KOMO-TV
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Seattle – Tacoma, Washington United States |
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| Branding | KOMO 4 (general; visually displayed as "KOMO ABC 4") KOMO (4) News (newscasts) KOMO 4 ABC (during radio promos for ABC network shows) |
| Slogan | So Northwest |
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Digital: 38 (UHF) Virtual: 4 () |
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| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (Sinclair Seattle Licensee, LLC.) |
| Founded | June 1953 |
| First air date | December 10, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | derived from sister station KOMO radio, pronounced 'Como' |
| Sister station(s) | KOMO, KOMO-FM, KPLZ-FM, KUNS-TV, KVI |
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| Former affiliations | NBC (1953–1959) |
| Transmitter power | 810 kW |
| Height | 223 m (732 ft) |
| Facility ID | 21656 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 47°37′56″N 122°21′14″W / 47.6321398°N 122.3539424°WCoordinates: 47°37′56″N 122°21′14″W / 47.6321398°N 122.3539424°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | komonews |
KOMO-TV, channel 4, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Seattle, Washington, United States. KOMO-TV is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group as part of a duopoly with Univision affiliate KUNS-TV, licensed to Bellevue. The station's studios and offices are co-located with sister radio stations KOMO (1000 AM and 97.7 FM), KVI (570 AM), and KPLZ-FM (101.5 MHz.) within KOMO Plaza (formerly Fisher Plaza) in the Lower Queen Anne section of Seattle, directly across the street from the Space Needle. The station's transmitter is located on Queen Anne Hill.
KOMO-TV is available to most cable subscribers in Vancouver, British Columbia area as the ABC affiliate and is one of five Seattle television stations seen in Canada on the Bell TV and Shaw Direct satellite providers.
From the station's inception until August 2013, KOMO-TV was the flagship station of Seattle-based Fisher Communications.
KOMO-TV began operating on December 10, 1953 as an NBC affiliate, owing to KOMO radio's long-time relationship with the NBC Radio Network. It is the fourth-oldest television station in the Seattle-Tacoma area. KOMO also has an almost forgotten distinction as being the first station in Seattle to broadcast a television signal. Whereas crosstown rival KRSC-TV (channel 5, now KING-TV) was the first to air "wide audience" television in November 1948, KOMO broadcast a television signal nearly 20 years prior. On June 3, 1929, KOMO radio engineer Francis J. Brott televised images of a heart, a diamond, a question mark, letters, and numbers over electrical lines to small sets with one-inch screens – 23 years before KOMO-TV's first regular broadcasts. A handful of viewers were captivated by the broadcast. KOMO would likely have held the distinction of being the first television station in Seattle, and perhaps the nation, were it not for the occurrences of the Great Depression and World War II.
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