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This article is about the television station. For the Guinea town and sub-prefecture, see
KUFO (AM). For the radio station formerly known as KOIN-FM, see KXL-FM
.
Not to be confused with KION-TV.
KOIN
FCC
Facility ID35380
ERP
  • 1,000 kW
  • 500 kW (STA)
HAAT536 m (1,759 ft)
Transmitter coordinates45°30′57.8″N 122°44′3.1″W / 45.516056°N 122.734194°W / 45.516056; -122.734194
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Websitewww.koin.com

KOIN (channel 6) is a

Sylvan-Highlands neighborhood
of the city.

History

Radio origins

KOIN began as a

CBS Radio Network, on September 1, 1929.[2] During the golden years of radio, KOIN was one of Portland's major radio stations, with an extensive array of local programming, including live music from its own studio orchestra
.

As a CBS radio affiliate, KOIN was the local home for CBS radio programs such as the

Suspense. An FM station, KOIN-FM (at 101.1 Mc.), was launched in 1948. Both stations were owned by Field Enterprises, Inc. from 1947 until sold in 1952 to the Mount Hood Radio and Television Broadcasting Corporation.[3]

Radio stations KOIN and KOIN-FM were sold on May 1, 1977, to the

Oregon City at that time.[5] The stations using the former KOIN frequencies currently are KUFO (AM) and KXL-FM
.

Television station

KOIN-TV began broadcasting on October 15, 1953, as Portland's first

VHF television station.[2][6] It took on an affiliation with the CBS Television Network, to match the radio station (channel 6 has always been a primary CBS station, and as such, it is the only Portland TV station to retain its primary affiliation). At the time, it was jointly owned by Mount Hood Radio and Television Broadcasting Corporation; Newhouse Broadcasting Corporation (now Advance Publications), owner and publisher of The (Portland) Oregonian; local investors and Marshall Field's department stores.[citation needed] The station took its calls from KOIN radio (AM 970 and 101.1 FM), which was a joint venture of Mount Hood Broadcasting and Newhouse. Eventually, Marshall Field sold its stake to Newhouse. Lee Enterprises purchased KOIN-TV in April 1977 from the Mount Hood-Newhouse group.[7]

KOIN's first color television broadcast was made on August 14, 1954,[8] only three days after then-NBC-affiliate KPTV (channel 12) had made Portland's first such broadcast.[9]

In the 1950s, KOIN ran a Sunday afternoon program, Report to the People, hosted by the governor of Oregon.[10]

On February 27, 1971, both transmitter towers used by KOIN-FM and KOIN-TV—the 1,000-foot (300 m) main tower and the 700-foot (210 m) auxiliary tower—collapsed during an ice and wind storm.[11] The two KOIN (AM) towers, located on the same property, were not damaged. Nine days later, on March 9, 1971, KOIN-FM and KOIN-TV returned to the air when a temporary tower was erected on the site of the collapsed auxiliary tower. During those nine days off the air, CBS programming was provided to the Portland market (and, by extension, most of Oregon) by independent station KVDO-TV in Salem.

During the 1970s, KOIN still had a handful of locally produced programs on the air, including RFD 6, Hi! Neighbor, the cooking show KOIN Kitchen, and

NBA championship, which was broadcast on KOIN-TV via CBS' coverage
(KOIN also broadcast all Blazers games that were aired through CBS Sports from 1973 to 1990).

By the 1980s, one of KOIN's past general managers—Richard M. "Mick" Schafbuch—served one term in 1981 as President of the CBS Network Affiliates Group. In 1982, C. Stephen Currie, KOIN's program operations manager, was elected to serve as the president of the

KOIN Center. In 1984, the station aired the Japanese
program From Oregon With Love. The "-TV" suffix was dropped on August 31, 1992, fifteen years after KOIN radio was sold off.

In October 2000, the Lee Enterprises television group, including KOIN was purchased by

Montecito Broadcast Group
for $259 million.

The KOIN Center is the third-tallest skyscraper in Portland.

Due to a dispute over fees, Comcast did not offer KOIN's high definition feed for over two years after it started offering other Portland area stations in HD.[citation needed] After Montecito took ownership, Comcast started carrying KOIN in high definition on February 28, 2006. KOIN was also in a dispute with DirecTV over transmission of its HD feed, as both sides claimed the other to be the problem.[citation needed] In August 2008, KOIN's HD feed began to be carried on DirecTV.

KOIN updated its website in September 2006[13] as part of a partnership with WorldNow.[14] KOIN expected the switch to lead to over $1 million in revenue during its first year; it was characterized by KOIN general sales manager Bob Singer as a "creative new way" to boost revenue for a station with a "somewhat average ratings position."[15]

On July 24, 2007, Montecito announced the sale of all of its stations (KOIN, plus KHON-TV and its satellites, KSNW and its satellites, and KSNT) to New Vision Television. The sale closed on November 1, 2007.[16]

In March 2008, KOIN relaunched its website through

Post-Newsweek's Television Stations
.

On December 30, 2008, one of the 15

surrounding neighborhood was reopened to residents and car traffic. KOIN had to pay $1,500 to the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC).

On May 7, 2012, LIN Media announced that it would acquire KOIN and the other New Vision stations for $330.4 million and the assumption of $12 million in debt.[17] The FCC approved the sale on October 2,[18] and it was completed ten days later on October 12, 2012. The group deal reunited KOIN, KHON, KSNW and KSNT with several former Emmis-owned stations which had been purchased by LIN seven years earlier, such as KRQE in Albuquerque, New Mexico, WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama, and WLUK-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin (KOIN, KRQE, KSNW, and KSNT had also been sister stations under Lee Enterprises).

On March 21, 2014, Media General announced that it would purchase LIN Media and its stations, including KOIN, in a $1.6 billion merger.[19] The merger was completed on December 19.[20] Less than a year later, on September 8, 2015, Media General announced that it would acquire the Meredith Corporation for $2.4 billion, with the combined group to be renamed Meredith Media General once the sale is finalized by June 2016. Because Meredith already owns Fox affiliate KPTV (channel 12), and the two stations rank among the four highest-rated stations in the Portland market in total day viewership, the companies would have been required to sell either KPTV or KOIN to comply with FCC ownership rules as well as recent changes to those rules regarding same-market television stations that restrict sharing agreements; KPTV's MyNetworkTV-affiliated sister station KPDX (channel 49) could have remained with either KPTV or KOIN or be spun off to the suitor as its total day viewership ranks below the top-four ratings threshold.[21][22]

However, the proposed deal with Meredith would later fall through, and on January 27, 2016, it was announced that

Nexstar Broadcasting Group would buy Media General for $4.6 billion. KOIN became part of "Nexstar Media Group" and is the company's first station in Oregon.[23]

On December 3, 2018, Nexstar announced it would acquire the assets of Chicago-based Tribune Media—which has owned CW affiliate KRCW-TV (channel 32) since 2003—for $6.4 billion in cash and debt. Nexstar included the overlap between KOIN and KRCW-TV among the television stations in thirteen markets where the group may consider making divestitures to address national ownership cap issues related to the Tribune transaction and/or to comply with FCC local ownership rules preventing it from owning two or more stations in the same market. However, KRCW does not rank among the four highest-rated stations in the Portland market in total day viewership, and FCC regulations no longer preclude legal duopolies that would leave fewer than eight independently owned television stations in a single market (a KOIN/KRCW combination would leave only seven full-power commercial television stations with independent ownership remaining in the market, barring a second legal duopoly in the market under the previous "eight-voices test" rules repealed by the FCC in November 2017), hence there are no legal hurdles in place which would otherwise preclude a KOIN/KRCW duopoly.[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] The sale was approved by the FCC on September 16 and was completed on September 19, 2019.

News operation

KOIN presently broadcasts 43+1⁄2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5+1⁄2 hours each weekday and 2+1⁄2 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). On February 1, 2007, KOIN became the first television station in the Portland market to being broadcasting its local newscasts in

standard definition.[34] According to Oregon Media Insiders, during Montecito's ownership of KOIN, its local news ratings declined in all time periods; among the four news-producing stations in the Portland market, KOIN had the greatest loss in audience share.[35]

For the first time in ten years, KOIN finished in first position in the 11 p.m. news in the May 2008 NSI sweeps.[citation needed] KOIN News 6 at 11—unlike a year earlier when it lost over 20 percent of its CBS lead-in share—held its prime time share throughout its 11 p.m. newscast in the May 2008 NSI sweeps.[citation needed] In January 2008, KOIN's then-owners, New Vision Television, fired news director Jeff Alan and replaced him with Lynn Heider. Afterwards, KOIN dropped its slogan "Bringing News Home" as Jeff Alan had trademarked it under his name in 2000 before he worked at KOIN.

Under new news director Heider and long-time creative services director Rodger O'Connor, KOIN's 11 p.m. newscast increased its household ratings from May 2007 to May 2008 by 12 percent and its household share by 19 percent. It increased its household ratings by 30% from February 2008 to May 2008 and its household share by 33%.[citation needed] According to general manager Christopher Sehring, "The defining moment for KOIN News came in the third week of the sweeps. Up until then, we were having a strong ratings run against some terrific competition. Unfortunately, we then lost two straight nights – and I was worried that these losses might shake our new-found confidence. Fortunately, our team roared back on Thursday night, delivering an 8 household rating by increasing Without A Trace's 19 share lead-in to a 21 share. This type of comeback is indeed the sign of a station that refuses to toss in the towel – and will go a long way to helping us continue New Vision's plan to reenergize this great operation."[citation needed] This was the first time in a decade that KOIN's newscasts has won any timeslots.

On September 9, 2009, KOIN launched a new local program airing weekdays at 4 p.m., called Keep It Local. The show explored local neighborhoods and highlighted events taking place in Portland. The program was hosted by Priya David, with Mike Donahue and Araksya Karapetyan serving as its reporters. In 2010, Keep It Local was reformatted into Studio 6, a product and lifestyles magazine, hosted by Jenny Hansson, Anne Jeager, Hayley Platt and Jake Byron.

On July 26, 2010, KOIN became the third television station in the Portland market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. It was also the first in the market to broadcast all aspects of its news programming, including field reporting, studio and weather segments completely in the format. KPTV was the only station remaining in the market that broadcast its local newscasts in 16:9 widescreen standard definition until it upgraded to HD on August 26, 2013.

Notable current on-air staff

Notable former on-air staff

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

multiplexed
:

Subchannels of KOIN[36]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
6.1 1080i
16:9
 KOIN-HD Main KOIN programming / CBS
6.2 480i
4:3
 getTV Get
6.3 16:9 Rewind Rewind TV
32.2 480i 16:9 Antenna Antenna TV (KRCW-TV)
32.3 4:3 Grit Grit (KRCW-TV)
32.4 16:9 TBD TBD (KRCW-TV)
  Broadcast on behalf of another station

On January 11, 2016, KOIN activated digital subchannel 6.2, which carried a standard definition version of KOIN and CBS programming for the next twenty days. At 12:05 a.m. PST on February 1, 2016, subchannel 6.2 began carrying

GetTV
programming.

On March 10, 2016, KOIN activated digital subchannel 6.3 and began carrying

Decades programming until it was replaced with Bounce TV in September 2019.[37] On September 1, 2021, KOIN's digital subchannel 6.3 replaced Bounce TV with SportsGrid,[38] only for it to be replaced by Rewind TV
on October 20, 2022.

Analog-to-digital conversion

KOIN shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 6, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States

UHF channel 40,[39][40][41] using virtual channel
6.

As part of the

SAFER Act,[42] KOIN kept its analog signal (also heard at 87.7 FM like other channel 6 analog stations throughout the country) on the air from 7:28 a.m. on June 12 until June 27 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements in English and Spanish from the National Association of Broadcasters
. On June 27, 2009, at 7:06 a.m., KOIN broke from the nightlight PSA loop to air the station's 25th-anniversary special (originally broadcast in 1978) for the station's final 24 minutes of analog broadcasting; the analog signal permanently shut down at 7:30 that morning. As a result of the digital transition, those in the market lost access to KOIN's audio feed that was transmitted over the 87.7 FM frequency.

Translators

Low-power translators in Cascadia, Florence, Heppner, Monument, Rainier, Seaside, Sisters, Wallowa, and Trout Lake, Washington have been discontinued.

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KOIN". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ a b c KOIN History from the station's website. Archived on the Wayback Machine on December 18, 2008.
  3. ^ "KOIN Radio Sold by Field". The Oregonian, July 5, 1952, p. 1.
  4. ^ Murphy, Francis (May 3, 1977). "Behind the mike: Concert Hall stays on air". The Oregonian, p. C7.
  5. ^ Murphy, Francis (April 29, 1977). "KYXI radio set to carry CBS network". The Oregonian, p. F11.
  6. ^ "KOIN-TV Goes on Air; Reception Found Good". The Oregonian, October 16, 1953, p. 1.
  7. ^ "Lee Enterprises buys rest of KOIN-TV stock". The Oregonian, April 29, 1977, p. 1.
  8. ^ Murphy, Francis (August 16, 1954). "Behind The Mike". The Oregonian. Section 3, p. 2. Sky was blue and apples were red on Portland's few color TV sets Saturday when KOIN-TV sent out [its] first color telecast ....
  9. ^ Murphy, Francis (August 12, 1954). "Behind The Mike". The Oregonian. Section 3, p. 2. Portland's first color telecast was sent out by KPTV from 7–7:35 a.m. Wednesday ....
  10. ^ "Holmes to Talk on Tax Impasse". The Oregonian. November 10, 1957. pp. A26.
  11. ^ Miller, Joel. "KOIN Transmission Towers Collapse – 1971". rockininquad.com. Retrieved October 26, 2011.
  12. ^ http://www.natpe.org/natpe/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58:conference-a-market-history&catid=37:natpe-history&Itemid=80
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  14. ^ Nine Station Groups Sign New Partnership Agreements from the WorldNow website
  15. ^ Broadcasters Learn the Secrets to Making Online Millions..., from the PR Newswire website
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  35. ^ February 2007 Ratings Archived March 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine from the Oregon Media Insiders blog
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  38. ^ Sportsgrid (September 1, 2021). "SportsGrid Multicast Network Launches Today in Nine Major Markets Across the United States". Retrieved October 31, 2021.
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