28 Facts About KPTV

KPTV is a television station in Portland, Oregon, United States.

KPTV signed on the air on September 20,1952, as Oregon's first television station.

KPTV then became a primary NBC affiliate, and continued to air some ABC and DuMont programming.

KPTV aired programs from the short-lived Paramount Television Network during the early 1950s; in fact, it was one of that network's strongest affiliates, carrying Paramount programs such as Time For Beany, Hollywood Wrestling, and Bandstand Revue.

Later that year, KPTV was sold to the NAFI Corporation, which then purchased Chris-Craft Boats in early 1960 and changed its name to Chris-Craft Industries.

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Color broadcasting by KPTV ended when NBC changed affiliations to KGW, in 1959, but returned in 1962, when ABC began color broadcasting.

On March 1,1964, KPTV lost its ABC affiliation to independent station KATU, which had debuted in March 1962.

KPTV sued ABC and KATU's then-owner Fisher Broadcasting for breach of contract; the proceeds from the settlement went to rebuild KPTV into a color-capable station, and to purchase a color mobile unit.

KPTV soon became known as one of the top independent stations in the western United States.

KPTV had originated telecasts of professional wrestling in 1953, with commentator Bob Abernathy, but lost the franchise to rival KOIN two years later.

KPTV regained the franchise in 1967, and aired the wrestling matches until December 1991.

KPTV carried Operation Prime Time programming at least in 1978.

The KPTV purchase gave Meredith the first television station duopoly in the Portland market.

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.

KPTV absorbed KPDX's news department, resulting in the cancellation of KPDX's 10 p m newscast .

On October 27,2012, KPTV revived Portland Wrestling after a 21-year absence from the station and renamed the program Portland Wrestling Uncut.

KPTV clears most of Fox's programming schedule —however it preempts the network's Saturday morning educational programming block, Xploration Station, which instead airs on KPDX.

KPTV is the over-the-air home of Major League Soccer's Portland Timbers, sharing matches with sister station KPDX and Root Sports Northwest.

In 1966, KPTV began airing syndicated reruns of Perry Mason on weekday evenings.

KPTV is 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 .

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.

KPTV was 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 from 1974 to 1978.

Since then, 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.

KPTV is 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 16:9 widescreen standard definition.

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In 2011, KPTV began broadcasting an hour-long newscast at 6 p m on weeknights.

KPTV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 12, on June 12,2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate.

When KPTV vacated its digital signal from UHF channel 30, sister station KPDX immediately switched its signal to that transmitter.