KMTR

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KMTR
Eugene, Oregon
Branding	NewsSource 16
Channels	Analog: 16 (UHF) Digital: 17 (UHF)
Translators	(see article)
Affiliations	NBC The CW (DT2)
Owner	Newport Television, LLC
First air date	October 4, 1982
Transmitter Power	1910 kW (analog) 70 kW (digital)
Height	512 m (analog) 473 m (digital)
Facility ID	35189
Transmitter Coordinates	44°6′55.9″N, 123°0′1.7″W
Website	www.kmtr.com

KMTR is the NBC and The CW affiliate television station serving the Eugene/Springfield, Oregon designated market area. Owned by Newport Television, the station reaches additional viewers in central and western Oregon via co-owned full-powered satellite stations KMCB channel 23 (Coos Bay) and KTCW channel 46 (Roseburg). KMTR's transmitter is located near Springfield, Oregon.

Contents 1 Overview 2 History 3 Satellite stations 4 Digital Television 5 Translators 6 Personalities 7 Trivia 8 External links 9 References

[edit] Overview

In its promotion and marketing KMTR refers to itself as NewsSource 16. Together with KMCB and KTCW, the stations are known as Oregon's News Source Network. The station also operates a cable-only station, former WB affiliate KZWB.

KMTR covers local news, sports, and weather for Springfield, Eugene and Western Oregon. It currently is the only local television station in Eugene/Springfield offering streaming video newscasts on the Internet.

[edit] History

KMTR started as a UHF station carrying NBC programming. KMTR began broadcasting after former NBC affiliate, KVAL began selectively omitting certain NBC prime time broadcasts from its evening lineup, replacing them with alternate programming from rival network, CBS. The resulting conflict over this programming decision preceded the introduction of KMTR to the media market, and a switch of KVAL affiliation away from NBC to CBS.

The station was originally owned by the Ackerley Group, who merged with Clear Channel Communications in 2001. KMTR was named "Station of the Year" for 2005 by the Oregon Association of Broadcasters (OAB).

In February 2006, the two satellite stations, KMTZ and KMTX, changed call letters to KUCW and KTCW, respectively. The call letters held no real meaning, as neither station, nor the primary station, KMTR, had secured the CW affiliation yet. However, after the announcement of The CW's formation, some broadcasters, Clear Channel in particular, placed key call letters with "CW" in them on their stations, just to keep them out of the hands of the competition. This seems to have been the case with the Coos Bay station, for in September 2006, Clear Channel transferred the "KUCW" call letters to its Salt Lake City CW affiliate, formerly KUWB. The Coos Bay station picked up the call letters KMCB - likely taking the "M" from the primary station, and the "CB" from Coos Bay.

Effective September 2006, KMTR has added programming from The CW Television Network to its DT2 subchannel, as well as converting cable-only WB station KZWB to the CW.

On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to Newport Television, a unit of Providence Equity Partners.^[1] The deal closed on March 14, 2008.

[edit] Satellite stations

Station	City of license	Channels (Analog/ Digital)	First air date	Former callsigns	ERP (Analog/ Digital)	HAAT (Analog/ Digital)	Facility ID	Transmitter Coordinates
KMCB	Coos Bay	23 (UHF) 22 (UHF)	July 8, 1991	KMTZ (1991-2006) KUCW (2006)	12.3 kW 10 kW	190 m 179 m	35183	43°23′39″N, 124°8′0″W
KTCW	Roseburg	46 (UHF) 45 (UHF)	April 19921	KMTX-TV (1992-2006)	9.77 kW 12 kW	109 m 109 m	35187	43°12′20.7″N, 123°21′55.1″W

Notes:

• 1. The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says KTCW signed on April 8, while the Television and Cable Factbook says it signed on April 20.

[edit] Digital Television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels

Video	Aspect	Programming
First Digital Channel	1080i	16:9	Main KMTR/KMCB/KTCW programming / NBC HD
Second Digital Channel	480i	4:3	The CW

In 2009, KMTR, KMCB and KTCW will remain on their current digital channels.^[2]

[edit] Translators

The stations are rebroadcasted on the following translators:

KMTR Repeaters

• K11KI Channel 11 Dorena
• K55HE Channel 55 London Springs (Moving to Ch. 35)
• K60DO Channel 60 Cottage Grove (Moving to Ch. 48)
• K60DQ Channel 60 Florence (Moving to Ch. 43)

KTCW Repeaters

• K22GX Channel 22 Tri-City
• K31AE Channel 31 Sutherlin

KMCB Repeaters

• K46AS Channel 46 Coos Bay (City Grade Signal)
• K61EH Channel 61 Powers

[edit] Personalities

Current anchors at KMTR include:

• Matt Templeman Evening News Anchor
• Renee McCullough Evening News Anchor

• Joseph Calbreath Evening Meteorologist
• Nohelani Graf Weekend News Anchor
• Kelli Warner Morning News
• Marc Mullins Morning News
• Brent Prasnikar 11pm Weather
• Jared Meyer Weekend News & Weather
• Darren Fabre Weeknight Sports & Friday Night Fever
• Scott Fleishman Weekend Sports Anchor & Friday Night Fever

[edit] Trivia

The call letters KMTR originally belonged to MyNetworkTV station in Los Angeles, KCOP-TV.

[edit] External links

• KMTR
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KMTR
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KMCB
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KTCW
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KMTR-TV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KMCB-TV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KTCW-TV

[edit] References

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Eugene market  (Nielsen DMA #120) KOAC 7 / KEPB 28 (PBS/OPB, PBS-HD on DT1, OPB-SD on DT2, Create on DT3, Oreg Ch on DT4) - KEZI 9 (ABC) - KVAL 13 (CBS) - KMTR 16 (NBC, CW on DT2) - KEVU-LP 23 (MNTV) - KLSR 34 (FOX, KEVU-LP on DT2) - KXOR-LP 36 (AZA) - K38KU 38 (A1/WSTV) - KORY-CA 41 (A1) - KMOR-LP 51 (MTV2) - KAMK-LP 53 (RTN) - K59DJ 59 (TBN)  Roseburg-Douglas County: KPIC 4 (CBS) - K11BX 11 / K53CU 53 (ABC) - K33FE (FOX) - KTVC 36 (RTN) - KTCW 46 (NBC, CW on DT2) - K47HT 47 (3ABN) - K49FV 49 (TBN) - K51GJ 51 (PBS/OPB)  Coos Bay-Coos County: K07JS 7 / K27CL 27 (ABC) - KCBY 11 (CBS) - K17AA 17 (PBS/OPB) - KMCB 23 (NBC, CW on DT2) - K30BN 30 (MNTV) - K33AO 33 (TBN) - K44FH 44 (3ABN) - K63DO 63 (FOX) Local cable television channels KZWB (The CW) - The Oregon Channel (Salem) Out-of market television stations: Medford: KOBI 5 (NBC) - Portland (Salem): KPXG 22 (ION)

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

v • d • e CW Network Affiliates in the state of Oregon KTVL-DT 10.2/"KMFD" (Medford) - KMTR-DT 16.2/KMCB-DT 23.2/KTCW-DT 46.2/"KZWB" (Eugene/Coos Bay/Roseburg) KTVZ-DT 21.2 (Bend) - KRCW 32 (Salem) See also: ABC, CBS, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Oregon

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