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KONG, virtual channel 16 (UHF digital channel 31), is an independent television station serving Seattle, Washington, United States. Licensed to Everett, Washington, the station is owned by Tegna Media, as part of a duopoly with NBC-affiliated station KING-TV. The two stations share offices and studios located in the city's Denny Regrade district (just east of Seattle Center), and KONG-TV's transmitter is located in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle. The station is usually carried on most cable television providers in Western Washington on cable channel 6, next to KING-TV's position on channel 5. KONG's high definition feed is carried by Comcast and Wave Broadband digital on channel 106. The KONG call letters were retained as a tongue-in-cheek reference to King Kong, which made both stations easily marketable together. ==History== The KONG-TV call sign was first granted by the Federal Communications Commission on April 6, 1984.〔("Call Sign History, KONG" ) Federal Communications Commission〕 When it was applied for, it immediately drew a legal complaint from King Broadcasting, then-owner of KING-TV,〔("Distinguishing KING from KONG" ) Seattle Times, March 9, 1984; retrieved from The Seattle Times Historical Archives, Seattle Public Library〕 against Carl Washington's KONG TV, Inc., the first broadcaster to apply for a license for Everett's channel 16.〔("Residents Protest Another TV Transmitter" ) Seattle Times, June 27, 1984; retrieved from The Seattle Times Historical Archives, Seattle Public Library〕 The station had planned to go on the air on June 1 of that year, with studios in Everett and an advertising sales office in Seattle, but kept getting bogged down by years of legal challenges from residents on Cougar Mountain who objected to the Electromagnetic radiation from an additional broadcaster.〔("Judge Upholds Decision to Build TV Tower" ) Seattle Times, July 16, 1986; retrieved from The Seattle Times Archives, Seattle Public Library〕 After the legal challenges to the transmitter, KONG lay dormant until broadcasters came up with innovative ways to program additional stations in their area. KONG-TV signed on the air on July 8, 1997. It was locally owned, but managed by KING-TV (which had just been acquired by Belo) through a local marketing agreement. Belo bought channel 16 outright in 2000, when the Federal Communications Commission began to permit television station duopolies. On June 13, 2013, the Gannett Company announced that it would acquire Belo. The sale was completed on December 23.〔(Gannett Completes Its Acquisition of Belo ), TVNewsCheck, Retrieved 23 December, 2013〕 On June 29, 2015, the Gannett Company split in two, with one side specializing in print media and the other side specializing in broadcast and digital media. KING and KONG were retained by the latter company, named TEGNA. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KONG (TV)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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