KOHD
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Bend, Oregon United States |
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| City | Bend |
| Branding | KOHD ABC (general) KOHD News (local news updates) |
| Slogan |
Central Oregon's ABC (general) Connecting You (news) |
| Channels |
Digital: 18 (UHF) Virtual: 51 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner | Zolo Media (Telephone and Data Systems) (TDS Broadcasting LLC) |
| First air date | September 9, 2006 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Oregon High Desert (formerly Oregon High Definition) |
| Sister station(s) | KBNZ-LD |
| Former channel number(s) |
Digital: 51 (UHF, 2007–2015) |
| Transmitter power | 84.1 kW |
| Height | 205.7 metres (675 feet) |
| Facility ID | 166534 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°4′40.6″N 121°19′56.9″W / 44.077944°N 121.332472°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.kohd.com |
KOHD is the ABC affiliated television station for Central Oregon that is licensed to Bend. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 18 (virtual channel 51) from a transmitter in the city on Awbrey Butte west of U.S. 97. Owned by the Zolo Media division of BendBroadband, the station is sister to low-powered CBS affiliate KBNZ-LD and has studios on Lower Meadow Drive in Bend.
The station was started by Chambers Communications Corporation and signed-on as a digital-only station on September 9, 2006; it never broadcast a full-power analog signal prior to the June 12, 2009 analog shutdown for broadcast television stations. KOHD is the first primary digital station to carry a major network affiliation. The station replaced co-owned KEZI in Eugene as well as KATU from Portland on area cable systems.
For its first year on-the-air, KOHD simulcasted weeknight newscasts from KEZI while building their own local news department. Chambers Communications completed their 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m2) facility at Brinson Business Park on the north side of Bend in August 2007. KOHD originally had an in-city translator K53JV channel 53 from a transmitter on Awbrey Butte. It had a construction permit to air a low-powered digital signal on channel 18 from the same location. The FCC cancelled the station's license on February 15, 2013.
On July 26, 2013, Chambers sold KOHD to Zolo Media, owners of KBNZ-LD, the CBS affiliate. Zolo is a division of BendBroadband. BendBroadband in turn announced on May 1, 2014 that the company, including Zolo Media, would be purchased by TDS for $261 million, a company mainly involved in local telephone and broadband services.
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