KGW is a television station in Portland, Oregon, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc The station's studios are located on Jefferson Street in southwestern Portland, and its transmitter is located in the city's Sylvan-Highlands section.
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KGW served as the Portland bureau for co-owned regional news channel Northwest Cable News before it shut down on January 6,2017.
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KGW-TV signed on the air on December 15,1956, on channel 8.
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KGW-TV tower was a prominent victim of the Northwest's historic, and violent Columbus Day Storm on October 12,1962.
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In January 1964, KGW began building a new broadcast center at 1501 SW Jefferson Street, which has served as its headquarters and main studios location ever since.
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Five years later, in 1997, KGW became part of the Belo Corporation when it bought The Providence Journal Company.
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On October 12,2011, KGW announced that unless a new contract agreement for station carriage could be reached, it would drop its signal from DirecTV's channel lineup.
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KGW preempts the Saturday edition of Today in favor of its extended weekend morning newscasts.
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From 1996 to 2017, KGW aired select Portland Trail Blazers game telecasts; these are now exclusive to Root Sports Northwest.
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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.
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On January 21,2008, KGW became the first television station in the Portland market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition.
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Regular broadcasts from the location that KGW named the "Studio on the Square" began on March 17,2009.
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KGW aired a Portland Trail Blazers game in high-definition for the first time, on October 24,2007.
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The following year, KGW began broadcasting all its newscasts in high definition.
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KGW provided a 24-hour weather forecast service on digital subchannel 8.
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