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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)
Facility ID	34874
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.

Contents 1 History 2 Northwest NewsChannel 8 Anchors/Reporters 3 Northwest NewsChannel 8 Alumni 4 Digital Television 5 Translators 6 External links 7 References

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.

On October 24, 2007 KGW made history when they aired a locally produced Blazers game in HD, the first sign of HD on KGW not produced by NBC and not that loop that they had a few years back when not showing NBC programing.

KGW will start broadcasting their local newscasts in HD on January 21, 2008.^[1]

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
• C.W. Jensen: Police 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

• Tom McCall: Former Oregon Governor
• Ann Curry: Now Anchor of NBC's Today Show
• Colin Cowherd: Now Host of The Herd with Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio
• John Stossel: Now Anchor of ABC's 20/20

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

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)

• KGW official website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KGW

• Station History Page
• HistoryLink essay on Ancil Payne
• Oregonian Article on Portland Radio History

v • d • e 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: KWVT-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 CSN Northwest - FSN Northwest - NorthWest Cable News - The Oregon Channel (Salem) - White Springs Television

v • d • e 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

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