KGW

'KGW' (''"Northwest NewsChannel 8"'') is an NBC affiliate serving the Portland, Oregon area. The station broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 8, and its digital signal on UHF channel 46. Its transmitter is located in Portland. It also produces segments and houses the Portland studios of Northwest Cable News.

Contents

History

Digital Television

Translators

Northwest NewsChannel 8 Anchors/Reporters

Northwest NewsChannel 8 Alumni

External Links

References

History

The station was an extension of KGW-AM 620 radio. ''The Oregonian'' newspaper created KGW-AM by purchasing an existing transmitter from the Shipowners Radio Service. The U.S. Department of Commerce licensed the station, and it began broadcasting on March 25, 1922.
''The Oregonian'' applied for and received an FCC permit for a television station in 1947, but later returned it in order to focus on its core newspaper business. It later bought KOIN-AM and used it to start KOIN-TV.
North Pacific Television, Inc. acquired KGW-AM and KGW-FM on November 1 1953. The group was owned by a group of five Portland businessmen and Seattle businesswoman Dorothy Bullitt. Bullit's King Broadcasting Company owned a 40 percent stake in the venture. Bullitt eventually gained full control of the stations, and KGW-TV signed on the air on December 15, 1956 on channel 8 as an ABC affiliate. On April 26 1959, it swapped affiliations with KPTV, becoming an NBC affiliate. (KGW's sister station, KING-TV in Seattle, also switched from ABC to NBC at the same time.)
The KGW-TV tower was a prominent victim of the Northwest's historic, violent Columbus Day Storm on Friday, October 12, 1962. KGW was back on the air Tuesday night, October 16, using a temporary tower, plus an antenna on loan from KTNT-TV of Tacoma, Wash.. A new antenna and tower were placed into service on January 28, 1963.
KGW-TV's original evening-news team remained intact for more than seven years - a rarity in the broadcast industry. Anchors Richard Ross and Ivan Smith, commentator Tom McCall, sportscaster Doug LaMear and meteorologist Jack Capell were the faces of KGW's "News Beat" from sign-on in December 1956 until early 1964, when McCall left the air to run for Oregon secretary of state. McCall won election that fall, and was elected governor two years later. Ross anchored KGW's nightly news "Northwest Tonight" until 1975, and LaMear and Capell remained on Channel 8 for at least another two decades after Ross' departure for rival KATU.
In 1992, the Bullitt family sold KING Broadcasting (which also included KING-TV in Seattle, KREM-TV in Spokane, Washington, KTVB-TV in Boise, Idaho and KHNL-TV in Honolulu, Hawaii) to the Providence Journal Corporation. Belo Corp purchased "ProJo" in 1998, gaining control of all the former KING Broadcasting stations.
Locally, KGW broadcasts some Portland Trail Blazers games as well as local programming.
KGW has used "The Tower" news music package since 2000 . "The Tower" was produced by 615 Music.^[1]
KGW broadcasts NBC Weather Plus on DTV 8.2 and on Comcast Cable channel 308. NBC Weather Plus features the First Alert Storm Team for local forecasts.

Digital Television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
'Digital channels'

Channel	Programming
8.1 / 46.1	Main KGW programming
8.2 / 46.2	NBC Weather Plus

Translators

KGW is rebroadcast on the following translator stations.

★ 'K04GC' Channel 4 Trout Lake, Washington ★ 'K08KN' Channel 8 Redmond ★ 'K09MZ' Channel 9 Monument ★ 'K13JF' Channel 13 La Pine ★ 'K17HA' Channel 17 Astoria ★ 'K21HG' Channel 21 Longview, Washington ★ 'K26AY' Channel 26 Albany ★ 'K26FE' Channel 26 Elgin ★ 'K26FV' Channel 26 La Grande ★ 'K29AZ' Channel 29 Newport ★ 'K35HU' Channel 35 Grays River, Washington ★ 'K36DP' Channel 36 Pendleton ★ 'K38DT' Channel 38 Sunriver

★ 'K40AM' Channel 40 Hood River ★ 'K40EG' Channel 40 Tillamook ★ 'K41CL' Channel 41 Wasco ★ 'K44AV' Channel 44 Rockaway Beach ★ 'K46AK' Channel 46 Prineville ★ 'K46FL' Channel 46 Milton-Freewater ★ 'K50FD' Channel 50 Baker City ★ 'K56BV' Channel 56 Madras (Moving to Ch. 30) ★ 'K58BU' Channel 58 Maupin ★ 'K59EK' Channel 59 The Dalles (Moving to Ch. 25) ★ 'K60BQ' Channel 60 Terrebonne (Moving to Ch. 45) ★ 'K64AO' Channel 64 Sisters ★ 'K67BF' Channel 67 Enterprise (Moving to Ch. 36)

Northwest NewsChannel 8 Anchors/Reporters

'Northwest NewsChannel 8 Anchors'

★ 'Russ Lewis': Northwest NewsChannel 8 @ Sunrise, Northwest NewsChannel 8 @ Noon Anchor

★ 'Stephanie Stricklen': Northwest NewsChannel 8 @ Sunrise Anchor (4:30 AM - 5:00 AM)

★ 'Brenda Braxton': Northwest NewsChannel 8 @ Sunrise (5:00 AM - 7:00 AM), Northwest NewsChannel 8 @ Noon Anchor

★ 'Tracy Barry': Northwest NewsChannel 8 @ 5, 6, 6:30 Anchor

★ 'Joe Donlon': Northwest NewsChannel 8 @ 5, 6, 10, 11 Anchor

★ 'Laural Porter': Northwest NewsChannel 8 @ 6:30, 10, 11 Anchor

★ 'Wayne Havrelly': Northwest NewsChannel 8 @ Sunrise (weekend) Anchor

★ 'Nancy Francis': Northwest NewsChannel 8 @ 5, 5:30, 6:30, 10, 11 (weekend) Anchor

★ 'Amy Troy': Northwest NewsChannel 8 @ 5, 5:30, 6:30, 10, 11 (weekend) Anchor
'Northwest NewsChannel 8 Reporters'

★ 'Scott Burton': General Assignment Reporter

★ 'Drew Carney': ''Out & About''

★ 'Keely Chalmers': General Assignment Reporter

★ 'Katherine Cook': General Assignment Reporter

★ 'Wilson Chow': Northwest Cable News Reporter

★ 'Pat Dooris': General Assignment Reporter

★ 'Wayne Havrelly': General Assignment Reporter, Consumer Fraud Reporter

★ 'Jennifer Iveson': Northwest NewsChannel 8 at Sunrise Reporter

★ 'Kyle Iboshi': General Assignment Reporter

★ 'Joe Michaels': General Assignment Reporter

★ 'Drew Mikkelsen': General Assignment Reporter

★ 'Randy Neves': City Beat Reporter

★ 'Dave Northfield': General Assignment Reporter

★ 'Vince Patton': Environmental Reporter

★ 'Jack Penning': General Assignment Reporter, Aviation Reporter

★ 'Jane Smith': General Assignment Reporter

★ 'Joe Smith': Business Reporter

★ 'Stephanie Stricklen': Health Reporter
'Northwest NewsChannel 8 First Alert Storm Team'

★ 'Matt Zaffino': Northwest NewsChannel 8 at 5, 6, 6:30, 10, 11 Chief Meteorologist

★ 'Dave Salesky': Northwest NewsChannel 8 at Sunrise, Northwest NewsChannel 8 at Noon Meteorologist

★ 'Jim Donovan': Northwest NewsChannel 8 Sunrise (weekend) Weather Anchor

★ 'Joe Michaels': Northwest NewsChannel 8 at 5, 5:30, 6:30, 10, 11 Meteorologist

★ 'Ron Pederson': Fill-in Weather Anchor

★ 'Keely Chalmers': Fill-in Weather Anchor
'Northwest NewsChannel 8 Sports'

★ 'Joe Becker': Sports Director

★ 'Adam Bjaranson': Sports Reporter

Northwest NewsChannel 8 Alumni

★ 'Tom McCall': Former Oregon Governor

★ 'Ann Curry': Now Anchor of NBC's ''Today'' Show

★ Colin Cowherd: Now ESPN Radio Host

★ John Stossel: Now Anchor of ABC's 20/20

External Links

★ KGW official website

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References

★ Station History Page

★ HistoryLink essay on Ancil Payne

★ Oregonian Article on Portland Radio History