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KVOS-TV is a television station licensed to Bellingham, Washington, serving as an affiliate of Me-TV as well as Movies! on its digital subchannel. The station's over-the-air transmissions are on digital channel 35, though the station remaps to its former analog channel 12 through PSIP. While it is licensed in Bellingham and is nominally part of the Seattle market, it primarily serves an audience in southwestern British Columbia including Vancouver and Victoria. The station currently broadcasts in standard definition. KVOS' OTA channel 35 transmitter is situated atop Mt. Constitution on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands, at an altitude of approximately 800 meters above the adjacent terrain. The OTA channel 35 signal is very well received throughout the British Columbia Lower Mainland, southern Vancouver Island, and much of northwest Washington. KVOS has studios in Bellingham, with offices in Burnaby and Seattle.〔Per contact information at (MeTV website for KVOS-TV ). Must follow that link for KVOS information, as it is hosted by (metvnetwork.com ).〕 KVOS's previous Vancouver offices were located on West 7th Avenue.〔the address was shown in (this letter ) sent from the KVOS' Vancouver office in 1996〕 As KVOS serves both sides of the border, at one time KVOS decided to use both Canadian and American TV ratings at the start of each program, after they were established—they were the only station on either side of the border to do so. As of early 2007, only US ratings have been shown. ==History== KVOS signed on June 3, 1953; owned by Bellingham businessman Rogan Jones along with KVOS radio (AM 790, now KGMI). Jones had owned the radio station since 1928, and was best known for being the focus of a case that established broadcasters' right to the same news reports as newspapers. Its first broadcast was a kinescope of Elizabeth II's coronation. Since Canada had no television stations west of Ontario at that point (CBUT did not sign on until December that year), the British government flew film of the BBC's coverage to Vancouver, where the Mounties escorted it to the border. The Washington State Patrol then drove the film to Bellingham. The station's original slogan was "Your Peace Arch Station, serving Northwest Washington and British Columbia." KVOS initially experienced financial trouble, despite Jones thinking that he could successfully support a television station in a city the size of Bellingham. He built a powerful transmitter on Orcas Island in hopes of reaching Seattle, but even with increased power it didn't cover enough of the Seattle area to solve the problem. For a time, the revenues from his radio station were all that kept channel 12 afloat. In 1955, Jones, realizing that most of his audience was across the border, incorporated KVOS in Canada, establishing a subsidiary company in Vancouver. The subsidiary, KVOS-TV Limited, brought in revenue for the station by allowing many Vancouver-area businesses to buy advertising time on the station, which is still the case today. KVOS-TV continued to broadcast from Bellingham, with much of its audience based in southwestern British Columbia. After just nine years of owning KVOS-TV, in 1962 Jones sold the station to Miami-based Wometco Enterprises. KVOS began as an affiliate of DuMont upon sign-on in 1953 and remained so until DuMont folded in 1956. From January 1, 1955 until the late 1970s, KVOS was a CBS affiliate. In the late 1970s, KVOS sharply reduced its carriage of CBS programming to resolve two commercial disputes. First, Seattle's CBS affiliate, KIRO-TV, had launched complaints against the station and CBS regarding duplicate transmission of CBS programming in the Seattle media market. Second, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission regulations seeking to increase Canadian content and reduce the number of American network affiliates retransmitted on cable television systems in Canada put pressure on the station. While KVOS nominally retained its CBS affiliation up to 1987, carrying a few CBS programs such as ''60 Minutes,'' the station primarily carried a diverse mix of syndicated and locally produced programming, including locally produced news and public affairs programs. The station also carried a number of programs syndicated from the Toronto-based independent station Citytv, whose owner CHUM Limited did not yet have an outlet in nearby Vancouver. Wometco was bought by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in 1984. KKR sold off the Wometco group in 1985, with KVOS sold to Ackerley Communications. In the early 1990s, due to Federal Communications Commission syndicated exclusivity rules affecting the Seattle media market, KVOS was dropped from most Seattle cable television systems. In 2001, CHUM Limited purchased the Vancouver station CKVU-TV from Canwest (turning it into a local version of Citytv in 2002, but beginning to air CHUM-provided programming on September 1, 2001) and launched a new station in Victoria, British Columbia known as CIVI-TV. The launch of the new outlets, along with a major series of affiliation and ownership changes in the Vancouver/Vancouver Island market in September 2001, caused KVOS to be displaced by CIVI from its long-time home on channel 12 on many Vancouver-area cable systems. The station came under the ownership of Clear Channel Communications in 2003, following that company's purchase of Ackerley. On November 16, 2006, Clear Channel announced that it would be selling its entire television division, including KVOS-TV, after being bought by private equity firms. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to Providence Equity Partners' Newport Television.〔()〕 Providence Equity initially announced that it would not keep KVOS or KFTY in Santa Rosa, California; instead, those stations were to be resold to LK Station Group. However, LK could not obtain financing, so KVOS remained with Newport. (KFTY was eventually sold to High Plains Broadcasting, with Newport operating the station; it has since been sold to Una Vez Más Holdings, LLC, becoming KEMO-TV.) In 2008, KVOS filed an application to the FCC to build its digital facility in Granite Falls in Snohomish County. () The proposed location would have provided city-grade coverage of most of the Seattle area while remaining within 15 miles of Bellingham, as required by FCC rules. However, it would have significantly diminished its reach into Canada.〔http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=665691〕 Presently, KVOS provides grade B coverage of Seattle's northern suburbs (such as Everett, Edmonds, Bothell and Lynnwood), but just misses Seattle itself. This application was dismissed on July 16, 2009.〔http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/fmq.php?facid=35862〕 In January 2010, KVOS swapped channel positions (now on channel 30) with TSN on Shaw Cable in Metro Vancouver and is no longer available on basic Shaw cable. In October 2010, KVOS was added to Comcast's digital lineup on channel 72 in the Seattle-Tacoma area.〔http://www.kvos.com/content/cablechannellistings/default.aspx〕 This is the first time in 20 years that the station has been able to be seen in Seattle proper. This also marks the first time KVOS has been viewed in parts of Southwest Washington and Grays Harbor coastal communities of Aberdeen and Hoquiam. The station became an affiliate of the classic television network Me-TV on April 25, 2011. Later, TheCoolTV was added as a subchannel of KVOS on August 18, 2011. Unlike the main 12.1 feed, the 12.2 feed is not carried on any Canadian cablesystem.〔( 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「KVOS-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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