons creator Matt Groening's Krusty the Klown; and "Ramblin' Rod" Anders. KPTV clears most of Fox's programming schedule (nightly prime time, Saturday late night, and Fox Sports programming, along with the political talk show Fox News Sunday)—however it preempts the network's Saturday morning educational programming block, Xploration Station, which instead airs on KPDX.
By 1988, KPTV was one of several Fox affiliates nationwide (as was the case with its Minneapolis–Saint Paul sister station, KMSP-TV) that were underwhelmed by the network's ratings and programming in its first two seasons. However, KLOR's network affiliations were short-lived. One year later on March 4, 2008, the station expanded its newscast schedule to include a weekday 4 p.m. newscast (which was canceled in 2011 but brought back in September 2019), as well as a weekday 8 p.m. newscast on KPDX, with MyNetworkTV programming on KPDX being shifted one hour to 9 to 11 p.m. as a result. [16] Two months later on December 29, Portland Wrestling Uncut moved to KPTV's sister station KPDX, retaining the Saturday night timeslot that the program held when it was revived on KPTV. Front desk hours: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. [22][23] Because KPTV and KPDX held the broadcast rights to Perry Mason in the Portland market, KATU did not air the program on its MeTV subchannel (that network holds broadcast rights to the program nationally), replacing it with other programs carried by that network. Viewers for Grizzly Mt. Meredith then decided to swap the market's Fox and UPN affiliations; on September 2, 2002, Fox programming moved to the higher-rated KPTV—returning the network to channel 12 after a 14-year absence—while KPDX joined UPN. Some of the repeaters are owned by KPTV, while others are owned by local translator districts. Bob Adkins, better known as "Addie Bobkins," brought his show to KPTV from Eugene's KVAL-TV in 1961. Other KPTV children's hosts included longtime KPTV personality Gene Brendler who played "Bent Nails" (Rusty's "brother"), and George Ross, who played "Dr. The program had been brought back on the air with the help of Rowdy Roddy Piper; Don Coss has also returned to announce the matches along with special guests. [2] (the first experimental UHF station was Bridgeport, Connecticut's KC2XAK on channel 24). In 1993, KPTV, along with Chris-Craft's other independent stations, began carrying programming from the Prime Time Entertainment Network, a programming service that Chris-Craft had owned in conjunction with Warner Bros. If you don't pick anything up, amplification probably isn't an option. ", Viacom wins UPN so let the digestion begin, Viacom to buy half of UPN: is investing $160 million in fledgling network, "News Corp. to Buy Chris-Craft Parent for $5.5 Billion, Outbidding Viacom", "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds", "Portland TV stations backtrack, delay digital transition", Tom Hallman Jr., "Like rain or the MAX, 'Perry Mason' a part of Portland". Ramblin' Rod was the longest-running kid's show in Portland TV history, airing from 1964 to 1997. For questions or help regarding KPTV-KPDX Broadcasting Corporation’s FCC Online Public File, please contact Newsroom Coordinator Mary Price at mary.price@kptv.com or 503-548-6514. You will need to do a channel rescan to pick up the new Channel 19. The station subsequently disaffiliated from the network on August 29 of that year and reverted to being an independent station. // <! This transmitter carries KPTV 12.1, 12.2 & 12.3. KPTV Children's Programming Report, 2019 Q3; KPDX Children's Programming Report, 2019 Q3; Ad Choices; Ad Specs; Contact Info kptv.com … However, KPTV did not remain a Fox affiliate for very long. KPTV was also one of the first television stations in the country to run a mid-afternoon newscast, as the station aired a 3 p.m. news bulletin (known as Coffee Break News) from 1974 to 1978. KPTV then became a primary NBC affiliate, and also continued to air some ABC and DuMont programming. timeslot.[21].
This transmitter carries KPTV 12.1, 12.2 & 12.3. K20DD-D Channel 20 (KPTV 12.1 & KPDX 49.1) is having microwave input signal failure so the programming is temporarily changed to KPTV 12.1, 12.2, and 12.3 until the microwave path can be repaired. By the early 1990s, Fox gradually rose in popularity as it began to carry stronger programming than had aired during KPTV's previous stint with the network, with many shows that were starting to rival the program offerings of the "Big Three" networks. Meredith's Local Media Group includes 17 television stations, reaching 11 percent of U.S. households. [CDATA[
Please visit www.meredith.com for information regarding job openings. You will need to do a channel rescan to pick up the new channels. KPTV also absorbed KPDX's news department, resulting in the cancellation of KPDX's 10 p.m. newscast (KPDX now airs a weeknight 8 p.m. newscast that is produced by KPTV).
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