KRCW-TV
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| KRCW-TV | |
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| Salem / Portland, Oregon | |
| Branding | Portland's CW |
| Channels | Analog: 32 (UHF) Digital: 33 (UHF) |
| Translators | see article |
| Affiliations | The CW |
| Owner | Tribune Company (Tribune Broadcast Holdings, Inc.) |
| First air date | May 8, 1989 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Rose City CW |
| Former callsigns | KUTF (1989-1992) KEBN (1992-1995) KWBP (1995-2006) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1989-1995) The WB (1995-2006) |
| Transmitter Power | 5,000 kW (analog) 750 kW (digital) |
| Height | 544 m (analog) 523.3 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 10192 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | (analog) (digital) |
| Website | portlandscw.trb.com |
KRCW-TV, channel 32, is CW-affiliated television station in Portland, Oregon, licensed to Salem. Its analog transmitter is located southeast of Portland. The station's digital signal is located in the Sylvan section of the city. Owned by the Tribune Company, KRCW has studios on Southwest Arctic Drive in Beaverton.
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[edit] Translators
KRCW is repeated on the following translator stations.
- K16GA Channel 16 Hood River
- K20ES channel 20 Pendleton
- K24DX channel 24 Monument
- K26FG channel 26 Wasco
- K31GN channel 31 La Grande
- K31HK channel 31 Longview, Washington
- K50IK channel 50 Newport
future translators:
- K16GI channel 16 Tillamook
- K21GY channel 21 Nehalem
- K35HE channel 35 The Dalles
- K39HO channel 39 Astoria
[edit] History
The station launched on May 8, 1989 under the call sign KUTF which stood for "Keep Up The Faith". The programming was almost entirely religious. It was originally operated by Dove Broadcasting then sold to Eagle Broadcasting on July 17, 1991. On February 11, 1992, the call sign changed to KEBN for "Eagle Broadcasting Network". The previous KUTF callsign now reside on the TeleFutura affiliate in Logan, Utah. On April 26, 1992 it was announced KEBN was moving in a non-religious programming direction as "Oregon's New Eagle 32". On October 1, the station went off the air but returned on September 5, 1994 airing a number of infomercials, public domain movies, and brokered shows in an 8 hour day (it went 24-hour by Labor Day of that year). James R. McDonald owned the station via Channel 32, Inc.
KEBN became a WB affiliate on January 11, 1995 and changed its call letters to KWBP to reflect its new affiliation on October 2. By the Fall of that year, bartered syndicated programming (including cartoons and some older sitcoms and dramas) were added to the station's schedule. It also relayed the O. J. Simpson trial from future sister KTLA in Los Angeles. KWBP was soon able to purchase new-to-syndication programming adding other sitcoms and talk shows to its lineup starting in 1996. The station grew even further after being purchased by ACME Communications in 1997. At that point, a low power relay, KWBP-LP (originally on channel 4 but now on channel 5) was established in downtown Portland to address signal issues in that area.
On December 30, 2002, ACME sold KWBP and KPLR in St. Louis, Missouri to the Tribune Company for $270 million dollars ($70 million of which was declared as the purchase price for KWBP). KWBP's ratings increased following some key programming moves done by both ACME and Tribune. It was also helped in part by the decline of KPDX after its flip to UPN that fall. On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced they would merge. The newly combined network would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents: CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner. The merger would take effect on-the-air on September 18 and KWBP was announced as Portland's CW affiliate. Former UPN station KPDX, owned by the Meredith Corporation, is now affiliated with MyNetworkTV. On September 16, KWBP changed its call letters to the currentKRCW for the CW affiliation. Today, KRCW is the over-the-air television station for the Seattle Mariners in the Portland market. In 2009, KRCW will leave channel 32 and move to channel 33 when the analog to digital conversion is complete.
[edit] KRCW-LP
In 1993, a small low-power station by the call letters K04OG was launched. It was licensed to Reedville, with a transmitter located on Cooper Mountain, and aired America One programming. On December 1, 1998, the call letters were changed to KENY-LP to reflect the founder of the station, Kenny J. Seymour. In 2000, KENY was bought by ACME Communications and became a repeater station for KWBP. The transmitter was moved to Sylvan Hill to provide better coverage to the downtown Portland area. The station changed its calls to KWBP-LP. In 2006, to coincide with its parent call letter change of KWBP to KRCW, the repeater became KRCW-LP. Originally broadcast on channel 4, then-KWBP-LP moved to channel 5 when Paxson Communications petitioned the FCC to move KPXG's digital signal from channel 20 to channel 4.
[edit] Newscasts
On October 3, 2005, KRCW began airing a nightly 10 o'clock newscast produced by NBC affiliate KGW. It is the first newscast of any kind on the station since its inception. The newscast broadcasts from KGW's studios on Southwest Jefferson Street in downtown Portland. It competes with Fox affiliate KPTV.
KGW NewsChannel 8 at 10 on Portland's CW (10 to 10:30 P.M.)
Weeknights
- Anchors
- Joe Donlon
- Laural Porter
- Weather:
- Matt Zaffino
- Sports:
- Adam Bjaranson
Weekends
- Anchor:
- Amy Troy
- Weather:
- Joe Michaels
- Sports:
- Joe Becker
KRCW features additional news personnel from KGW. See that article for a complete listing.
[edit] Logos
 KWBP logo under Acme ownership used until 2003. |
 KWBP logo after purchase by Tribune used from 2003-2006. |
 Current KRCW "Portland's CW" logo. |
[edit] External links
- KRCW-TV/DT "Portland's CW"
- KGW "NewsChannel 8"
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KRCW-TV
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KRCW-LP
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