KOPB-TV
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| KOPB-TV | |
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| Portland, Oregon | |
| Branding | Oregon Public Broadcasting |
| Channels | 10 (VHF) analog, 27 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | Oregon Public Broadcasting |
| Founded | February 6, 1961 |
| Call letters meaning | Oregon Public Broadcasting |
| Former callsigns | KOAP (until February 15, 1989) |
| Former affiliations | NET |
| Transmitter Power | 316 kW |
| Website | www.opb.org |
KOPB-TV is a public television station owned and operated by Oregon Public Broadcasting and serving the Portland, Oregon television market. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 10, and its digital signal on UHF channel 27.
KOPB began as KOAP (K Oregon Air Portland) on February 6, 1961.[citation needed] Its original letters were deliberately similar[citation needed] to station KOAC-TV in Corvallis, which had begun broadcasting in 1957[1]. The station was first housed on the campus of Portland State University, with its transmitter located on Council Crest.[citation needed] KOAP was a member of National Educational Television, which in October 1970 was replaced by Public Broadcasting Service.[citation needed]
On April 30, 1962 KOAP's FM sister service signed on the air[citation needed], made possible by the transfer of the frequency by Westinghouse Broadcasting.[1] By 1966 most local programs originated at KOAP-TV.[citation needed]
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[edit] Name changes
KOAP-TV and KOAC-TV later became known on the air as Oregon Educational Broadcasting.[citation needed] In early 1972[citation needed], OEB became OEPBS, Oregon Educational & Public Broadcasting Service. In October 1981[citation needed], OEPBS became Oregon Public Broadcasting, its present name.
On February 15, 1989 KOAP FM-TV became KOPB FM-TV.[citation needed]
[edit] HDTV operations
OPB was a pioneer in HDTV.[citation needed] In 1997 OPB installed its first digital transmitter.[1] Later that year, on September 15 OPB Portland was assigned the experimental call letters KAXC for channel 35. Less than a month later, on October 11 at 4:37 P.M. KAXC became the first TV station in Oregon and one of the first on the west coast to transmit an HDTV picture.[citation needed] After experimentation ended, channel 35 was vacated.
On December 7, 2001, KOPB-DT began operation on channel 27.[citation needed]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Oregon Public Broadcasting: Homepage
- OPB Engineering site About broadcast facilities of OPB
- KOPB Tower About broadcast facilites of KOPB
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KOPB-TV
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| Broadcast television in the Portland, Oregon market (Nielsen DMA #23) | ||
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KATU 2 (ABC) - KOIN 6 (CBS) - KGW 8 (NBC) - KOPB 10 (PBS/OPB) - KPTV 12 (Fox) - KUNP 16 / KUNP-LP 47 (UNI) - KOXI-CA 20 (AS) - KPXG 22 / KPXG-LP 54 (ION) - KNMT 24 (TBN) - K26GJ 26 (Ind) - KRCW 32 / KWBP-LP 5 (The CW/The Tube On DT2) - KORK-CA 35 (HSN/A1) - KKEI-CA 38 (TEL) - KPDX 49 (MNTV) - KOXO-CA 51 (TFR) |
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Salem-Marion County: K21GX 21 (Ind) - KORS-CA 36 (AS)(BVM on DT2) - K50GG 50 (MNTV) - KWVT-LP 52 / K14KW 14 (A1) |
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| Defunct Television Stations | ||
| Local cable television channels
FSN Northwest - NorthWest Cable News (cable 49) - The Oregon Channel (Salem) |
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