KVOS-TV
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Bellingham, Washington/Vancouver/Victoria, British Columbia United States/Canada |
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| City | Bellingham, Washington |
| Branding | MeTV Seattle/ MeTV KVOS-KFFV |
| Slogan | Your Home for Memorable Entertainment Television |
| Channels |
Digital: 35 (UHF) Virtual: 12 () |
| Subchannels | 12.1 MeTV 12.2 Movies! 12.3 Heroes & Icons |
| Owner | OTA Broadcasting, LLC (OTA Broadcasting (SEA), LLC) |
| First air date | June 3, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Kessler's Voice Of Seattle (from former sister radio station) |
| Sister station(s) | KFFV |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 12 (VHF, 1953–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
DuMont (1953–1956; secondary from 1955) CBS (1955–1987; secondary from 1979) Independent (1979–2011) Citytv (secondary, 1990–2002) |
| Transmitter power | 580 kW |
| Height | 799 m |
| Facility ID | 35862 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 48°40′49.4″N 122°50′26.4″W / 48.680389°N 122.840667°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KVOS-TV is a television station licensed to Bellingham, Washington, serving as an affiliate of MeTV as well as Movies! on its digital subchannel. The station's over-the-air transmissions are on digital channel 35, though the station remaps to its former analog channel 12 through . While it is licensed in Bellingham and is nominally part of the Seattle market, it primarily serves an audience in southwestern British Columbia including Vancouver and Victoria. The station currently broadcasts in standard definition.
KVOS' OTA channel 35 transmitter is situated atop Mt. Constitution on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands, at an altitude of approximately 800 meters above the adjacent terrain. The OTA channel 35 signal is very well received throughout the British Columbia Lower Mainland, southern Vancouver Island, and much of northwest Washington. KVOS has studios in Bellingham, with offices in Burnaby and Seattle. KVOS's previous Vancouver offices were located on West 7th Avenue.
As KVOS serves both sides of the border, at one time KVOS decided to use both Canadian and American TV ratings at the start of each program, after they were established—they were the only station on either side of the border to do so. As of early 2007, only US ratings have been shown.
KVOS signed on June 3, 1953; owned by Bellingham businessman Rogan Jones along with KVOS radio (AM 790, now KGMI). Jones had owned the radio station since 1928, and was best known for being the focus of a case that established broadcasters' right to the same news reports as newspapers. Its first broadcast was a kinescope of Elizabeth II's coronation. Since Canada had no television stations west of Ontario at that point (CBUT did not sign on until December that year), the British government flew film of the BBC's coverage to Vancouver, where the Mounties escorted it to the border. The Washington State Patrol then drove the film to Bellingham. The station's original slogan was "Your Peace Arch Station, serving Northwest Washington and British Columbia."
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