KING-TV

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), along with Tegna-run regional cable network Northwest Cable News (NWCN). The three operations share offices and studios at the Home Plate Center in the SoDo district of Seattle, and KING'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, and is available to most cable subscribers in Vancouver, BC area as the NBC affiliate. 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). 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. Channel 5 was originally a primary CBS affiliate, and carried secondary affiliations with NBC, ABC and DuMont.