KVAL-TV

KVAL-TV, channel 13, is a television station in Eugene, Oregon, USA. It is an affiliate of the CBS network. The station began broadcasting on April 15, 1954. It is currently owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group who also operates the NBC affiliate KMTR (owned by Roberts Media, LLC). The station reaches additional viewers in central and western Oregon via co-owned full-powered satellite stations KCBY-TV in Coos Bay (digital channel 11) and KPIC in Roseburg (digital channel 19, virtual channel 4).

History

KVAL signed on in 1954, locally owned by Eugene Television. It originally carried programming from all three networks, but was primarily an NBC affiliate. It lost CBS and ABC when KEZI signed on in 1960.

In the summer of 1978, as NBC was floundering in third place in the Nielsen ratings, KVAL started airing five hours of CBS programming each week. During the next four years, the station gradually offered more programs from CBS. NBC affiliated with newly signed-on KMTR in 1982, and KVAL formally switched its affiliation to CBS.