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Bend, Oregon United States |
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Branding | NewsChannel 21 Bend CW (on DT2) Fox Central Oregon (on DT3) |
Slogan | Central Oregon's News Leader |
Channels |
Digital: 21 (UHF) Virtual: 21 (PSIP) |
Subchannels | 21.1 NBC 21.2 CW+ 21.3 Fox |
Owner |
News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG of Oregon, Inc.) |
First air date | November 6, 1977 |
Sister station(s) | KFXO-LD, KQRE-LP |
Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 21 (UHF, 1977–2009) Digital: 18 (UHF, 2006–2009) |
Former affiliations |
Secondary: CBS (1980–1997) |
Transmitter power | 131.8 kW |
Height | 197 metres (646 feet) |
Facility ID | 55907 |
Transmitter coordinates | 44°4′40″N 121°19′49″W / 44.07778°N 121.33028°W |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
Website | www |
KTVZ is the NBC-affiliated television station for Central Oregon that is licensed to Bend. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 21 from a transmitter in the city on Awbrey Butte west of U.S. 97. Owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company, the station is sister to low-powered Fox affiliate KFXO-LD and low-powered Telemundo affiliate KQRE-LP. All three share studios on Northwest O.B. Riley Road in Bend.
KTVZ is rebroadcast on the following translator stations.
Low-power analog translators in Burns, Chemult and Madras have been discontinued
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
KTVZ shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 21, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 18 to channel 21.
KTVZ went on-the-air November 6, 1977. It was started by former owners Ray Johnson of KMED-AM-TV (now KTVL) in Medford and C. Howard Lane from KOIN-TV in Portland who formed Ponderosa Broadcasting, Inc. The station has always been an NBC affiliate but also began to carry CBS programming on a secondary basis. Efforts to carve out Deschutes County from the Portland television market began in 1980. By Fall 1981, Nielsen formed the newly created Bend DMA. Sierra Cascade Communications sold the station to Stainless Broadcasting Company in 1986 which later became known as Northwest Broadcasting in 1997 based in Spokane, Washington.