KPTV
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KPTV (channel 12) is a
History
Early years
KPTV signed on the air on September 20, 1952, as Oregon's first television station. KPTV originally broadcast on channel 27, making it also the nation's first commercial television station to broadcast on the
KPTV also broadcast programs from the short-lived original
The VHF channel 12 allocation in Portland was first occupied by KLOR-TV, which signed on March 8, 1955, as a primary ABC affiliate with a secondary DuMont affiliation. However, KLOR's network affiliations were short-lived. In 1956, KLOR lost its affiliations with both networks as the DuMont Television Network ceased operations, and the ABC affiliation moved to
On April 17, 1959, KPTV became an ABC affilate after swapping its NBC affiliation with KGW. Later that year, KPTV was sold to the NAFI Corporation, which then purchased Chris-Craft Boats in 1960 and changed its name to Chris-Craft Industries. Color broadcasting by KPTV ended when KGW became an NBC affiliate in 1959, but returned in 1962, when ABC began color broadcasting.[11]
KPTV was the home of the two top children's TV hosts in Portland's history:
First stint as an independent station
On March 1, 1964, KPTV lost its ABC affiliation to
In 1967,
In 1970, KPTV became the first television station in the market to broadcast Portland Trail Blazers basketball games, with sports director Jimmy Jones serving as the team's first play-by-play television announcer; KPTV maintained the broadcast rights to Blazers games until the end of the 1977–78 season. In 1977, Chris-Craft placed its self-named television subsidiary underneath a holding company called BHC, Inc.[12]
KPTV carried Operation Prime Time programming at least in 1978.[13]
First Fox affiliation, then back to independence
On October 9, 1986, channel 12 became one of the original charter affiliates of the newly launched
UPN affiliation
By the early 1990s, Fox gradually rose in popularity as it began to carry stronger programming than had initially been broadcast during KPTV's first affiliation with the network, with many shows that were starting to rival the program offerings of the
Return to Fox
On August 12, 2000, Chris-Craft sold its UPN stations (spinning off two other stations that were not affiliated with that network in the process) to the
Meredith then decided to swap the market's Fox and UPN affiliations; on September 2, 2002, Fox programming moved to the higher-rated KPTV—returning the network to channel 12 after a 14-year absence—while KPDX joined UPN. As part of the switch, KPTV's current moniker of "Oregon's 12" was changed to "Fox 12 Oregon." Although KPTV is the senior partner in the duopoly, the merged operation was based at KPDX's newer and larger facility in suburban Beaverton rather than KPTV's longtime home in East Portland. KPTV also absorbed KPDX's news department, resulting in the cancellation of KPDX's 10 p.m. newscast (KPDX now airs a weeknight 8 p.m. newscast that is produced by KPTV). The Fox affiliation switch coincided with a realignment of the National Football League that brought the market's most popular NFL team, the Seattle Seahawks, into the NFC West division. As a result, KPTV became an unofficial secondary station for the Seahawks, airing most of that team's games through the Fox network's rights to air games from the NFL's National Football Conference.
On October 27, 2012, KPTV revived
Sale to Gray Television
On May 3, 2021, Gray Television announced its intent to purchase the Meredith Local Media division for $2.7 billion. The sale was completed on December 1.[20] As a result, KPTV and KPDX became Gray's first stations on the West Coast of the contiguous United States.
Programming
KPTV clears most of Fox's programming schedule (nightly prime time, Saturday late night, and
The tradition of Perry Mason at noon
In 1966, KPTV began broadcasting syndicated reruns of Perry Mason on weekday evenings. In 1970, KPTV moved Perry Mason to a new time, weekdays at noon (replacing the long-running children's show, Rusty Nails). It was the start of a longtime Portland television tradition, as Perry Mason would continue to be broadcast in the 12 p.m. timeslot each weekday until 2012 (save for a 10-month period from 1974 to 1975, when it moved to 12:30 p.m.). By the late 2000s, KPTV audience research indicated that one out of eleven people in the entire Portland market who were watching television at 12 p.m. weekdays, were tuned in to Perry Mason on channel 12. The Perry Mason at noon tradition was so solid that when Meredith Corporation named Patrick McCreery as the new general manager of KPTV in August 2008, McCreery was granted the power to make any local programming changes he saw fit with one exception: he could not drop Perry Mason from the schedule nor move it from the 12 p.m. timeslot.[21]
The tradition finally ended in August 2012 when KPTV moved Perry Mason to sister station KPDX channel 49, on September 4, 2012, in an earlier 8 a.m. timeslot (Rachael Ray replaced Mason in the noon timeslot on KPTV); the program's relocation from the noon slot—and displacement from KPTV—was cited as the result of decreased viewership of Perry Mason in recent years on channel 12 and programming shifts in daytime television towards more first-run syndicated talk and court programs.[22][23] Because KPTV and KPDX held the broadcast rights to Perry Mason in the Portland market, KATU channel 2 did not broadcast the program on its MeTV subchannel (MeTV held broadcast rights to the program nationally), replacing it with other programs carried by that network.
By September 2014, Perry Mason had left KPDX and was replaced with variable programming, ending a 48-year long Portland tradition. Accordingly, the MeTV subchannel on KATU began showing Perry Mason in pattern with the national schedule until the station replaced the network with Charge! in September 2022. MeTV in Portland is now on the third subchannel of KJYY-LD, a translator of Salem-licensed Telemundo affiliate KJWY-LD.
Originally, KPTV replaced the reruns with syndicated programming, but has since added an hour-long newscast at 12:00 p.m. under The Noon News.
News operation
KPTV presently broadcasts 67 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 11+1⁄2 hours each weekday, five hours on Saturdays and 4+1⁄2 hours on Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output of any television station in the state of Oregon. The station produced a half-hour sports wrap-up show called Oregon Sports Final that aired on Sundays at 11 p.m. (the program ended on September 10, 2017, and was replaced by the Sunday edition of the 11 p.m. newscast on September 17). KPTV is also one of the few Fox affiliates that produces newscasts for another television station in the same market, as it produces ten hours of local newscasts each week for sister station KPDX (consisting of two hour-long prime time newscasts at 8 and 9 p.m.).
Throughout its entire history, as a network affiliate and as an independent station, KPTV has always operated a local news department. Future Oregon governor Tom McCall, a longtime journalist before entering politics, joined KPTV in 1955 as a newscaster and political commentator. McCall left KPTV in late 1956 for KGW-TV, where he was a member of the original news team for seven years before leaving to run for Oregon's secretary of state. The station's long-running prime time newscast, known as The 10 O'Clock News, debuted in 1970. KPTV was also one of the first television stations in the country to run a mid-afternoon newscast, as the station aired a 3 p.m. news bulletin (known as Coffee Break News) from 1974 to 1978. Since then (especially after switching to Fox), KPTV has begun to go head-to-head with competitors KGW, KATU and KOIN by taking on a more news-intensive format, which took years to take effect.
The station launched its morning news program, Good Day Oregon, in 1996 as a three-hour weekday broadcast.[24] The program has since been extended, and currently runs from 4:30 to 9 a.m.; KPTV was one of a growing number stations in the country with a morning newscast beginning before 5 a.m. until April 19, 2010, when the 4:30–5 a.m. portion of Good Day Oregon was cut, the 4:30 half-hour of the program was restored in 2012. KPTV is also one of the few local stations and one of a handful of Fox stations to offer a three-hour newscast on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
On June 5, 2007, KPTV became the second Portland television station to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in
In March 2014,
Notable current on-air staff
Notable former on-air staff
- Ramblin' Rod Anders – host of the children's show The Ramblin' Rod Show for 35 years
- Lars Larson – news anchor & reporter (1985–1998) and Northwest Reports host/producer;[25] now a nationally syndicated radio talk show host
- Lori Matsukawa – Later at KOMO-TV (1980–1983), then at KING-TV (1983–2019) as a weeknight anchor; now retired
- Tom McCall – political commentator (and former Oregon governor)
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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12.1 | 720p | 16:9 |
FOX 12 | Main KPTV programming / Fox |
12.2 | 480i | COZI | Cozi TV | |
12.3 | DABL | Dabl | ||
12.4 | OXYGEN | Oxygen | ||
49.1 | 720p | 16:9 | Fox12+ | MyNetworkTV (KPDX) |
49.3 | 480i | Outlaw | Outlaw (KPDX )
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Analog-to-digital conversion
KPTV shut down its analog signal, over
When KPTV vacated its digital signal from UHF channel 30, sister station KPDX immediately switched its signal to that transmitter. Viewers watching KPTV's digital signal saw a cut from the opening of that day's episode of The 700 Club to the cold open of an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (KPDX turned off its analog transmitter at 9:30 a.m.).
Translators
- K22LY-D Baker Valley
- K10RV-D Centerville, WA
- K17OY-D Centerville, WA
- K26NQ-D Hood River
- K25OJ-D La Grande
- K33FS-D La Grande
- KUBN-LD Madras
- K28OV-D Madras
- K34NS-D Milton-Freewater
- K35FO-D Milton-Freewater
- K16LN-D Pendleton
- K17GV-D Rainier
- K20HT-D Rockaway Beach
- K29LW-D Rockaway Beach
- K21DE-D Seaside–Astoria
- K29NO-D The Dalles
See also
- Prime Time Entertainment Network – Chris-Craft's stations carried PTEN programing 1993–1995
References
- ^ a b c "Channel Substitution/Community of License Change". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. July 7, 2021. Retrieved July 7, 2021.
- ^ "Report & Order", Media Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, January 12, 2022, Retrieved January 13, 2022.
- ^ Nelson, Bob (June 2, 2009). "Call Letter Origins". Vol. 238. The Broadcast Archive. Archived from the original on February 18, 2016. Retrieved June 21, 2009.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KPTV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ The Oregonian; Date: September 20, 1952; Page: 10.
- ^ a b "TV Film Purchases". Billboard. October 18, 1952. p. 16.
- ^ "The Nation's Top Television Programs". Billboard. July 30, 1955. p. 10.
- ^ "Require Prime Evening Time for NTA Films". Boxoffice: 13. November 10, 1956. Archived from the original on June 14, 2009.
- ^ 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 ....
- ^ 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 ....
- ^ Murphy, Francis (May 12, 1962). "Behind The Mike". The Oregonian. Section 2, p. 3.
KPTV starts telecasting in color next fall .... Channel 12 will be using color for [the] first time since NBC-TV net moved to KGW-TV.
- ^ a b "BHC Communications, Inc. Companies History". Company Histories. Funding Universe. 1997. Retrieved July 20, 2009.
- ^ Buck, Jerry (May 20, 1978). "John Jakes' 'The Bastard' is latest effort from Operation Prime Time". Eugene Register-Guard. AP. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
- ^ Susan, King (January 23, 1994). "Space, 2258, in the Year 1994". Los Angeles Times. p. 4. Retrieved June 25, 2009.
- ^ Whiteside, Lee (April 6, 1995). "B5: Babylon 5 TV Station List/Times updated!". rec.arts.sf.tv. Google Groups. Retrieved November 27, 2006.
- ^ Viacom wins UPN so let the digestion begin Archived February 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Media Life Magazine, March 2000.
- ^ Viacom to buy half of UPN: is investing $160 million in fledgling network, Broadcasting & Cable, December 9, 1996.
- ^ Hofmeister, Sallie (August 12, 2000). "News Corp. to Buy Chris-Craft Parent for $5.5 Billion, Outbidding Viacom". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
- ^ Portland Wrestling Uncut at KPTV
- Globe Newswire. December 1, 2021.
- ^ Tom Hallman Jr., "Like rain or the MAX, 'Perry Mason' a part of Portland", The Oregonian, February 28, 2009.
- ^ "Fox 12 Webstaff, "After 46 years on KPTV, Perry Mason making the move to KPDX", Fox 12 News Website, August 27, 2012".
- ^ "'Perry Mason' move: KPTV general manager says, 'I've agonized over this,'" from The Oregonian, August 27, 2012
- ^ "KPTV Timeline". Archived from the original on January 2, 2011.
- ^ Schulberg, Pete (October 22, 1998). "Radio wave-maker Larson is signing-off as a channel 12 anchor". The Oregonian. p. C1.
- ^ "RabbitEars.Info". www.rabbitears.info.
- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ^ "Portland TV stations backtrack, delay digital transition". The Oregonian. February 6, 2009.
- ^ "CDBS Print".
External links
- Official website
- Yesterday's KPTV - A look back at KPTV's history
- The Story of KPTV (1953)