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KING-TV, channel 5, is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Seattle, Washington, United States. The station is owned by Tegna, Inc., as part of a duopoly with independent station KONG (channel 16). The two stations share offices and studios located on Dexter Avenue in the city's Denny Regrade district, and KING-TV's transmitter is located in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle. KING-TV is one of five Seattle television stations that are available in Canada on satellite providers Bell TV and Shaw Direct. The station is also carried on several cable providers in southeastern Alaska and northwestern Oregon. ==History== Channel 5 first took to the air as KRSC-TV on November 25, 1948, becoming the first television station in the Pacific Northwest. The station was originally owned by Palmer K. Leberman's Radio Sales Corporation, which also operated KRSC radio (1150 AM, now KKNW, and FM 98.1, now KING-FM).〔"KRSC-TV; Seattle station planning new program formula." ''Broadcasting – Telecasting'', November 22, 1948, pg. 36. ()〕 The first broadcast on channel 5 was a live remote of a Thanksgiving Day high school football game – the telecast was plagued with technical difficulties, but local viewers reported being impressed nonetheless.〔"KRSC-TV goes on the air with fanfare." ''Broadcasting – Telecasting'', December 6, 1948, pg. 44. ()〕 Channel 5 was originally a primary CBS affiliate,〔"KRSC-TV joins CBS television network." ''Broadcasting – Telecasting'', October 25, 1948, pg. 28. ()〕 and carried secondary affiliations with NBC, ABC and DuMont.〔"KRSC-TV will sign three TV networks." ''Broadcasting – Telecasting'', November 8, 1948, pg. 68. ()〕 Eight months after the television station debuted, KRSC-TV and KRSC-FM were purchased by King Broadcasting Company, owners of KING radio (1090 AM, now KFNQ) and the original KING-FM (94.9, frequency now occupied by KUOW-FM), for $375,000 in May 1949.〔"KRSC-FM-TV sold to KING for $375,000; subject to FCC okay." ''Broadcasting – Telecasting'', May 16, 1949, pg. 30. ()〕 The station changed its callsign to KING-TV to match its radio sisters〔"Seattle change; TV start, FM switch set by KING." ''Broadcasting – Telecasting'', August 22, 1949, pg. 38. ()〕 (according to legend, King Broadcasting president Dorothy Bullitt purchased the KING call letters while on a fishing boat). For many years, the stations' logo was "King Mike", an anthropomorphized microphone in ermine robes and a crown, drawn by cartoonist Walt Disney〔https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1748335017/kingmike.JPG〕〔http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/imlsmohai,5510〕〔https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1445426282/KING_Mike.png〕 (Portland, Oregon sister stations KGW-AM-FM-TV used a similar logo, called "Pioneer Mike"; the King Mike logo was later brought back for KING's 50th anniversary in 1998 and still appears in promotional announcements to this day). Once the Federal Communications Commission-imposed freeze on television station license awards ended in 1952, KING-TV lost its monopoly in the market. During 1953, the Seattle-Tacoma area received three new stations: KTNT-TV (channel 11, now KSTW) debuted in March as the market's CBS outlet; while NBC went to KMO-TV (channel 13, now KCPQ), which signed on in August. NBC moved a few months later to KOMO-TV (channel 4), which went on the air in December. By the end of the year, KING-TV was left with poor-performing ABC and DuMont, the latter of which ceased operations in 1956. Subsequently, Bullitt lobbied NBC for a group affiliation for her stations, and in October 1958, KING-TV and KGW-TV in Portland began carrying NBC programming.〔("KGW, KING stations affiliate with NBC." ) ''Broadcasting'', October 20, 1958, pg. 74.〕 In Seattle, channel 5 shared NBC and ABC with KOMO-TV for most of the 1958–59 television season. On September 27, 1959, KING-TV became a primary NBC station and KOMO-TV affiliated with ABC full-time.〔("Seattle partner-change in '59: KOMO-TV to ABC; KING-TV to NBC." ) ''Broadcasting'', October 27, 1958, pg. 68.〕〔("KOMO-TV joins ABC." ) ''Broadcasting'', April 13, 1959, pg. 99.〕〔("'Operation Switchover.'" ) ''Broadcasting'', October 5, 1959, pg. 100.〕 Dissatisfied with Stimson Bullitt's management style, Dorothy Bullitt, and Mr. Bullitt's sisters, arranged for his voluntary resignation from King Broadcasting in 1972. Stimson sold his company shares to his sisters, Harriet and Patsy. He then received control of the family's real estate interests. Ancil Payne, who had served as general manager of the company's Portland stations since 1965, became president and CEO. By the 1970s and 1980s, KING-TV was the flagship of a growing regional media empire which at various times included ventures in publishing, the film industry, cable television systems (under the name of King Videocable, the assets of which have by now been absorbed into Comcast) and even various timber assets in the Far East. Locally produced programs that debuted on the station during the 1970s and 1980s included ''Seattle Today'', a mid-morning talk show hosted by Cliff Lenz and Shirley Hudson and later by Susan Michaels and Colby Chester; ''Seattle Tonight, Tonite!'', hosted by Ross McGowan and later Dick Klinger; ''Almost Live!'', a Saturday night talk and sketch-comedy program originally starring Ross Shafer; and a local ''Evening Magazine'' franchise, first hosted by Penny LeGate and Brian Tracey. Of these, only ''Evening Magazine'' exists today. ''How Come?'', a half-hour early Sunday evening family television program hosted by Al Wallace, won several awards during its run during the 1970s and early 1980s. The show covered topics on how things were made or done in the world. Dick Klinger hosted the show after Al Wallace died. King Broadcasting's stations included KGW radio and television in Portland, KREM-TV in Spokane, KTVB-TV in Boise, KHNL-TV and KFVE-TV in Honolulu and KYA/KOIT radio in San Francisco. Long-time station-owner Dorothy Bullitt died in June 1989. Dorothy Bullitt's daughters Harriet Bullitt and Priscilla "Patsy" Bullitt Collins decided to sell the King assets in 1992 – eventually selling King Broadcasting (including KING, KREM, KGW, KTVB, KHNL/KFVE and the cable provider assets) to The Providence Journal Company. KING-TV and other King Broadcasting stations later became Belo properties as a result of that company's merger with The Providence Journal Company in 1997.〔 Bonneville International Corporation purchased KING-AM in 1994. The 1990s saw the end of ''Almost Live!''. During this decade, the show launched the career of Bill Nye the Science Guy, Joel McHale (of ''The Soup'' fame) and locally, Pat Cashman and John Keister (who replaced Ross Shafer as host). KING-TV was also the home for ''Watch This!'', a fast-paced Emmy Award-winning show aimed at children and teenagers; the show lasted five years and was hosted by local anchors, Jim Dever and Mimi Gan. On December 18, 1995, King Broadcasting launched Northwest Cable News, a 24-hour regional cable news channel available primarily to cable providers in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho with lesser cable coverage in Alaska, Montana and California. 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〕 In April 2014, KING announced plans to sell its current South Lake Union headquarters and re-locate, taking advantage of a booming real estate market in the South Union Lake area. In September 2014, it was reported that Gannett was planning to lease multiple floors at the Home Plate Center—a complex across the street from Safeco Field in the SoDo area of Seattle.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2023304046_king5movingxml.html )〕 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「KING-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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