KGW

KGW

Portland, Oregon
Branding	Northwest NewsChannel 8
Slogan	Where the News Comes First
Channels	Analog: 8 (VHF) Digital: 46 (UHF)
Translators	(See article)
Affiliations	NBC (since 1959) NBC Weather Plus (DT2)
Owner	Belo Corp.
Founded	December 15,1956
Call letters meaning	Keep Growing Wiser
Former affiliations	ABC (1956-59)
Transmitter Power	316 kw (analog) 1000 kw (digital)
Height	524 m (analog) 509 m (digital)
Website	www.kgw.com

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.

History

The station was an extension of radio station KGW (620 AM). 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 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 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 @ 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 @ Sunrise 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

References

Broadcast television in the Portland, Oregon market (Nielsen DMA #23)

KATU 2 (ABC) - KOIN 6 (CBS) - KGW 8 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) - KOPB 10 (PBS/OPB, PBS-HD on DT1, OPB-SD on DT2, Create on DT3, Oreg Ch on DT4) - KPTV 12 (Fox) - KUNP 16 / KUNP-LP 47 (UNI) - KOXI-CA 20 (A1) - KPXG 22 / KPXG-LP 54 (ION, qubo on DT2, ION Life on DT3, Worship on DT4) - KNMT 24 (TBN, The Church Channel on DT2, JCTV on DT3, TBN Enlace on DT4, Smile of a Child on DT5) - K26GJ 26 (Ind) - KRCW 32 / KRCW-LP 5 (The CW) - KORK-CA 35 (HSN) - KKEI-CA 38 (TEL) - KPDX 49 (MNTV) - KOXO-CA 51 (TFR)
Salem-Marion County:
KGUG-LP 17 / KSLM-LP 14 (A1/WSTV) - K21GX 21 (Ind) - KORS-CA 36 (HSN, BVM on DT2) - K50GG 50 (MNTV) - KXPD-LP 52 (AZA)
The Dalles-Wasco County:
K06NI 6 (A1/WSTV) - KRHP-LP 14 (FN/Worship/COR)

Defunct Television Stations
KVDO 3 (Ind.) - KLOR 12 (ABC) - KHTV 27 (Ind.) - KAXC 35 (OPB)
Local Cable Television Channels
Comcast Northwest (cable 14) - FSN Northwest - NorthWest Cable News - The Oregon Channel (Salem) - White Springs Television

NBC Network Affiliates in the state of Oregon
KOTI 2 / KOBI 5 (Klamath Falls / Medford) - KGW 8 (Portland) - KMTR 16 / KMCB 23 / KTCW 46 (Eugene / Coos Bay / Roseburg) - KTVZ 21 (Bend)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, PBS and Other stations in Oregon

Belo Corporation
Corporate Staff:	Robert W. Decherd (Chairman and CEO) · Dennis A. Williamson · Lawrence Nicholson · John L. Sander · Dunia A. Shive · Donald F. Cass · David Lougee · Guy H. Kerr · Marian Spitzberg · James M. Moroney
Cable News Channels:	24/7 · Arizona NewsChannel · Local News on Cable · ¡Más! Arizona · NewsWatch 15 · NorthWest Cable News · Texas Cable News
Newspapers:	Al Día · The Dallas Morning News · The Business Press · Denton Record-Chronicle · La Prensa · The Press-Enterprise · The Providence Journal · Quick! · Rhode Island Weekly · Texas Almanac
Television Stations:	ABC affiliates: KVUE · WFAA · WHAS · WVEC CBS affiliates: KENS · KHOU · KREM · KMOV · WWL Fox affiliates: KMSB NBC affiliates: KING · KTVB · KGW · WCNC The CW affiliates: KASW · KCWX² · KSKN MyNetwork TV affiliates: KTTU · WUPL Independent stations: KFWD¹ · KTVK · KONG
¹Belo manages this station owned by HIC Broadcasting ²Belo manages this station owned by Corridor Television, LLP
Annual Revenue: 1.52 Billion (USD) · Employees: 6,600 · Stock Symbol: NYSE: BLC · Website: belo.com

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