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12 ( UHF digital channel 14), is a
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owned-and-operated
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to
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, United States. Owned by
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, it is part of a duopoly with
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-licensed
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owned-and-operated station
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, channel 44 (which KVOS
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s on its third digital subchannel). While KVOS-TV is nominally part of the Seattle– Tacoma
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, it can be characterized as a
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, as it primarily serves an audience in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, including
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and
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. KVOS-TV's transmitter is situated atop
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on
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in the
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, at an altitude of above the adjacent terrain. The station's signal is very well received throughout the British Columbia Lower Mainland, southern
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, and much of northwest Washington. KVOS-TV original studios were located on Ellis Street in Bellingham. However, with the sale of KVOS-TV to
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in 2010, the Bellingham facility was closed and the station currently shares studios with KFFV on Third Avenue South in Seattle. KVOS-TV previously maintained offices in
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; before that, its Vancouver offices were located on West 7th Avenue; it now has no physical presence in the Vancouver area. As KVOS serves both sides of the border, at one time the station decided to use both
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and American TV ratings at the start of each program, after they were established during the late 1990s— it was the only station on either side of the border to do so. Since early 2007, only U.S. ratings have been shown.


History


Early years

KVOS signed on June 3, 1953; owned by Bellingham businessman Rogan Jones along with KVOS radio (AM 790, now
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). 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
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of Queen Elizabeth II's
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. Since Canada had no television stations operating west of
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at that point (it wasn't until that December that Vancouver would get a locally-operated TV station of their own in
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), the
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government flew film of the
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...
's coverage to Vancouver, where the
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escorted it to the border. The
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then drove the film to Bellingham. The station's original slogan was "Your
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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
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-based
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. Prior to the advent of
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regulations in the early 1970s, Canadian television stations typically spent so little money on domestic television production that KVOS's Vancouver production office was actually one of the largest Canadian production studios anywhere in the entire country, investing most prominently in television documentaries through its Canawest Film Studios division and employing more Canadian writers, actors, artists and musicians than any other media organization in Canada besides the
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, according to Vancouver MP
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. The station was further damaged by a 1976 change in Canadian tax law, by which Canadian companies could no longer write off advertising purchased on American television stations as a tax deduction. In its efforts to stop the change, the station had proposed that it be granted an exemption on the condition that it then return $2 million per year back to Canadian television production; its proposal did not succeed, but the station survived the hit by closing its Canadian production office and reducing its advertising rates to offset the tax increase that its advertisers would have to pay. Even into the 1990s, the station was still sometimes criticized in
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licensing hearings pertaining to the Vancouver television market for purportedly draining advertising revenue from the Vancouver stations;
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president
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once even went so far as to compare KVOS to
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. Dave Mintz, who had been a minority investor in the station since 1955 and president of the station since 1961, left the station in 1979 to become president of Canada's fledgling Global Television Network. Although American by birth, due to the importance of the Vancouver operations to the station, Mintz was residing full-time in Vancouver by the time he took the Global job.


Post-DuMont


Until 2009

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
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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 (CRTC) regulations seeking to increase
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and reduce the number of American network affiliates retransmitted on
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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'', it transitioned into an independent station which 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
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-based independent station Citytv, whose owner
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did not yet have an outlet in nearby Vancouver. Wometco was bought by
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in 1984. KKR sold off the Wometco group in 1985, with KVOS sold to Ackerley Communications. In the early 1990s, due to
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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
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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 known as CIVI-TV. The launch of the new outlets, along with a major series of affiliation and ownership changes in the Vancouver–Victoria 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, as well as losing Citytv as a source of programming. The station came under the ownership of Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) 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
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s. 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
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; 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 is now owned today by
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, as
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.) In 2008, KVOS filed an application to the FCC to build its digital facility in Granite Falls in
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. () The proposed location would have provided city-grade coverage of most of the Seattle area while remaining within of Bellingham, as required by FCC rules. However, it would have significantly diminished its reach into Canada. Presently, KVOS provides grade B coverage of Seattle's northern suburbs (such as Everett,
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,
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and
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), but just misses Seattle itself. This application was dismissed on July 16, 2009.


Since 2010

In January 2010, KVOS swapped channel positions (now on channel 30) with TSN on
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in
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. In Vancouver, KVOS is not included on Shaw's "basic" line-up, but is included as channel 30 on Shaw's "classic" and "digital" line-ups. In Victoria, KVOS is included only on Shaw's "digital" line-up, on channel 69. In October 2010, KVOS was added to Comcast's digital lineup on channel 72 in the Seattle–Tacoma area. 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 Gray's Harbor coastal communities of
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and
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. The station became an affiliate of the classic television network
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on April 25, 2011. Later,
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was added as a subchannel of KVOS on August 18, 2011. Unlike the main 12.1 feed, the 12.2 feed was not carried on any Canadian cable system. In January 2014, TheCoolTV was dropped in favor of
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. Newport agreed to sell KVOS to
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, LLC, a company controlled by
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's
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, in December 2011. The deal created a duopoly in the Seattle market with
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. OTA Broadcasting assumed control of KVOS on March 6, 2012. As a result of this sale, most of KVOS' staff was
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, and most of the operations staff were moved to Seattle. In September 2013, subchannel 12.3 was added, airing Canadian
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specialty channel Sur Sagar TV. The latter was dropped in mid-2015, and the feed went
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until September 5, 2016 when it started broadcasting Heroes & Icons (H&I). On March 12, 2015, the main feed of KVOS had adopted to KFFV's 44.6 feed, the branding itself had been switched from ''MeTV KVOS'' to ''MeTV Seattle'' while the ident was ''MeTV KVOS-KFFV''. Advertising was also shared between KVOS and KFFV. Due to
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previously airing on KFFV, Comcast identified the station as KFFVVW on its on-screen guide.
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agreed to acquire KVOS-TV and KFFV, along with
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and
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in
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, in a $23.2 million deal on October 18, 2017, giving Weigel control of both of its MeTV affiliates in the
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region. The sale was closed on January 15, 2018, with KVOS and sister station KFFV now under Weigel ownership. On January 17, 2018, H&I became KVOS's primary network and moved to subchannel 12.1, MeTV was relocated to subchannel 12.3 and new offering Decades was added to subchannel 12.4. KVOS' lineup expanded once more on September 3, 2018 when
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was added to subchannel 12.5. MeTV Plus was added to subchannel 12.6 on September 27, 2021. On March 28, 2022 Story Television launched on subchannel 12.7. In April 2019, the CRTC approved a request by Shaw Cable in Kelowna, British Columbia to add KVOS-DT3 to its systems on a discretionary basis. Shaw felt that the aforementioned switch to Heroes & Icons was at odds with its authorization to carry the programming feed with MeTV programming. There was no objection from the only local station in the market (which, however, is owned by a corporate sibling).


Programming

Currently, KVOS clears the entire schedules of each of its affiliated subchannel networks. Until January 14, 2018, KVOS also ran a variety of
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and paid programs, as well as other features between shows including ''On Scene'' and ''MeEvents''. KVOS has produced a variety of local shows over the years. The religious program ''Anchor'' first aired in 1968 with host, Pastor Leonard Ericksen. ''Anchor'' ran for 30 years, becoming one of the longest running shows of its kind on television. KVOS also produced many news, feature, public affairs, and informational programs as well. ''The 10:30 Report'', ''Weeks End'' and ''Cana West'' helped launch the careers of well known names such as Andy Anderson and
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, who both went on to successful careers in politics. Some other feature programs have included ''Kids Stuff'', ''Pacific Style'', ''Pacific Issues'', ''Sports Probe'', ''
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'' and ''Red's Classic Theatre'' with famed B.C. radio personality
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from 1989 to 2001. Another famous B.C. radio personality, Jack Cullen, hosted ''Owl Prowl Television Theatre'' in the 1950s: two reels of footage from that show are held by the
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. During the 1970s and 1980s KVOS ran a number of British comedy programs each evening, such as ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. It was also the only non-
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(and commercial) station in the U.S. to air '' Doctor Who'' from 1983 to 1993.


News programming

On the morning of May 21, 1990, ''NewsView'' began broadcasts, originally starting as a half-hour show. ''NewsView'' featured a variety of local and regional news, sports, and weather for northwest Washington and the border communities of British Columbia. The first anchor was Cyndy Glenn, followed by Michele Higgins, Susan Cowden, Crystal King, Cara Buckingham, and Ty Ray. Reporters included Jeff Wyngaert, Amy Cloud, Dave Sienko and Joe Bates, while weather duties were covered (in the early years) by Jeff Kelly and Dave George, then Dan Leniczek, Dave Sienko, and Greg Otterholt. The newscast debuted at 6:30 a.m., and eventually expanded to a 90-minute show from 6:30 to 8 a.m. Due to low advertising revenues, however, KVOS ended ''NewsView'' on January 23, 2007, after 16½ years on the air. Various syndicated programming replaced ''NewsView'' in the 6:30-8 a.m. time slots. Alongside ''NewsView'', KVOS also broadcast hourly weather updates and local forecasts at the top of every hour, under the title ''WeatherView''; these updates were introduced in the 1980s, and ended by the mid 2000s decade. KVOS began airing ''Northwest Notebook'', hosted by Ty Ray, in February 2007. The show featured interviews with newsmakers from Northwest Washington and the Lower Mainland. Ray also hosted ''Daily Planner'', a community calendar that aired six times a day. It has since gone off the air.


Technical information


Subchannels

The station's digital signal is
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600 MHz auction

As result of the FCC's 600 MHz auction, KVOS moved to channel 14 due to spectrum repacking on October 19, 2019.Post Incentive Auction Television Transition Data Files
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Analog-to-digital conversion

KVOS-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 12, on February 17, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television (which Congress had moved the previous month to June 12).List of Digital Full-Power Stations
 The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 35, using
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to display KVOS-TV's
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as 12 on digital television receivers.


References


External links


KVOS page hosted on the H&I websiteKVOS History at Western Washington University
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