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KGW-TV

KGW
KGW Logo 2014.svg
Portland, Oregon
United States
Branding KGW (general; visually displayed as "KGW 8")
KGW News (newscasts)
Slogan We're on it
Channels Digital: 8 (VHF)
Virtual: 8 ()
Subchannels 8.1 NBC
8.2 Justice Network
8.3 Estrella TV
Translators see list below
Affiliations NBC (1959–present)
Owner Tegna, Inc.
(Sander Operating Co. III LLC D/B/A KGW Television)
First air date December 15, 1956; 60 years ago (1956-12-15)
Call letters' meaning Keep
Growing
Wiser
Sister station(s) KGWZ-LD
KING
KONG
KREM
KSKN
KTVB
KTFT
Former callsigns KGW-TV (1956–1994)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
8 (VHF, 1956–2009)
Digital:
46 (UHF, 2000–2009)
Former affiliations DT1:
ABC (1956–1959)
DT2:
NBC Weather Plus (2004–2008)
KGW Weather Channel (2008–2009)
Local news and weather (2010–2012)
Live Well Network (2012–2015)
Transmitter power 45 kW
Height 524 metres (1,719 feet)
Facility ID 34874
Transmitter coordinates 45°31′20.5″N 122°44′50.1″W / 45.522361°N 122.747250°W / 45.522361; -122.747250
Licensing authority Federal Communications Commission
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.kgw.com

KGW, VHF digital channel 8, is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Portland, Oregon, United States. The station is owned by Tegna, Inc. KGW maintains studios on Jefferson Street in southwestern Portland, and its transmitter is located in the city's Sylvan-Highlands section. KGW also served as the Portland bureau for co-owned regional news channel Northwest Cable News before it shut down on January 6, 2017.

The station was an extension of radio station KGW (620 AM, now KPOJ). The Oregonian newspaper created KGW-AM by purchasing an existing transmitter from the Shipowners Radio Service. The U.S. Department of Commerce licensed the station, and it began broadcasting on March 25, 1922 (after a test transmission two days earlier). Among the station's early personalities was "The Man of 1000 Voices," Mel Blanc, who debuted on the radio program The Hoot Owls. The station's studios and transmitter were located in The Oregonian Building (of 1892) until 1943, when a fire destroyed them and the station moved to other quarters.The Oregonian applied for and received a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) construction permit for a television station in 1947, but later returned it in order to focus on its core newspaper business. It later bought KOIN-AM and used it to start KOIN-TV (channel 6).

The Oregonian sold KGW-AM-FM to North Pacific Television, a consortium of Seattle businesswoman Dorothy Bullitt and five Portland businessmen, on November 1, 1953. Bullitt's King Broadcasting Company, who also owned KING-AM-FM-TV in Seattle, was the largest shareholder in the venture, with a 40 percent stake. Bullitt eventually bought out her partners, and KGW-TV signed on the air on December 15, 1956 on channel 8 as an ABC affiliate. On April 26, 1959, it swapped affiliations with KPTV (channel 12), becoming an NBC affiliate (KGW's sister station, KING-TV in Seattle, also switched from ABC to NBC with KOMO-TV at the same time).


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